Engineering firm focused on designing premium innovative products for the Overland industryFounder and Operations Manager of Vanultra

Developer and Manufacturer of Actuation Technologies, Products, and Systems for Transportation, Power, Industrial, and Aerospace/Defense Industrieso Operated as a corporate lean manufacturing practitioner and was responsible for implementing lean manufacturing principles and concepts at various Woodward production plantso Owned two aerospace production lines and successfully reversed poor producing assembly lines into top performers by increasing weekly throughput by 4x

o Developed innovative multi-million dollar Automated Test Equipment to quality test Thrust Reverser Actuator Systems (TRAS) on Boeing 737, 747 & 777 aircrafts, which reduced operations test time from 120 to 45 minutes per actuatoro Owned the pneumatic system of the test equipment by leading meetings, resolving safety issues, taking corrective actions, implementing lean improvements, and advocating long-term value for production operationso Operated at all levels including mentor, leader, engineer and technician to achieve organizational metrics (KPI’s)

Mechanical Engineering Consulting Firm Focusing in Early-Stage, Concept-to-Prototype Research & Developmento Provided clients with engineering services including design, prototyping and testing to solve challenging problemso Led client presentations with key stakeholders to ensure the innovative solutions were creating meaningful resultso Identified client requirements and expectations to forecast project schedule, labor, and material cost for quoting purposes

Designer and Manufacturer of Automotive Racing Shock Absorbers and Performance Racing Productso Designed, analyzed, prototyped, researched, tested, developed, validated and tuned mechanical linear and nonlinear viscous damperso Composed technical research reports in R&D by applying engineering judgement and instinct to analyze lab data and field testing to enhance the organization’s competitive advantage over the competitiono Proactively identified and led process improvement efforts that increased the quality inspection rate of products by 10Xo Motivated, mentored, and coached engineer interns to improve their performance and leadership abilitiesIn the article below titled, "Suspension Theory with King Shocks", I served as the technical expert and primary source of information. To see the article, select the "view" link in the lower right corner after the photo opens.

Designer and Manufacturer of Emergency Response Equipment o Invented simple solutions in product development to create more for less given fixed budget and time constraintso Contracted and managed 3rd party work outside internal operations to accomplish organizational performance objectiveso Earned trust and developed leadership qualities while motivating and managing three mechanical shop technicians

Manufacturer of Military Aerospace Parts, certified to AS9100-C/ISO 9001: 2008 Industry Standardso Contributed major efforts towards qualifying company departments for NADCAP manufacturing quality certificationso Assisted in the quality inspection process to ensure inspection accuracy and compliance to aerospace specifications and customer standards