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Tucson, Arizona, United States

Program Project Test Engineer:• Maintain schedule and progress of multiple parallel production improvement projects within different factories.• Developed and deployed test capability on a large scale automation platform to increase production capacity by 230%.• Designed, developed, and deployed custom pneumatic pressure test system to decrease test time by 63%.Up-and-Comer Cross Functional Rotation Program:• Designed, developed, and deployed missing mission critical test capability consisting of 36 drawing updates, test harness creation, and test equipment software update.• Learned CREO Parametric and CREO Schematics to design 9 different test equipment harnesses across multiple programs.Project Test Engineer:• Designed, developed, and deployed automation solution to pneumatic test system, saving an estimated $1.2M in production costs.• Promoted within 18 months for outstanding performance.

Quality Assurance testing of user level programs and hardware:Found and reported program bugs to engineers to be fixed then retested to ensure they have been fixed. Bugs ranged from program crashes to simple design schemes. Recreated bugs reported from the field by troubleshooting what specifically caused the bug to occur. This often involved recreating the exact setup from the field.Work with team on license plate recognition (LPR) software and hardware:Researched and designed potential product solutions.Developed specifications for capabilities of the LPR system and required hardware.Tested and evaluated all factors of the LPR system such as camera choice, camera trigger system, and the installation orientation of the entire system.