Manufacturing Engineer
CurrentStaff engineer in electronics development manufacturing, primarily aerospace/military hardware, and test equipment.Expert in Circuit Cards, cables/harnesses, fiber optic jumpers/cables, RF modules, electro-mechanical assemblies.All electronic assembly processes; lead forming, soldering processes, adhesive bonding, PWB lamination, conformal coating, F/O termination, F/O endface characterization using interferometers, staking, gap welding, and fastening.Generated mfg process flows and tooling concepts, while reviewing/approving engineering drawings.Represented the company in customer design reviews and production readiness reviews.Wrote many manufacturing shop orders, methods sheets and supported factory floor.Created manufacturing processes, selected and justified some capital equipment. Designed some electronics assembly tooling, and developed concepts/requirements for the designers of more complex tooling.Created methods/tooling to start up a fiber optics production area, in support of a long running avionics production program.Managed NRE budgets for tooling, processes, and methods development, and then the RE budgets for assembly, test and inspection, on several avionics programs.Managed budget for product design on an avionics development program, while serving as task leader for the mechanical design team.Generated task descriptions and cost estimates for numerous proposals, and forecasted the required manpower requirements.Mfg Task Leader on two avionics programs during their transition from development to production.MRP (CONTROL) and Aegis MES used daily.
