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Helping rapidly growing companies scale up their manufacturing operations through the intelligent application of automation, design for manufacturing principles and tooling design.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• First manufacturing hire; in addition to a manufacturing engineer I was the acting buyer, production planner, and quality engineer.
• Designed and assembled a wing stand, allowing a single technician to move and orient the wing through all the wing assembly stations. Previously it required four people to move the wing multiple times during integration.
• Designed and fabricated/purchased numerous other assembly tools, test stands, and lifting fixtures; always with the goal of reducing the dependency on highly skilled technicians.
• Worked with the Hardware team to improve automation of end of line testing, giving KH the flexibility to easily move hardware manufacturing in or out of house.
• Created standards for and authored assembly documentation, standard processes, wire harness drawings.
• Identified dozens of components that could be replaced with COTS equivalents; performed most of the design work necessary to make those changes.

Austin, Texas, US

• Across all engineering roles at Tesla, key engineering accomplishments include:
• First dedicated equipment engineer for the Motor Rotor line; increased line availability from 60% to >85% in first 6 months despite no prior familiarity with many of the processes.
• Worked closely with Manufacturing Engineering to purchase, validate, and launch more than $15M of new equipment. Supported Factory Acceptance Tests and Design Reviews. Continued to work directly with vendors to improve.
• Identified opportunity for improvement in weld inspection process. Selected ultrasonic inspection as a superior approach. Worked with a local contractor to develop, test, and initially outsource the process. Purchased.
• Developed variety of tools for Maintenance and Production, ranging from calibration worksheets and visual basic programs to mechanical and pneumatic lift assists to increase safety and improve availability of the line.
• Worked with overseas vendor to automate a lengthy warm-up process. Used data-driven approach to overcome vendor's initial concerns. This automation reduced total PM downtime by 15% and labor hours by 50%.

Austin, Texas, US

• Across all management roles at Tesla, key leadership accomplishments include:
• Managed team of 14 Equipment and Process Engineers and Engineering Technicians across 4 manufacturing lines.
• Inherited two teams who were largely not willing to communicate, successfully integrated into one cohesive equipment and process team.
• Worked with maintenance management to create a champion system. Champions are experienced maintenance technicians trained by Engineering to be the local expert on particular pieces of equipment. Personally created the.
• Standardized expectations for different levels of engineers, facilitating increased transparency into performance reviews and promotion decisions. These standards were then adopted throughout the department.
• Created the first widely utilized practical escalation procedure outlining roles and responsibilities for Production, Engineering, and Maintenance. Emphasized Maintenance ownership of the equipment for faster response..

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Plano, Texas, US

• Improved yield and production capacity by designing and modifying fixtures, working with technicians to create more reliable assembly techniques.
• Redesigned similar assemblies to use common parts, reducing costs and improving material lead-time. Standardized cathode design across an entire product family, reducing cathode cost by 40%.
• Developed new brazing and welding technologies to reduce reliance on expensive sub-contractors. Performed metallurgical cross-sections and industry standard strength testing to qualify new process.
• Managed new component manufacturing projects, a significant departure from CPI’s typical products. Created new documentation standards. Applied and adapted CPI strengths to new opportunities. Built strong relationships.
• Became a certified welder and furnace operator in order to personally assemble prototypes and better understand technician work load. Learned to perform own cross-sections and analysis to reduce strain on the.