•Design Consultation: Interface with customers regarding expected project impact, interpret customer design requirements and constraints in a manner that that is achievable while maintaining customer ownership. Record findings clearly and concisely for future review.•Solution implementation: Develop solutions that address the customer’s problems and fall within the operational constraints of their system. Maintain availability to assist in implementation, ensuring proper operation.•Development and Documentation of Technical Specifications: According to requirements for analysis (CFD, FEA), manufacturing, and implementation, develop and maintain 3D models, 2D drawings, BOMs and operating instructions for developed solutions.•Communication with the manufacturing team: Seek and review feedback from the manufacturing team about solution documentation and design. Employ feedback to modify the design if required.•Post-implementation analysis: Determine and record quantifiable impacts where possible to reflect departmental influence on cost, productivity, quality, and safety.•Work with customers to resolve tool down situations: Investigate tool down situations and rapidly create practical solutions to address the cause without negatively impacting other quality or safety metrics.•Maintain an awareness of departmental goals and align daily tasking to pursue them. Achievements:•Developed 10 Projects submitted for IP protection•Pioneered engineering documentation process for the department•Individually developed and manufactured a new tool, reducing wafer scrap by approximately $150,000 annually. Received the President’s Award (Highest Awarded Honor).•Produced various tools, reducing cost by $790k/yr and planned downtime by approximately 500 hours annually, while improving safety and quality.•Rapidly designed solutions for multiple tool-down situations, reducing projected unplanned downtime by 1250 hours.•Drove departmental visibility and customer perception.

-MACHINING CAPABILITIESAchieve high quality part production by scheduling materials, planning workholding and tooling, creating processes, programming Fanuc CNC VMC at the control as well as with CAM software, and by setting up and operating the CNC VMC and manual lathe. - MODELING - 3D CAD:Determine customer needs, taking existing equipment and generating 3D models and detailed engineering drawings for manufacturing or product and process documentation.- DESIGN CONSULTING:Using existing designs or parts, employ 3D CAD tools to design new models, creating and integrating requested features within the allotted constraints and adhering to specifications of client. Employ material characteristics knowledge to create robust, reliable parts for particular applications.- FABRICATION CONSULTING:Employ DFM concepts to meet manufacturing requirements of clients. Model with the intent to injection mold, machine or 3D print. Understand and communicate nuances including material property, post-processing requirement, resolution, and detail differences between additive manufacturing techniques such as polyjet, FDM, SLA, SLS, and DMLS. Generate third party fabrication quotes. Design systems to use standardized parts whenever possible.Clients Include Samsung Austin Semiconductor, Lantha Sensors and Challenger Water Solutions

- PRODUCTION/OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT - Generate 3D Models from customer prints in Autodesk Inventor Professional, to be used with CAM softwares for programming. Use the 3D files to generate shop floor manufacturing aids, including inspection and in-process drawings.Program CNC lathes (Including Y-axis machines) and 3-Axis CNC milling centers.Create detailed work instructions in an ERP system (JobBoss), including process flow, workholding, tooling, and stock management considerations to reduce set-up times and increase job reliability. Document, investigate, and disposition non-conformances in a QM software (UniPoint), identifying the root cause of the issue to avoid future errors.Follow and assist in maintaining ISO AS9100 Certified quality management procedures.Design fixturing to aid with process accuracy, repeatability, and efficiency.Plan, initiate and delegate auxiliary tasks such as fixture manufacturing and 5S initiatives to assist operations. - PRODUCT DESIGN AND ENGINEERING - In an extremely limited time frame, coordinate with customer engineers in the mining, petroleum, structural, and manufacturing industries to determine functional requirements.Apply proven methods to the design of power technology, assemblies, sheet metal, and weldment components consistent with available in-house or approved vendor manufacturing capabilities.Using Inventor, generate drawings with all GD&T data as well as manufacturing notes, aids, and inspection criteria.Read and understand regulatory information from entities such as API, TexDOT and ANSI, parsing it within designs for rapid approval from certified sources to fast track manufacturing.Determine material and post processing requirements.Document all design data in Inventor Vault, allowing for collaboration and revision control.

-Design and optimization of mechanical, optical, and microfluidic subsystems for the PreparedNow Point of Care (PoC) specimen delivery system-Application of DFM concepts to reduce overall cost of goods (CoGs), critical to cost effective implementation of such technology-Direct production of molds using SLA additive manufacturing technology to verify design for mass production via injection molding-Coordination of resources to allow efficient production of prototypes, fixtures, and specialized equipment across multiple departments

-Streamline existing process to increase production and curb losses-Employ specialized knowledge to select and characterize new tooling in an effort to optimize production quality and volume-Develop viable applications for thermoelectric power generation-Design tool and sample holders for the dicing process-Equipment maintenance and refurbishment-Use economic analysis and quality factors to determine tool change points-Develop supporting technologies to augment thermoelectric field performance