OBJECTIVE
To transform domestic manufacturing capability into a strategic advantage through meaningful improvements to quality, cost, and delivery of top-tier products for organizations governed by integrity and customer loyalty, by leveraging my full portfolio of skills acquired from pivotal roles in dynamic, high-tech manufacturing industries.
SUMMARY
A high-technology products manufacturing professional whose work in pivotal responsibilities for organizations ranging from Fortune 50 organizations to small start-ups demonstrates versatility, a willingness to take risks, the perceptiveness and determination needed to overcome daunting obstacles, and the creative energy needed to address cutting-edge challenges. Professional Focus Includes: Project Management, Vendor Management and Development, Technical Management, Manufacturing Engineering and New Product Launch.
NOTE: Secret Clearance expired: 19 April 2012
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
* Project Engineer and Lead of three Raytheon Team Achievement Award-winning teams responsible for managing vendor-sourcing of Mission-critical Guidance and Communication Systems for the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense program and Navigation System for Paveway™ precision bomb kits
* Initiated and Managed a joint technical initiative between European vendors and five internal departments that identified, and developed action plans to resolve, over a dozen material, process, and software issues generating a 15% final-test failure rate and resultant 2-year back-log of Non-Conforming Guidance Systems from Raytheon’s highest-volume product
* Project Manager for relocation of Wave Biotech’s 250-employee equipment manufacturing company
* Managed mechanical integration of Lucent’s industry-leading, Robotically-Automated, Batch Size of One, Flexible Manufacturing Cell Phone Final-Assembly line increasing through-put by 60%
* Received Motorola Distinguished Innovation Award for 5 Patent Submissions in one year
* Designed Custom Manufacturing Equipment for Motorola Paging’s Flagship Fully-automated, Robotic, Batch Size of One factory using ProE Rel. 19 CAD software and ANSY Y14.5 GD&T
* Developed Strategies for Flexible Manufacturing and Process Commonality to enable inter-changeable production of Motorola Paging’s highest-volume product across five different manufacturing lines
* Created Automated Production Test Equipment enabling profitable manufacture of Motorola Paging’s longest-running product line, the Advisor 4-line text pager
* Manufacturing Liaison to Off-shore Manufacturing sites for Raytheon, E Ink, and Motorola
* Key Participant in the establishment of three New Product Launch facilities for electronics manufacture
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Apr 2010 - Present
SELF-EMPLOYED, Tucson, AZ
Consultant/Project Manager/Investor
* Developed a system for structurally stabilizing and cosmetically repairing burnt adobe block masonry and trained contractors how to price, make, mix, and apply the materials for the purpose of expanding their business opportunities
* Evaluating business opportunities for investment potential and provide small-business counseling by reviewing business-plans, clarifying company missions, creating work break-down structures, developing business strategies and aligning efforts with them, and reviewing and improving operations and production processes
* Designed and Project Managed the demolition and rebuild of eight-hundred square foot home addition
* Vigorously participate in Social Issues through correspondence to leaders in government, media and industry
* Author/Novelist currently eight hundred pages into a fictional novel
Aug 2006 - Apr 2010
RAYTHEON MISSILE SYSTEMS, Tucson, AZ
Supplier Project Engineer (Start: $85,000 – End: $95,000/yr.)
Program Management Office, Vendor, and Customer-facing Single-point Of Responsibility for the technical data package, quality, cost, schedule, and contractual compliance of mission-critical major-subsystems used in the Ballistic Missile Defense and Paveway™ missile programs.
* Project Engineer and Lead of two-time Team Achievement Award-winning group managing the $500k/unit IMU and CLS Systems of the US National Ballistic Missile Defense program
* Project Engineer and Lead for Team Achievement Award-winning Hardware Management Team responsible for the Paveway-4 GPS-aided Guidance and Navigation System
* Initiated and Managed a joint technical initiative between European vendors and five internal departments that identified, and developed action plans to resolve, over a dozen material, process, and software issues generating a 15% final-test failure-rate
* Assembled and Led a five-person team to locate, disposition, and repair or rework a two-year backlog of non-conforming guidance systems worth over $3M
Aug 2005 - Jul 2006
WAVE BIOTECH, LLC, Somerset, NJ (Purch. by GE Healthcare 16 Apr’07)
Manufacturing Engineer ($80,000/yr.)
* Project Manager for relocation of 250-employee manufacturing company
* Implemented LEAN, 6-Sigma, Kanban, Visual Factory, and 5S practices to increase productivity by approximately 350% and improve quality over 85% on the company’s highest-revenue potential product line
* Developed Assembly Processes and ISO 9000 compliant Documentation for nearly a dozen types of FDA regulated, electro-mechanical products
* Designed tooling and fixtures using ProE Rel. 2000i CAD and ANSY/ASME Y14.5 GD&T, and created production floor layouts using AutoCAD 14 (2D) CAD
Nov 2004 - Aug 2005
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES Life Sciences Division, Marshallton, DE
Contract Tooling Designer ($19.75/hr. - ENSER Corporation, Cinnaminson, NJ)
* Concurrently designed custom assembly and test equipment for New Product Launch and manufacturing ramp-up of Gas Chromatography laboratory equipment using HP’s proprietary CAD software (One Space Design) and ANSY Y14.5 GD&T
* Created innovative Tooling and Fixtures using Rapid Prototyping such as Stereo Lithography
* Collaborated with product designers to implement DFM / DFA, FMEA and LEAN practices
* Created modular product design features that improved assembly, reduced defects, and accommodated automated testing
Apr 2002 - Feb 2004
E-INK CORPORATION, Cambridge, MA
Senior Manufacturing Engineer (Start: $78,000 – End: $80,000/yr.)
* Developed Manuf...
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