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Mobile, United States

Manage the Product Engineering Team consisting of drafting, manufacturing, quality, and tooling engineers. -Research, develop, and validate potential new suppliers. -Conduct product and manufacturing feasibility studies. -Create cost studies used to develop customer pricing. -Design new or reverse engineer clutches, shafts, gears, dampers, and support tooling. -Over 300 new products and tools are designed yearly for the past 6 years. -Design and supervise the production of prototype parts. -Design application specific test to evaluate product design and benchmark competitors. -Write reports to document test results and conclusions. -Support Alto Sales Team and customer’s engineering group developing designs, supporting cost reduction projects, and responding to corrective actions. -Conduct design of experiments to optimize production processes.

-Successfully designed six automatic transmission brake bands with the use of Finite Element Analysis, general stress calculations, and prototype verification testing.-Redesigned three automatic transmission brake bands that increased profitability on average of 20% and eliminated several customer quality concerns.-Improved several quality issues with the use of the 8D process, identifying the true root cause, verifying the root cause, permanently correcting the root cause, and verifying the root cause was eliminated.-Standardized the X-bar and R charting process by programming an Excel spreadsheet to maintain control limits.-Used the statistical Hypothesis Analysis to prove or disprove suggested process and/or quality improvements.-Developed several Product/Design Validation Plans.-Implemented several cost reduction initiatives that saved both the customer and BorgWarner over $500,000.-Monitored processes and prepared necessary documentation for QS9000 audits.-Conducted internal audits on BorgWarner Transmission Systems adherence to the QS9000 procedure.-Maintained Failure Mode Elemental Analysis and Process Flow Charts.

-Perform daily preventive maintenance on plant equipment such as: ConVac wet etchers, electroplating apparatuses, Semitool Spray Acid Tools, Semitool Ultra Steppers 2700, and Silicon Valley Group coaters. -Troubleshoot chemical problems such as: high/low plating rate, poor plating adhesion, inadequate conductivity, or contamination.-Repair mechanical problems resulting from worn or broken components

Bs, Chemistry

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