Eli Minson

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Address: ***** * **** ****

City: Phoenix

State: AZ

Zip: 85045

Country: USA

Phone: 520-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $120,000

Willing to Relocate

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Eli Minson

Phoenix, AZ

85045

520-***-****

Email: abqkud@r.postjobfree.com

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eli-minson/2/185/248

PROFILE

Experienced organizational change agent that excels at developing consensus among key stake holders across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and P&L leadership

Executed improvements to supplier and part selection processes, procedures, and tools at both Oil and Gas and Aerospace companies resulting in >$1.5M cost savings, improved design peer reviews, and enhanced capabilities for supplier intimacy and negations strategy development

Managed a distributed staff of 25+ engineers on 2 continents including laboratory, test design, software development, and reliability engineers working on multiple concurrent projects to enable significant cost savings and product improvements for downhole (MWD/LWD) drilling products

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

2010 - Present; 2004 - 2006

Manager, Mission Assurance

Primary focal point for management of critical program failure analysis and resolution while managing program risk and customer expectations; Functional proposal lead on multiple critical program wins; Primary Divisional lead of multi-business supplier and system enhancement efforts

Developed and implemented material requirement tracking and receiving tools that enabled a >$550K year over year savings

Managed risk identification and mitigation of critical EEE commodities on multiple material procurements

Developed and rolled out integrated IFS ERP system for improved defect record tracking and reporting across all locations and businesses including development of reporting tools and all associated work flows

Developed methodology for supply chain risk analysis to enable cost reductions while maintaining reliability, quality, and performance targets on a variety of commodities

Performed stress, reliability, and performance analysis on multiple complex designs and obtained customer acceptance of all issues or waivers

Baker Hughes

2008 - 2010

Manager, Product Reliability

Responsible for development and performance of Design for Reliability teams including test labs in the US and Germany, testing and certification of field locations, and developing and implementation of new processes and procedures focused on complex drilling tools and systems for the oil and gas service market.

Developed tools and systems to enable reliability improvement of 25%+ in various MWD tools including the definition, negotiation and implementation of component and reliability engineering and requirements development for MWD and LWD products

Participated in supplier development and part qualification teams to improve supplier quality and performance from supplier selection through component procurement and PCBA manufacturing

Designed and built system test capabilities based on the NI PXI integrated test systems

Honeywell International

2002 - 2003

Circuit Design Engineer

Responsible for various analyses, programming and verification of gate array devices, and hardware failure analysis and corrective action implementation on commercial and military avionics systems and products.

Boeing

1997 - 2001

Materials, Processes and Parts Engineer

Primary customer interface for the X-43A program, field installation of advanced insulation systems (including a defect reduction strategy resulting in a 30% defect reduction), service on the Shuttle fleet, testing and manufacturing analysis of insulation systems, and composition and performance of advanced testing on ceramics, adhesives, and other advanced engineering materials

EDUCATION

Rice University

Houston, TX

Master's of Business Administration (MBA)

6/2009

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

MS of Electrical Engineering (MSEE)

5/2006

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

BS of Materials Science and Engineering (BSMSE)

5/1997

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Savant Refrigeration

Business Development Consultant

2009 - 2011

KIPP Schools

Strategic Business Consultant

2008 - 2009

INDUSTRY INVOLVMENT

GEIA Solid State Devices Committee (G-12); Space Quality Improvement Council (SQIC); Space Supplier Council (SSC); Mission Assurance Improvement Workshop (MAIW); IEEE; Offshore Technology Conference (OTC); HITEC; INCOSE; APICS; PMI;

TRAINING

Six Sigma Green Belt; Baker Hughes LEAD program; China Leadership Trip (Rice); Arizona EIT; Secret Clearance (active); Top Secret clearance (expired); SCI clearance (expired); Earned Value Management System (EVMS); Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT); Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS); Boeing mentor program; Proposal Management; Excel financial modeling; ESD auditing; AS9100; ISO9000; Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA); Reliasoft tools; Palisade @Risk tools; Fault Tree Analysis (FTA); Reliability Block Diagram Analysis (RBD); Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA); Risk Management; RELEX, IFS ERP; SAP; Thermal Analysis; Materials Analysis; Manufacturing Metrics; Mentor Graphics; Cadence; Allegro; SharePoint; Microstrategy; Requirement Analysis; Lean Process improvement

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