Engineer Project Manager

William Barker

Email: *********@********.***

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City: Berthoud

State: CO

Zip: 80513

Country: USA

Phone: 970-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $105,000

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WILLIAM M. BARKER ll

622 South County Road 23

Berthoud, Co 80513

Cell: 970-***-****

E-mail: *********@********.***

SUMMARY

Senior Engineer with 15 years experience in defining and developing manufacturing processes and tooling for high volume production. Over 9 years in Supplier Quality Engineering with 7 years in Customer Engineering Support. Strong communication, team building and analytical skills. Extensive experience in both established and start-up companies. Significant time spent in the Far East implementing, evaluating and qualifying assembly processes for key components for disk drives.

EXPERIENCE

MAGNECOMP CORPORATION, Temecula, California 2007 aaa Present

Senior Manager Program Development Engineering (Current)

aa Direct and prioritize Program Development Teamaaas daily activities.

aa Responsibilities include technical interface between customers and manufacturing sites in Thailand and China.

aa Manage customeraaas issues and concerns regarding new product development and launch.

aa Discuss and communicate quality and/or process concerns, provide DFM inputs on new product designs.

aa Review data packages being submitted to customer for qualification activities.

KAIFA TECHNOLOGY INC, Berthoud, Colorado 2002 aaa 2006

Director of US Customer Support (2002-2006)

aa Responsibilities included interfacing between customers and manufacturing site in China.

aa This included engineering reviews for new sub-assemblies and components.

aa Established quick and effective communication system between US and China.

aa Communicated quality and process issues, provided DFM inputs on new product designs and provided status of proto-type builds and new technology evaluations.

MAXTOR CORPORATION, Longmont, Colorado 1996 aaa 2002

Senior Manager, Supplier Quality Engineer (1997-2002)

Managed teams that qualified suppliersaaa processes for assembling suspensions, head gimbal and head stack assemblies. Assessed suppliersaaa offshore facilities as a production site for the assembling, testing and shipping of head stack assemblies to companyaaas drive facilities.

aa Implemented procedures to determine suppliersaaa tooling capabilities (Gage R & R Studies) and process capabilities (Cpks) which enable team to identify areas requiring improvements.

aa Established systems and procedures to monitor and quantify suppliersaaa process yields, electrical testing yields and cumulative yields. Using the information from this weekly reporting system, improved yields by 15-20%.

aa Developed standardized approval criteria for filing Approved Suppliers Lists from initial engagement to fully qualified status. These criteria identified suppliersaaa readiness for ramping production.

Staff Product Engineer (1996-1997)

Provided interface between drive line in Longmont and suppliersaaa factories on HSA/drive level information regarding performance, visual and mechanical issues. Supported the mechanical design group regarding design changes by providing feedback from suppliers. Assisted suppliers with tooling concepts and process enhancements, which improved supplieraaas throughput and yields.

aa Transitioned HSA assemblies from being built internally to 100% externally supplied within 3 months. Saved the company $250,000 per line per program.

aa Defined and established a Manufacturing Readiness Review System to assess suppliersaaa readiness to produce production parts. This system created a risk assessment and ranking of each of the suppliers.

aa Implemented a Design For Manufacturing system that provided supplier feedback to the design engineering group. Final design that went into production was significantly improved.

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READ RITE (SUNWARD TECHNOLOGIES), San Diego, California 1987-1996

Process Engineering Manager (1988-1996)

Provided daily direction to the Process Engineering Group. Team member for new product introduction from concept to transferring into offshore production. Activities included defining tooling and processes, writing procedures, and training the offshore personnel from start up through production ramp up. Worked closely with customers and vendors to design and develop vacuum forming shipping trays for various products.

aa Developed line flows that reduced line inventory from 3 days to 4 hours.

aa Implemented a new HGA bonding process that doubled production throughput and reduced fixture requirements by 25%.

aa Developed and implemented "mini production lines" for cellular concept for high volume production.

aa Defined & implemented shipping tray clips which eliminated shrink wrapping and reduced overall shipping costs by 10%.

Senior Process Engineer (1987-1988)

Improved processes and tooling for offshore facility that included process refinements, X & Y alignment checking fixtures and E-block staking fixtures. Reviewed customer specifications, developed process flows, wrote operation procedures and assisted offshore personnel with training and transferring of new products.

aa Implemented JIT manufacturing techniques and SPC concepts to production.

aa Performed Gauge Studies and determined process capabilities on various equipment and processes.

aa Established new tooling that increased yields by 10% and new processes to reduce costs by 5%.

aa Part of a team that opened a 30,000 Sq. Ft. Class 100 offshore production facility.

APPLIED MAGNETICS, Santa Barbara, California 1980-1987

Manufacturing Engineer III Supervisor (1985-1987)

Developed the proto-type tooling and manufacturing processes for the RAZX Program. Included determining process flow, reviewing specifications, giving technical support. Defined the quality of the final product and trained the source inspectors. Supported offshore facility with replacement tooling, cost reduction of current production and up-dating manufacturing processes.

Manufacturing Engineer III (1984-1985)

Prepared proto-order and pre-production tooling quotes. Developed manufacturing processes for start-up programs. Designed and proved-out tooling; completed tool drawings & manufacturing process instructions before transferring production to offshore facilities.

Engineering Project Manager (1983-1984)

Directed assemblers and operators in developing the manufacturing processes. Included all grinding, lapping, and assembly operations. Developed all specialized tooling and fixtures required for building the Unicore assembly. Established the four-glass bonding operations required to build the Unicore and the 135 TPI Slider. Reviewed drawing packets and documented the manufacturing process instructions.

Manufacturing Engineer II (1980-1983)

Developed production process and tooling for production of the Tri- Pliant (Floppy Head); transferred production line to off-shore facility; developed and implemented a rework procedure to salvage 3330 type heads; improved existing solder pad coating process by introducing semi-automatic dispensing equipment. Designed vacuum formed proto-type and finalized shipping containers.

aa Increased offshore facilitiesaaa tooling capacity and fabricated new tooling. Increased efficiencies and yields by 15%.

aa Managed R & D Project to finalize design and fabricate a one-piece (Unicore) floppy core used in the 135 TPI Microfloppy Program. Program was transferred to offshore plant for ramp up.

aa Developed in-house fabrication of the Floppy 5-piece Slider. Included matching the glass, ceramic, and ferrite for bonding, designing 5-Piece Slider assembly fixtures and determining glass bonding oven profiles.

aa Implemented identification process for Winchester type sliders and Winchester type 3370 flexure assemblies.

EDUCATION: MILITARY:

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California United States Marine Corps

BS, Engineering Technology

Ventura College, Ventura, California

AA, Applied Business

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