James Burich

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Clinton Township, MI 48038-2232

Phone: 248-***-****

ac0oa4@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

U.S. Air Force Veteran with 10+ years of design engineering of products for the automotive industry and commercial airlines. Focused maintenance on the front lines of newly introduced energy from Wind Turbines. Recent specific engineering of harnesses included the Tigershark 2.4L gas engine for the Fiat Chrysler Automotive 2014 Jeep Cherokee and 2015 M200.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Critical Thinker / Complex Problem Solver

Proficient in MS Word and Excel

Passionately Customer Focused

Operations / Systems Analysis

Troubleshooting / Repairing

Hands On / Detail Oriented

Presentation Software

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Electrical Engineering) 1994

The University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dean’s List

MILITARY EXPERIENCE:

United States Air Force Veteran

Hahn AB, West Germany

Vandenberg AFB, California

Honor Graduate - Basic Training

Power Production Specialist

Honorable Discharge

WORK EXPERIENCE:

The Home Depot, Lake Orion, MI 03/2016-Present

Freight Team Associate

Work as a team to unload and sort up to 1,500 pieces of freight from a semi-truck up to 3 times a week.

Distribute and stock up to 1 million different items on shelves throughout the store using pallet jacks, flat carts, H-carts and shopping carts.

United Parcel Services (UPS), Pontiac, MI 11/2016-12/2016

Driver Helper

Walked up to 5 miles a day delivering packages over the holiday season.

Assisted UPS drivers in delivering up to 200 packages per day.

KEY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Tianhai Electric North America, Pontiac, MI 04/2013-10/2015

Design Release Engineer

Verified that the engine wire harness was routed outboard of the upper radiator port on the Cherokee and M200 CAD models by using the SFS-Standard Functional Structure to find the wire harness data in TeamCenter.

Modified 80 wire harnesses to remove the Mass Airflow Sensor takeout from 2.4L engines for preproduction vehicles after confirmation from immediate management, by working extended hours to meet the deadline.

Created PowerPoint presentations to explain to FCA management the Who/What/When/Where/Why and How along with estimated cost impact of design changes.

Traveled as required to southeast Michigan and Ohio to support 2 vehicle assembly plants and 2 engine plants.

Targeted 3 engine plants for Production Evaluation Requests to evaluate a new HellermannTyton clip to ease manufacturing installation, while improving reliability of the attachment.

Grew the wire harness business at Tianhai Electric North America by providing employee resource stability for 2.5 years after 4 engineers had cycled through the position in just a few years.

Coordinated drawing requirements between an FCA CAD designer and a Tianhai CAD designer.

Raised the bar for quality by investigating failed harnesses and performing a root cause analysis to determine corrective action.

Alt/e Powertrain Technologies, Auburn Hills, MI 4/2011-1/2013

Wiring Systems Engineer

Performed load surveys of stock low voltage wiring and aftermarket hybrid unique wiring to confirm the proper selection of overcurrent protection devices, OCPDs and to document the key-off current draw.

Conducted cost studies for tooling in a new wire harness prototype electrical lab which included presses, applicators, hand crimpers, jig boards, and automatic wire stripping machines.

Procured necessary components including connectors, terminals, seals, resistors, capacitors, hand crimpers and storage bins for prototype work.

Helped fabricate wire harnesses for hybrid-electric mule vehicles.

Mitsubishi Power Systems, White Deer, TX 7/2008-9/2009

Wind Turbine Technician

Greased main, generator and blade bearings on 79, 1MW wind turbines.

Adjusted hydraulic oil levels.

Lowered main brake and yaw brake boosters as necessary.

Kept daily operation logs.

Climbed 11, 220 foot towers in 1 morning to get generators back on-line after cold weather caused yaw brake pressure faults to shut them down.

Completed an arc flash safety course.

Assisted the maintenance team and crane crews in replacing blades that were damaged by lightning.

Volt Technical Services/Boeing, Everett, WA 7/2006-3/2007

In-Flight Entertainment Engineer

Created functional tests to validate correct IFE system wiring on Boeing 777 airplanes.

Verified circuit breaker information for functional tests by comparing sources including schematics, wiring diagrams, equipment library and system engineers.

Identified corrective action for engineering design errors.

Clarified and documented signal interface unit, SIU logic for LEAN design by other engineers and technicians.

Yazaki North America, Canton, MI 02/1995-06/2006

Engineer

Maintained an electrical systems database including circuit name, wire size, wire type, connector pin out, wire harness part number and vehicle phase in E3D for the 2007 Dodge Nitro and the 2008 Jeep Liberty.

Created topologies of vehicle subsystems including CAN-B (125 kbps), CAN-C (500 kbps) and grounds.

Created wire harness complexity matrices per harness family including Body and Headliner based on option content and market.

Communicated headliner to body harness inline connectors, pin outs, and CAN-B system requirements with headliner suppliers, Grupo and Intier.

Maintained DFMEAs based on potential failures primarily due to the challenges of integrating a Motorola power distribution box with Yazaki wiring.

Maintained DVP&Rs to ensure that mismatches between wire and overcurrent protection devices such as JCase fuses, mini fuses, circuit breakers FETs and fuse link wire were adequately tested and corrective action taken to minimize potential failures of the power distribution system.

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