Engineering Manager

Dustin Riden

Cedar Rapids, IA ***** 319-***-**** *******@*****.***

Experience

17+ years of engineering/design and management

11+ years of Management and team building experience

Low voltage electronic testing and repair/ High voltage electrical work and wiring

Quality Engineering, Mechanical engineering, Electronics Engineering

Appliance Repair: Refrigerators, Washers, Dryers, Stoves, Dishwashers, microwaves

Management/ Six Sigma/ PFMEA/ 5S/ Lean Manufacturing/ process mapping

Low Band, VHF, UHF, 800, Microwave and multiple other band experience

Connect plus, capacity plus, LTR, Passport

Microelectronics (Building skills), electrical engineering

Tower building/climbing antenna and microwave dish alignment

ASRS (Automated Service and Retrieval Systems) (Crane)

Employment History

IdeaCom Mid-America Electronics Technician June to Current

Build, install, test and service Roland nurse call systems in hospitals

Proshield Fire and Security Sales Engineer Manager November 2016 to June 2017

Create contracts with general managers for product installation of Fire Suppression, Sprinkler, Extinguishers, Cameras and security, Door and Card access, Audio Video, and Entertainment systems.

Service, Repair, Customer training and Testing.

Whirlpool Refrigeration Amana

Sr. Value Stream Manager, Special Operations July 2016- September 2016

In charge of over 16 fabrication machines and over 600 people all 3 shifts. Main focus to decrease the production of door defects.

Developed new standard work process and procedures, devices, work flow, A3’s, Action items and tools to decrease the number of defects produced, by manufacturer, machine, person or transportation.

Create forecast models, flow charts and grafts of accomplishments and detailed cost effect analysis.

Lead engineers in developing preventative maintenance for all production/fabrication and robotic machines.

Success/Accomplishments: New process, new procedures, new tooling, training, verification, increased inspection. Went from 757 Doors scraped in a week to 440 doors scraped in 1 week (graphs and presentations to prove) 58% door scrap decrees.

Quality Engineer February 2016- June 2016

Work with a team of QEs to enforce lean manufacturing, create fixes on the manufacturing floor and in the labs to keep First Product Yield and quality at the highest standard.

Create test fixtures and develop devices, process/procedures and tools to increase first class units and eliminate defects on the most advanced Refrigerators on the market. CAD building and editing.

PPAP, Spreadsheets, pivot tables, matrix, data and engineering collecting, design changes, standardized work change and implementation

Successes/Accomplishments: Manufacturing throughput increase with engineering, and lean modifications: .0568%

WashTec LLC Partner, Appliance & Sales February 2011- January 2016

Purchase, rebuild, test, and repair home appliances: Washer, dryer, refrigerator, stoves and microwaves.

Design display and Sales floor management

Control trucking schedules, quotes, orders, shipping and website

Communications Engineering Company Radio Communications Technician- Team Lead November 2010 to May 2014

Team lead, Service and repair Motorola MOTOTRBO, VHF, UHF, 800MHZ, Microwave, Zetron, SMR, CDMA, TDMA, GPS, IP Site connect, 911 Emergency, Fiber connections to router to repeater with terminations, in house hospital paging and Flex paging, Repeater and Voter repair, Integrated IT radio systems, antenna and dish alignment.

Radio Communications (RCSystems) Communications Engineer November 2007- September 2010

Service and repair, team lead on call 911 dispatch, Zetron, Motorola, ICOM, Vertex, Exalt Microwave install and repair, custom installs, law enforcement and undercover vehicle installs.

Tower erecting, building and climbing

Rockwell Collins Micro Electronics Test Technician January 2001 to August 2006

Microelectronics, editing, building and testing.

Die and discrete placement, wire bonding, ball grid array and testing, trouble shooting, Spectrometer, Scope work, programming, Low voltage testing, CMM, burn-in chambers.

Testing of GPS, Single Die, SAASM, JDAM, DAGR, EKV, and Data collection for engineering solutions. (Along with Government protected information).

Successes/Accomplishments: Lean, 5s, 6Sigma: 3Mo program implementation, removing process and procedure steps, improving quality and run time: There was an overall gain of 73% throughput in the Government microelectronics division.

Education

BA- Electronics Engineering

Innova University

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