Engineer Manufacturing

Eric Rubio

**** ****** *** - *******, ** *****

****-*****@****.*** - 956-***-****

Objective

Experienced Manufacturing / Engineering specialist with over thirteen years experience in development and management of advanced hardware, software, electrical design, and manufacturing process/automation. Focused on innovation, quality standards, team building, and customer service. Constant Continuous Improvement / Six Sigma mentality and interested in contributing to the growth and achievements of the organization.

Skills

Six Sigma Green Belt Certified, PFMEA, PPQ, DOE, Product Development Process, root cause analysis, Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Continuous Improvement, Department Management, Cost Savings, Design for Manufacturing.

Advanced (Senior Level) In the following Areas:

Software Design (c++, Vb, vb.net, asp.net, HTML), SQL Query Design, Database Design, Sever Management

PLC, electrical/electronic, circuit design, industrial automation, test automation, project management, Serial interfacing (RS-232,RS-485,CAN,LIN,TCP/IP), National Instruments Labview and TestStand, PCB Design, and AutoCad.

Work Experience

Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor

Panasonic Automotive Systems of America - Los Indios, TX / Detroit, MI. April 2015 to Present

Responsible for Manufacturing Engineering team with focus on manufacturing process automation, root cause identification, poke-yoke design, and software development.

Responsible for Industrial Engineering team with focus on optimized process and layout development.

Responsible for creating and implementing global test engineering BBPs to standardize test engineering and manufacturing operations.

Major Accomplishments:

•Developed a technical work force capable of designing and implementing electrical, software projects across our global sites.

Sr. Manufacturing Electrical Engineer

Panasonic Automotive Systems of America - Los Indios, TX / Detroit, MI. August 2012 to April 2015

Design and implement software for manufacturing lines focused on data collection, cycle time reduction, reduction of false failures, and ease of software/equipment maintenance.

Design User Interfaces for automated End of Line equipment, Quality Control Data Processing, Manufacturing KPIs,

Design of manufacturing automated test stations for RF products, Navigation Units, Vehicle Radios, Engine Controllers, Automotive Accessories with several CAN buses. (SW CAN, HS CAN, LIN, Proprietary Automotive protocols)

Manage SQL servers, databases, and other systems used to capture manufacturing data.

Reverse engineer functionality of products and software with the intent of designing automated equipment aiding in verification of product functionality.

Major Accomplishments:

•Created Standardized manufacturing equipment, software and processes for quick implementation of product lines in different global sites.

•Created manufacturing systems for automated tracking and reporting of production metrics (yield, rate, productivity, downtime, etc) to facilitate the real-time resolution of production issues.

Sustaining & Test Lead Engineer

Johnson Controls Inc - Pharr, TX / Reynosa, MX December 2010 to August 2012

•Responsible for leading Value Added/ Value Engineering cost saving projects

•Performed in depth failure mode analysis to determine root cause of component, product, and systems failures.

•Evaluated and defined changes required to meet Design for Manufacturability on new products introduced to the factory

•Technical interface between local manufacturing, quality, product engineering and corporate design teams

•Responsible for evaluating and approving product modifications.

Major Accomplishments

•Lead the engineering team in meeting and surpassing the companies VAVE cost savings goals

2010 – Department Cost Savings Goal was set to $200,000 per year. The actual savings were $279,000

-Product Redesign $262,000

-Cycle Time Reduction $17,000

2011 – Department Cost Savings Goal was set to $310,000 per year. The actual savings were $357,000

-Product Redesign $299,000

-Cycle Time Reduction $39,000

-Indirect Material Consumption Reduction $19,000

2012 – Department Cost Savings Goal was set to $650,000 per year. The actual savings were $810,000

-Product Redesign $624,000

-Cycle Time Reduction $123,000

-Process Improvement/Manual Labor reduction $63,000

Sr. Test Development/Support Engineer

Johnson Controls Inc - Pharr, TX / Reynosa, MX August 2009 to December 2010

•Responsible for Test Support engineering team dedicated to TPM, calibration, corrective maintenance, upgrades, and availability of all automated test equipment used in the manufacturing facility.

•Responsible for Test Development engineering team dedicated to designing and manufacturing automated test equipment, and software development.

•Trained product engineers, test engineers, test technicians, and defect analysis technicians on product functionality, product troubleshooting, equipment troubleshooting, and software development.

•Responsible for coaching, yearly performance evaluations, and development of plant test engineers and test technicians.

•Analyzed and defined testability requirements on new products introduced to the manufacturing plant to guarantee proper test coverage, reduce capital requirements for test development, and improve quality of the product by optimizing the testability of the product.

•Designed mechanical fixtures using Autocad and/or SolidWorks, for interfacing to electronic circuit boards manufactured in the factory with consideration for board flexing, operator ergonomics, long term reliability, and ease of construction.

•Designed custom software for automating the design of electronic circuit board interface fixtures by automatically processing ATE files, AutoCad templates, bill of materials, and other engineering files to output a DXF file used to generate fixtures and jigs by local fixture/jig suppliers

Major Accomplishments

•Developed and documented standardized automated test station design methods, and software development methods that reduced the design and manufacturing lead time of a new test station from fourteen weeks to eight weeks.

•Developed web pages and web services to view real time manufacturing cell production test yield status, parameters, equipment performance, and test data.

Lead Test Development Engineer

Johnson Controls Inc - Pharr, TX / Reynosa, MX June 2007 to August 2009

•Designed fully automated end-of-line test stations for calibrating and testing product functionality of products manufactured in the factory.

•Designed electro-pneumatic test stations using pneumatic air pressure, flow regulators, pneumatic cylinders, position feedback sensors, check-valves, pneumatic actuators, electronic controllers, torque/ force load cells for testing product movement, rated torque, angular velocity, current draw, and other product specifications.

•Designed custom circuits and fully automated test stations for automating calibration and verification

of HVAC controllers, sensors, and wireless radio transmitters, using PLC controllers, data acquisition instruments/modules, personal computer, HMI controllers, remote IO modules, and other instruments.

•Designed custom software for simplifying failure mode analysis and troubleshooting of defective products manufactured in the plant, and troubleshooting of automated equipment in the factory.

•Designed custom software for storing in local and remote SQL servers data for purposes such as product traceability, real time data collection, yield tracking, test station productivity, and machine down time analysis.

Major Accomplishments

Introduced hardware/software parallel testing methods and algorithms to reduce manufacturing test cycle time and increase capacity of automated test stations. This yielded in reduced capital investment required for automated test stations by eliminating the need to manufacture duplicate automated test stations.

Software Engineer

Johnson Controls Inc - Pharr, TX / Reynosa, MX May 2004 to June 2007

•Developed instrument and device drivers for Agilent Data Acquisition devices, Keyence Vision System controllers, ICPDAS Remote I/O modules, OhmSource Digital Decades, N2 Protocol controllers and devices, LON Protocol controllers and devices, BacNet protocol devices, Modbus devices, Transducer Techniques devices, RedLion data acquisition meters and HMIs, and Koyo PLCs.

•Developed source code for Allen Bradley SLC500 PLCs, Koyo PLCs, Red Lion HMIs, B&B Electronics PLC modules for automating manufacturing processes.

•Developed firmware files for PIC Microchip, Renesas, and FTD microcontrollers for automating test stations.

•Developed software sequences for National Instruments Test Stand to automate testing, calibration, and verification of HVAC controllers, temperature/humidity sensors, and electro-mechanical actuators.

•Developed custom software to automate life cycle testing of various products manufactured in the factory using National Instruments LabView and other custom software.

Major accomplishments

•In-sourced all software development for test development department and eliminated long lead times of third-party software development.

•Reverse engineered software protocols and automated test stations from third party suppliers in order to in-source manufacturing of electronic controllers with custom calibration algorithms with minimum or no existing product functionality documentation.

•Developed software user interfaces for simplifying operator interaction with machinery in the factory to allow all operators to work with complex machines even without in depth knowledge of the machines.

Education

Electrical Engineering

University Of Texas - Edinburg, TX 2000 to 2004

Bachelor’s Of Science – Electrical Engineering

Associate of Science

South Texas Community College - McAllen, TX 1999 to 2000

Associate Degree – Computer Maintenance Technology

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