Engineering Project

Zachary S Ward

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EMPLOYMENT OBJECTIVE

Obtain a full time position within my field of study that provides opportunity to expand engineering/business knowledge and apply strategic thinking skills gained during External Affairs, Quality Engineering and Program Management co-op experiences.

EDUCATION

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Major: Industrial Systems Engineering Expected Graduation: May 2018 ; GPA: 3.54

Related Courses: Critical Thinking; Economics; Engineering Data analysis; System Simulation; Facility Design; Statistical Quality Control; Work design; Production Control; Operations Research; Six Sigma (Six Sigma Green Belt Certification); Program management; Fundamentals of Fuel Cell Systems; Fundamentals of Hybrid Electric Batteries; Product Life Cycle Management and Sustainable Design.

ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

Product Life Cycle Management Project Winter 2018

Improvement of a company’s PLM system through research, utilized PLM software to manage tasks for selection of the best possible design.

Senior Capstone Project Fall 2017

Exercised industrial engineering skills to improve throughput by reducing wait times of clinical procedures at the Henry Ford Hospital

Statistical Quality Control Project Fall 2016

Utilized statistical quality control methods with lean-six sigma to improve throughput and customer satisfaction at Tim Horton’s café

Engineering Data Analysis Project Winter 2016

Exercised statistical skills in Mini Tab and Excel with a PowerPoint presentation to do an analysis in of the health impact of chemicals in water.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

Marquardt Switches, Rochester Hills, MI November 2016-Present

Program Management CO-OP

Manage multi-disciplinary cross functional project teams finding innovative solutions to customer requests.

Implementation of engineering/manufacturing changes within projects for cost reduction and innovation.

ECN management utilizing excellent communication to customer while supporting PPAP standards.

Created/presented PEP check documents using PLM upon end of project phase completion.

Financial justification of projects utilizing SAP upon completion for analysis with executives.

Created project closing reports applying skill in PLM upon project development completion.

Update timelines/critical issues of projects utilizing Rplan for timing and scheduling purposes.

DENSO INTERNATIONAL AMERICA, Southfield, MI August 2015- November 2016

Quality Engineering CO-OP

Analyzed failure parts for customers using root cause analysis to provide failure solutions.

Facilitated presentations on data analysis of warranty parts and critical failures.

Parts review with customer utilizing engineering skills for the justification of warranty claims.

Preformed testing, evaluation and presentation on warranty claim parts.

Recreated ELCM statistical data analysis report and presentation for efficiency by reducing analysis time.

External Affairs CO-OP

Applied local and regional community outreach projects and funding.

Coordinated local donation drives for 1,000+ associate campus.

Participated in review process for corporate foundation higher education research funding.

Sustained signature programs in Road Safety & STEM through research and data analysis.

Supported development of work time volunteer program through research and partner evaluations.

HONORS AND ACHIEVMENTS

Co-Founder, Wayne State University Drone team, WSU Chapter, 2015-Present

Member, AGRADE Program, WSU, 2016-Present

Member, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, WSU Chapter, 2013-Present

Member, Emerging Scholars Program, WSU Chapter, 2013-2014

Member, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, WSU Chapter, 2013-2016

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