NICHOLAS D. BORTOLOTTI

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214-***-**** acskzv@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickbortolotti

Profile: An experienced manufacturing and product engineer, with experience on various industrial products such as medical devices, oil/gas down hole PCBs, (HMP). Telecom and power switching equipment, and with the ability to excel in his work environment, and interact with all levels in the department.

Strengths

Capable of generating unique solutions to achieve the desired goal.

Possesses an understanding of business and engineering fundamentals.

Confidently resolves day to day engineering issues.

Self managed, high energy, client centric and able to work with time sensitive deadlines.

Successful liaison between customers, vendors, and operators and manage the production of various tools, materials and products.

Experience with: ITAR, ISO, PSM, Lean, Quality systems.

Achievements.

On a day to basis I help my customers achieve the highest possible yield on their product and help them meet their goals to their end customers.

My past achievements are summarized by the following

Meet the delivery goals by engineering the product with minimum issues at production, using ideas from Lean manufacturing and Six-sigma concepts.

Identify specifications/errors that do not meet current requirements and help the customers re-vamp specifications to detail product changes.

Create best practice solutions to eliminate future errors in design, and or B.O.M

Resolve parts issues, and mechanical assembly issues.

Interests:

Aerospace Engineering:

Oil and Gas manufacturing

Safety management. (PSM)

Design/Production, best practices management.

Relevant Experience.

2012-2015 Benchmark Electronics Angleton, TX

Product Engineer/Manufacturing Engineer III

Responsible for researching and developing ideas and processes for customer products.. Improved upon the performance and design of existing products and oversaw production and packaging of final product.

Primary responsibilities

Evaluated customer specifications for manufacturing.

Conducted research and created design proposals for projects.

Improved on customers building processes.

Created concepts, performance, and production criteria.

Identified and selected materials needed for production.

Verified and amended final hand drawings and specifications.

Created and improved on parts lists, including finding alternate sources for on time delivery.

List costs involved in production.

Initiated Lean Initiatives for cost savings.

Created and implemented Six-Sigma initiatives.

Used computer-aided design (CAD) to design packaging solutions and mechanical production widgets.

Evaluated and resolved day to day issues with design, process and or parts issues

Helped quality team to improve yields and on time delivery.

Minimized down time in production.

Verified design concepts from customer specifications.

TAS. (Turbine Air Systems) Houston, TX 2011-2012

Electrical Engineer, (System design drafting)

Developed modified and maintained electrical design schematics and layout drafting drawings for manufacturing assembly of packaged industrial turbine chillers.

Amended 1-Line electrical documents from load lists.

Developed to scale CAD manufacturing assembly drawings for skids.

Modified Solid works drawings for changes required as needed.

2007-2010. General Electric Aero.

Requisitions Electrical Engineer. (contractor) Channelview, TX,

Created and maintained engineering documentation for product release prior to deadline.

Resolved Manufacturing issues within 24 hours of initial alert.

Improved standards corrected errors, cleaned documentation to minimize down time on the manufacturing lines.

Develop, modified and maintained Requisition Engineering documentation for LM6000 Gas Turbine Power Generation Equipment such as Build Plans, Plan & Elevation Diagrams,

Wiring Diagrams, Cable Schedules, Schematic Diagrams, Instrument Loop Diagrams, Interconnect Drawings F&ID's, P&ID's and Worksheets.

Performed thorough point-to-point inspections on all Requisition Engineering schematics within 2 weeks or less.

Performed schematic-to-wiring diagram checks including field wiring interconnects and interconnect cable schedules.

Participated with mechanical team on P&ID verifications.

2007-2007. Suntron Corporation.

Manufacturing Engineer/Product Engineer. Sugarland, TX

Oversaw, manufacturing process and documentation for 4 customers and approximately 30 products.

General duties included:

Communicating with customers on their products engineering changes and qualifying such changes for production readiness.

Evaluated parts for products including metallurgical issues and machining problems from vendors.

Held weekly meetings for quality reviews and scheduling issues related to parts and manufacturing issues from engineering changes.

Oversaw BOM and ERP system for products.

1995-1998, 1999-2006 Flextronics International, Plano, TX

Senior Systems Test Engineer / Manufacturing Product Engineer

Accomplishments:

Improved product quality and on time delivery by initiating pre-design release reviews with OEM and set standards for the designers to follow

Set standards for PCBA layout.

Mock functional testing script editing.

Implemented new product introduction product documentation, and facility requirements.

Acquired new equipment and developed AOI (Automated Optical in process) program to reduce defective product from $2,000,000 to $36,000. (USD).

Improved product yield by 20% over a 6 month period.

Automated manual test process to eliminate operator input issues.

Initiated and accomplished better yields through out line by including engineering techniques prior to final design of product.

Worked with designers to implement changes in product for manufacturing excellence and efficiency.

Balanced customer test line inclusive of test yield, efficiency and product schedules.

Developed retest matrix to minimize inefficiencies during failures.

Responsible for Product evaluation and specification analysis .

Responsible for documentation development - assembly process instructions, step-by-step tests specifications for new product lines

Effectively trained personnel on new product specifications, set up, troubleshooting, test specifications and failure repair/analysis

Implemented DFT (Demand Flow Technology)

Engineered DFM studies for new products.

Conducted specification analysis for all new products/parts.

ECO/ECN engineering implementation, analysis and release

Conducted and presented CPK and quality analysis to quality/Management team

1998 - 1999 ON-TRACK SYSTEMS (Formerly Highway-Master) Addison, TX,

Responsible for hiring 3rd party contract manufacturing to build our products

Installation of GPS device for trucking industry,

Tested GPS location systems for trucking industry.

Tested EMI interference on GPS systems - analyzed new software from end user perspective

Reported possible software bugs and other technical issues

Education: Bachelors of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology

DeVry University, Irving, TX

Certifications:Six Sigma Green Belt trained, Flextronics (2006)

Teradyne, Development and Maintenance (2002)

Genrad 8X- Development and Maintenance (2003)

HP (Agilent technologies) Development and Maintenance

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft office, Excel, PowerPoint, access.

Agile 5.0, (BOM), AutoCad. BAAN, (ERP), PIC, (ERP) Valor

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