JIMMY BLOTZER

386-***-**** actgvt@r.postjobfree.com

Deltona, Florida

Dear Hiring Manager, Process Engineer

It is with great enthusiasm that I submit my application for the position of Process Engineer. I am a multi-skilled engineering professional with over 20+ years of DoD experience in new process development, existing, and legacy products. Defined, managed and supported the concepts of R&D, production, assembly, manufacturing, tooling and testing. Created and qualified processes with procedures for personnel, suppliers and customers related to complex electro/optical-mechanical subassemblies and final assemblies for Military Lasers.

Being innovative, creative and using agile processes with the technical leadership to strategically “change the game-change the culture”. Developing grit is all about habitually doing the things that no one else is willing to do, it is my passion, that “extra something” that separates the most successful people from the rest. Thriving with a quality first mentality and a must win attitude, manages plans, coordinates and directs manufacturing programs designed to ensure continuous production of products consistent with established standards.

I have a comprehensive understanding of manufacturing, quality and mechanical engineering philosophies, systems, methods, tools, standards, organizational and team dynamics. Analytical problem solving by presenting problems with solutions and accountability are two of my strongest attributes on development and production teams. I am respected for listening to and leading the floor personnel, supervisors and engineering peers in collaborating ideas to manufacture a sustainable quality product while driving the business model and balancing operations cost.

Having developed a set of lessons learned over time, not to control the personnel, but to empower them, motivate and share their knowledge and experience as they are the hands on the product. I strive to be modest, listen seriously and show it, invite disagreement, focus on the agenda, don’t try to have all the answers and don’t always insist that a decision be made without analyzing the situation, discussing the findings and establishing goals for the employees.

Although I do not possess a formal engineering degree; I am talented, progressively self-educated have developed the engineering and management core leadership and communication skills necessary for an engineer to be successful on product/project/program execution and leading people. Always asking questions, looking for feedback and studying the opportunities with continuous attention to technical excellence of the tasks I am ask to perform.

On my own time and to this day, I continue to do research on product opportunities to generate a technological advantage with my peers and providing significant revenue for the company, becoming a technical leader, the “go to problem solving engineer” and the internal subject matter expert [SME] in many categories. While driving the business model, always keeping short and long term goals in mind when implementing resolutions.

Being proficient in presenting my research using both written and oral skills has allowed me to successfully mentor and manage junior engineers, staff, suppliers and stakeholders, as well as other departments of my findings that are changing and improving designs, products, processes and procedures both internally, with suppliers and customers.

I am successful, though tenacious, open minded, improvising and adapting to the environment around me. My diversity and agile methods allow me to perform and support the tasks of several engineering disciplines to include prototyping, quality and production, along with procurement and program management as a cost and time savings to future programs. I’m not only used to wearing many hats, I sincerely enjoy it, asked many times by my peers “what hat are your wearing today”.

Not a typical engineer, but an out of the box thinker and hands on working in a Lab or cleanroom environment, or on the manufacturing floor and in the field where safety is always first. Recognizing the importance of delivery schedules, I have always provided manufacturing support as required, having a typical workweek of 40 - 55 hours.

In closing, I am excited at the possibility of being part of Paradigm Precision. I am sincerely grateful for the opportunity to meet with you and discuss your visions and the experience and energy that I can bring to the organization as your Process Engineer. I appreciate your consideration and I am looking forward to meeting with you.

Best Regards,

Jimmy Blotzer

PS: I sincerely apologize for the lengthy letter, I needed to introduce myself to you so would know who I am.

JIMMY BLOTZER

386-***-**** Deltona, Florida 32725 actgvt@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Process Engineer

Reliability Process Engineer with 20+ years of DoD Laser experience is seeking a Process Engineer position. Looking for a growing organization where my diverse comprehensive knowledge in development, manufacturing and testing of raw materials, components, subassemblies, products, services related from transition to production, creating and supporting current production processes and procedures are needed. I have a thorough understanding of analytical problem solving, budget constraints, labor standards, procurement, quality improvement tools and techniques. This includes customer specifications, expectations and satisfaction, supplier qualification and strategic relationships, managing variability and risk improvising ways to overcome organizational barriers while driving innovation, while increasing revenue.

CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Cleanroom Protocol – technical lead for facility design, production tooling and equipment, material process flow, procedures, training and creating a new class 10K cleanroom to provide for critical high powered Lasers to control contamination of optics and reduce the $500K of scrap material by a minimum of 35% of diode pumped lasers.

Hermetic Sealing - savings of $100K/50 castings and a reduction in the production system process cycle time of 35% by troubleshooting, research, innovation and resolving the root causes of the NGLS 15 year historical failure modes of rapid prototype castings, (each casting having 49 defects per opportunity) negotiating new processes with (2) suppliers, reducing the defect rate from 80% to 1.0% total first time throughput yield, (1) program.

Lean Manufacturing - defining multifunctional capital equipment, built in quality processes and procedures with continuous improvement metrics, thinking long term when creating solutions, delivering working products for customer field evaluation, "fit for purpose and right the first time".

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quality-Specific incorporation of test-first development practices, constant inspection and creating procedures while providing leadership to teams using knowledge and sound judgement to create a sustainable product that will be both producible and profitable with consideration to design and ease for manufacturing as a priority.

Fostering Innovation in a team environment to work autonomously, identifying the means to improve designs, taking a proactive approach to quality to prevent problems, flowing down the customer requirements internally and to suppliers reducing scrap, rework, process variations, and enhancing product reliability and return of investment.

Agile Processing led to implementing methods using cross functional team members collaborating in a culture change of problem solving techniques, allowing changes in designs and performance specifications to be validated earlier in the test driven development stages or product life cycle from components to final assemblies.

Mentoring and guiding engineering disciplines, procurement, production personnel and suppliers as the SME for their tasks in question, sharing research information by utilizing strong oral and written presentations while applying sound chemistry, physics, engineering principles and theories.

Creative Testing of concepts, designs, process changes and failure modes for electro-mechanical/optical subassemblies, prototypes, manufacturing and suppliers. Providing solutions, reworking, retesting and field testing the corrective action to the limits of Mil-Std-810 and customer specifications. Minimizing the risk change mitigation allowing for the integration and documentation of qualified requirements to the definition of DONE.

Working knowledge – organic/inorganic contamination, residual gas analysis, high vacuum processes, pneumatic processing stations, DI/RO processing stations, cryogenics, elastomers, mechanical engineering, additive manufacturing, measurement devices, tooling, moisture sensitive devices, hermiticity/dew point design and testing, environmental testing, CTE, permeability of materials, castings, carbon fiber, plastics, molds, aluminum, titanium, magnesium, metal finishes, anodic processes, adhesives, bonding, fasteners, VOCs, ISO 9001- 9002, EMI, ESD, OSHA, CAPA, NADCAP, QAP, POC, MRB, CAPA, FMEA, SCAR, FAI, NCR, PPAP, EH&S, ECNs, GD&T, EBOMs, MBOMs, DFM, DOE.

WORK HISTORY

Northrop Grumman Laser Systems - Apopka Florida 1993 to 2015

[Formerly Litton Laser Systems]

Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability R&D Process Engineer

EDUCATION

ASHWORTH COLLEGE – Norcross Georgia Certification, AutoCAD (ongoing)

U.S. NAVY Schools - Submarine, Avionics, Antisubmarine Warfare

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technical Leader Continuous Improvement Agile Project Management Supplier RCCA

Technical Direction Foster team environment State of the Art Technology Support EH&S

Green Processes Manufacturing Processes Analytical Troubleshooting Hermiticity

(8) R & D programs from concept thru qualification to (5) transitions to production.

Design of Experiments for testing prototypes, initiated many design concepts that went into production products.

Developed strategic relationships and qualified suppliers, example below from 2014.

oDenver rapid prototype casting supplier, reduced 27 mechanical discrepancies per casting to 3: led Agile team, 3 members with daily internal /external communications using SPC tables.

Hermiticity

oHelium leak testing: sealing integrity to the low E-10 range, processes, procedures, ASTM, Mil-Std 810, DOE.

oVacuum chambers, test fixtures, instrumentation.

oPressure drop, rate of rise, immersion, rapid decompression.

oTroubleshooting leak locations, root cause and qualified solutions (design or process changes).

oMaterial selection, components, CTEs.

oEnclosure designs and configurations.

oProcessing Stations: design and fabrication (gas manifolds sealing integrity to the low E-8 range).

Materials Experience

oEnclosure: carbon fiber, plastics, magnesium and aluminum.

oFinishes: research and innovation resulted in new products such as micro porosity casting sealers, <2% reflective surfaces using anodic and epoxy coatings in optical compartments.

oIdentified and implemented Green chemicals for CCAs and metallic finishes internally and for suppliers.

oMIL-DTL-81706/ MIL-DTL-5541/ (conversion coatings including chromate free) MIL-A-8625 (anodizing)

oCARC primer and topcoats including MIL-PRF-32348, VOCs, VOHAP, HAPs free exceeding EPA/RoHS requirements

oMSD; moistures sensitive devices.

Outgassing Rates

oIntroduced Litton Lasers to the analytical Residual Gas Analysis process for contamination control in 1997, identifying aromatic hydrocarbons (BTEX) that will reduce the LIDT on optics causing catastrophic failures.

oCreated and established a library of tested materials for acceptance/rejection criteria for optical compartments using the RGA process for all materials to eliminate cross contamination.

Processing

oHigh Vacuum stations: design and fabrication, pumps, components and instrumentation.

oDew Point: design, fabrication, processing and instrumentation down to -70 C.

oIntegrated a unique hot gas purge/vacuum bake cleaning process to maintain optical compartment LDT integrity, removal of all atmospherics gases, reduction of hydrocarbons from component to system level and other special Laser contamination control and lean material handling processes.

oConsulting and mentoring engineers as a technical lead on process measurement; material selection and testing products was a daily routine for development and production programs.

oDOE for cleaning procedures on all development and production program parts; qualified to RGA Spectra resulting in the processes and materials qualification for production hardware.

oProcured mechanical and processing equipment and setup multiple function stations in engineering labs.

oTransitioned (2) Laser companies into Litton manufacturing facility, merging product lines into existing Litton process production flow.

Adhesives, Elastomers and EMI properties

oContinuously researching and evaluating adhesives and elastomers for all types of applications including low outgassing materials for hermetic sealing and EMI products.

oEstablished a new low cost EMI design concepts which are currently in new products that can be retrofitted into legacy and current production programs.

Letter of Recommendation – Jim Blotzer

The letter serves as a recommendation for employment of Jim Blotzer. I have worked closely with Jim over the past 20+ years at Northrop Grumman Laser Systems (formerly Litton Laser Systems). Jim is a significant asset to any manufacturing based organization that also does product design and development. Jim has a broad array of engineering skills despite the fact that he does not have an engineering degree. Jim’s skills are learned over his years of working in the industry.

I would summarize Jim’s primary attribute to be a problem solver. He knows how to approach a problem, break it down into individual elements (subsystems or components) and troubleshoot to the root cause. Jim has proven to be very effective at developing corrective actions that solve the problem once and for all. Over the years these corrective actions have ranged from basic process improvements to more elegant and creative design changes or even material changes.

Jim always takes a methodical approach to problem solving or designing a new process to reduce the manufacturing time while maintaining product integrity. If Jim isn’t familiar with a particular aspect of a part or material he often would do research on his own time to become our internal subject matter expert (SME). That is just reflective of Jim’s passion for what he does.

Jim is proficient in many areas including; lean manufacturing, mechanical design techniques and hermetic sealing of cavities, helium leak testing, and precision cleaning of metals, optics, circuit card assemblies and most materials. The precision cleaning expertise was especially helpful in our laser designs with high circulating energy densities which made them very susceptible to contamination related damage and costly system failures. Jim was our “guru” in this area.

As a program manager for new product development, I was always eager to have Jim on the team so he could bring his expertise from solving production problems to the front end of our product development cycle to ensure we considered “lessons learned” in the next new product design. Jim was always sought out by his peers for his keen insights as well.

I believe Jim would be an asset to any organization that decides to hire him and while I personally will miss having him to go to for help. I’m sure he will benefit any employer who hires him.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Andy Bailey

actgvt@r.postjobfree.com

Program Manager

Northrop Grumman Laser Systems

407-***-****

Subject: Letter of Recommendation – Jim Blotzer

This letter is to serve as my formal job recommendation for Jim Blotzer as a Project Engineer. Jim has worked directly with me at Northrop Grumman Laser Systems for 11 years. During these 11 years, I worked with Jim as a peer where he has held several different roles: Manufacturing, Engineering, Reliability, Quality, Test and Failure Analysis. I feel that Jim would be an excellent selection for an organization that is looking for someone who understands the entire process of a product from the start of an engineering design and transitioning to production. He is a person who can lead a team through this process.

During his time at Northrop Grumman, Jim has consistently demonstrated a strong work ethic and a dedication to success. His efforts have produced high quality results that have been recognized from several product lines within the company (airborne and ground). Jim has worked with me on several laser design programs at Northrop Grumman supporting with preliminary design reviews, to prototyping, to full rate production.

These programs produce military laser rangefinders and designators that are in high demand and missing delivery dates could be detrimental. He is well aware of this and has made sure that we have the proper design and processes in place to meet schedule and cost. Jim takes great pride in ensuring a quality product and is committed to go the extra distance to make sure that the program is a success. Not only does he focus on the current program, but he also looks at continuous improvement and risk management to guarantee a solid product in the future.

Because Jim has had so many different roles in the company, a project engineer role is the proper fit for him. The project engineer role is responsible for the technical, schedule, and cost success of a program. Jim has the proper skills needed for this position since he is comfortable with directing all phases of programs from inception through completion. He participates in establishing design concepts, criteria, and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration and test.

He identifies program problems and obtains solutions, whether it is design changes, process changes, allocation of resources, or changing of specifications. He also directs the work of employees assigned to the program from technical and manufacturing areas. His leadership, mentoring, presentation, and technical skills are why I think Jim is deserving of this position. Jim is an excellent role model for engineers who work with him.

Jim continues to think of the continuous improvement of the company and has a philosophy of mentorship to his younger peers. Throughout Jim’s tenure at Northrop Grumman, he has continued to research improvements to designs and processes and transfers his knowledge to ensure that his experience is transferred throughout the company. This leadership is just another example of his drive for success.

In summary, Jim displays all the qualities that make a successful Project Engineer. He is a leader, dependable, a problem solver, an excellent team member, a mentor, and always motivated to delivering quality products. For these reasons, I highly recommend Jim Blotzer for the position of Project Engineer. If you have any questions regarding Jim or this recommendation, please contact me at 321-***-**** or the email address listed below.

Sincerely,

Kareem Rasmy

Program Manager

Northrop Grumman Corporation ES – Laser Systems

321-***-*****

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