Blake W. Spurgin: Milwaukee, WI

acz2yr@r.postjobfree.com 630-***-****

Experience:

GE Healthcare – System Harvest, Harvest Program Leader/Program Manager 2 January 2017 - Present

Waukesha, WI

Communicating, Scheduling, and Directing Field Engineers to perform System Harvest Testing

Direct Communication with Asset Recovery, Program Managers, Harvest Program Team

GE Applications: MyWorkshop, FEMC, FBI, CDL, Quickbase, iHarvest, SFR Forms, Greenscreen (Cares Mainframe), Siebel 8.1

U and UZ Part Setup Representative

Create Harvest Parts Lists from Raw Data: Tech Publications, MyWorkshop investigations, FBI data

FMI Process and Status Lookup across numerous platforms

Missed Opportunity and Thank you Harvest Emails

Modalities: MR, X-Ray, CT, Mammo

Work with ROC as Required to meet needs

B/E Aerospace – Integrated Lighting Systems, Project Engineer March 2016 – August 2016

New Berlin, WI

Project scheduling and technical lead – MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook

oMultiple product lines: CMS (Cabin Management System), EJB (Electrical Junction Box), Interior Lighting, and Harnessing

Customers – Pilatus, Zodiac, Bombardier, Boeing, Gulfstream

Led qualification test program (DO-160) for each program,

oMade determination with customer on DO-178 and DO-254 applicability

Produced project plans and budgets

oResource management

oInternal and external projects

Led cross-functional design reviews

oInternal PDR, CDR, DFMEA, DFM/A, PFMEA, regular design reviews and updates

oPDR, CDR, additional customer design objectives

oLed customer presentations

oCommunicate between manufacturing engineering, sales, program management, engineering, assembly, qualification testing (Internal and External), procurement, and quality

Maintained documentation showing compliance to requirements and customer allowed variance from requirements, if applicable.

Communication across all levels of organization on program priorities and resource allocation

Risk Mitigation

Lead in customer negotiation on program needs and issues

Find program and customer specific, effective, way to deal with program issues and priority allocation.

Complete pre-acceptance review of projects prior to acceptance to determine internal feasibility and resource needs.

Mentored other project engineers to implement design reviews and scheduling

Managed multiple programs simultaneously (10/27 engineering department programs)

oMaintain on-time performance and under budget

oIssue mitigation

Kaney Aerospace, Qualification Test Engineer October 2015 – March 2016

Ogden,UT / Rockford, IL

Qualification test engineering (Parker Aerospace) (DO-160)

oQualification test witnessing

oGet DER / FAA / Transport Canada buyoff on bluelines / redlines / test verification

oTRR – test readiness review meetings

oEngineering testing / verification to requirements

oQualification test plans / reports

DOORS knowledge and verification

Communicate between program management, engineering, assembly, qualification testing (Internal and External), procurement, and quality

Spoilers, elevators, ailerons, HSTA (horizontal stabilizer trim actuator), each has a respective manifold.

Project scheduling and on time delivery of completed tests

Sourcing and procurement of test apparatus

B/E Aerospace - ECOSystems, Project Engineer May 2014 – October 2015

Rockford, IL

Waste and water systems for commercial and business jets

Technical projects: Software, hardware, and systems integration

Project Planning: MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Technical feasibility, resource allocation)

Qualification documentation (FAA, JCAB, EASA, and Boeing) (DO-160, DO-178)

oSimilarity Reports

oQualification Test Plans/Reports

oAnalysis Reports

oSystem Safety Assessments

oReliability Reports/Plans, FMEA, RPR, RPP, etc.

oTest Reports, Acceptance Test Procedures

oFlammability, Fungal, and other Supporting Qualification Documentation

Part design: Design reviews, action lists, schedules, resource management, etc.

Communicate between manufacturing, sales, program management, engineering, assembly, qualification testing (Internal and External), procurement, and quality

Qualification test witnessing, set-up, and technician (DO-160)

Problem Solving: A3, Practical Problem Solving, Just-Do-It, 8-D,etc

Travel to suppliers and customers

Thermoplastic properties and analysis

After achieving proper root cause analysis, and cross functional communication of found outcome, the organization took note of effectiveness of this process and looked to me to train other engineers.

Seemingly Endless Energy – Engineering manager yearly review

Clear, effective, concise communication across all levels of organization

MRL Industries, Program Manager August 2012 – May 2014

Itasca, IL

Manage multiple $1 million+ Tier 1 & 2 Customers (Rockwell Collins, Woodward, Toshiba)

Grew Rockwell Collins account effectively from <$50,000 Upwards of $1.2M

LEAN/5-S Manufacturing

Government contracts manager

Management representative ISO 9001:2008

Production supervision

Manufacturing flow, continuous improvement

Coordinate 10+ personnel in production manufacturing environment

Production scheduling and performance metrics

Program management

OSHA experience

Manufacturing engineering and manufacturability

Fabrication, assembly, welding, turret Punch, hydroforming, punch, machining

Alloys: Aluminum (Most Types and Tempers), Carbon and Stainless Steels, HY Mu 80, Haynes 282, Titanium, Plastics, Low Carbon Steel Varieties, Inconel 718, Investment Castings, Copper, Beryllium Copper, Foils.

Design to manufacture and stacked assembly; System tolerances.

Customer service, sales, and quoting

Tooling design, development, implementation and auditing.

Product engineering

Aerospace tolerances, requirements and common manufacturing practice implementation

Travel to customers and suppliers

PFMEA

Began implementation of documentation and wrote procedures for AS9100C

Miracle Mile Solution, Researcher May 2009 - June 2011

Canoga Park, CA

US Patent # US20110220039A1

Wrote, patented, built VATSS system

oElectrical, mechanical, and software based system

Designed all components (electrical, metal, housing, etc)

Built and tested initial prototypes to set requirements

Began with Concept Took to Development

Education:

B.S. Aerospace Engineering

University of Southern California: Los Angeles, CA May 2009

B.S. Physics

Lewis and Clark College: Portland, OR May 2009

Podcast:

Exploring The Well – Science Discussion Podcast 2011 - Present

Technical Skills:

Advanced in Microsoft Products: Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Exchange, Outlook

Advanced in blueprint reading

Experience in Design Tools: SolidEdge, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, NX, MatLab, LabView, AutoCAD

Advanced in ERP and MRP systems: Epicor, SAS, assorted other,

Experience with Java, html, C++ programming

Languages:

English Native, Patches of Spanish and Russian

Attributes:

Self-Motivated (Team and Individual Environment)

Work well with customers, suppliers, engineers, production staff and managers

Constantly learning

Ability to effectively multi-task and prioritize actions to gain desired results.

Strong written, interpersonal, and verbal skills

Willing to put in extra hours and travel as often as necessary

Accomplish the given task as quickly as possible while acquiring all necessary and pertinent information and interacting with all necessary parties

Related College Coursework:

Quantum Mechanics

Business Management

Engineering Management

Control Systems

Flight Mechanics

Space Environment

Strength of Materials

Thermodynamics

Theoretical Dynamics

Academic Project Experience:

Swiss Roll Experiment, Design Project Fall 2008

Designed and built experiment to test the change in quenching limit in a Swiss Roll combustor.

Aircraft Senior Design Project Spring 2009

Designed and manipulated aircraft in both SolidWorks and Excel.

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