Electrical Engineer Supply Chain

Timothy J. Schmeltz

PO Box ****

Chicago, IL ****0

847-***-**** *********@*******.***

To obtain a senior/director level position in product development, reliability, quality or operational excellence.

PROFILE

Highly motivated, people oriented, self-starter who uses a keen understanding of customer’s technology needs to deliver solutions that keep them connected, manage and improve their lives.

Successful full cycle product design (requirements to product test/reliability) experience in RF hardware and DSP software solutions. Engineering manager; responsible for a DSP team of 9 and a system process engineering team of 15.

Supply chain lean process subject matter expert: Product launch, quality control, in process quality measurements, continuous improvement, communication to customer and internal leaders on issue status. International manufacturing experience.

Comfortable in a fast paced environment with skills to manage people, actions, and milestones for the introduction of new products and improved processes.

A Six Sigma Black belt with statistical problem solving skills and years of practice resolving problems and documented cost and effort savings. Focus on efficient, proactive monitored processes to achieve corporate goals; nonvalue added activities identified by data/models and removed.

A functional understanding and application of medical design controls IEC 606812, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 61025, IEC 63366, IEC 60601.

Applicable to a leading corporation for product development or operations.

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

Certified Six Sigma Black belt and Green belt - Experienced in DMAIC, software process maturity, supply chain quality, statistical process control, designs of experiments, predictive models (monte carlo, cp/cpk, sigma, GLM, regression, Weibull)

Data driven decision-maker/ Data mining, Program management, Requirements management, RF hardware design, Business process optimization

Out of box thinking – entrepreneurial spirit.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BSI Engineering Frankfort IL Electrical Engineer, Program Manager, Black Belt – March 2016 to present

Manage full cycle projects for clients from bids, statement of work and project execution.

Provide support from an engineering perspective to meet project goals (Cost and completion date)

Use data to analyze processes and make data driven decisions to highlight best possible solutions when available. Verify and validate design per customer requirements.

Author new and debug existing VBA macros for BASF personnel timesheets to extract data from multiple excel workbooks to expedite payroll processing.

Design and execute tests to prove process reliability per BSI and client requirements.

BMO Harris Chicago IL Process Manager Anti Money Laundering, Office of Technology, Modeling and Analytics June – July 2015

Worked with the Canadian Financial Intelligence (FIU) Group’s AML processes and identified areas of improvement and proposed solutions to the senior leadership team. I facilitated the ongoing improvement efforts by introducing the DMAIC process.

Institutionalized the use of JIRA as a means to manage the improvement projects with focus on measurement and S.M.A.R.T. goals.

Developed and deployed excel VBA macros to the USA FIU and the Canada FIU to automate tedious manual data transfer from Oliv-e and Norkom/Starfire to Fintrac for the STR teams yielding a significant reduction in cycle time. A software development and delivery formal process was followed to capture customer requirements and reduce development time by more than 50%. Validated and verified customer requirement compliance.

Worked on end to end process improvements for AML Transaction Monitoring group using a risk based assessment of alerts to reduce cycle time and overall effort to adjudicate the investigations.

Identified nonvalue add activities in the training of new investigators and proposed and implemented solutions to reduce cycle time and non-value add activities.

Used data where possible to highlight problems and measure the success of the solution/s. Agile principals were applied to manage the group effort.

Documented AML work flows of as is AML processes.

Collected in process data to assure the reliability of the results were within the predefined reliability specification.

Generation Brands/Florida Plastics senior electrical engineer February 2015 – May 2015

Authored the retrofit instructions for Florida Plastics Florescent to LED lights for the McDonald’s menu boards.

Supported regulatory audit to release the retrofit and conducted regulatory testing such as HI-Pot testing.

Electrical engineer responsible for field and supplier quality for the solid state light products. The field returns were sent back to the supplier for root cause or the design engineer based on the root cause.

Critical components found out of agreed specification were identified and permanent corrective action to rectify the situation were requested from the

Field failures were returned to the supplier for root cause and corrective action.

Reliability – returns were analyzed and root cause for the customer return was identified. Permanent corrective actions were implemented to keep the product performing to customer expectations.

Hospira Inc. Lake Forest IL Electrical Engineer Black Belt in the Medical Pump R&D group June 2012 – December 2014

Hired as an electrical engineer to drive field quality issues on Hospira injection pumps (Plum A+, GemStar) using analytic skills and data driven decisions while following Hospira’s risk based design controls. In addition, I:

Designed the CE3 validation test plan and executed the test suite on the prototype boards. Failures were root caused and corrected in subsequent builds.

Authored a white paper on worst case current draw in Plum A+ to demonstrate the fuses were underrated and causing the nuisance fuse blow complaints in the field data.

Drove the completion of a functional level risk based FMECA for the Plum A+. Hospria risk process was followed to complete the FMECA.

Authored the Stress Analysis Worksheet for the CE3 (Communication Engine) card.

Created functional level risk based dFMEA and electrical requirements document for the Hospira PCA (Patient Controlled Analgesic) Pump. Supported the verification and validation team who needed help designing test cases and analyzing test results.

Designed an algorithm to provide visual front panel indication of remaining pump battery life on the PCA.

Root caused EMI/EMC failures and issues and authored reports stating the findings and recommendations.

Navistar INC., Lisle IL Global Reliability Engineer PM/black belt Oct 2011 – June 2012

The Truck Warranty database was mined for paratos of warranty claim root causes to prioritize truck development and test to improve field quality. Drove FMEAs during truck development phase and testing to assure failure modes were corrected/contained. Facilitated the deployment of test vehicles and used 8D to address reliability test failures. Authored validation tests for components.

MOTOROLA INC., Libertyville, IL

Development Quality/Reliability Black Belt Consultant/PM Motorola Inc 2008 – Nov 2010

Accomplishments:

Starting with process data from a human/data interaction process, identified the variation that lead to excessive cycle time, customer defects and corrected the weaknesses. The new process was deployed and measured the effectiveness of the improvements. Control charts at critical process points determined the stability of the work flow. Reaction plans were created when out of control criteria are met. This was a high performance development process for our android products. The new process reduced cycle time and met customer quality goals.

Lead cross functional improvement team to drive down phone current drain, exceeding goals by achieving 30% improvement over competitive phone with same chipset. DMAIC tools and process was followed to achieve result. Documented cost savings of $700k.

Introduced first IP67 compliant, water and dust resistant phone through quality issues resolution. Created test procedures used to monitor, control and assure compliance to specification and customer satisfaction. Feature reliability test

Point of contact/voice of customer for field quality issues with T-Mobile and AT&T Wireless. Partnered with development teams to address systemic quality spills on previous products, aggressively containing issues on our first Android smart phone to T-Mobile. Presented issue resolutions and answered technical questions for carrier quality teams.

Customer lead for liquid ingress issues to ensure water resistance solutions through product inception phase. Compiled data to correlate failure cost and communicated to designated appropriate DE teams.

Reliability:

oDrove permanent corrective actions in product teams and suppliers using root cause failures of from accelerated life testing. Data was analyzed using statistical tools/models to assure best solution.

oWeibull model was used to predict future failures to calculate warrantee cost.

Partnered with phone SW teams to insure achievement of quality milestones on deadline and at expected level of functionality. Presented progress to senior leadership team.

Supply Chain Quality/Reliability Black Belt Consultant/PM Motorola Mobility Inc 2006 – 2008

Identified root cause of low profile connectors becoming disconnected in field. Implemented corrective action at location of failures and deployed to other manufacturing centers to greatly reduce field failure rate.

Created, documented, and monitored process data to assure control of color matching process for battery door color finishes for global distribution centers. DMAIC Blackbelt project with $250k documented savings

Supply chain point of contact for Mobile Devices for all GSM shipping quality issues. Minimized business impact of quality issues by proactively managing issues as developed and generated support from extended supply chain teams.

Improved customer satisfaction by addressing concerns with appropriate responses via corrective action process and continuous support of integrated Customer Care Teams. Developed expertise on technical issues and organized triage meetings with world-wide subject matter experts to address issues impeding shipping product. Results included driving improvements in Cost of Poor Quality.

Implemented processes for establishing and maintaining compliant production standards to achieve improved customer satisfaction and achieve cost savings via statistical process control.

Lead System Process Engineer, Schaumburg, IL Motorola Inc 2003-2006

Responsible for: data mining to identify methods and techniques for motivating mature software team to increase time invested on creating products verses time spent in reviews, training and internal and external failure from 50% to 80%. Managed a team of 15 system process engineers to apply Kaizen, lean and 6sigma concepts to critical development engineering processes to maximize productivity and reduce wasted, non value add activities. Documented product creation processes for a subject matter expert team including quality metrics that could be maintained and used to enhance data driven decisions (statistical analysis) about quality improvements. Critical metrics were tracked and used to benchmark quality improvements over previous projects. Created new development processes reviewed by subject mater experts and stake holders in preparation for piloting. Created training for the end users resulting in deployment of processes. These efforts resulting in SEI level 4 and 5 assessment approved by an independent auditor.

Lead DSP Engineering Manager, Schaumburg, IL Motorola Inc 1999 – 2003

Managed ramp up for new platform including interviewing DSP vendors, reviewing pros and cons of each vendor based on projects needs and selected Motorola’s MCS8101 DSP. Managed initiative to become TL9000 / SEI CMM level 3 compliant. Arranged quarterly audits and delegated deficiencies found by auditors to group members.

Managed simultaneous DSP product software development programs where high quality software was delivered to high visibility customers. Agile software development model used to gather requirements/user stories, develop pseudo-code, code, and integration test cases before peers reviewed product code. 2 week sprints were used to develop code. User stories developed project estimates, met deadlines and delivered final product to internal customer and managed all personnel issues for nine DSP software engineers.

Authored and conducted verification and validation testing to assure customer requirements will be met.

Lead DSP Engineer, Schaumburg, IL Motorola Inc 1995 – 1999

Modeled (Simulink) and coded algorithm that modulates 4 distinct 25 kHz QAM carriers into one 100 kHz wide IQ bit stream using existing code as starting point. Algorithm is used in next generation iDEN basestation DSP code. Algorithm consisted of multi-rate filters and implementation of weighted overlap / add synthesizer.

Developed embedded DSP software for basestations used in two-way communications systems. ‘V’ software development model in conjunction with a detailed, software development process was followed to create high quality, maintainable product that was layered to allow for significant software reuse as new basestation platforms emerge.

Senior Electrical Engineer / Manufacturing Engineer Motorola Inc 1989 – 1995

Responsible for the backend electrical manufacturing quality of the public safety basestation MS5000. Statistical process control and Kaizen methodologies were used to remove non value add activities, identify root cause of product failures and drive permanent corrective actions.

As a senior electrical engineer, I was responsible for the 3 synthesizers and VCO 6Sigma design for the first generation iDEN base station. HP’s Microwave design system was used to simulate circuits. Various other design activities were accomplished for basestation logic boards and RF class A amplifiers. Design reliability analysis was done using monte carlo simulations in MDS and SPICE. DFSS principals were applied to maximize reliability.

Paper published at Statistical Process Control Symposium.

Idea accepted for patent with U.S. Patent Office; US Patent No. 6,332,072.

designed and implemented the details on this patent.

TECHNOLOGIES

Quality processes: Ford 8D, JMP, Minitab, Pareto principal, SAS warranty analysis, FMEA, DFSS, ALT, HALT/HASS Validation verification reliability

Process Methodologies: Agile, waterfall, Vmodel cycle, SEI and Capability Maturity Model CMMI, Agile software development (User stories, Sprints, Epics, Themes)

Productivity: Front Page, Microsoft Office, teamplayer

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

Certified Lean Six Sigma Green belt and Black belt

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