RESUME
Noel Pacanan
La Aldea Buena Mactan Timpolok Lapu-Lapu City
Cebu Philippines
Mob: +639*********
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STATEMENT
A well-experienced DESIGN/PRODUCT/VALIDATION/MANUFACTURING/QUALITY engineer for various industries with in-depth knowledge of different automotive OEM specifications, global industry standards, and homologation requirements. Exposed in product development from planning, product design, process design, products, and process validation/verification to product launch. Enhanced in customer system and quality requirements including APQP, a program management environment, and handled technical project management planning (DVP&R) which covers PPAP, customer and supplier certification/approval from raw material, and components to manufacturing assembly processes. Kaizen, Lean, and Six Sigma practitioner. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Freelance/Consultancy
March 22, 2023 - Present
Components approval processes and certification.
Automotive tools identification and system integration.
Quality concerns actions and solutions.
Design specifications and requirements with DFM consideration.
Manufacturing processes optimization.
Duck-il Korea Incorporated
Program Management/Engineering/Fabrication and Tooling head Feb 17, 2022 – March 22, 2023
Planning and designing the program and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues initiating appropriate corrective action, and defining the program's governance arrangements.
Primarily focus on assigning tasks to engineering and technical personnel, overseeing project logistics, and ensuring that projects are completed within budget and on schedule.
Supervising, and guiding multiple engineering teams, and identifying training opportunities and career development strategies to help their teams improve.
Developing the overall concepts of new products and/or solving problems that may prevent their completion.
System definition and process procedural integration
Oversee the fulfillment of larger organizational goals. KEP- Knowles Electronics Philippines
Sr. Product/Failure Analysis Engineer
March 23, 2020 – April 8, 2021
Set up a system for the newly established position (FA for sustaining).
Captures all the functional defects (High PPM/Low PPM) and conducts Failure analysis.
Generate and publish weekly reports for all of the defects (High PPM/Low PPM)
Conducted weekly reviews for all of the defects with the CFT both receivers and VAM and came up with an action for the yield improvements. RESUME
Freelance/Consultancy
Technical Sales Representative for Automotive components May 6, 2019 – April 1, 2020
Philippine region technical sales representative.
Direct contact in all concerns, inventories, parts approval, and technical issues encountered by the customer including product applications for the running and new programs.
Proposed parts referencing for better process and cost-effectiveness to the customer.
Visit customer site for issues/concerns and introduce new product applications and technology. Flex
Sr. Design and Application Engineer -SME (Subject Matter Expert) February 1, 2016- May 3, 2019
Design of automotive wire harnesses and cables including routing, fastening strategy, assemble ability and service-ability.
Support in developing 2-d harness manufacturing prints and wiring documentation to optimize topology/architecture for best cost/performance.
Set up, control, and maintain BOM, Cost-Calculation, CRF tracking, and Testing Requirements. DVP & R.
Engaged in other Flex products like solenoid, medical and electronics on product development and NPI support.
Program Lead in sketch to scale projects, product specification definition and requirements, regulatory and reliability requirements from EVT, DVT to PVT.
Engaged in manufacturing for product design implementation and production.
Design and manufacturing problem resolution.
OFF-SITE SUPPORT:
Offsite support at Juarez Mexico for wiring harness DVP & R overview and implementation including DRE.
NPI off-site support at BFG (Chicago USA) for quality (Control plan, procedure, layered process audit, IQC, GR&R, and SQE for medical products.
NPI off-site support BFG (Chicago USA) product and Supply chain. B/E Aerospace
Electrical Engineer (Electrical Wiring Design - Lead) February 4, 2013- March 20, 2015
Electrical design with CATIA & Teamcenter application.
Test specification and requirements including electrical component development.
Engaged in manufacturing processes for Electrical design implementation and issues resolution.
Training and off-site manufacturing support in the UK for the Galley prototype.
Engaged in manufacturing for product design implementation and production.
Training and offsite support for A350 Galley development/production in the UK. RESUME
Lear Corporation
Lead Product Engineer (Wiring harness)
2007- 2013
Work with design interpret/analyze, manage and implement design/product changes & and communicate issues/concerns to internal/external customers. Coordinate with the plant's different departments on the feasibility of the changes with the existing processes and implementation timing, procurement if affects new components including quality requirements and program budget.
Engaged in product/design review for product design implementation and production.
Product owner, accountable for product requirements per customer specification and aligned with DVP plan.
Consolidate lessons learned and actions.
Support Supplier quality engineer/purchasing on component specification definition per OEM requirements.
Off-site manufacturing support at Port Elizabeth South Africa for the Ford Ranger program. Lear Corporation
Product Regulatory Engineer (Wiring harness)
2006-2007
Product requirement definitions on government environment and safety.
Engaged and generates statutory and regulations with different OEMs. Lear Corporation
DVP & R (Design Verification Plan & Report) Engineer (Wiring harness) 2002-2006
Creation of whole CAE, component, sub-system, and vehicle test plan.
Creation/collation of design verification methods.
Execute validation & and verification plan from raw, components, in-process, assembly, and simulation to actual vehicle testing based on customer specification and global industrial standards.
Distribution of test data and support for data analysis.
The task involved not only engineering but also program, quality, production, logistics, purchasing, and financial considering this needs to align with the overall APQP plan.
Offsite support for actual vehicle testing at the customer site. Test Environment
Components material validation
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- Environmental
Design Validation
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- Environmental
- Software
On-vehicle validation
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- Environmental
- Software
RESUME
Lear Corporation
Test/Material Engineer (Wiring harness)
1998-2002
Generate test plans for components, in-process, assembly, and simulation per customer or internal requirements.
Test setup and results/data analysis.
Test report generation and submission.
Test Environment
Components material validation
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- Environmental
Test Equipment:
- Universal test equipment for tensile and compression
- CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine)
- Data acquisition or data logger
- Micro ohmmeter
- Dielectric
- Humidity, hot and cold chamber
- High-temperature oven
- Thermal shock chamber
- Vibration chamber
- Fabricated set up and programmed for short circuits test
- Fabricated set up and programmed for Door swing test
- Fabricated set up and programmed for load survey test United Technologies Automotive
Manufacturing/PSW Product Sample Warranty (Wiring harness) 1995-1998
Component drawing interpretation, material analysis, dimensioning with GD&T (Geometric Dimension & Tolerance) application, and knowledge in the component development cycle.
Conduct dimensional testing using high-precision dimensional equipment.
Test setup and results/data analysis.
Test report generation and submission.
EDUCATION
Cebu State College of Science & Technology
Technical course major in Electronics
University of Cebu
BSCOMP-E Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering