Manufacturing Engineer Customer Service

Willie H. Reese, Jr.

Summary of Qualifications

Forward-focused senior manufacturing engineer with a strong ability to identify opportunities to create and implement a customer focus team strategy that works throughout the department to produce high-quality products that meet or exceed the customers’ expectations. Also results-oriented with aerospace and ground systems experience, both hands-on and the ability to direct complex projects from conception to implementation for Inertial and RF products, Space, Military, Civil Aviation hardware and software.

Extensive experience in:

• Robotic Arm Electrical Testing Continuity Insulation Resistance Hi-Pot.

• Mechanical Engineering Tooling and Fixture Design Design for Manufacturing.

• Process Engineering Customer Focus Team Engineer Configuration Management Quality Engineering R&D

SMT and through hole PCB assembly processes Wire Bonding Conformal Coating.

• Six Sigma Green Belt Lean White Belt Kaizen Variation Analysis DFM DFT Circuit Cam.

• ISO 9001 ISO 13485 Cost Control Scrap Reduction ERP PSF MRB SAP SMT FRACS.

• Hardware Software Cycle Time Reduction Fiber Optical Handling Process FMEA.

• Technical Skills: MS Office, MS Project, Photoshop, Solidworks, Earned Value Management (EVM), IPC-A-610, IPC-A-620, 5s, RTV, DMAIC, OOBs, QNs, IPC-A-600, J-STD-001C, NASA-STD-8739, ESD, Torquing, GD/T, AS9100, ISO 17025, RCCA, Minitab, 8D-Report, FRACAS, DFMEA, PFMEA, KPIs, QS9000, ISO16949, ISO9001, ISO13485.

Professional Experience

Principal Manufacturing Engineer - Robotics June 2019 to 2024 MAXAR Robotics, (Aerospace & Defense) Pasadena, CA

• Support the development and execution of the manufacturing and operations strategy and work instructions to assemble and testing of Robotic Arm Assemblies, components, and ground support equipment, including support key projects and initiatives, ongoing manufacturing, new product commercialization, line extensions, interfacing with customer, third party providers, and leading product and process improvements for critical electronic product and equipment.

• Manage change control for ongoing manufacturing changes, including change requests, process changes, Device Master Record, product specifications, test processes, and product service processes.

• Apply knowledge of technical principles and processes to define, develop, and optimize manufacturing processes.

• Drive incorporation of technical advancements, product improvements, and cost reductions through manufacturing enhancements, product changes, and part qualifications

• Support key project initiatives (supplier transfers, part changes, system enhancements, line extensions, cost reductions, labor efficiency improvements, and quality and compliance excellence)

• Deploy, review, and act upon meaningful metrics to measure, control, define, refine, and optimize processes and for process control and continuous improvement.

• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by program management. Senior Manufacturing Engineer June 2014 to 2019

Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (Aerospace & Defense) Moorpark, CA

• Designed and arranged machines and workstations within plant facilities to ensure most efficient and productive layout by reducing non-value activities and work in process.

• Improved produce cycle time 70% by rearranging machines and work cells to ensure the most efficient and productive layout by removing all non-value activities. Improved quality by 50%, and reduced floor space to 75% using Lean Manufacturing Methodologies and Workplace Ergonomics.

• Improved work instructions cycle time of 70% by standardizing work instructions sequence, repair instructions and process procedures.

• Improved conformal coating cycle time by reducing labor cost to 65%, cycle time to 47%, and cure time of 72 hours to 48 hours by combining cure schedules.

• Improved development of manufacturing process plans for New Product Introduction (NPI) programs as well as the quality, manufacturing process and cycle time improvements on legacy manufacturing programs.

• Analyze customer engineering drawings and documentation for material, process, and quality elements.

• Develop associated Bill of Material (BOM), and routing sequences in the Process Feedback System (PFS).

• Evaluate and disposition nonconforming products and implement corrective actions to eliminate the observed deviations.

• Provide conceptual design and modifications of fixtures, and tools.

• Review customer drawing, and process procedures for manufacturability, cost, tooling, and fixtures.

• Provided day-to-day oversight of the manufacturing areas to promote smooth production flow.

• Assist SMT operators in setup and program verification of pick-n-place and provide technical expertise to SMT personnel.

• Assist SMT operators in setting up and running screen printer, pick-in-place machine, reflow, AOI and X-Ray inspection equipment, wave and selective soldering processes, through hole and coating processes. Ability to review PWB drawing to provide fixtures and rails. Also read CAD Data, Gerber and ASCII files to provide solder paste stencils as required.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer June 2003 to 2013

Northrop Grumman Corporation Woodland Hills, CA

• Develop manufacturing process planning and tooling plans, and requirements for a bill of material, assembly, tooling, testing and manufacturing configurations.

• Responsible for the arrangement of machines within plant facilities to ensure the most efficient and productive layout for electrical systems, structural, hydraulic and pneumatic installation.

• Designed a sequence of operations and specifies procedures for the fabrication of tools, equipment and other functions that affect product performance.

• Inspected performance of machinery, equipment, and tools to verify their efficiency, and investigated and initiates corrective action of problems and deficiencies to ensure product quality.

• Developed manufacturing processes that are applicable to statistical process control.

• Provide guidance to engineering regarding design concepts and specification requirements to best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.

Quality Assurance Engineer 2000 to 2003

Boeing Space & Communication Co El Segundo, CA

• Reviewed and resolved quality issues of capability, tolerance and materials related issues.

• Resolved hardware and software quality issues by identifying problems, examining solution options, implementing action plans, and providing resources.

• Communicated and reinforced the project team committed to quality improvement efforts.

• Collaborated with customers' quality and engineering personnel to determine critical part features and review manufacturability of the design.

• Maintained Control Plans and FMEA's throughout the life of products and facilitated the use of Six Sigma problem- solving techniques for effective root cause analysis and successful corrective action.

• Provide technical direction to Internal Auditors to verify compliance to command media requirements.

• Develop quality program plan with respect to customer requirements.

• Support the development of test fixtures, inspection fixture, assembly fixtures, and gages as needed.

• Develop and maintain quality work instructions and procedures.

• Provide support to the Configuration Change Board. Material Review Board, Engineering Review Board, and Failure Review Board.

Manufacturing Engineer Litton Guidance Control Systems 1971 - 2000

• Develop manufacturing process, work instructions, tooling and bill of material for electro-mechanical products, prototyping of electro-mechanical devices and system integration.

• Responsibilities included ensuring compliance with military standards, requirements consistency within specification hierarchy, compliance with control board directives, and coordination of corresponding engineering change proposals to ensure accurate effectivities, functional, and physical characteristics of the system and controlled components. Education

Glendale Community College Glendale, CA.

Certification Solidworks 2011

College of The Canyons Santa Clarita, CA.

Certification Quality Control Technology 1995

Mississippi Valley State University Itta Bena, MS 1971 Bachelor of Science Industrial Arts Mechanical Engineering References available upon request

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