Lead Engineer

Jaime Luna

Oxnard, CA ***** 805-***-**** *************@*****.***

Professional Overview

Extensive experience managing short, and long term product maintenance and development programs. Passionate about getting results in the world of engineering, business, and real estate through deep product knowledge and attention to detail. Coordinating activities with different departments in order to quickly respond to customers. Familiar with CCB, product life-cycle management systems, and approval processes. Managed MRB, trained several engineers and designers over the years. Experienced in the Aerospace Industry.

Areas of Familiarity

Project Management Technology Transfer Team Building & Leadership Internal/External Communication

Value Engineering (VA/VE) DFMA Methodologies 8D Problem Solving Tolerance Analysis GD & T Professional Experience

Eaton Corp, Camarillo 3/2017 to 11/2020

Lead Engineer

Proposed new internal product specifications, reviewed statement of work requirements and deliverables, reviewed source control drawing requirements, determined how the customer requirements are going to be met, promoted and released the technical data packages via a product life-cycle management system.

* Generated NRE workbooks, compliance matrices, estimated design development hours, program management hours, finance hours, for several potential customers, with the goal of offering a value-added quality product while capturing new business.

* Facilitated team communications between program managers, engineering, test lab, coordinated electrical testing with internal test lab by performing a test readiness review, created quality test procedures for test lab to follow, and quality test reports.

* Design verification testing, validation and qualification. ITT Corp, Irvine 8/2014 to 3/2017

Senior Product Design Engineer

Project management from initial concept to launch of a new product line. Strong record of implementing value added value engineered cost reduction task. Presented document control changes to the configuration control board. Utilized the product life-cycle management system to implement changes, and reviewed, approved, or rejected other engineers engineering change orders.

* Participated with management in project engineering design reviews, executed a tolerance analysis of the complete design, created a technical drawing package, generated a parts list in SAP, promoted the technical data package into the PLM system.

* Business was purchasing a high-volume high-cost part, strategically executed a price comparison analysis from an array of suppliers, achieved business success by reducing cost of this part by 1/3. Saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.

* International travel to Mexico in direct support of business objectives, went over discrepancy report and dispositioned accordingly, utilized ring gages or plug gages whenever required, pushed material forward. Jaime Luna

Oxnard, CA 93033 805-***-**** *************@*****.*** Vive Natural, Oxnard 9/2009 to 10/2014

Co-Owner

Co-founded a business, consistently performing necessary task to accomplish business objectives, goals were set in the best interest of the business.

* The business needed to electronically capture items sold for the day, week, and month, implemented point of sale marketing tool to capture data, strategically planned in advance by carrying the proper inventory, and increased revenue by 25%.

Glenair, Inc., Glendale 4/2000 to 7/2014

Senior Technical Staff

Managed time sensitive projects by ensuring all materials and processes were in place. Coached several engineers on the company’s software and standard operating structure. Coordinated jobs with sales, manufacturing, production, and quality. Provided technical support to all related departments. Sustaining of existing product lines. Design verification testing, validation and qualification.

* Organization had engineering drawings in several different formats, persuaded the VP of Engineering to have one single drawing format for all of engineering, championed a change that saved thousands of dollars immediately and millions over the life of this corp.

* Reviewed SSQ 21635 specification for the development of a space rated electro-mechanical device, revisited the plethora of requirements several times, performed a deep dive of all the dimensional requirements, outgassing material requirements, and electrical requirements, participated in managing qualification of this product.

* Review and selection of materials, finishes, supplier identification, maintenance of existing product lines, and hands-on assembly problems on the production floor.

* Leveraged technology between engineering teams, collaborated, & coordinated with all engineering teams.

* Corp. wanted to increase its product portfolio with a new quality product, successfully reversed engineered and released the technical data package of a new product, product has made hundreds of thousands in revenue for this company.

* Sustained several legacy products, reviewed discrepancy reports and dispositioned accordingly. Education

California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo, CA Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Technology Skills

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook SAP

CAD (SolidWorks, Pro-E, Inventor)

Language Skills

English and Spanish fluency.

References: Available upon request.

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