Driver, Manufacturing Test/QA

Douglas Pope

**** ******** **.

Colorado Springs. CO. 80906

mailto:********@*****.***

Phone 719-***-****

Skills Summary

Dynamometer Test Technician: Responsibilities included lock out/tag out procedures along with CPR/Defibulators certifications required around high voltage in a dynamometer test environment. Developed checklist, training and SOP procedures to ensure annual Quality audits were successfully completed for certification. Tested and evaluated electric motors and controllers used in electric vehicles for both productuion and engineering.

QA/QC Technician is was trained PCDMS/Brown and Sharpe one CMM. Well versed in GD&T. Performed first article inspections and C=0 “accept none “sampling plan. Versed in Micrometer, caliper, and optical comparator open setup inspections for tolerances +-.005. Used Rockwell hardness tester and Helmholtz magnet gauss tester. Performed out of box, device hsitory record audits. Monitored corrective actions closure and assignement process.

Manufacturing Process and Test Technician. responsibilities included testing, diagnosing and repairing electro-mechanical devices using DMM, oscilloscope, wiring/schematic diagrams and onboard diagnostics on tape drives, tape automated libraries, disk drives and printers. AC/DC supplies, logic controllers and pneumatic pumps. Tested product off the production line and system level prior to shipping.

Remote Diagnostics Engineer: Resposibilities included phone support for both customers and fireld service engineers. Dialed into customers sites and ran onboard diagnositcs, dumped error logs and walked customers through recovery procedures. Paged service engineers and updated them with findings and top three probable fixes.

Process Engineer: responsibilities included creationa d revising of procedures and checklists for manufacturing engineering using MS Office suite mainly Word and Excel. Closed assigned corrective actions per quality audits, and failure analysis discrepant dispositions. Implemented fixes, closed and monitored action items. Helped quality with build associate process certification.

Cutomer Service Engineer: resposibilities included installation, de-installations, upgrades, 24x7 on call support. customers with product and software compatibility issues on call as a customer field service engineer and as a telephone remote diagnostics engineer. Also worked with sales to improve customer base.

Failure Analysis Technician: responsiblities included determining root cause failure on all line and field discrepant material. Assigned corrective actions to responsible owners inclusing sourcing, design engineering, and process/manufacturing engineering.

Test/Troubleshooting Technician: responsibilities included testing tape drives and contollers in envirionmental stress chambers while running diagnostics.

Experience

UQM Technologies, Longmont, CO.

Vehicle electric propulsion engineering/manufacturer

Duties:

Started in QA Engineering: ordered equipment, maintained, scheduled calibrations, sent items out for calibrations. Performed inspections on incoming and machine shop produced parts. Well versed in GD&T.

Performed end of line audits and out of box audits.

Tracked continuous improvement issues. Added quality checks at critical areas based on field return corrective actions.

Moved to a Dynamometer senior technician role testing 100% of all manufactured motors/controllers across all product lines. Notified engineering of any anomalies when following test plans for production and engineering prototypes via DMR reporting process.

Installed motors and controllers to Dyno slave motor and torque coupler using overhead lift and calibrated powers tools. Verified all procedures with check lists and torque wrenches.

Peak Industries/Spartan, Frederick, CO.

Contract manufacturer (low volume)

Duties:

Performed line setup, proto builds per customer build requirements and input, created process instructions and checklists. Ordered and maintained tools, set torque specs, and fixturing.

Notified customers of process or product issues in a meeting environment for DFM. Supervised the testing of the devices and performed the troubleshooting diagnoses for test operators.

Traveled to customer sites to receive or provide product training.

StorageTek / Oracle, Louisville CO.

Disk/Tape drive manufacturer

Duties:

Tested, troubleshot and repaired mainframe computer equipment (tape/disk drives and high speed printer) with onboard AC/DC power supplies for manufacturing and in the field for Customer Service engineering. Also performed telephone remote diagnostics technical support.

Preformed failure analysis on field returns and line rejects. Assigned corrective actions to process/product owners.

Used various test equipment: DMM’s, Oscilloscopes, optical inspectors, environmental stress chambers and onboard diagnostics and engineering deigned testers.

Education:

CDL Class A from CDL Certifiers, Colorado Springs, CO. Jan 2025

CDL Passenger Permit, CO Jan 2025

Denver Institute of Technology: AA Electronics 1985-1987

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