Mechanical Engineer Entry Level

STACY MARIE NALEPA, MSME Controls

Senior I&C Engineer • California Teaching Professional

530-***-**** ***********@*****.*** Cool, CA LinkedIn URL PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Effective Industrial Technology Design and Advance Manufacturing Engineering Instructor with more than 5 years of Curriculum Development and Teaching Experience. Deeply committed to empowering students with the motivation, opportunities, and skills needed to excel in the American manufacturing Industry, fostering a highly Skilled future American Workforce. Accomplished Senior Controls Engineer with 13+ years of progressive experience designing, building, programming, testing, integrating electromechanical Control Systems and Automation Machinery. Highly skilled trainer of Operators, Technicians and Advanced Manufacturing Students with professional technical Skills. Effective team manager, committed collaborator, highly adaptive troubleshooter. AREAS OF EXPERTISE

MANUFACTURING & QUALITY ENGINEERING SKILLS

Utilized Production Process Optimization such as Lean Engineering, Continuous improvement activities to reduce cost and improve Quality. Production Planning, Capacity Analysis, Automation Integration, CNC Programming & Machining including CAM, PLC Programming, SCADA, HMIs and Robotics implementation, Lead Quality Team Meetings, Executed Root Cause Analysis, Organized Corrective Actions, ECOs, BOMs, SOPs, Vendor Qualification procedures, met with FDA & other regulatory agencies to review processes involved with Regulatory Compliance, ISO 9001, GMP etc. Produced Prototypes & Developed Manufacturing Processes for Production, Produced CAD for production and Suppliers Inspection Documentation, Collected & Analyzed Quality Data using Statistical Process Control. CNC Mill Operation & Setup Machinist Skills, CNC Lathe Operation & Setup machinist Skills, Bandsaw, Micrometer, Vanier Caliper, etc. CAD.

INSTRUMENT & CONTROLS ENGINEERING SKILLS

Utilized Process & Instrument Diagrams to program Ladder Logic, Function Block, Utilized ModBus, ProfiBus, TCP/IP etc. Programmed Rockwell, Siemens, GE, IDEC PLCs for Pharmaceutical, Food & Beverage, Waste Water, Conveyor Automation, Substation Automation, Combustion Turbine Power Generation, Solar, & their appropriate Remote I/O, HMIs etc. Developed Testing HDW, Simulators, Integrated new Controllers, I/O, Sensors, Hardware etc. As a Lead Engineer developed testing Docs for Validation & Executed Validation at FATs, SATs, etc. As The Plant Controls Engineering Manager responsible for troubleshooting & Resolving most higher Level problems both remotely and on site. AutoCad. TRAINING & TEACHING SKILLS

Trained Operators, Manufacturing Technicians & Students. Developed & Executed Many of the Professional Training Classes in Soldering (gold pads high speed coax under microscope), Cable Assembly, Power Supply Load Testing, in Soldering, Harness building, Integration etc. Developed Advanced Manufacturing Curriculum to address many of the California Standards in Product Design and Development, Manufacturing Prototypes etc. Trained Adults and Students in Fusion360 CAD, CAM and Setup Machinist Skills such as: Shop Safety, Quality Inspection, Work Offsets, Tool Offsets, Work Holding, Trouble Shooting Quality Issues, Production Processes, Cleaning, Bandsaw Op, CNC Mills & CNC Lathes, Shop Cleaning etc. STACY MARIE NALEPA, MSME Controls

Senior I&C Engineer • California Teaching Professional 530-***-**** ***********@*****.*** Cool, CA LinkedIn URL PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

CTE - Industrial Technology Teacher Golden Sierra JH/SH – Garden Valley, CA 2023– 2025

• Continued Testing and improvement on the program I had developed: The Junior Apprenticeship Advanced Manufacturing Training Program . This program was reviewed by several SVMA Members and noted by a local Machine Shop as “one of the Best Manufacturing Engineering Programs he’s seen in a high school yet.” This shop owner offered jobs to 3 of my graduating Senior Students. 1 of which works Full Time and is running a CNC Lathe and as needed a CNC Mill.

• Trained Students basic Engineering Principles from Concept Development through Design Analysis, CAD & CAM on the Fusion360 Software, Setup Machinist Skills for running 3-axis CNC Mills, CNC Lathes (see Setup machinist Skills in Skills above). ZERO Safety Incidents. CTE - Industrial Technology Teacher Oak Ridge HS. – El Dorado Hills, CA 2022– 2023

• Trained Students using the Junior Apprenticeship Advanced Manufacturing Training Program which I had developed. This shop included all of the same skills listed on the previous section.

• Trained students on MIG Welding, Cleaning & Repairing MIG Welders, Foundry, Sand Casting, Manual Mills & Manual Lathes Operation etc.

• I placed 4 students from this school in Machining positions. One of the students, of the 4 that I placed is currently still working at Snow Line Engineering. Art & Industrial Arts Teacher Independence HS. – Diamond Springs, CA 2021– 2022

• Taught Art : Hand Drawing, Color Theory, Art History, Built Aliens out of Clay, Birds

• Taught Wood Shop: Built Birdhouses around campus, Jigsaws, Drills, Chop Saw. Built a shed “alien space ship”, with electrical wiring of outlets, switches, 3 way switches, CB Panel, stripping wires, color code for US Domestic requirements, use of Digital Multimeter to measure Continuity, Voltage and Current & Basic trouble shooting, schematic reading, built a hammock. Senior Controls Engineer Cool Engineering, Inc. - Cool, CA 2020– now

• Personal Business and available immediately for hire as an Independent Contractor providing high quality, efficient results to support any project or installation with minimum downtime to achieve maximum production rates. Expert in electromechanical troubleshooting of existing production issues, machine issues,

• Able to identify root cause analysis of actual cause of failures and reduced performance.

• Available for work for high profile, immediate needs of power plants, manufacturing & processing plants of most industries.

• Currently beginning the process of developing a Curriculum for an Instrument & Controls Tech Training Program for HS Students.

STACY MARIE NALEPA, MSME Controls

Senior I&C Engineer • California Teaching Professional 530-***-**** ***********@*****.*** Cool, CA LinkedIn URL Senior Controls Engineer

Honeywell Safety & Productivity Solutions, Formerly Intelligrated Systems, CA 2017 – 2019

• Full time Senior Controls engineer for Distribution & Fullfillment Systems,

• Retrofitted existing Amazon Prime Distribution & Fullfillment Warehouse, acted as lead Electro-Mechanical Engineer, directed electrical contractors to power, wire i/o devices and conveying systems, also reconfigured profibus networks to both new and update existing systems, as well as developed network schemes for Plant controls.

• Designed panels for D&F Conveying Systems, AutoCad Electrical 2018.

• Programmed complete Estop through, conveyor dropouts, door closing, backup accumulation, merges, manual palletizing divert lanes, all Phot-eyes, HMI screens etc.

• Familiar with various local and national Electrical Codes UL 508 etc.

• Developed a Testing Environment & Training Tools for Validation and Quality Assurance Testing of Plant Controls to test at shop, before plant integration. Senior Automation & Controls Engineer Nor-Cal Controls Energy Systems – Diamond Springs, CA 2013 – 2017

• Full time Senior Controls Engineer for Power Generation Systems, Managed and Lead Projects: Scope, Schedule, Performance & Budget.

• Retrofitted existing Power Plant Controls by removing antiquated processors and installed GE Genius Bus distributed I/O on a 90/30 to GE Versamax distributed I/O on an Rx3i,

• Converted ladder logic and scaled I/O modules, rewired at field for traditional combustion turbine power plants for Calpine, NCPA, & GWF,

• Provided solar engineering support, Historian support, power generation reporting support,

• Implemented control programming updates for water treatment plant support for Power plants

• Re-programmed Control Logix, programmed and wired pumps and field devices, tuned PID loops for Power Plant combined Cycle water treatment, plant compressors, etc .

• Designed, Manufactured, Tested and Installed Panels, MET Stations, Communication

• Networks for IT Networks to abide by NERC CIP standards for Power Plant Controls; Programmed and Installed Redundant PLCs for Controls of Axillary Equipment to prevent down time and loss of revenue.

• General Familiarity & Experience with Data and Solar plant controls from field devices to

• SCADA, for plant hourly production rates through to general trouble shooting when bringing a plant online.

• Supported a Solar plant in Texas with programming the communication radios of 3D positioning arrays, etc.

Controls Engineering Manager HP Hood – Sacramento, CA 2011 – 2013

• Full time controls engineer for Dairy & Aeseptic Food & Beverage Processing and Packaging

• Plant. 100% responsible as Plant Engineering Manager to solve all manufacturing issues which included trouble shooting and permanent corrective action to meet FDA requirements of save handling.

• Held exclusive controls engineering position for Aeseptic plant and supported dairy side. 24-7 support, tuning and new product introduction and programming in all functional areas:

• Cleaning (CIP), Pasteurization, Bottling, Sleeving, Packaging, Casing, Palletizing, De-palletizing, Conveying, Developed and Implemented Effluent Plant Flow pH control, etc.

• Developed, built and implemented new systems as well, example pH control at effluent and barcode reader system for packaging skid, conveyor system etc.

• Designed, Manufactured, Tested and Installed Panels for retrofitting existing controls Systems; STACY MARIE NALEPA, MSME Controls

Senior I&C Engineer • California Teaching Professional 530-***-**** ***********@*****.*** Cool, CA LinkedIn URL Automation & Controls Engineer Integrity Engineering Napa, CA 2000– 2005

• Provided Engineering support for control system integration design and integration of factory floor processes for both batch and continuous flow processes as well as Validation.

• Developed GUIs / HMIs to communicate with the controllers.

• Provided engineering support in meeting FDA / GMP requirements for pharmaceutical production processes.

• Utilized radios and standard cable to communicate with remote stations.

• Built panels and implemented at factory floor.

• Supported panel builds to achieve aggressive schedules and installed at customer sites.

• Pharmaceutical Controls Engineering, Validation and Substation Automation for Bayer at Emeryville Automation & Controls Engineer Real Enterprise Solutions (TAVA Engn) Rancho Cordova, CA 1998 – 2000

• Provided Training to Bayer Utilities Maintenance Group on the Bayer Enercon Substation Automation. Rebuilt Substation Training Panel to support the maintenance crew in trouble shooting and training on their installed Relay Banks and bringing generator on and offline.

• Provided Engineering support for system integration design and integration of factory floor processes for both batch and continuous flow processes.

• Developed GUIs to communicate with the controllers for system hardware control.

• Supported code development efforts to achieve target flow rates, belt speeds, water levels, label placement, fill levels, synchronization of substation relays, chemical residual concentrations etc.

• Provided engineering support in meeting FDA requirements for pharmaceutical prdxn processes.

• Built panels and implemented at factory floor.

• Supported panel builds to achieve aggressive schedules.

• General Familiarity and awareness of NEC Codes and IEC Standards for testing substation devices. Manufacturing Engineer Acuson, Transducer Division Mountain View, CA 1996 – 1998

• New Product Development Core Team Member,

• Project Manager of Cost Reduction projects resulting in $600,000 annual savings,

• Organized on time delivery of cabled xdcrs for marketing, engineering demos and reliability Testing.

• Provided engineering support from design cycle to Final Assembly Operations manufacturing production: Standardization of CPG NP Flex circuit design, NP: Case joint design criteria for

• Provided engineering support from design cycle to Final Assembly Operations manufacturing production: Standardization of CPG NP Flex circuit design, NP: Case joint design criteria for adhesive bonding process of the Ultrasound Transducers,

• Familiar with FDA Compliance, CE, GMP, TUV, ISO Standards, Quality Control & Improvement Procedures,

• Performed process validations in various FAO manufacturing processes for GMP compliance,

• Performed Vendor Qualification for redundant suppliers, managed vendor quality issues, implemented corrective actions of quality issues, managed RFQ on various parts etc.

• Managed and facilitated cross-functional Quality team meetings in Manufacturing

• Processes, trained operators and end user of various diverse team members, on improved production processes, developed inspection quality processes, implemented data collection and analysis of quality issues, determined root causes, identified preventive measures to reduce reoccurrence of quality issues, worked with vendors to reduce failures of components, integrated new testing tools/protocols/procedures to monitor and inspect parts before integration or in subassemblies, etc.

• Addressed manufacturing quality issues due to Vendor and Acuson manufacturing processes & implemented corrective actions in manufacturing processes to prevent re-occurrence of failures and provided appropriate production training, STACY MARIE NALEPA, MSME Controls

Senior I&C Engineer • California Teaching Professional 530-***-**** ***********@*****.*** Cool, CA LinkedIn URL Manufacturing Engineer Teradyne, Inc. Semiconductor Test Division Agoura Hills, CA 1994 – 1996

• Analyzed prdxn. and field return failures & implemented permanent corrective actions,

• Provided engineering support to the test floor, trouble shooting skills to the production floor and manufacturing input to the design team,

• Developed and improved quality of electromechanical assembly process on the high volume ISO certified manufacturing production floor,

• Organized the production floor layouts to optimum product flow and addressed system test facilities issues for production ramp-up,

• Lead Quality Meeting and performed audits to evaluate current & future suppliers. EDUCATION

California Teaching Credential Program

National University, CA

MS in Mechanical Engineering, Controls (3.95 CUM)

California State University, Sacramento, CA

Took graduate classes also at: Northridge, UCLA and Stanford BS in Mechanical Engineering

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA RANDOM RESEARCH

Acoustic Analysis:

Spectrum Analysis (FFT)on Artificial Larynx, Ultrasound Transducer Response evaluation for trouble shooting etc. on manufacturing processes utilizing high speed coax etc. Network Configuration:

Independent Study on breaking various subnetworks and isolation of communication via subnet masks etc. and NATs.

Ventricular Assist R&D:

Independent Study on electromechanical solutions for a specific medical condition for Student Project.

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