Senior Manufacturing Engineer

BENIC LAURENT

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617-***-**** • ************@*****.***

SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Quality-driven and detailed engineering professional with a demonstrated background in comprehensive analysis and problem resolution. Collaborate team member and lead with design, quality, equipment and process improvement focus.

• Keen process investigator with proven skills in identifying areas of improvement and creating strategies or products that increase productivity.

• A motivational team leader who trains and mentors teams and personnel to attain optimum product quality and manufacturing excellence.

• New product introduction specialist adept at designing product lines and all related libraries and documentation.

• Process work instruction author with background in defining product specs and production/manufacture processes.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Problem Investigation: manufacturing process analysis, resolution.

New Product Introduction: Team design, development, and product specifications.

Work Instructions Authoring: Manufacturing, assembly, and related processes.

Process Improvement: Equipment, methodology, and error proofing.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

SYNQOR, INC., Boxborough, Massachusetts • 2000-2008

OEM manufacturer of DC-to-DC power supplies for telecommunication, military, medical and consumer applications.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer:

Directed all technician team operations activity involving surface mount manufacturing of product lines. Led troubleshooting and process improvement initiatives. Led all manufacturing team design activity and made recommendations on design that impacted new product quality. Schedule production teams and worked with Quality inspectors to ensure product quality adhered to IPC 610 class II/class III specs. Helped train and certify manufacturing staff and assisted in daily oversight. Maintained all solder reflow profiles for all product lines.

• Spearheaded the conversion of surface mount technology (SMT) manufacturing processes from lead to lead-free processes.

• Directed all new product introduction efforts, including all prototypes, Proof-of-Design, Proof-of-Manufacturing, and release to production activity.

• Created new processes required for product manufacture, including work process authoring on a per-product basis.

• Contributed to the growth of the company from startup to Top Three industry competitor.

• Developed new production floor components and the accompanying machine libraries.

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, North Andover, Massachusetts • 1997-2000

OEM manufacturers of programmable logic controllers.

Manufacturing Engineer:

Oversaw SMT and Through Hole manufacturing process and improvements. Managed the implementation of new manufacturing equipment into the workflow. Perform troubleshooting and production issue resolution.

• Designed new automatic assembling machine programs and all related component libraries.

• Instituted a continuous flow manufacturing process on the SMT lines, including pre-/post-assemble buffering, reducing operator intervention.

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ADDITIONAL HISTORY

(Full details on request)

BULL ELECTRONICS, Lowell, Massachusetts • 1987-1997

OEM computer company that converted to a Contact Manufacturing Company (now out of business).

Manufacturing Engineer

• Corrected ongoing solder balling issue that affected all manufacturing.

• Handled all machine programming for product lines.

• Worked on the process optimization and continual improvement.

• Responsible for the OEM and Contract Manufacturing SMT Lines.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology/Computer Hardware

Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts

General Certificate of Education

University of Cambridge, London, United Kingdom

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Project Planning and Control • UniDoc Software certified • Computer-Aided-Software certified

Crystal Reports 6.0 Introductory and Advanced certified • Fuji MCS Programming for Manufacturing

Siemens S20/F4 Series Programming • Siemens Vision GF Library Programming

Siemens Programming for SIPLACE-Pro • The 7-Step Problem Solving Method

AFFILIATIONS

Surface Mount Technology Association

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Former hardware technician • Microsoft Office Suite • Visio

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