Experience

Raytheon Technologies

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Aug 2021 - Present

  Support Commodities: Rigid/Flex/Rigid Flex (PCB), CCA (PCBA), and Interconnects (Wire Cables & Connectors)Influence investment direction and development of key suppliers, ensuring alignment to emerging Program needs. Work with Engineering and Composability teams to serve as a steward of Supply Chain processes and key care-abouts to ensure ease of future procurement for new products and suppliers, and complete alignment between technical and sourcing strategies.• Provide analytical and technical expertise to Strategic Sourcing’s Competition, Key Pursuits, Proposal Excellence, Agreement and Emerging Technology teams to ensure integration of optimal sourcing solutions into long-term strategy and tactical execution.• Develop and drive innovative sourcing strategies that increase competition within and across the supply base through market research, new supplier identification and capability assessment, supplier technology and investment alignment, value stream optimization, and IP preservation. • Shape the domestic and international supplier base to align with Raytheon’s technology and Product Line needs. Show less

• • Jan 2020 - Aug 2021

  Senior Principal Supplier Engineer engaged in all phases of product life cycle, beginning with proposal development, product development, and continuing through production implementation. Conducted supplier assessments and developed mitigation plans to address supplier systemic issues. Key Accomplishments:• Identified Key Characteristics to be monitored or controlled to reduce product failures and generate potential failure modes in order to support APQP and PFMEA efforts.

• • Nov 2018 - Jan 2020

  SAS Supply Chain IRAD & Emerging Technology Lead responsible for identifying suppliers with technical capabilities to support Mission Areas’ current and future technology roadmaps and establish long-term partnerships with suppliers, developing business tools for parametric bidding and should costing, as well as segmenting the supply base. • Key activities include, but not limited to: Strategic Sourcing planning, commodity strategy, supplier identification, supplier evaluations, technology road map planning, should costing tool development, supply base segmenting and optimization, and business tools development.• Lead Technology Exchanges with suppliers and Engineering to align sourcing strategies to SAS Technology Roadmaps. • Responsible for positioning of the supply base and classify it into four categories, to enable SAS to identify growth supplier candidates, monitor the core supply base, and improve or transition out of poor performing suppliers. • Deploy supplier segmentation process to contribute to the supplier risk mitigation plan and provide direction on the relationship management roadmap for SAS Supply Chain. • Develop business tools, parametric bidding and should costing, to match product design unique characteristics to suppliers’ capability, to improve best value source selection during sourcing cycle (cost reduction activity), to reduce sourcing cycle from RFP to PO lead-time, and to support supplier negotiations. Show less

• • Nov 2016 - Nov 2018

  Drove Raytheon design requirements while aligning with supplier capabilities to ensure producibility, affordability and delivery of quality products from the supply base. Lead corrective action investigations to prevent recurrence and eliminate quality escapes. Developed risk assessment plans to support new contract awards and conducted on-site PRR to ensure contractual requirements are met.Key Accomplishment: • Received two achievement awards for engaging a risk supplier on site for LWS Program, managing delivery recovery schedule, and assisted with creating/improving the path forward plans. Show less



Boeing

• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Project Manufacturing Engineer

  • Aug 2015 - Oct 2016

  Created the process and developed the business process instruction (BPI) for the Engineering Build Safety Review Board for all Boeing Commercial Airplane (BCA) Programs and sites. Conducted safety analysis and implemented mitigation plans to resolve safety problems based on technical constraints and failure rate of production systems. Collaborated with all BCA Programs and managed Engineering Safety initiatives. Key Accomplishments: ● Received 2015 BCA Engineering Safety award nomination for modeling production safety process based on aviation safety approach. ● Lead the safety resolution of Overhead Crane Problems and Track Drillers Problems across affected BCA Programs and sites. Systems Engineering Experience Authored system requirements and decomposed/deployed them to prevent recurrence in any further designs. Proposed safety issue resolution required corrective actions upstream into Design Engineering and beyond delivery in the fleet through CAS. Show less



CommScope

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior NPI Process Engineer

  • Jun 2005 - Jul 2015

  Project managed the integration of new and transferred products from R&D to production factories abroad. Developed stakeholder relationships and evaluated performance throughout the lifecycle of product family and platform. Deployed schedules, localization, and capacity resource plans. Published post pilot readiness reports to ensure customer requirements, specifications, design criteria, and schedule performance were integrated and maintained. Supervised an experienced team of assemblers and technicians in product returns and failure root cause department. Accomplishments: ● Developed process requirements and implemented global soldering standards which improved FPY to 90% in China, NA, and India sites. ● Converted all BSA sites to LF solder & trained over 10,000 operators worldwide. Process Engineering: Reviewed & refined BOMs for producibility. Defined cable routings for coax/data cables and fiber optics installations throughout the BSA Antennas. Resolved complex technical problems by conducting DOEs and teardown analysis on prototypes to identify product design improvements to ensure design specifications and customer requirements were met. SME in LF soldering for RF application, DFMA, and 3dVia. Systems Engineering: Collaborated with developers to defined functional requirements and technical parameters to assure end users compatibility of program interfaces within SaP architecture. Performed software testability to verify module met configuration requirements. Accomplishment● Wrote system requirements to consolidate work instructions systems into one, global system under revision control in SaP. DFMA: Developed DFA libraries, rolled-out training in N.A.,China, & Australia. Assisted with cost negotiations with suppliers.● Lead product simplification workshops and coached R&D teams to find advance design solutions from Design for Assembly analysis resulted in $1.5M in cost savings. Show less



Nokia

• Finland
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Manufacturing Engineer

  • Mar 1999 - Jun 2005

  Project Management and Lean Manufacturing Experience Managed a team of technicians in pilot cell. Created and managed build plan for pilot runs, parts delivery, testing, and product certification. Coordinated project activities with key stakeholders from engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing to obtain approved product launch schedules, realign priorities, and address open issues. Deployed company lean analysis methods in several Kaizen events. Key Accomplishments: ● Developed VSM (Value Stream Maps). Reduced product travel distance by 36% and increased value-added from 1.24% to 11.11% through reducing batch sizes, WIP, and implementing P.O.U.S. ● Developed and implemented $1.6M Capex Plan to transfer legacy and new products from North America to the Brazil factory. Show less



Servolift LLC

• Rockaway, New Jersey

• Project Engineer

  • May 1998 - Mar 1999

  Supported programs from proposal development to delivery. Wrote quote per RFQs to support the technical sales team execute the program and support new business including estimates. Wrote technical owner manuals for machinery. Worked with foreign customers and export. Key Accomplishments: • Assisted with the commissioning of three pharmaceutical drum lifters throughout Canada and United States. • Retrofitted hydraulic and pneumatic controls of lifting equipment per new customer requirements. Show less