Experience

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  Pegasus Steel (USA)

  • Welding Engineer

    • Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

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  Walt Disney Imagineering

  • Glendale, California, United States

  • Principal Engineer- Quality, Materials & Manufacturing,

    • Feb 2016 - Nov 2020
    • Glendale, California, United States

    - Department expert in all aspects of Quality Assurance, materials properties and selection, and manufacturing and inspection of in-process and completed components.- Develop and edit standards pertaining to design, safety and inspection.- Audit supplier quality system, and perform in-process and first article inspections.- Responsible for root-cause and corrective action analysis and disposition.

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  Siemens Gamesa

  • Orlando, Florida, United States

  • Supplier Quality Engineer

    • Aug 2010 - May 2015
    • Orlando, Florida, United States

    - Manage and perform ISO 9001 audits to qualify supplier’s Quality Management Systems.- Help suppliers implement new welding technologies.- Review weld procedures for compliance with all quality requirements.- Disposition corrective actions, manage RCCA system.- Resolve welding issues encountered during product fabrication. - Ensure compliance with quality policy, standards, and requirements.- Resolve quality related issues.- Communicate quality standards and expectations to suppliers and employees.- Review and complete 8-D forms, developing and managing corrective and preventive actions.

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  Siag

  • Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

  • Welding / Manufacturing Engineer

    • Feb 2009 - May 2010
    • Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

    - Introduce new welding technology, techniques, and equipment into production. - Specify welding materials and processes and ensure their proper application in production. - Review weld procedures for compliance with applicable codes. - Define inspection requirements and develop procedures based on customer drawings.- Develop welding procedures to comply with national codes and customers specifications. - Provide welding support to plant operation and maintenance functions. - Create and maintain shop welding procedure books. - Work with inspectors monitoring operator compliance with welding procedures. - Drafted sections of the ISO 9001 Quality Manual and participated in the Certification Audit.

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  Philips

  • Latham, New York, United States

  • Welding Engineer

    • 2007 - 2009
    • Latham, New York, United States

    - Provide welding support to shop floor. - Develop and quality new welding procedures. - Troubleshoot welding problems.- Test and install new welding equipment.- Developed training presentations for welders and engineers.

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  Sea Ray Boats

  • Merritt Island, Florida, United States

  • Engineering Manager

    • 2005 - 2007
    • Merritt Island, Florida, United States

    - Supervise custom components group.- Manage CAD operators.- Oversee technicians installing mechanical components.- Perform final inspection on all boats.

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  Harley-Davidson Motor Company

  • York, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Manufacturing Engineer

    • 1997 - 1997
    • York, Pennsylvania, United States

    • Applied extensive Lean Manufacturing training to the shop environment, performing motion and time studies to develop workcells and implement a visual factory.• Lead team implementing principles of Lean Manufacturing to re-organize manufacturing area into cells and promote a visual factory.• Spearhead team performing special study of plant layout.• Identified and corrected ergonomic / repetitive motion problems.• Interface with Design Engineers to ensure minimum product manufacturing costs while meeting functional and regulatory requirements.• Championed Technical Training Team.• Ensure that new designs are optimized for ease of manufacturing.• Interface with Product Engineering to ensure that new designs have proper tolerances, specifications and work instructions• Performed capability studies.• Design tools, fixtures and gages• Brought area into compliance with OSHA regulations.• Design tools and fixtures to increase productivity and quality.• Manage specification, acquisition, installation and production acceptance of new equipment as required to support manufacturing requirements..• Responsible for departmental ISO 9000 compliance and documentation.• Support manufacturing, solving shop problems and ensuring achievement of production goals.• Work with supervisors, developing solutions to complex, manufacturing-related problems.

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  Babcock & Wilcox

  • Barberton, Ohio, United States

  • Welding Engineer / Project Manager

    • 1994 - 1995
    • Barberton, Ohio, United States

    • Selected as first shop/engineering facilitator, working to prevent problems resulting in on-schedule, defect-free delivery of a new component, a first for this company.• First Welding Engineer to be given complete responsibility for entire component manufacturing process.• Appointed as Welding Engineer for a new component, selecting, qualifying and applying weld procedures.• Served as Project Engineer for prototype component.• Appointed to Continuous Improvement Steering Committee.

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  GE

  • Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States

  • Senior Materials Engineer

    • 1987 - 1991
    • Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States

    • Designed and selected optimum welding and material specifications.• Reviewed and approved vendor material specifications and welding procedures.• Implemented SPC program, streamlining product flow and reducing rework costs.• Created and presented Design for Welding training program.• Served as liaison between customer and manufacturing, resolving disputes and ensuring fulfillment of contractual obligations.• Trained in quality improvement methods and TQM, active member of Quality Improvement Team Steering Committee.• Generated computer database and coordinated group that reduced the number of procedures by 60%.• Audited vendors and represented company during customer audits.

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  Avondale Shipyard

  • New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

  • Chief Welding Engineer

    • 1983 - 1987
    • New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

    • Responsible for all technical aspects of welding for the third-largest shipyard in the United States.• Developed and qualified welding procedures and selected most cost effective processes and techniques. • Negotiated solutions to field problems to the mutual satisfaction of engineering, manufacturing and customer.