Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering

Principal Manufacturing Engineer

10-15 years of manufacturing experience across Aerospace & Defense, Water Instruments, Oil & Gas, and Semiconductor industries, driven to exceed safety, quality, delivery, and cost expectations through efficiency, perseverance, and innovation. Versatile experience has engrained mindful consideration of all stakeholders in daily decisions. Robust documentation, design collaboration, standardization, and operations feedback are key. Constantly seeking improvements in all facets of the business, from desk to shop floor.

• Developing assembly and testing processes for flight propulsion system hardware
• Collaborating with design, operations, planning and procurement to improve product flow, reduce cycle time, expand capacity, cut cost, and increase quality
• Ensuring compliance with design and relevant governing standards through refined specification analysis and effective training

• Established effective tooling and assembly instructions for complex electro-optical Airborne systems, with an emphasis on safety and productivity
• Trained new operators on drawing reading, compliance, and documentation

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

• Maintained 96% On-Time Delivery (OTD) to pharmaceutical, semiconductor, energy, environmental, municipal and wastewater industries
• Improved manufacturing of critical water quality measurement instruments through quality and EHS projects, establishing and monitoring metrics
• Boosted productivity by prioritizing safety and incorporating ergonomics into equipment selection, tooling, automation, and processes

Lead Manufacturing Engineer

• Achieved 4 to 7-day market winning lead time for seal design inquiries
• Performed contract review and took part in developing an automated specification translator tool within SAP for a 99% reduction in sales order processing time

Applications Engineer

• Maintained 90% On-Time Delivery (OTD) target for Harvest product by providing prompt production floor support and managing disposition of nonconformance through MRB
• Drove $1M annual savings through Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement leadership of drawing/specification changes (ECN), tool design, work procedures, methods, BOM/routing changes, equipment & PM, and root cause analysis
• Developed manufacturing processes for the New Product Development group, supporting Stage-Gate by managing as many as 7 projects at one time and conducting FMEA
• Established Incremental and NPD manufacturing via production floor support, work procedure & tool creation, process flow/routing, testing & inspection requirements, DFM, DHM, and Post-Op meetings
• Pioneered disposition of nonconformance for Engineering Dept.
• Managed and performed root cause analysis for customer RGA and CAPA records
• Trained 6-month rotational engineers in Sustaining Engineering support and 6 technician groups in product build & testing procedures

Manufacturing Engineer

• Provided technical sales support of 4 product families including ductile iron pipe fittings, joint restraints, AWWA grooved, municipal and construction castings
• Managed pricing of non-standard items via cost analysis and extrapolation
• Conducted margin analysis for 20-40% profit
• Presented technical product information to sales force and customers

Product Manager

• Supported RTP/CVD engineering projects on AMAT Centura RTP machine
• Designed and ran experiments (DOE) on oxide, nitride, and polysilicon chambers
• Analyzed experiments via thickness measurements on ellipsometer metrology tool, RMS roughness on AFM tool, stress measurements, etc.
• Charted process data for trend analysis and presentation to other departments
• Monitored SPC and tracked WECO violations for ISTAB

Manufacturing Process Engineering Intern

• Conducted high-pressure/high-temperature and electrical tests, along with various technical inspections, on glass-to-metal and thermoplastic seal connectors
• Drafted assembly and testing procedures
• Managed inventory
• Gathered and submitted ECN documentation via electronic forms
• Performed macro photography for ECN defect analysis and procedure documentation

MATERIALS, PRODUCTS & PROCESSES
• Solid Rocket Motors, Airborne electro-optical systems, Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analyzers, Boron and Nitric Oxide Analyzers, Electrical connectors, thermoplastic PEEK insulation, gold-plated beryllium copper contacts, steel and Inconel support washers, PTFE insulated lead wire, cable / wire harness, FEP/FKM/polyolefin heat shrink tubing, epoxy, adhesive, FKM/FFKM/EPDM/NBR/HNBR/CR elastomer and PTFE polymer/composite seals, sensors, electrodes, RFID, antennas, steel and aluminum tools/fixtures, ductile iron pipe, silicon semiconductor wafers, PCB
• Injection molding, annealing, machining, assembly, soldering, curing, dimensional inspection, electrical resistance and continuity testing, submerged pressure testing, force testing, hermeticity testing, laser engraving, laser welding, resistance spot welding, grit blasting, dye penetrant inspection, ultrasonic cleaning

EQUIPMENT & SOFTWARE
• CNC, lathe, mill, molding machines, Autoclave pressure vessels, Viscom x-ray, Hakko/JBC /Metcal solder stations, Miyachi Unitek resistance spot welder, Agilent Varian helium mass spectrometer leak detector, Fluke Mulitimeter, Megger and Simpson IR, Ametek Chatillon force gauge, AMAT Centura RTP, Thermawave Optiprobe, Tencor Surfscan, Tencor FLX
• Windows Operating Systems, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Project, Visio, SAS JMP, Lotus Notes, AutoCad, Inventor, SolidWorks, ProE/Creo, Windchill, NX, Synergis Adept, Workstream, SAP, VMS, Concur, Adobe Acrobat

R&D, Manufacturing Engineering Intern

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Edward Allen: Principal Manufacturing Engineer

Edward Allen

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems

Raytheon

GE Analytical Instruments

Greene, Tweed & Co

Greene, Tweed & Co

Star Pipe Products

SEMATECH, ATDF

Greene, Tweed & Co

Texas State University