Experience

Continuous Improvement Lead

Dates:

June 2022 - Present

Company:

Moog, Inc; Radford, VA

Responsible for identifying and implementing improvements and change throughout the organization using formal and informal means with little supervision or guidance. In this role, I have been able to distinguish myself as a capable leader with vision in the organization from the conference room to the production floor.

  • Identify opportunities for improvement

  • Prioritize opportunities by effort vs impact

  • Write & deploy automated test

  • Production tool design

  • Linearize/flow production line for scaling

  • Identify & implement equipment purchase, from the mundane to capital

  • Write custom user-facing software for tracking facility maintenance

  • Educate and mentor other members of the organization, formally and informally

  • Documentation at all levels

  • Statistical analysis and modeling

Engineering Manager

Dates:

Oct 2020 - June 2022

Company:

Moog, Inc; Radford, VA

Responsible for technical leadership and management of engineering department.

  • Modernize documentation processes throughout the facility

  • Implement more formal design processes

  • Plan and coordinate strategic department goals (i.e. training, process)

  • Primary engineering contact for customers, internally

  • Advise various on-site departments with regard to data management, analytics

  • Unify site manufacturing data formats to enable statistical process control

  • Create and distribute tools for statistical process control

Electrical Engineering Manager

Dates:

Jan 2019 - Oct 2020

Company:

Moog, Inc; Radford, VA

Responsible for technical leadership and management of electrical engineering department.

  • Modernize and improve firmware release processes

  • Improve productivity of direct reports through exposure to new techniques and technologies

  • Advise project managers as to the technical capabilities, workloads, and relative workload of the department

  • Improve data visibility and data literacy of the organization by requiring automated testing for throughout the design and deployment cycle

  • Develop automated test equipment to replace aging technologies

  • Implement informal professional development environment through lunch ‘n learn activities

  • Lead by example

Electrical and Firmware Design Engineer

Dates:

Dec 2007 - Jan 2019

Company:

Moog, Inc; Blacksburg, VA

Responsible for all aspects of electrical design (schematic, layout, and software) for brushless DC and permanent-magnet synchronous motors. Also responsible for documentation of product along with production support.

  • Create firmware for real-time applications, primarily motor control, using C and assembly on:

    • TI MSP430 series (16-bit)

    • Microchip dsPIC33 series (16-bit)

    • STMicro STM32 series (ARM 32-bit)

    • Limited exposure to other platforms

  • Apply standards such as DO-160, DO-178 to designs

  • Improve development workflow for the group by shifting group from directory control into a source control software

  • Improve design documentation activities by implementing reports to be attached to engineering change processes

  • Improve design quality by implementing design checklists for schematics, layouts, and components

  • Apply fundamental reliability techniques, including Weibull analysis

  • Develop automated test equipment for my product lines

Electronics Repair Technician

Dates:

May 2007 - Dec 2007

Company:

Advanced Electronic Services; Mt. Airy, NC

Component-level diagnosis and repair of uninterruptable power supply board modules with ratings ranging between 2kVA to 800kVA utilizing benchtop troubleshooting equipment, such as oscilloscope, curve tracer, and multimeter.

  • Acquire basic soldering proficiency (through-hole, surface-mount)

  • Learn the fundamentals of three-phase power

Fire Support Specialist, Artillery

Dates:

August 2000 - August 2004

Company:

United States Army; Multiple Locations

Call for, observe, and correct indirect fire from artillery batteries. Advised command-level entities of fire support asset capabilities and availability. Participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom with the 101st Airborne Division 2003 to 2004.

  • Develop land navigation skills through training

  • Show up to work on-time

  • Develop perspective