An Engineering position as a mid or senior engineer or project engineer. I have 15 years of experience across a wide segment of engineering
DAVID J. GRIMES
14165 SW Stirrup Place
Beaverton, OR 97008
SUMMARY
An engineer with a varied background and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Worked on electro-mechanical solutions from proto-type to manufacturing. Developed assembly procedures, sub-system and system tests, end of line print quality tests. Supported production with resolving the daily trouble list from overseas manufacturing. Lead design and project team. Traveled to overseas production facility to troubleshoot electromechanical manufacturing issues. Work to solve the whole problem not just my piece of it.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Manufacturing Engineering, Precision Interconnect – Tyco Electronics, Wilsonville, OR
2/2006-12/2008 (Layoff)
Manufacturing engineer responsible for the process development and build of fine gage coax ribbon products used in high speed electronic devices.
DMAIC Six Sigma Black Belt
Develop build strategies for new products
Develop new processes to support new products
Supported new product development, and supported existing products
Supported transfer of products to low cost manufacturing centers
Wrote product assembly instructions and trained assemblers
Worked converting products from lead solder to ROHS compliant processes
Project Design Engineering Lead, General Atomics – Advance Process Systems, San Diego, CA 9/2003-2/2006
Lead engineer for design and development for a system to destroy nerve gas rockets. Lead part of a fast paced team working on risk reduction for final plant design. Source parts to meet tight time table required to complete testing before plant design deliverable are needed as part of a government contract.
Scheduled design work and loaded man hours for assignment of engineers and designers to tasks I was responsible
Interfaced with customer to resolve design issues
Designed and fabricated parts to modify an ASME code pressure vessel
Managed modifications to pressure vessel at remote site
Part of design team for material transport of rocket parts
Created Process Flow Diagrams (PFD) and Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) for plant process
Check and review work of junior engineers
New Product Engineer, PHOGENIX IMAGING (Joint Venture of HP and Kodak), San Diego, CA 1/2001-7/2003 (Company Closed)
Transferred designs from designers to overseas contract manufacturing houses. Developed system and sub-system test requirements and procedures to be used by overseas contract manufacturer in the production of high volume digital photo finishing system. Provided remote and on-site production troubleshooting. Coordinated machined and fabricated parts with outside part fabrication shops during early prototype builds. Made changes and suggested improvements in the design from a DFM and DFA point of view.
Developed end of line system and print quality test
Designed and built sub-system functional testers, wrote scripts for functional testers
Wrote scripts for sub-system functional testers
Trained contract manufactures on assembly and test procedures
Managed Firmware and Software transfer to contract manufactures
Troubleshoot manufacturing fabrication, assembly, and test issues
Process Engineer, XEROX (Purchased from TEKTRONIX), Wilsonville, OR, 1/1996-1/2001
Ran day-to-day engineering operations of the sole ink plant that provides ink to the Xerox/Tektronix phase change printers. Managed introduction of new ink shapes and ink formulations into production. Process Engineer on the Ink Molding Line. Supported wax injection molding and horizontal vacuum form, fill, seal machine. Provided production with 24/7 support. Wrote equipment PM's.
Increased production throughput by 25% though line optimization
Designed, specified, purchased, and installed high speed packaging line
Selected, programmed, and installed PLC's
Created process control chart program with the use of VBX (SPC)
Worked in a sanitary room
Part of the GMP implementation team
Project Engineer - Department Manager, MCGARRY MACHINE INC., Portland, OR, 9/1993 - 12/1995
Team leader to set production and assembly schedules for machines costing up to $700,000. Coordinated machined and fabricated parts with other departments to meet manufacturing schedule. In charge of design modification for the machines being built. Estimated time and materials for bidding new jobs.
Recognized by customers as meeting delivery dates and providing good customer service, thereby increasing sales 300% in one year
Redesigned parts to increase manufacturability
Acted as a liaison with engineering customers to analyze their needs and identify problems
Network Administrator
Junior Engineer, DWFRITZ, INC. ENGINEERS, Lake Oswego, OR, 7/1993-9/1993 (Temp. Position)
Worked in several work cells, including inkjet cartridges, aeronautical cable marking, and wafer handling. Manage startup, trouble shooting and testing of PLC controlled equipment.
Designed improvements to prototype machines which were necessary to meet specifications
Assembled special purpose automated equipment
Designed specialty small parts and coordinated fabrication with shop personnel
Engineering Assistant, WILLAMETTE INDUSTRIES, INC., Engineering Paper Group, summer 1992
Developed AutoCAD drawing on detail and site plans for a paper mill
Generated Summary Reports by Paradox programming
Performed numerical flow calculations
EDUCATION, AFFILIATIONS, ACHIEVEMENTS
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Oregon Sate University, June 1993
Completed Fundamentals of Engineering exam, April 1993
ASME Basic Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), March 2005
Six Sigma Lean Training, June 2008
Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Hewlett-Packard Scholarship
Introduction to Pro-Engineer (40 hr class room instruction)
Shanin Statistical Problem Solving
KEYWORD SUMMARY AND COMPUTER SKILLS
Problem Solving, Automated Production, Process Design, High Volume Manufacturing, Contract Manufacturing, Prototype, System Test, Overseas Manufacturing, PLC, ISO9000, DFA, DFM, CAD, AutoCAD, CadKey, SolidWorks, PDMWorks, Pro-Engineer, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio, Visual Basic extensions, MathCad, Windchill, Agile, Stepper motors, Honeywell Plantscape, Cirris Touch1, Cirris CH+, Cirris CH2, Cable Test Horizon, DMAIC Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean, 5S
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