David L.

Manufacturing Technical Manager (Manufacturing Engineer) at Meta Reality Labs

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Manufacturing Technical Manager at Meta
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Established FATP lines for new product introduction (NPI) to mass production (MP) of AR/Wearables products. Technical expertise in assembly processes and manufacturing testing for optimal yield and throughput. Launched Meta Neural Band.

  • Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Cruise
    Mar 2021 - Sep 2021 · 7 mos

  • Advanced Manufacturing Engineer at Apple
    Sep 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Worked with cross-functional team, equipment vendors, & contract manufacturers to bring up automation equipment for new product introduction (NPI) Program management for NPI & mass production builds. Yield improvement through design of experiments and automatic data collection/analysis from manufacturing & test equipment.

  • NPI manufacturing engineer at Boosted, Inc.
    Dec 2018 - Sep 2019 · 10 mos

    Managed production line bring up for NPI & MP Designed and qualified manufacturing fixtures and automated equipment. Drove supplier quality and process improvements.

  • Senior Manufacturing Equipment Engineer at Tesla
    Jan 2014 - Dec 2018 · 5 yrs

    2018 - 2018 Senior Manufacturing Equipment Engineer 2015 - 2018 Manufacturing Equipment Engineer 2014 - 2015 Associate Manufacturing Engineer Automation, Controls, Robotics, Mechanical in stamping shop of factory. Increased production output by 50% through equipment and process improvements. Installed, commissioned, and ramped up new production equipment for Model S, Model X, and Model 3 launches. Developed and launched data acquisition and data analysis tools to replace manual reporting of production and equipment data.