Greater Indianapolis
As a Senior Product Engineer at Foxconn with over 16 years of experience, I specialize in new product introduction (NPI), testing, and manufacturing processes. My expertise includes high-volume manufacturing, precision engineering, and managing timelines for multiple product launches. I excel at fostering collaboration among customer teams, internal stakeholders, and suppliers to deliver high-quality outcomes. My mission is to drive efficient manufacturing processes and solve complex production challenges. I have a proven track record in APQP document review, problem resolution, and managing top-tier workstation products like HP Z4, Z6, and Z8. By contributing to precision and highly cosmetic product manufacturing, I aim to support innovation and operational excellence.
• Experienced at building relations with Customer Team Members, Customer Management, Internal Team Members, Company Management and Suppliers. • Strong ability to manage timelines for multiple product launches, problem solving and in-depth review of APQP documents required for NPI. • Expertise working with High-Volume Manufacturing equipment. • Expertise in dealing with Precision & Highly Cosmetic products. • Immediate response, analysis, containment and countermeasure application for complex manufacturing problems during workstation assembly and S/W installation processes in Production • Acted as a PM for top of the line performance HP Workstation family of products Z4,Z6 & Z8 • Evaluate new workstation design change notices from R&D (including New Models) for impact to • Engineered 5 new t-codes to enhance functionality of the BOM structures with the SAP team • Responsible for validating 600+ SKUs to be launched in the FY-2016 for DT,WS,AIO products • Collaborated with PP,MM, HP GBU team to successfully launch SW & HW parts into assembly • Provided production support by trouble shooting hardware and software issues on the shop floor & Ensure all NPI deliverables on time • Steered the DFM activity for Workstation family of products by collaborating with HP GBU • Supported training initiatives during NPI by collaborating with engineering & production teams • Interface with HP core team on a daily basis to learn about product & BOM changes • New product validate engineering tools and complete testing requirements • Utilize variety of tools and methods to analyze root cause for completed problem, destine parts design and manufacturing issue during assembly. • Lead teams, including manufacturing, Planning and Materials purchasing departments, in complex problem analysis, problem management to closure and creation of full analysis summary reports • Managing product quality in the factory and correlation to the end customer as per business requirement.
• Created & Maintained Standard Operating Procedure guides for E2E manufacturability of 60 HP products. • Reduced failure rate by 8% in launching G2 workstations in collaboration with global FX R&D. • Participated in creating key DFMEA's, DFM/DFA and Design value. • Implemented 5S & created a company culture of weekly 5S audits conducted by various departments. • Assessed Production Rate Readiness with suppliers undergoing significant industrial transfers to ensure risks are understood and coordinated the timely completion of actions to eliminate supply chain disruption. • Familiar with Lean Manufacturing techniques. • Leads the deployment and training of both internal and external. • Optimization of manufacturing test processes & implementation.