Summary of Qualifications: |
NIGEL COOMBER
(703 715 1075)
email: ncoomber@yahoo.com
OBJECTIVE:
To contribute in a position of high responsibility for a progressive technically innovative company which can utilize a highly motivated professional with leading edge experience in automated manufacturing.
EDUCATION:
M.S. Flexible Manufacturing Systems & Robotics, Loughborough University, England. 9/86 - 9/87.
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Sunderland University, England. 9/83 - 7/86.
HTC (US equiv. AS) Mechanical & Production Engineering, Leeds Polytechnic, England. 9/78 - 7/83.
EXPERIENCE:
Electronic Instrumentation and Test [SMT Contract Assembly, Sterling, VA, USA], 1996 - 1999.
MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING MANAGER (1996 - 1999).
� Responsible for the Manufacturing Engineering Department reporting to the VP Operation providing customer support, manufacturing support and training, process implementation, product design and review and documentation and control - with particular emphasis on SMT and automated manufacturing.
� Selected and installed new $1 million SMT placement line to satisfy new company strategy of 30% annual growth.
� To accomplish the annual growth the following projects were established: Floor stock program (inventory reduction), SPC programs, ISO 9000 program, Corrective action system, Selection and procurement of CAM software, SMT and auto through hole insertion machine scheduling and capacity planning, BGA placement and No Clean solder introduction.
Eurotherm Circuits [SMT Contract Assembly, Chantilly, VA, USA], 1988 - 1996.
ENGINEERING MANAGER (1992 - 1996).
� Responsible for engineering department reporting directly to the President providing customer support, manufacturing support and training, process implementation, product design and review and documentation and control.
� Developed marketing strategy for finding, selecting and developing new customers.
� Administered successful implementation of ISO 9000 quality system and provide support for continuous improvement.
� Completed company transition from harmful ozone depleting cleaning chemicals to a "no clean" assembly process in compliance with federal regulations.
� Successfully implemented SPC on surface mount placement, screen printing and wave solder processes and established a defect data gathering system allowing process and product design enhancements.
� Purchased a new $1� million high speed surface mount placement line to increase capabilities and capacity.
� Member of international development team for a new product range with specific responsibilities for designing and developing the manufacturing requirements.
� Established overall company plans to introduce new technologies such as alternatives to HASL PCB's, BGA's, buried capacitance PCB's and alternatives to screen printing.
� Implemented Kanban material flow production system.
SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER (1990 - 1992)
� Developed up front engineering which: provides customers with design for manufacture and test support on all products; designs and develops surface mount and through hole footprints and PCB design layout rules; completed an extensive design guideline manual and reviews customers product designs during all stages of development.
� Selected and developed a "working partnership" with the bare PCB fabricators. Developed PCB fabrication acceptability standards and provided technical and costing assistance for PCB procurement.
� Coordinated fine pitch development program allowing the company to provide higher technologies to its customers. Designed fine pitch test board for footprint design and process adjustment experiments.
MANUFACTURING ENGINEER (1988 - 1990)
� Selected, procured and set up machines for a through hole preform area and for an automated through hole axial insertion cell. Provided maintenance and operator training and developed off line programming and machine optimization for the cell.
� Responsible for the design and development of standard assembly PCB panels and all tooling required for PCB assembly. Produced all drawings and documentation for PCB procurement and assembly tooling.
� Developed assembly pictorials used by manufacturing personnel to instruct how each PCB is assembled.
Radian Inc. [DOD Contractor, Alexandria, VA, USA], 1987 - 1988.
DESIGN ENGINEER (1987 - 1988).
Royal Ordnance Factory [Defense Manufacturer of Military Vehicles, Leeds, England], 1978 - 1983.
FITTER ON FINAL PRODUCTION LINE (1982 - 1983).
TECHNICIANS APPRENTICE (1978 - 1982).
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