Stewart_M

Experience

• Senior Industrial Automation Engineer Axon Enterprise · Full-time May 2020 – Oct 2023 3 yrs 5 mos Scottsdale, AZ, United States • Project developer, architect, and lead of high-volume industrial automated manufacturing systems
  • Transformed manual-manufacturing and assembly into connected, integrated and automated systems
  • Set operational goals, implemented best practice and procedures for engineering, design, builds, acceptance, gage R&R validation, safety, OEE, continuous improvement, and MES-integration
  • Mentor and leader of team efforts for optimization of machines, processes and system-effectiveness across factory operations and functional-teams
  • Developed and maintained relationships with vendors, suppliers, customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports while reporting to VP and Sr. Director
  • Managed projects with international world-class system providers, defined specifications for automated manufacturing, $8M budgeted capital project, doubling capacity and reducing cost of goods sold by $5.8M
  • Architect, developer, and project lead of automated production system, $3.5M budgeted capital project, increasing capacity and reducing cost of goods sold by $4.3M
  • Lead root cause analysis for automated laser welding systems - identifying multiple operational equipment effectiveness (OEE) impacts by utilizing first principle and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation methods. Performed corrective action (RCCA) based on sound engineering analysis and CFD simulations improving OEE by 30% and reducing maintenance cost by 50%
  • Semi-automated system architect and project team leader reducing maintenance by 50% while automating dart-depth measurement for quality control and manufacturing execution system (MES) integration
  • System automation engineer of phase-one cartridge assembly, project developer and engineering team leader. This system improved capacity by 35%, reduced cost of goods sold (COGS) by $300k while automating inspection for quality control and manufacturing execution system (MES) integration. Contributed specifications, acceptance criteria, safety assessment, mechanical engineering, FEA, system controls, cabinet design, PLC and HMI programming while developing team relationships
  • Multidiscipline engineering team-developer, team manager, and leader
  
  CAD: SolidWorks, PLM, Simulation, Flow
• Senior Mechanical Engineer Automation Tooling Systems (ATS) · Full-time Apr 2012 – May 2019 7 yrs 1 mos undefined, United States Industrial automation for manufacturing and measurement systems. CAD: SolidWorks, PLM, Simulation, Flow
• Senior Mechanical Engineer Hewlett-Packard · Full-time Jun 2000 – Apr 2011 10 yrs 10 mos undefined, United States R&D engineer in measurement technology section where we invented sensors to characterize fluid properties. Developed automated machines and systems for laboratories and manufacturing lines. CAD: Creo and SolidWorks, Simulation, Ansys