Engineer Quality Assurance

Disha Peswani Email: - abmjf0@r.postjobfree.com

Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering Phone: - 682-***-****

University of Texas at Arlington

OBJECTIVE

Obtain a job at that will enable me to use my strong organizational skills, educational background,

and ability to work with people.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Proficient in Quality Assurance, Lean Manufacturing Methods, Ergonomic, Production

Problem Solving, Fabrication and Assembly Processes, Software Applications.

• Manufacturing Engineer of the EMS assembly and EMI fabrication teams at Stryker

Medical.

• Reputation for managing cost reduction projects, monitoring and controlling the progress

of projects, developing people, trouble shooting and resolving production line issues,

improving quality across the team, focusing on line layouts, training people on new

developments, coordinating with other teams to ensure compliance.

• Outstanding diplomacy that consistently produces win-win results for customers and the

team.

• Top 5 Gallup Strengths: Strategic, Achiever, Responsibility, Focus and Relator.

EDUCATION:

• Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering

GPA: 3.5/ 4.0. University of Texas at Arlington & UT Southwestern

• Bachelors degree

GPA: 3.8/ 4.0, Mumbai University, India

• Six Sigma Black Belt- ASQ (In process)

EMPLOYMENT/ WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Manufacturing Engineer at Stryker Medical, Kalamazoo, December 2008 – Till date

o Production safety and customer support.

o Highly proficient in Quality- customer experience, improvising line layouts and

processes, improving First Pass Yield percentage for EMS team, maintaining

DPM’s and monitoring scrap.

o Supported on time delivery of parts/ products. Worked through multiple ship-

holds, rework issues, line issues, ECO’s and equipment issues in order to keep

the production moving.

o Worked on cost reductions, router scrubs, designing fixtures for assembly and

fabrication, Standard work instructions (WI’s).

o Actively involved in Corrective and Preventive action (CAPA) closures, Process

FMEA’s, Engineering Change Order implementation, Process Change Order

implementation, set up protocols for testing for Manufacturing Technical Report

(MTR) including IQ/ OQ-E/ OQ-P/ PQ for various processes/ equipments

validation.

o Developed “Quality notices” and PDCA closure process for the EMS team as

best practices.

o Worked closely with the new product development team during launch on

designing and developing processes, assembly fixtures and procedures.

o Managing a huge cost reduction ($300K) in sourcing project for tube bender.

• Research Associate at Baylor Research Institute, Dallas, September 2007- June

2008

o Data processing using different statistical techniques with the intent to extract

useful information and develop conclusions.

• Graduate Assistant at University of Texas at Arlington and University of Texas

Southwestern Medical Centre at Dallas, December 2005- August 2007

o Designed and developed a flexible probe according to the input specifications for

testing hemodynamic changes, which occur in a woman’s body during the period

of hot flashes. Conducted Phase I and Phase II trials and processed the data.

o Conducted Phase 0, I & II trials to test the efficacy of the diagnostic tool on

prostate and kidney cancers. Developed statistical algorithms to process the

data.

o Prepare poster presentations, abstracts for conference and manuscripts for

publications.

• Trainee Biomedical Engineer at P.D.Hinduja National Hospital and Medical

Research Centre, India, April 2005- June 2005

o Installation, up gradation, maintenance, trouble shooting and repair of medical

equipments used in the hospital.

• Locum Biomedical Engineer at Bhatia Hospital, India, November 2004- April 2005

o Installation, up gradation, maintenance, trouble shooting and repair of medical

equipments used in the hospital.

o Comparative analysis of new equipments to be bought by the hospital.

o Training doctors and staff in the use of medical equipment.

• Internship at Larsen & Toubro Pvt. Ltd., India

o Worked in the quality assurance division.

o Test equipment in a surgery room and prepare a report for its up gradation.

o Worked on International Product Registrations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Programming Languages: C,C++

• Tools: OOI Base32, Matlab, Simulink, AutoCAD, Labview.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Patent application #12/600,975 on “Optical Methods to Intra operatively detect prostate

and kidney cancer margins”.

• President of “Fine Arts Society of India” at UTA.

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