Quality based professional with eight years of experience in the photonics (thin film optics) manufacturing industry. Strong customer focus and reporting abilities coupled with excellent analytical, problem solving, and organizational skills. Available immediately in the New York City and Westchester county NY regions.

Volunteer Animal Caretaker Humane Society of New York, New York, NY

(2006 through present)

Cleaning and care for over 50 cats and small dogs on the main adoption floor of a no-kill animal shelter.

• Provide a healthy environment for the animals by cleaning cages and litter, watering, and cleaning the room and animals such that they are presentable to prospective adopters.
• Prepare meals and feed animals according to special diets.
• Train new volunteers on cleaning and feeding procedures and animal care.
• Handle, restrain, and brush animals, and trim cat nails regularly.
• Understand and anticipate animal behavior to alert staff to potential health issues and to prevent harm between animals.
• Advise staff and public/potential adopters of an animal's personality to ensure a better adoption match.
• Patiently work with and train shy or agressive cats to help them to become more adoptable and better suited for a future home life.

Quality Assurance Engineer Optical Coating Corporation (OCC), Natick, MA

(2002 through 2006)

• Responsible for reading and ensuring compliance to customer blueprints and military specifications (MIL-SPECs), performing mechanical and visual inspections, spectral characterization measurement scans, environmental tests, reporting data, and packaging/shipping of material, based on customer specifications.
• Wrote and performed incoming, in-process, surplus, and final inspection procedures, test plans, and customer-facing test data reports on precision optical components in a manufacturing environment.
• Administered the calibration control system, recalling equipment and performing in-house calibration procedures, and helped maintain records necessary for quality procedure compliance.
• Performed advanced troubleshooting, basic failure analysis, dispositioning of non-conforming product through MRB, and reported results to Engineering and Production to prevent reoccurrence of defective products with corrective action requests.
• Drafted departmental procedures, test plans, and process documentation to aid in training new technicians, and provided individual training for other team members.
• Set up, organized, and maintained surplus product inventory and internal lot process/traceability sheets, both the physical items and their relevant data on searchable spreadsheets.
• Represented OCC during on-site customer source inspections and aided customers with prompt responses to data inquiries, increasing customer satisfaction.

Quality Control Production Coordinator Corning NetOptix, Optical Filter Division, Natick, MA

(2000 through 2001)

• Coordinated and scheduled Quality Control results and production with other departments and improved wareflow management, resulting in reduced cycle times and increased ship-to-commit and on-time delivery levels.
• Acted as a technical liaison with Engineering, Production, and Sales staff on the quality floor.
• Monitored inspection and testing processes during all stages of manufacture.
• Performed advanced troubleshooting, basic failure analysis, dispositioning of product, and reported results to Engineering and Production to prevent reoccurrence of defective products.
• Drafted departmental procedures, test plans, and process documentation to aid in training new technicians, and provided individual and group training for other team members.
• Assisted the Quality Engineer in the production and assessment of quality test data necessary for the output of final high-volume product and customer test data reports.
• Generated and organized storage of electronic quality test data, which allowed for prompt responses to customer's data inquiries and increased customer satisfaction.

Quality Control Test Technician Corning NetOptix, Optical Filter Division (formerly Optical Filter Corporation (OFC)), Natick, MA

(1998 through 2000)

• Performed incoming, in-process, surplus, and final inspection procedures and customer-facing test data reports on precision optical components in a fast-paced ISO9002 manufacturing environment.
• Responsible for reading and ensuring compliance to customer blueprints and military specifications, performing mechanical and visual inspections, spectral characterization measurement scans, environmental tests, reporting data, and shipping of material, based on customer specifications.
• Administered the calibration control system, recalling equipment for checking, and helped maintain records necessary for quality procedure compliance.
• Represented Corning during on-site customer source inspections and aided customers with prompt responses to data inquiries, increasing customer satisfaction.
• Received US Government confidential clearance for certain projects.

Macsyma Developments Senior Year Thesis Project (MQP), WPI

(September 1997 until April 1998)

Collaborated as a team with the math software company Macsyma, Inc. to broaden functionality within the Macsyma software package. Developed algorithms and code using built-in Macsyma language to implement Mathieu functions (solutions to a special linear second order differential equation which models vibrations of an elliptical membrane).

The Digital Peddler: A Multimedia CD-ROM Yearbook Junior Year Interdisciplinary Project (IQP), WPI

(October 1996 until May 1997)

Design and implementation of a multimedia CD-ROM prototype version of the WPI yearbook (The Peddler). The prototype used enhanced HTML for layout, Quicktime VR movies, digitized video and audio clips, still photos, and text to represent WPI over a year. Specialized on the data gathering, and created and performed the statistical audience analysis within our multidisiplinary team.

• Software packages such as Calibration Recall, FilmStar, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA.

Bachelor of Science, Mathematical Science
Minor, Computer Science

University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA.

Additional Computer Science courses

Seminars:

• KT Problem Solving & Decision Making, Kepner Tregoe, Inc.
• Total Quality Management, CCFL Corning Center for Learning
• Leadership Skills for Lead People, EANE Employers Association of the North East