Edgardo Ayuso

♦4412 N. Overhill St., Norridge, IL 60706 ♦ T: 847-456-2103 ♦ eddieayuso@hotmail.com♦

 

Project Manager/Senior Applications Engineer

 

 

Project Management / Product Development / Product Implementation

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Objective:

Seeking technical management position with leadership responsibilities, including problem solving, planning, organizing and managing products and projects, to achieve the company’s goals.

Career summary:

A success-oriented and highly talented Applications/Project Engineer with a strong background in design, process implementation, product development and customer interaction. I have also shown significant results in continuous process and product improvement, root-cause failure analysis, product and manufacturing cost reduction, and experience in managing manufacturing departments. I have 19 years of experience in the manufacturing of optoelectronic and fiber optic products, as well as excellent communication and leadership skills.

Job Skills:

·               An experienced team leader with the ability to initiate/manage cross-functional teams and multi-disciplinary projects, and to deliver cost reduction using dedicated process value analysis

·               Expert in fiber optic polishing and testing techniques, as well as, equipment utilization.

·               Analytical thinking, decision making and problem solving skills and strong electro-mechanical experience.

·               Project management skills: Influencing, leading, negotiating and delegating abilities

·               Adaptability and tolerant to stressed situations.

Other Skills:

·               Creative thinking and organizational skills

·               Effective listening skills

·               Decision making and negotiating skills

 

 

Professional Experience
	Amphenol Fiber Optic Products	2008 – present
	Senior Applications/Project Engineer

 

 

Recruited to streamline and implement new product development and manufacturing of the “Home Run” (Optitap) cable assemblies in the FTTH market. Primary job function grew to project management of all new product offerings, including, datacenter product line, and ISP/OSP cable product offerings in the telecomm market. Functions also included support and manufacturing implementation of product manufacturing at our manufacturing facilities in China and Mexico. Also, training on termination, polishing and testing techniques to meet industry EFG, environmental, and mechanical force standards, per TIA/EIA and IEC industry requirements.

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

·               Develop and translate customer requirements into product and successfully transfer into manufacturing

·               Technical sales and customer applications contact.

·               Evaluate and cost new products within the scale of sales, marketing, and the customer’s objectives.

·               Identify, propose, implement and execute value engineering and cost savings programs

·               Identify and implement product and process improvements that improve the quality and reduce cost of manufacturing.

·               FMEA’s and other preventative maintenance research

·               Evaluate and justify new technologies and equipment for manufacturing growth and streamlining.

·               Implement and complete ECR’s, ECN’s, and ECO’s

·               Ensure all engineering documentation, procedures, designs, and drawings are correct and understood by the manufacturing facilities.

·               Multitask and manage project deadlines

·               Control expenses appropriate to product specifications, performance, processing and materials

·               Travel to worldwide company and customer locations, as needed.

 

Select Achievements:

·               Streamlined manufacturing process of FTTH connector and increased profit margins by 13%.

·               Certified in manufacturing of new high speed non-contact connector, Prizm LT (PLT) and Prizm Lensed MT (MXC), with USConec, for current high speed 40Gb, 100Gb, and future 400Gb transmission solutions.

·               Created manufacturing processes and training for MTP connector manufacturing, including specialized training in wiring and polishing comprehension.

·               Interim Plant Manager for our Mexico facility. Increased productivity to above 90% over 7 months.

·               Analyzed and improved polishing practices, increasing polishing yields from 80% to 95%. This translated to an annual cost savings of over $350,000 at our Mexico facility and $1.3 million in China.

·               Generated $2 million in sales order by restructuring a major customers project needs and saving the customer 30% in unnecessary costs.

·               Highly involved in major government contract, customer project, which won future business in excess of $3 million.

 

Fiber Connect, a Leviton Company	2004 – 2008
Process Manufacturing Engineer/ Product Development Engineer

 

 

As the sole engineer for Fiber Connect, My function was to streamline the manufacturing process as well as work closely with the sales force, in a technical capacity, for new product development in the datacenter market. Fiber Connect was purchased by Leviton Corporation in 2007. The company was previously a conjunction of 2 companies. Advanced Fiber Optic Solutions (Manufacturing) and Fiber Connect (Sales).

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

·               Responsible for all new product development.

·               Create and maintain all assembly, drawings and testing procedures for SM and MM jumper and Multifiber Optical cable development.

·               Assisted in developing assembly and testing processes for CAT 5e, 6, and 6a, Copper patch cord and trunk cable development.

·               Design, develop and control all drawing’s using Solid Edge 3D CAD software.

·               Trained manufacturing personnel on Fiber Optic and Copper cable assembly as well as cable cutting, polishing, testing and packaging procedures.

·               Develop part number schemes for Fiber Optic and copper product lines.

·               Maintained BOM’s and labor cost analysis for all product.

·               Design and develop cable enclosures for data center rack systems; 1U, 2U, 4U, 6U, and 8U enclosure designs.

·               Design packaging materials and procedures for all enclosures.

·               Train manufacturing personnel on the use of ERP system functions such as ECN’s, Temporary deviations, BOM’s and inventory transactions.

·               Perform design evaluation testing on all vendor components and tools used in the manufacturing process.

·               Assist in technical sales and product installation

 

Select Achievements

·               Implemented yield improvement process control methodologies to increase over all yield to an average of 99.6% over the last 9 months.

·               Designed custom trellis cable tray system for overhead fiber optic and copper cable distribution in data centers, for a customer, within 5 days, resulting in a win of the business and over $4 million dollars in revenue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Methode electronics / Stratos Lightwave. 1996 – 2003
Associate Engineer/ R&D Engineering Supervisor Began my career as a Technician with Methode Electronics and quickly grew into a leadership role within the group. Transferred to Stratos Lightwave as part of an Initial Public Offering.   Duties and Responsibilities: ·               Evaluated new components for all product families ·               Performed Design Verification Testing on product families and supplier components. ·               Direct engineering liaison for vendor interfacing. ·               Helped miniaturize packaging specifications with supporting vendors for the purpose of implementation on new form factors. ·               Provided customer service technical assistance to the field sales representatives. ·               Implemented new designs into manufacturing process by use of engineering change notices and process implementation notices. ·               Developed product samples for customer evaluation on all product families. ·               Helped develop the SFP (Pluggable Small Form Factor), Fiber Channel GLM (Gigabit Link Module) and MIA (Media Interface Adapter) optical transceivers in regulation with Fiber Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, and SONET/ ATM standards ·               Directed and coordinated teams for the development of the Fiber Channel GLM and MIA products. ·               Handled cost and materials purchasing for all Engineering needs and pre-production lines. ·               Established yield improvement methodology’s with new product Designs. ·              Implemented Cellular Manufacturing methodology for new products. ·              Trained technicians on testing, operating procedures, quality procedures, equipment operation, and troubleshooting.   Select Achievements ·              As supervisor of the R&D Engineering Pilot line, we developed manufacturing processes to full productivity prior to releasing new products to manufacturing, and generated over $30M in revenue from pilot line manufactured products. Less than 1% of product has ever been returned from the field for field failures, during my tenure.
Education

·               AASEET: Electrical Engineering – DeVry University - 1996

 

Equipment knowledge

·               Proficient in the use of Tektronix DCA, HP70004A and 70843B 1-12Gb/s Error Performance Analyzer, Agilent 86100A Infinium DCA and 86130A Error Performance Analyzer, JDS HA9 Optical Attenuator, Agilent 86130A Lightwave Multi-meter, Rifocs Fiber optic equipment testers, JDSU mORL system, JDSU RX series optical testers, JDSU MAP200 series optical testers. OptoTest optical test equipment, Seiko Giken 550 Polishing machine, Domaille polishing machines, Norland interferometers, DORC interferometers, FiBO interferometers, Daisi interferometers, Schleuniger; 9500 Power Strip cable cutting machine, Unistrip 7030 and 7035 fiber stripper, Fiber Optic 7010 Kevlar cutter, and crimpers. Proficient in the use of Solid Edge 3D CAD and AutoCAD 2014. Knowledgeable in SolidWorks 3D CAD 2014. Knowledgeable in the use of Microsoft Windows Pro 8.1 operating system and its related Microsoft office software.

 

Languages

 

·               Fluent in Spanish