Paul Makowenskyj

A dedicated engineering professional with over 20 years of extensive expertise in the development, manufacturing, and technical support of advanced product technology with a proven track record of leadership, effective teamwork, communication among customers, peers, and management, and the ability to tackle broad and complex situations.Outside of core job role responsibilities, technical knowledge and skills were acquired through intense team collaboration and on-the-job-training (OJT) in the following areas: • Manufacturing Quality Assurance• Diagnostics and Failure Analysis• Functional Product Test Development• Process Characterization• Process Integration• Manufacturing and Engineering My professional passions are in:•Learning and exploiting data analysis tools and algorithms to solve business problems, discover improvement opportunities, and automate standardized solutions.•Embracing the LEAN manufacturing culture and developing a professional toolkit that includes structured problem solving (PDCA), continuously standardizing processes, "Go, Look, See" Gemba walks, 5S, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and training within industry (TWI) methods including Job Instructions (JI) by creating and training others using Job Breakdown Sheets (JBS).•Advocating and training others in the use of social computing to proliferate knowledge sharing and promote global company wide collaboration through the use of online communities, blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, forums, bookmarks, and social events.•Acquiring project management skills to properly plan individual and team projects and communicating succinct status updates tailored to targeted audiences.