1. STEVE MAJORS
3471 West 101st
Place Home Phone: (303) 460-1927
Westminster, Colorado 80031 E-mail stevemajors@yahoo.com
SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Experienced in process/product design, plant layout, product and cost management, labor standards
development and methods analysis. Proven ability to improve efficiencies, yields and reduce costs.
Proficient in transferring and supporting product/manufacturing at offshore manufacturing locations.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Spectralink Incorporated, Boulder, Colorado 2013 - Present
Manager, Manufacturing and Test Engineering – Enterprise Wireless Phones
• Provided leadership of the operations group professional staff consisting of Document control,
Project Management, Manufacturing Engineering and Test Engineering.
• Monitored the team’s support of day-to-day production through process monitoring, requesting
follow up and troubleshooting for production issues at three contract manufacturing sites located in
China, Thailand, and US.
• Identified, planned and implemented manufacturing projects according to return on investment,
focusing on elements contributing to yield loss and reducing scrap costs.
• Assured that all production and test processes were robust and are fully documented.
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer 2010 - 2012
• Determined root cause of quality problems and drove design and process improvements to enhance
existing product performance and quality.
• Coordinated quality improvements with suppliers based on internal quality inspection requirements.
• Developed and documented assembly processes for production of products built at offshore contract
manufacturing locations and trained contract manufacturers on processes and procedures.
• Created, reviewed and approved Bills of Materials using Agile document control.
JDS Uniphase / Picolight Incorporated, Louisville, Colorado 2000 – 2009
Sr Manufacturing Engineer – Optical/Electronic Components
• Technical lead for support of offshore contract manufacturing of high volume (100K/month)
optical/electrical components, providing guidance for manufacturing and quality issues.
• Responsible for in-house manufacturing and test of prototype optical components for customer
samples and engineering development
• Supported Product Management for introduction of new designs to meet customer requests,
developing Bills of Materials and test requirements.
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer – Optical Transceivers
• Reviewed device test performance and failure analysis data for process improvements within JDSU
and contract manufacturers and recommended corrective actions.
• Responsible for quick-turn sample and prototype transceivers to meet on time delivery requirements
to customers.
• Created and reviewed Bill of Materials, in Agile and Matrix, for accuracy to ensure components meet
performance requirements.
2. Artesyn Technologies, Broomfield, Colorado
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer – Power supplies 1995 – 2000
• Set up wave solder process, utilizing designed experiments (DOE) to optimize parameter settings,
creating one profile reducing changeover times.
• Trained production personnel on PCBA inspection requirements based on IPC-610 class 2
requirements.
• Developed plant layout, incorporating lean manufacturing concepts, to reduce work in process and
improve product quality.
• Co-developed LabView based vision system for inspection of hand soldered assemblies to ensure
100% soldered leads.
Kimball Electronics, Jasper, Indiana
Manufacturing/Process Engineer – Network card Assemblies 1993 - 1995
• Lead engineer responsible for manufacturing processes, quality requirements based on IPC standards,
and line balancing for high volume electronics assembly (100K units/month).
• Developed plant layouts to improve efficiencies by reducing the manpower required and reduction of
work in-process. Created spreadsheet models to perform capacity analysis and determine capital
equipment requirements.
• Coordinated the college internship program for Industrial Engineering students, providing a hands on
approach to basic engineering functions and problem analysis.
• Assisted quoting department in development of labor estimates for new business proposals and work
orders resulting in accurate and timely costing of products.
Lockheed Martin, Denver, Colorado 1986 - 1993
Manufacturing Engineer – Aerospace electronics (1990 -
1993)
• Justified, specified and implemented SMT equipment for the production space flight hardware.
• Coordinated software interfaces for downloading CAD data to SMT placement equipment.
• Developed processes and procedures for stencil printer and placement equipment.
• Applied statistical process control and design of experiment concepts to the implementation of new
production equipment which resulted in first pass yields of 99.89 percent.
Industrial Engineer - Electronics Manufacturing (1989 -
1990)
• Lead Engineer responsible for manufacturing budget allocation, time standard application,
performance reporting and manpower planning.
• Performed feasibility studies and methods analysis for reduction of production costs. Results of
investigation included new tool designs, and simplified production methods.
Industrial Engineer - Machine Shop/Sheet Metal (1986 - 1989)
• Developed time standards using a predetermined time system for sheet metal and machine shop
processes to measure job performance and develop capacity planning models.
• Created spreadsheets for labor reporting to track program costs to allocated budgets.
• Analyzed cost variances resulting from manufacturing problems to resolve discrepancies between
budgeted and actual costs.
Education: B.S.: Industrial Technology/Management
