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Crystal Woods

Auburn Hills,MI

Summary

Accomplished Senior Reliability Engineer with a proven track record at General Dynamics Land Systems, specializing in failure analysis and data management. Leveraged analytical and critical thinking to enhance component reliability of military vehicles. Excelled in training peers on FMEA and Excel, demonstrating leadership and technical proficiency.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Reliability Engineer

General Dynamics Land Systems
10.2014 - Current
  • Analyzed failures, determine failure modes, and calculated time-to-failure and characteristic life of various components of the Abrams tank.
  • Develop presentations on failure analysis and part consumption to present in U.S. Government meetings.
  • Modeled Abrams tank in BlockSim to investigate O&S Cost of upgraded Abrams tank and presented findings to upper management.
  • Modeled entire Booker vehicle in MADe to identify high risk failure modes.
  • Managed, tracked, and coordinated problem resolution and escalation processes.
  • Developed and managed Access database to store large amounts of data and created interface in Access to allow ease of data cleansing.
  • Lead Incident Report Screening Team by creating problem reports, organizing incoming test data, and submitting Failure Analysis and Corrective Action Reports to the government for Stryker, Abrams, and Booker vehicles.
  • Trained new employees on MADe, Microsoft Excel, and the FMEA process.

Student Teacher

Michigan State University
01.2011 - 05.2013
  • Designed lessons on for students using various teaching methods and modern classroom technologies.
  • Cultivated positive relationships with administration, teaching staff, and students.
  • Developed lesson plans that incorporated mandated topics and included immersive activities for student engagement.
  • Worked with classroom teacher to learn about current standards and best practices.

Research Assistant

Michigan State University Physics Department
01.2010 - 05.2011
  • Worked closely with particle physicists analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to perform statistical analysis on large data sets.
  • Designed and developed webpage in HTML to convey research data graphs.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
05.2013

Skills

  • Black Box Testing
  • Data Management
  • Data Entry
  • Analytical and Critical Thinking
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • FMEA
  • Excel proficiency

Timeline

Senior Reliability Engineer

General Dynamics Land Systems
10.2014 - Current

Student Teacher

Michigan State University
01.2011 - 05.2013

Research Assistant

Michigan State University Physics Department
01.2010 - 05.2011

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Michigan State University
Crystal Woods