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Eddie Zamora

Lompoc,CA

Summary

I am a passionate, high-energy worker with a positive attitude. I am a dedicated team player who also excels at working independently.

I enjoy listening to and learning from others, as well as sharing my own knowledge.

I maintain a 'first one in, last one out' mentality. Backed by a reputation for reliability and sharp attention to detail. As a hardworking job seeker with strong organizational skills

I bring a diverse skill set and specialized experience from the Biotechnology, Aerospace, and Pharmaceutical Industries. My hybrid knowledge allows me to successfully manage multiple responsibilities across various technical roles.

Work History

Manufacturing Technician/Manufacturing Production Associate

Apeel Sciences Biotechnology Research
71 S Los Carneros Rd, Goleta, CA 93117
2019 - 2023

Laboratories, Clean Rooms & cGMP Specialist

  • Regulatory & Quality: Familiarity with FDA regulations, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and documentation cGMP-regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing in Laboratories and Clean Rooms.
  • Laboratories and Clean Rooms Operations Cleaning and Sterilization: Laboratory and Clean Room Performing meticulous cleaning of surfaces, equipment, and test tools using Microbiology-testing-monitoring-equipment, Hygiene System Sure Plus ATP Machine, Test Tube Brushes and other approved materials.
  • Laboratories and Clean Rooms Operations Cleaning and Sterilization: Recorded comprehensive data for all active tests, entering entry test results into the tracking systems with 100% data integrity.
  • Laboratory Functions: Contamination Control: Adhering to strict Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure particle and microbial levels meet certification standards.
  • Laboratory Functions: Environmental Monitoring Operating and monitoring environmental control systems (HEPA filters, laminar flow benches control cold temperatures) to maintain specific temperature and humidity levels.

Lead Production Operator / Shift Lead

  • Lead Production Operator: Lead Coordinated daily production and Analyzed shift production data runs a daily shift of machine operators and assembly technicians, communicate with team aligning daily workloads with production schedules.
  • Onboarded and cross-trained: Mentored new hires on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and machine operation, boosting overall team flexibility.
  • Managed shift handovers and daily stand-up meetings to communicate production targets, material shortages, and safety priorities.
  • Documentation: Prepared reports and technical documentation of day-to-day production processes.
  • Setting Up Equipments: Organized and prepared workstations and materials needed for operations.
  • Calibrate: Calibrate,Test, and adjusted machine settings or controls in preparation for production operations.
  • Production & Formulation: Operated laboratory and cleanroom equipment by utilizing precision scaling tools and mixing equipment, scale, and manufacture plant-derived products according to strict specifications.
  • Quality Assurance: Testing batches to ensure consistency, purity, and effectiveness before the product is shipped to agricultural suppliers.
  • Executed physical preparations: Sterile conditions across laboratory and cleanroom environments. Loaded raw materials into machines and unloaded finished products to keep manufacturing process running smoothly.
  • Maintaining a clean environment: Maintain clean workspaces that complied with 5S standards for optimal organization, efficiency, and productivity within the facility.
  • Ensured 100% compliance with emergency readiness protocols by keeping critical evacuation pathways and safety equipment unobstructed.
  • Troubleshooting Problem Solving: Investigated processing errors and malfunctions, resolving issues with minor machine repairs.
  • Troubleshooting Problem Solving: Used problem-solving and issue-resolution skills to promptly troubleshooting efforts when problems arose during the manufacturing process in order to minimize disruptions to production schedules.
  • Inspected: Final products to assess compliance with quality standards and established tolerances.
  • Document: Production information via daily system logs and discussed issues with management.
  • Equipment Maintenance: Operating and maintaining manufacturing, packaging, and facility equipment while following strict safety guidelines.
  • Supply Chain: Assisting with packaging,shipping, and logistics.

Electro-Mechanical and Mechanical Assembler

  • Equipment Tools : Worked with heavy machinery, Utilized various tools such as calipers, micrometers, or gauges for precise measurements during the machine assembly and mechanic assembly process to ensure consistent product quality.
  • Equipment Built : Built machines interpreted assembly following engineering blueprints and specifications.
  • Troubleshooting & Debugging: Checked machines for proper output and functionality, fixing mechanical issues.
  • Diagnosed Mechanical/Electro-Mechanical Issues: Performed component-level troubleshooting. Identified root cause of failure.
  • Assembled and routed complex cable harnesses and wiring assemblies for industrial machinery according to engineering drawings and schematics.
  • Performed precise cable terminations (crimping, soldering, and pin insertion) ensuring secure electrical and mechanical connections.
  • Assembled and routed: Soldered the main cables to the mother board ensuring reliable electronic connections for mechanical assemblies.
  • Assembled and routed: Performed micro-soldering troubleshooting and repairing faulty electrical of the main cable connections.
  • Conducted continuity, resistance, and voltage tests on all cable connections to verify signal integrity and prevent equipment malfunctions
  • Maintained Clean Assemblies: Cleaned, lubricated and adjusted parts and components, keeping parts fully functional and clean.
  • Maintained Clean Work Station: Keeping a neat,clean work area, clearing debris, organizing parts and keeping spaces open and organized.
  • Logistics Frame & Construction : Built heavy-duty crates adhering to strict dimensional specifications. protective devices such as bracing, padding, or strapping to prevent shifting or damage fragile machinery for international transit.

Test Technician

  • Executing Diagnostic Tests: Set up and tested monitors and calculators and recorded test data per engineering and quality specifications.
  • Executing Diagnostic Tests: Tested products or subassemblies for functionality or quality and troubleshot problems with equipment, devices, or products.
  • On Hands Test: Tested electrical wiring, pumps and other components in engines for proper functionality.
  • Executing Diagnostic Tests: Developed and implemented test procedures, enhancing efficiency in product evaluations.
  • Executing Diagnostic Tests: Running standardized tests on electronic, mechanical, biotechnology products or software systems to evaluate performance and durability and to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.
  • Troubleshooting & Debugging: Identifying the root cause of product malfunctions, taking defective units apart, and helping repair or recalibrate them.
  • Documentation & Reporting: Meticulously recording test data and generating reports to alert design engineers and management of any potential failures.
  • Setting Up Equipment: Configuring testing environments and building testing fixtures or harnesses to ensure products meet required safety standards.
  • Problem Solving: Collaborated with engineers to develop innovative solutions to troubleshoot testing equipment and resolve technical issues for complex mechanical challenges that arose during assembly processes.

Quality Assurance (QA)/ Quality Inspector (QI)

  • Testing and Inspection: Conducted comprehensive quality inspections on biotechnology products to ensure compliance with industry standards.
  • Testing and Inspection: Conducting hands-on physical, chemical, or functional tests on raw materials and finished products using precision measuring instruments.
  • Testing and Inspection: Improved product quality by conducting thorough inspections and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Testing and Inspection: Completed precise measurements using special tools.
  • Testing and Inspection: Inspected incoming and outgoing materials for accuracy and quality.
  • Documentation: Logging inspection outcomes, monitoring defects, and maintaining accurate records to support continuous improvement.
  • Compliance: Ensuring all products adhere to legal regulations and internal corporate specifications.
  • Calibration: Performing routine maintenance and calibration on testing equipment to ensure accuracy and reliability.
  • Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Actively participated in regular review meetings with management, sharing insights on quality trends and proposing solutions for improvement.

Quality Control (QC)

  • Inspect Incoming Raw Materials: in-process items, and finished goods using visual checks and precision tools
  • Product Testing: Inspect incoming raw materials, in-process items, and finished goods using visual checks and precision tools.
  • Defect Identification: Stop production or reject batches that fail to meet strict company guidelines or industry standards.
  • Compliance: Enforce safety protocols, regulatory mandates, and quality assurance guidelines across the assembly floor.
  • Documentation: Record test results, log discrepancies, and generate Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) for management.
  • Equipment Maintenance: Ensure testing and measuring instruments are accurately calibrated and operating properly

RMA Specialist

  • Documentation: Documented findings in ERP/CRM systems. Maintained accurate RMA logs. Managed inventory tracking for repaired items.
    RMA's Inspected returned machinery for failure.
  • Documentation: Maintaining accurate records in inventory systems and databases (like Salesforce) to track assets and monitor return trends
  • Logistics & Triage: Tracking incoming shipments, evaluating returned items for defects, and routing them for repair or replacement.
  • Communication: Acting as the primary liaison between warehouse teams.

Logistics, Inventory Control & Warehouse Operations

  • Maintained Inventory: Highly accurate inventory records by executing daily physical inventory counts and maintain accuracy log records.
  • Performed data entry and completed proper paperwork.
  • Analyzed inventory data to identify trends, optimizing stock levels and reducing excess inventory costs.
  • Led initiatives to improve forecasting accuracy, resulting in better alignment between supply and demand expectations.
  • Audited and corrected discrepancies in inventory numbers.
  • Verified incoming products and checked delivery totals to keep system records current and accurate.
  • Worked with Managers and team members to understand supply needs and bring levels within desired tolerances in the forecast.
  • Inspected and verified: 100% of orders against shipping documents prior to packaging to ensure absolute quality assurance and order accuracy.
  • Streamlined shipping workflows: By expertly packing, securing, labeling, and applying exact postage to materials for on-time distribution.
  • Utilized Warehouse Management Systems (WMS): To input, update, and track critical logistics data with zero input errors.
  • Proactively monitored stock: Levels to ensure optimal supply chain continuity, preventing stockouts and meeting all customer demands.
  • Processed incoming shipments: By receiving, inspecting, and documenting cargo to strictly enforce quality control standards.
  • Executed: routine cycle counts and inventory audits to maintain data integrity, optimize workflow, and ensure audit readiness.
  • Operated: material handling equipment To safely load, unload, and transport materials between storage, production, and shipping bays.

Material Handler/ Inventory Control

Bruker Nano Surfaces- Atomic Forces Microscopes
Goleta, CA
2019 - 2019

Material Handler, Inventory Control Specialist

  • Reconciled inventory discrepancies: By systematically auditing electronic system records against physical, on-hand stock quantities.
  • Managed and maintained: Highly accurate inventory records by executing daily tracking, auditing stock levels, and reducing variances.
  • Monitored inventory levels using ERP systems to ensure product availability and reduce stock discrepancies.
  • Implemented cycle counting: Procedures to maintain accurate inventory records and enhance operational efficiency.
  • Improve forecasting accuracy: Resulting in better alignment between supply and demand expectations.
  • Worked effectively with shippers: To resolve shipment issues, damaged materials and shortages.
  • Optimized warehouse organization: Regularly validating product locations, instantly resolving tracking errors, and minimizing lost stock.
  • Enforced quality control: Identifying damaged or missing products during cycle counts and executing immediate corrective actions.
  • Leveraged RF scanners: Digital databases to log real-time item movements, ensuring 100% data integrity and traceability.
  • Controlled replenishment cycles: Align stock levels with active production demands and eliminate operational bottlenecks.
  • Upheld strict safety standards: Maintaining a pristine, organized, and compliant warehouse environment.

Material Handler/Shipping and Receiving Clerk

ODU-USA Inc.
Camarillo, CA
2014 - 2016

Material Handler, Logistics & Inventory Control Specialist

  • Spearheaded automotive logistics (Tesla projects) by taking a leadership role to align team performance with management expectations and project deadlines.
  • Coordinated high-volume material handling workflows, pulling and organizing parts to guarantee 100% on-time delivery to production lines.
  • Executed inventory systems, drastically reducing overstock costs while maintaining optimal stock levels to prevent production downtime.
  • Helping with shipping and receiving platforms: Navigating FedEx and UPS shipping systems to process, track, and verify incoming and outgoing cargo.
  • Operated heavy material handling equipment: Including forklifts and pallet jacks, to safely and efficiently transport large-scale products across the facility.
  • Enforced strict quality control protocols: Inspecting incoming shipments for damage, calculating weights/dimensions, and verifying cargo accuracy.
  • Championed OSHA safety compliance: By performing routine equipment checks, conducting hazard assessments, and identifying potential workspace risks or spills.
  • Directed weekly inventory audits and cycle counts: Utilizing RF scanners and physical logs to instantly resolve record discrepancies.

Clean Room Technician and Shipping and Receiving

Meissner Filtration Product Inc.
Camarillo, CA
2007 - 2012

Clean Room, Laboratory Technician, Inventory Control Specialist and Shipping and Receiving

  • Enforced strict compliance with FDA regulations, cGMP

guidelines, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) within highly regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing laboratories and clean rooms.

  • Contamination control: Equipment sanitation, executing meticulous cleaning techniques including bio-hazard material removal, chemical disinfection, and sterilization of equipment.
  • Assembled and tested filtration systems: According to exact engineering specifications, utilizing pneumatic and hand tools while performing critical quality control inspections.
  • Conducted electrical and performance diagnostics: On filtration products, repairing test equipment to optimize reliability, minimize operational downtime, and collaborate on engineering redesigns.
  • Mentored and trained junior technicians: New team members on cleanrooms, labatories protocols, shipping/receiving workflows, and operational safety best practices.
  • Optimized JIT inventory and supply chains, coordinating inbound/outbound shipments using FedEx and UPS platforms while slashing overstock costs and preventing line stockouts.
  • Documentation: Reducing administrative errors across high-volume paperwork, equipment logs, invoices, and shipping records.
  • Executed incoming inspection checks: Assessing shipments for damages, calculating exact freight dimensions/weights, and resolving invoicing discrepancies.
  • Maximized warehouse space utilization: By strategically reorganizing storage zones according to product dimensions and turnover rates.
  • Executed precision quality assurance checks: Leveraging RF scanners, label application equipment, and physical audits to eliminate packaging errors and inspect incoming goods for damages.
  • Managed corporate shipping platforms, expertly navigating FedEx and UPS software to process, track, and verify heavy inbound and outbound volumes.
  • Reconciled database errors by systematically auditing electronic inventory records against physical, on-hand counts using handheld RF scanners.
  • Upheld uncompromising safety environments: Through proactive OSHA hazard assessments, routine material handling equipment checks, and rapid response to workspace spills.

Education

High School Diploma -

Channel Island High School
Oxnard, CA
01.2004

Skills

  • Experience in SAP, Teams, Oracle and various other corporate software applications
  • cGMP & FDA Compliance Guidelines
  • SOP & Safety Training
  • Sanitization & Sterilization (SOPs)
  • Chemical Safety & SDS Literacy
  • Microsoft Word professor
  • Microsoft Office Excel
  • Microsoft Office One Note
  • Microsoft Office Power Point
  • Hand Tools & Power Tools (15 years experience)
  • Lead Production Operator (8 years experience)
  • Electro-Mechanical Assembler (8 years experience)
  • Test Technician (8 years experience)
  • Manufacturing Technician (8 years experience)
  • Production Control Specialist (8 years experience)
  • Inventory Control Specialist (8 years experience)
  • Quality Assurance (QA) (3 years experience)
  • Quality Inspector (QI) (3 years experience)
  • Quality Control (QC) (3 years experience)
  • Soldering- Entry Level (1 years experience)
  • Material Handler (2 years experience)
  • Electric Pallet Jack (2 years experience)

Languages

English and Spanish

Timeline

Manufacturing Technician/Manufacturing Production Associate

Apeel Sciences Biotechnology Research
2019 - 2023

Material Handler/ Inventory Control

Bruker Nano Surfaces- Atomic Forces Microscopes
2019 - 2019

Material Handler/Shipping and Receiving Clerk

ODU-USA Inc.
2014 - 2016

Clean Room Technician and Shipping and Receiving

Meissner Filtration Product Inc.
2007 - 2012

High School Diploma -

Channel Island High School