Francisco Moreno
Troy,MI
Summary
Accomplished engineer with a proven track record at APTIV LLC, enhancing terminal performance by 0.4 IPTV and accelerating warranty claim analysis by 50%. Expert in CAD drawing and harness print interpretation, alongside a mastery in facilitating cross-functional team meetings. Renowned for deploying lean manufacturing techniques and driving significant quality improvements in automotive engineering. Dependable individual boasting a background working with electrical systems and following all instructions from the supervisor. A bilingual Groundman lifting heavy items, working indoors and outdoors in all sorts of weather conditions and assisting crews.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
High Voltage Wiring DRE
Bollinger Motors
Oak Park, Michigan
04.2024 - Current
- Design Release Engineer (DRE) for the high-voltage electrical system on B4 and B5 vehicles.
- This role implies working with the electrical engineering team to specify, document, design, and validate the power electronics, high-voltage electrical distribution, and power management systems.
- Determine the automotive specifications required to be used in Class B4 (Medium Duty) commercial trucks (IPC requirements, USCAR 2, 17, 18, 21, 23, 38, 44, 45, ISO 6722, JASO D623, LV 214-2).
- Connector and terminal selection related to module requirements (ICDs).
- Cable selection related to module requirements (ICDs and EDS architecture).
- Solve DV testing design issues, generate change requests, and implement these solutions.
- Generate temporal design deviation in PLEX.
- Complete Supplier First Production Piece Audit Sign-off.
- Create, approve, and publish CAPITAL 2D drawing.
- Work with suppliers to ensure that component specifications, and timing expectations, are met.
- Design, build, and use test bench setups for system testing and validation.
- Create and release DFMEA, and review the supplier’s PFMEA.
Sr Warranty Engineer
APTIV LLC
Troy, Michigan
01.2021 - 12.2023
- Focused on parts/product safety and warranty for the final customer
- Carried out root cause analysis and resolution
- Concentrated on quality of product to ensure warranty targets are met and minimized
- Ran daily reports and uploaded weekly database
- Reduced preparation time from 3 months to 3 weeks by improving look-up table through pioneering database automation for compilation process for all vehicle components
- Eliminated manual data gathering
- Led Product Design team to implement a terminal design change that improve terminal damaged performance in about 0.4 IPTV contributing in achieve GM Warranty goal of 16.3 IPTV in 2023
- Increased speed by 50% for the warranty claim analysis in less than 30 days
- Analyzed over 4000 claims in 2023
Design Resident Engineer
LS AUTOMOTIVE
Troy, Michigan
01.2017 - 12.2021
- Resident Engineer interfacing with the Customer (OEM) during product development and mass production phases of program to ensure customer requirements are met
- Single point of contact with OEM on engineering, purchasing and warranty claim tasks
- Facilitated Product Design Technical (PDT) meetings
- Technical Support to Design Release Engineering: BMB/ BCR’S (Build Modification Build of Material / Build Change Request), BSD’s (Build Sketch Design)
- Mechanical and Electrical Engineering advise on SDIT Meetings (Technical Studio Design): Support GD&T to determine flatness, profile from surface, symmetry, Parallelism, etc., including stack-up analysis or tolerance analysis and required draft angles
- Review, modify, approved and upload to Team Center the 2D Drawing & 3D Modeling (CAD & CATIA)
Resident Engineer
BARTECH GROUP
01.2014 - 12.2017
- Shared in vehicle production planning, wiring harness design fit and function confirmation, and reporting product design issues to the Design Release Engineer based on 2D (CAD) wiring harness drawings
- Reported vehicle warranty claims at Prototype and Pre-production stage
Application Engineer
DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS
01.2009 - 12.2014
- Selected components based on engineering calculations, while ensuring compliance with regulations and customer requirements
- Used customer input to implement complex power and signal applications utilizing circuitry schematics and USCAR 21 requirements
Multiple Roles
Delphi Packard Electric
01.1991 - 12.2009
- Held several notable positions within tenure increasing skillset and experience across various domains broadening the scope of engineering and deepening the knowledge base, positioning me as a subject matter expert in the field of automotive engineering
- Process Engineering: Cut Lead Full Process – Industrial Engineer
- Material’s group: Material Engineering Change Coordinator
- Purchased Components Procurement Scheduler
- In house Components Material Expeditor
- Material Expeditor Technician
Education
BS - Industrial Eng
Universidad Valle de México
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, MexicoSkills
- Fully Bilingual (Spanish/English)
- Meeting Facilitator
- Program Management
- Component Drawing and Harness Print Interpretation (CAD Drawing)
- 3D Modeling review (CATIA V6)
- GD&T Proficient
- Hands on to teardown Mechanical components
- APQP
- PPAP
- DFMEA
- PFMEA
- Personnel Management
- Lean Manufacturing Techniques (Value Stream, Single Price Flow, 5s, SMED, Kanban, JIT production, TPM, Line Bal)
- Windows proficient (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Teams, Outlook, OneNote, Power Bi)
- Capital Modules: Device Moduler, Project Manager, Component Manager, Logic Designer, Harness Designer, Wiring Integrator
- 3DX (Change Mgmt, Issue Mgmt, Product Explorer, 3D Navigate, 3D Markup, Classification)
- PLEX
- JAMA
- Cp
- Cpk
- Pp & Ppk
- KAIZEN Deployment
- Time and Motion Study
- Trouble shooting & root cause analysis
- Six Sigma Green Belt certified (DFSS)
- Risk Assessment
- Warehousing & Database Maintenance
- Procuring Raw Material
- Analyst, Programmer, Team, Center
- Power distribution systems
- Electrical troubleshooting
Languages
English
Professional
Spanish
Full Professional
Knight of Columbus
- Membership Director of KofC.
- Honor Lecturer.
St Damien of Molokai Parish Choir member
- Choir, guitar player, and singer
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
High Voltage Wiring DRE
Bollinger Motors
04.2024 - Current
Sr Warranty Engineer
APTIV LLC
01.2021 - 12.2023
Design Resident Engineer
LS AUTOMOTIVE
01.2017 - 12.2021
Resident Engineer
BARTECH GROUP
01.2014 - 12.2017
Application Engineer
DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS
01.2009 - 12.2014
Multiple Roles
Delphi Packard Electric
01.1991 - 12.2009
BS - Industrial Eng
Universidad Valle de México
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