Matthew Wright
Camas,WA
Summary
Compelled to originate ideas and engage teams to improve production and create new products. Highly technical and analytical in approach, extensive experience in concept formulation through R&D (establishing process) and commercialization.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Production Manager
VIGOR
01.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: Diversified industrial manufacturing for Aerospace and Defense, Energy and Infrastructure, and the Maritime Industry
- Oversight of various manufacturing operations at three locations, four separate teams (45 employees) and multiple processes
- Business development, marketing, sales, and developed business partnerships
- Responsible for Profit and Loss (P&L)
- Estimating (quoting), coordinating estimates into work plans (production planning), oversight of production process and schedules, earned value (EVMS)
- Price negotiation with customers and suppliers
- Instituted lean management approach, planning, and value stream management (VSM)
- Responsible for managing the production processes, ensuring that all products are manufactured to meet customer specifications, quality standards, and production schedules
- Lead teams of production employees, including training, scheduling, and performance evaluations
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that production schedules were met, and products were delivered on time while meeting customer specifications and quality standards
- Monitor and control manufacturing costs to ensure profitability
- Planning and execution of Capital Expenditure projects
- Maintenance and repair of equipment and ensuring production facility is maintained, clean and organized
- Troubleshooting production issues and implementing corrective actions as needed
- Continuously improving production processes to increase efficiency and reduce waste
- Ensuring all safety, environmental and federal regulations were met
Project Manager
GoProto, Inc.
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Company Overview: Prototypes to large-scale production runs,3D printing services to traditional manufacturing of components using CNC, sheet metal, cast urethanes, injection molding and compression molding
- Partnered with business development managers and customers to develop new projects
- Primary point of contact for overseas resources, material procurement, developing and implementing activities to meet budget, profitability, and quality objectives to generate bids to customers
- Drove project completion from initiation through delivery to meet revenue and cost projections by closely planning and managing contracted scopes and quality flow downs, including oversight of shop production, technical specifications, determining critical methods and procedures on new assignments and coordinated activities of other personnel
- Determined critical methods and procedures on new assignments and coordinated activities of other personnel
- Oversight on shop production, technical specifications, delivery to customers and follow up
- Communicated and managed expectations and goals across departments; mediating issues and conflicting priorities between shop production and customer expectations
Consultant
Self-Employed
01.2018 - 01.2021
- Company Overview: Advanced technical development projects relating to chemistry and materials science engineering
- Functional coatings for improved renewable energy storage, ortho-para conversion. NASA.
- Additively manufactured components using direct metal laser sintering. AGILE Space Industries.
- Design, manufacture, and assembly of additively manufactured satellite propulsion system. AGILE Space Industries.
- Jet-vane thrust vector control system (solid rocket motor) including design, manufacturing, and test support. Exo-Atmospheric Technologies, LLC.
- NASA funded Mars Micro Orbiter (cubesat) propulsion system design and fabrication. Stellar Exploration, Inc.
Senior Program Manager
Ultramet
01.2003 - 01.2017
- Company Overview: Applications included propulsion systems (ignition, combustion chambers, injectors, and solid rocket motor jet vanes), turbine blades, catalysts, capacitors, functional coatings, nuclear fusion power plant components, shipboard systems, heat sinks and heat exchangers
- Planned, organized, and managed technical, material, schedule, and financial resources on more than20 projects
- Interfaced with customers and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities; developed goals, metrics, and project approach; prepared bids/proposals for commercial and government solicitations; provided technical guidance to management for quoting production and project costs
- Technical review presentations w/ management, customers, and government agencies
- Directed the work of technicians, machinists, metallurgical lab, quality assurance and front office staff
- Developed R&D and manufacturing procedures, process development, implementation and on-going improvements
- Process and procedure troubleshooting and optimization, and process improvement for component fabrication
- Built and evaluated prototypes using a wide range of materials including metals, ceramics, and composites
- Presented at technical conferences with several publications in chemical and engineering areas
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA01.2035
Skills
- Operations Oversight, Management and Efficiency
- Production Management
- Business Development
- New Product Design & Development
- Quality Management, Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Financial Management and Cost Control
- Leading and Developing Teams
- Change-Management
- Research and Development
- Manufacturing and Fabrication
- Consulting
- Technical Analysis
- Risk Management and Compliance
- Innovative Solutions
- Prime contractor and government agency funded projects
Awards
Awarded >20 federally funded contracts, many industrially funded projects. References available upon request.
Publications
- “Lightweight, Ultra-High-Temperature, CMC-Lined Carbon/Carbon Structures,” NASA Tech Briefs, February2011.
- “Green Monopropellant Secondary Payload Propulsion System,” NASA Tech Briefs, May2017.
Citizenship
United States citizen. Program management on export-controlled and ITAR-restricted programs.
Technical Proposals
- Authored >50 technical proposals to various government agencies including NASA, Air Force, Navy, Missile Defense Agency, Army, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Space Force, and Department of Energy.
- Synthetic fibers, graphite foam, catalysts, capacitors, batteries, rocket engines, jet vane control systems, hypersonic leading edges, heat sinks, heat exchangers, nuclear fusion materials, armor, carbon/carbon, CMCs, MMCs.
Patents
J.R. Babcock, A.J. Fortini, and M.J. Wright, "Self-Adjusting Propellant Decomposition Catalyst," United States Patent Application20080064913, Publication date: March13,2008
Government Reports
- M.J. Wright and A.J. Fortini, “Catalytic Ignition System for Advanced Boost-Phase Intercept Applications,” Final Report (ULTRA-TR-04-3859), Contract F04611-03-M-3006, Ultramet for Air Force Research Laboratory/Propulsion Directorate-West, Edwards AFB, CA, February2004.
- A.J. Fortini and M.J. Wright, “High Surface Area, High-Capacitance Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitor (EDLC) Electrodes, Phase II,” Final Report (ULTRA-TR-05-7995), Grant DMI-9661076, Ultramet for National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, March2005.
Timeline
Production Manager
VIGOR
01.2023 - Current
Project Manager
GoProto, Inc.
01.2021 - 01.2022
Consultant
Self-Employed
01.2018 - 01.2021
Senior Program Manager
Ultramet
01.2003 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Western Washington University
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