Asa Roper

About Asa Roper

Leader- Innovation/ Automation/ Optimization Innovative, customer-centered, results-driven, detail-oriented professional with experience in supervisory positions. Verifiable talent for new/existing model design and system operations, with success in capitalizing on growth opportunities and trouble shooting. Experience developing and documenting design requirements, conducting trend/trade studies, developing prototype designs, final design analysis and simulation, integrating prototypes, conducting verification/validation testing, debugging design failures, capital projects, and deploying designs to production.MY FOCUS:Disrupt the traditional thought process and find the right technology, methods, analysis, and services to help my team, the organization, and end users both big and small.1. Facilitating and nurturing open communities within problem solving environment.2. Engaging with interesting content.3. Driving cultural change and improved process implementation.4. Envisioning future trends5. Creating repeatable verifiable simplistic solutions to problems both complex and relatively simple.WHAT GETS ME EXCITED:1. Outside the box thinking.2. Working in cross functional teams.3. Open collaboration- white boarding, piecing things together, team huddle ups, testing hypothesis, and getting my hands dirty.4. Root cause analysis5. Pulling my weight on the team, whether being a role player or superstar.6. Learning something new.7. Machine Learning, Robotics, & Automation.8. Helping my peers. Representing the organization I am a member of with apparel, gear, coffee mugs, or the actual product.TECHNICAL SKILLSMatlab, AutoCAD, Visual Basic, Time Study, Arena, Solid Works, Minitab, PLC programming- G.E. Omron, CATIA, CNC programming, ISO standards, Fanuc Robot programming, Fanuc Robot teaching- Material handling/ spot tool, and HMI screen creation, Safety Controller programming, CarSim, Control Plan planning, Capital Project Planning, Electrical cabinet trouble shooting, Sensor programming, Advanced communication understanding- Bluetooth, Ethernet, Fiber, Superflow/ Wyndyn- Testing, Machine Learning capabilities, GD & T, GMP, Sensors commissioning/ troubleshooting- RF, Bluetooth, vision, wireless, temperature, contact, proximity, and pressure, FMEA, APQP, PFMEA, KANBAN, and LEAN. Process Improvement experience utilizing LEAN, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Agile methodologies, SCRUM and 5 Why’s. Microsoft Office/Teams (Apps development and operation)- Expert. ERG Devops

Experience

1. Technical Program Manager

   Evonik

   Mar 2025 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

Education

• Rutgers University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial and Systems Engineering

  2006 — 2011

Skills

• New Model Launch
• Manufacturing
• Six Sigma
• Research
• Microsoft Office
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Industrial Engineering
• Matlab
• Lean Manufacturing
• Energy
• Process Engineering
• Autocad
• Systems Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Visio
• Troubleshooting
• Sharepoint
• Process Improvement
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
• Project Planning
• Project Management
• Solidworks
• Requirements Analysis
• Program Management
• Data Analysis
• Engineering
• Renewable Energy
• Ms Project