Christopher Smith
Director, Service Engineering at Plug Power
- Role
- Director, Service Engineering at Plug Power
- Location
- Albany, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Christopher Smith
Technology leader with over 25 years of domestic and international experience in reliability engineering, systems engineering, technology development, quality management, product safety and compliance, design verification/validation and operations. Proven record of managing technology development programs as a “player-coach” across organizational boundaries and with customers to define and achieve product performance, reliability and cost objectives. Career highlights include: ExPat Reliability and Quality Engineering Leader at high-growth European automotive business; Engineering Role Model award at Plug Power; Master Black Belt (MBB) and Principal Engineer at GE.Professional Interests include:+ Developing reliable, commercially ready products.+ Sustainability+ Systems Engineering+ Quality and Reliability Engineering+ Technology Development + Startups+ Learning OrganizationsSpecialties:+ System Reliability & Service Cost Modeling / Improvement+ New Technology & New Product Development Process+ Engineering Leadership+ Integrated Development & Reliability Growth Testing+ Life-Data Analysis (e.g, Weibull, Lognormal, etc)+ Corrective & Preventive Maintenance Optimization / RCM+ Robust Design+ System Development, Verification & Commissioning+ FMEA / FMECA+ 8D Problem Solving+ Failure Analysis + Failure Reporting, Analysis & Corrective Action Systems+ Six-Sigma+ Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)+ Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)+ Software (BlockSim, Weibull++, RGA, XFRACAS)
Experience
Director, Service Engineering
Sep 2020 — Present · US
Education
University at Buffalo
BS, Systems & Industrial Engineering
1988
University of Arizona
Master of Engineering, Reliability & Quality Engineering
2009
Alfred State College - SUNY College of Technology
Engineering Science
1986
Skills
- Quality System
- Quality Assurance
- Systems Engineering
- Reliability
- 8d Problem Solving
- Product Development
- Analysis
- Management
- Business Development
- Fmea
- Reliability Engineering
- Weibull Analysis
- Program Management
- Apqp
- Leadership
- Data Analysis
- Six Sigma
- Failure Analysis
- R&D
- Root Cause Analysis
- Engineering Management
- Engineering
- Renewable Energy
- Fmeca
- Design of Experiments
- Manufacturing
- Lean Manufacturing
- Testing
- Process Engineering
- Continuous Improvement
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
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