Zak Dolan

About Zak Dolan

Over 15 years engineering management and manufacturing operations in Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Semiconductor, HVAC, and Communications industries. Extensive experience with assembly, electronics, machine shop, paint, packaging, wire and cable, labeling, and metal fabrication. Broad range of skills including production relocation, training international teams, cost reduction, and quality improvements. Adept at redesigning production layouts, organizing material and information flow, and making design improvements to launch new products through phase-gate process. Innovator skilled at handling customer and supplier relations to resolve recurring problems through data analysis and testing of product and process improvements.Continuous ImprovementNew Product IntroductionManufacturing OperationsProduction RelocationWorkflow DesignCustomer CollaborationSupply Chain Management

Experience

1. Senior Advanced Electrical Engineer

   Honeywell Technologies

   Jan 2022 — Present · Kansas City, MO, US

   Led efforts to create and implement a management operating system (MOS) for nonconformance reports (NCR). Set up a system of data imports, rolled out to the product realization team (PRT) tier meeting. Drove accountability, bringing average days open for NCRs from 114 to 43 for the circuit board, from 87 to 17 for the controller assembly, and from 39 to 15 for the electronics assembly, saving $138.9k. Initiated updates to the X-ray CT scan of circuit boards, increased components verified from 12 to 33 per board, expanded scope of examination, enabled real-time stencil improvements, improved initial verification (IV) first pass yield (FPY) from 72.6% to 97.7% and parts manufactured trouble free (PMTF) from 3.1% to 29.4%, saving $542.7k. Improved secondary packaging and reduced inspection sample size for connector, saving $64.6k in scrap and $12.9k in labor. Resolved inductor cracking issues affecting 10% of product by running trials, creating, and updating documents, negotiating with the design agency (DA), coordinating with advanced manufacturing engineers (AMEs), eliminating the need to inspect, saving $25.4k. Analyzed 108 tests for design for six sigma (DFSS) Green Belt project, performing statistical analysis of capabilities, recommending changes to 6 test IDs for a savings of $41k. Utilized DFSS skills for another department to analyze 1,307 test IDs across six different products, recommending changes to test limits for 42 of them. Analyzed 431 non-conforming reports (NCRs) to assess impact. Saved $142.5k. Worked with integrated supply chain (ISC) to overcome obstacles to ongoing production, resulting in an increase from 10.5 units/month to 18.4 units/month. Set life of program records for sales in May 2023 of 37 printed wire assemblies (PWA) and 20 electronic assemblies (EA). Increased quarterly score for parts manufactured trouble free (PMTF) from 3.1% to 29.4% in six months Created training for presentation skills for new engineers

Education

• University of Michigan

  Japanese Language and Literature

  2004 — 2004

• Rolla High School

  Diploma, college prep

  1985 — 1987

• Missouri University of Science and Technology

  BS, Electrical Engineering

  1987 — 1992

• Stanford University

  MS, Manufacturing Systems Engineering

  1994 — 1996

Skills

• Design for Manufacturing
• Manufacturing Operations
• Process Engineering
• Six Sigma
• Spc
• Fmea
• Ppap
• Continuous Improvement
• Quality Management
• Automation
• Iso
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Product Development
• Toyota Production System
• 5s
• Manufacturing Operations Management
• Engineering
• Value Stream Mapping
• Quality System
• Process Improvement
• Dmaic
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Electronics
• Industrial Engineering
• Engineering Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Kaizen
• Kanban
• Systems Engineering
• Apqp
• Lean Manufacturing
• Automotive
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership