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Every project below has a real before/after metric attached. Click any card for the full project — challenge, approach, technology stack, results, and business value.

PRJ-01Oct 2024 — May 2026

DriveWorks Product Automation

CAD Automation · Logic-Driven Design

Challenge: Engineers were re-drawing the same families of fixtures order after order. Average shop drawing took 1.3 hours of skilled CAD time per product, throttling submittal lead times on high-mix orders.
Outcome: Shop-drawing creation collapsed from a skilled bottleneck to a near-instant generated artifact, freeing engineering to focus on new product introduction.

SHOP-DRAWING TIME FOR EACH ORDER LINE: 1.3 hours→6 minutes
PRODUCTS AUTOMATED: 0→83

SolidWorksDriveWorks ProSolidWorks PDMMS SQL Server

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PRJ-02OCT 2022 — SEP 2024

Engineering Data Architecture

Data Engineering · Manufacturing Systems

Challenge: Engineering data lived across dozens of spreadsheets and tribal knowledge. Drawing generation depended on whoever last touched the file, producing a 29.5% non-conformance rate that flowed straight to the shop floor.
Outcome: An 18-month rollout that took non-conformances from a recurring fire to a tracked exception, while making future automation work — including PRJ-01 — possible.

Non-conformance rate: 29.5%→5.1%
Rollout window: —→18 months

MS SQL ServerC#DriveWorksJiraConfluence

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PRJ-032022

Shop Drawing Validation Program

Quality · Process Design

Challenge: 79% of orders surfaced post-production drawing issues — rework, scrap, and customer escalations were the norm.
Outcome: A repeatable quality gate that turned drawing validation from heroic firefighting into a measured, sub-10% exception process.

Post-production issues: 79%→7%

JiraConfluenceMS VisioSOP authoring

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PRJ-042023 — 2024

PCB Depletion Initiative

Inventory · ERP Logic

Challenge: Order picking ignored aging PCB stock, leaving $872K of obsolete inventory tying up working capital and warehouse space.
Outcome: Obsolete inventory cut by 45% in a year, while keeping production schedules intact.

Obsolete PCB inventory: $872K→$481K
Capital released: —→CAD $391K / yr

Epicor KineticMS SQL ServerPower BIDriveWorks

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PRJ-052022

Linear Product Calculation Tool

Tooling · VBA · Consolidation

Challenge: Engineers reached for 49 different spreadsheets — each with its own assumptions — to spec linear fixtures. Errors compounded into a 7.3% NC rate.
Outcome: One canonical tool, faster quoting, and a non-conformance rate cut to roughly a third of its prior level.

Non-conformance rate: 7.3%→2.7%
Spreadsheets consolidated: 49 + 2 apps→1 tool

ExcelVBAMS Visio

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PRJ-062022

Production Efficiency Dashboard

Data Visualization · Reporting

Challenge: Leadership needed weekly efficiency numbers; producing them ate a full day of analyst time and shipped already-stale by Monday.
Outcome: Reporting time fell by 94%, and the team finally saw production efficiency in something close to real time.

Daily HMI reporting time: 8 hours→30 minutes

Power BIMS SQL ServerExcel

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