Nicholas Shmelev

I am a passionate and hands-on-oriented engineer who isn't afraid to go down the rabbit hole of quality and manufacturing issues and find solutions. Maintaining a high product and service standard is essential and I strive to ensure the company I work for stays competitive in the business world. 

• Represented the SSM quality department which included quality system introductions, and manufacturing capability presentations; assisted in securing clients and extending contracts.
• Project Manager for a client; responsible for resource and personnel planning, inventory management, and scheduling all while adhering to our company's limitations and client requests.
• Headed the transition of prototype manufacturing to small lots (50 unit lots at request) and eventually large-scale manufacturing (>100 unit lots monthly).
• Reduced device reject rates across many products; most notably a reduction of 8% reject rate to <0.5% reject rate over the course of a medical device’s manufacturing life cycle.
• Identified quality issues, led non-conformance investigations, and developed corrective/preventative actions. This included simplifying manufacturing processes(clarifications, variable reductions) and improvements (components, equipment) without sacrificing product quality.
• Identified and proved a pattern between qualitative and quantitative aspects of a manufactured component thus solving an issue a client was experiencing with a supplier. 
• Contacted suppliers on behalf of our clients regarding quality issues and cooperated on solutions. This required having knowledge of injection molding, chip manufacturing, and metalworking techniques (etching, laser, CNC).

San Jose State University / BS,  Industrial Technology - Manufacturing

MAY 2020,  San Jose, CA

San Jose State University / Minor, Business Management