david barb

Procured inventory. Participated in team effort to validate medical device for the FDA. Helped implement and maintain FDA, ISO-9000 compliant quality system in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs). Maintained design history files. Tracked complaints and maintained complaint system. Implemented corrective actions in response to complaints and design requests. Implemented parts contracts that resulted in cost savings in excess of 25%. Worked on optimization of parts to improve quality and reduce costs. Responsible for long range forecasting and scheduling. Set up and certified multiple vendors. Assured continuous manufacturing flow. Supervised clean room assembly. Completed preliminary design and drafting of a hand crank mechanism for a centripetal blood pump. Performed product testing.

Responsible for development and certification of flight hardware for support of the life science experiments on the Space Shuttle. Requisitioned parts through purchasing. Designed metal structure for hardware support. Performed trade studies to find equipment to meet specifications. Tracked multiple procurements and activities to assure projects met schedule deliverables. Interfaced multiple departments and personnel needed for completion of projects. Wrote requirements documents, test procedures, and technical assessments for hardware. Supervised fabrication of flight hardware.

Certified Test Conductor. Lockheed Martin Space Systems company.Wrote extensive update of a test procedure to incorporate new test equipment and to eliminate out of sequence operations. Conduct or participate in pre-test and post-test reviews. Review test procedures for the incorporation of changes. Observe and enforce system level safety requirements. When conducting test, act as Person in Charge(PIC) leading and coordinating the efforts of technicians, test engineers, CPEs, and equipment engineers in the performance of testing. Conduct functional, RFI, thermal vacuum, vibration, and deployment testing at multiple levels of assembly. Report and troubleshoot test anomalies in coordination with test engineers and CPEs when they occur. Participate in ARBs (Anomaly Review Boards). Perform testing using scripts executed on workstations interfacing with test racks.