Erick Mondragon

Experience

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  Furniture Market

  Mar 2014 - Nov 2017

  Fulfilment Center Supervisor

  Started working as a warehouse unloader and loader during college and worked my way up to assisting with a warehouse redesign project and implementation when the warehouse was at capacity by my senior year. We transformed the warehouse from a traditional forklift layout to a high density storage facility by deploying wire guided picker vehicles which allowed for minimum aisle width and greater height. This allowed the company to fulfill orders for a second retail location without needing to expand or build a new warehouse. Show less

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  NEC Corporation

  Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

  Research Assitant - Automation

  Responsible for monitoring and validating the development of NEC's TruCount Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection system in the early phase of the product life cycle from concept to design to prototype development and testing.Helped implement, test and troubleshoot infrared LED lighting technology and laser sensor system in order to systematically obtain over 20,000 data rich images for the company's proprietary AI facial recognition system. Afterwards, I worked with a team to analyze the images through the proprietary software with a Japanese language interface. The analyzed images were then transferred to NEC Corporation Japan for further development of the software for pre-production. The product has now been brought to market. Show less

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  Texas State University

  Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

  Research Assistant
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  Philips Lighting

  Jan 2017 - May 2017

  Industrial Engineering Intern

  Worked with a team to develop an electronic Kanban system and a dynamic inventory management system for the fabrication department to reduce production costs and increase plant throughput. Used the DMAIC process, data mining tools, linear programming, and economic order quantity models. It was projected that full implementation would save Philips approximately $20,000 and 279 production hours annually.

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  UPS

  Feb 2018 - Oct 2020

  Responsible for creating strategic and tactical plans to direct the future state of UPS automated facilities. Through my tenure as an Automation Process Engineer at UPS I have been involved in two major expansion projects for Houston and Austin with over $200 Million invested in these projects I worked on seeing the inception of these projects from developing operating plans and work measurements to testing and deployment of the buildings. Using my Industrial Engineering experience and technical Automation knowledge I act as a liaison between the Cross-functional Corporate Automation Group, Plant Engineering, Technology Support Group, Industrial Engineering and Information Systems. My goal is to maximize the return on investment and efficiency of the investments UPS has made in order to meet and exceed our customers needs. Show less

  • Automation Process Engineer

    Aug 2018 - Oct 2020

  • Transportation Load Planner

    Feb 2018 - Sept 2018
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  Amazon

  Oct 2020 - now

  Amazon Global Engineering Services NAFC Tech Deployment - Ancillary Automation & Robotics DeploymentManaging 4 critical automation and robotics programs in North America worth over $340 million dollars of yearly CAPEX spending. Working cross functionally to ensure the equipment our customers need makes it through the design and development phases to manufacturing and ultimately our NA fulfillment centers.

  • Technical Program Manager

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Engineering Program Manager

    Oct 2020 - Jul 2022