Manufacturing Systems Engineer software & hardware
Vuteq U.S.A. · Princeton, IN
- Sole developer providing technical support for 8 Vuteq plants plus sister company DV Indiana, troubleshooting apps, SQL Server, networking, DNS, and shop-floor hardware.
- Built the company's first support ticketing system, replacing radio requests with a tracked ticket queue so issues get prioritized and resolved.
- Regained the company domain after a lockout by a former web provider and moved DNS to GoDaddy for the website and Microsoft 365 email; planning the move to Cloudflare.
- Set up a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline across all 8 sites and built a React app connecting shop-floor PLCs to SQL Server to track production cycle times.
- Built a scan-based safety and process audit platform with failure tracking and supervisor accountability, replacing paper checklists.
- Built production dashboards for plant leadership, including one whose refresh time dropped from 40 minutes to 2.
- Designed in-house test hardware, sensors, and error-proofing systems for the production floor, built for less than the commercial equivalents.
- Leading a rebuild of the corporate website in English and Japanese.
- Wrote a capacity brief that led leadership to plan a second developer hire, and I'm advising on how the two-developer team should be structured.
- Work directly with plant users to reproduce issues, explain fixes in plain language, and turn recurring problems into software improvements.