Wayne Hector

Wayne Hector
Contract Engineer at Wayne Hector Engineering

Experience
Contract Engineer at Wayne Hector Engineering
February 2015 – Present (1 year 1 month)
A proven professional with successful implementations in areas with critical project and device requirements.

Retired Engineering Manager at Medtronic
July 2006 – Present (9 years 8 months)
Engineering Management support of a medical Device Operations lab, focused upon early feasibility builds
and proof of concept on new designs. Project manager of a life sustaining, low volume production device.
Cleanroom manager/administrator of a certified cleanroom.

Principal Project Engineer at Medtronic
May 1999 – June 2006 (7 years 2 months)
Engineering support on various medical device projects, within the areas of neurological and cardiac devices.

Product Development Specialist at Imation
February 1996 – May 1999 (3 years 4 months)
R & D Engineering support for Optical Discs

Principal Process Development Engineer at 3M
February 1987 – October 1996 (9 years 9 months)
R & D Engineering support for Optical discs

Pilot Plant Supervisor at 3M
February 1986 – February 1987 (1 year 1 month)
Supervisor for an optical disc pilot plant comprising of two shifts.

Division Engineering Project Engineer at 3M
February 1982 – February 1986 (4 years 1 month)
Engineering project support during the construction, equipment selection & design and scale up of optical
disc production plants.

Skills & Expertise
Design for Manufacturing
Design of Experiments
Quality System
Design Control

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Medical Devices
FDA
ISO 13485
FMEA
Value Stream Mapping
Product Launch
ISO
V&V
Manufacturing Engineering
Process Simulation
Minitab
ISO 14971
Process Engineering
Process Improvement
Validation
Injection Molding
DMAIC
Biomedical Engineering
CAPA
Solidworks
Continuous Improvement
SPC
Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing
Failure Analysis
GMP
Product Development
R&D
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Supplier Quality
Root Cause Analysis
Six Sigma

Education
University of Virginia
Master’s Degree, Material Science, 2003
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Bachelor’s Degree, Structural Engineering, 1981

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Wayne Hector
Contract Engineer at Wayne Hector Engineering

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