Sergio Balderas

Bilingual Engineer with a technical background in Supplier Quality Chain and manufacturing engineering supervision (Electronic & Mechanic). Experienced in the following:

• Establishing Manufacturing Processes for: Metal-Mechanic Field & Electronic Field.
• Supplier Quality Engineering: follow-up claims with different suppliers, Audit suppliers in sites, and qualify new material and products (PPAP), giving support in multisites (Matamoros, Reynosa, Brownsville, TX, USA, Donna, TX, USA and Austin, TX, USA) and provide corporative reports to review the quality trend with supplier.
• Quality Engineering Field: Problem solving, Global 8D’s, 5 whys, Ishikawa Diagram, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, customer complaints, and provide corporative reports to review the quality trend with customers.
• Outsourcing Engineering: Buying new material and components connecting purchase department & engineering department and developing cost-saving projects in material.
• Production: MRP systems knowledge such as SAP (Tyco), Intuitive 8.7 (Avant & Cypress), Glovia (Spellman), and Visual Operation Planning (Simclar).
• Electronic field: SMT field with SMT My Data (P&P), MPM, Yamaha printer Machines. Electronic Field, Automatic Insertion Field with Universal Insertion Machines such as Dip, VCD8, Single Axial, Radial 8, and Panasonic Insertion Machine.
• Metal Mechanic Area: Machines such as Vipros Machine King II, Break Machine, Laser Machine, Lathe, Welding, Robotic, Painting Processes, SOLIDWORKS, and AutoCAD.
• Machine Shop Area: Milling Machines, Lathe Machine, Mastercam, and AutoCAD.
• NPI: NPT/NPI/Fast Track modeling spreadsheets for tracking schedule performance in order to pursue company’s goal.
• Industrial Field: Takt Time, Standards and Balance of Progressive Lines, Lean Manufacturing, Kanban, DOE, SOLIDWORKS, and AutoCAD.

Metal-Mechanic Engineer (August 2024- February 2026) Simclar formed Concurrent, formed Cypress Industries S.A. de C.V.

• Responsible for Quoting and generating purchase orders for tooling and new components to support engineering and production in cubes and tanks area. Also, provide support in Hitachi Energy USA SS, Support in Generac Pachuca México and USA, Support in Avtron Reynosa, Tamaulipas México and Tomball Projects.
• Responsible for AUTOCAD for Layouts and SOLIDWORKS for design.
• Responsible for generating ECNs.
• Responsible for process deviations.
• Support in Laser, Welding and in Robotic welding Processes with fixture and programs.
• Support in painting process for pick traffic project for NY and maintenance to the chain and spray system of the painting Line. Metal Shop Engineering. Support in Tellabs SS line project for North of Carolina.
• Responsible for Introducing New Product to Plant at Metal Shop Area.
• Responsible for line balancing based on Takt Time using Excel or Google sheet for PSD (Process System Design to analyze capacity) and Lean Manufacturing application for manufacturing Cells.
• Responsible for updating Laser programs in FSCUT Software and SolidWorks.
• Responsible for Process Improvement and visit customer in their sites.
• Responsible for Procedures, Work Instructions, and Visual Aids.

SQE: Supplier Quality Engineer (September 2021- May 2024) Avant Technology S.A. de C.V. Electronic Field.

• Responsible for Qualifying new material and products (PPAP).
• Responsible for visiting and auditing suppliers on site: PCA, SOREM, Jamestown.
• Responsible for tracking Supplier’s claims reporting the result to the corporative.
• Responsible for generating the Quality Non-Conformance Reports and following the trending charts and performance.
• Responsible for internal and external audits. External audits to PCA, Donna, Texas, USA, Jamestown, Brownsville, Texas, USA, and SOREM at Matamoros, Tamps, MX.
• Knowledge in Core tools: Global 8Ds, PPAP, SPC, MSA, PFMEA and Control Plan.
• Knowledge in PDCA and Six sigma.
• Experience in SMT process in Tyco, Spellman HV, and Avant Technology.
• Knowledge in process and RFQ for metal structures, Quotation for Metal Parts such as Steal, Brass, Copper, and Aluminum with plating finishes.
• Knowledge in Part Approval process and COMPLIANCE DOCUMENTATION such as REACH, FMD, RoHS, TDS, FAI, and Drawing Specifications.
• Responsible for updating ERP system (Intuitive 8.7) with the new material already qualified for Micron and Avant processes.
• Responsible for the Material located at MRB areas in incoming departments in order to reduce quantities storage and scrap.
• Responsible for getting the credit notes/Memo Notes from suppliers and assure to close it financially.
• Responsible for generating the deviation for material that is Non-Conformance but that is functional.
• Responsible for following up the scrap material.
• Knowledge in LCM & MPM machine to verify volumes of solder paste and dimension of PCBs.
• Responsible for qualify new packages and visit the suppliers on their sites.

Quality Engineer (May 2019- Sep 2021) Avant Technology S.A. de C.V. Electronic Field.

• Responsible for the ISO 9000 certification.
• Responsible for calculating the acceptance rates of Micron customer, Avant Technology and Contract manufacturing.
• Responsible for tracking the major quality offenders and present corrective actions through the monthly quality presentation to the corporation.
• Responsible for generating the Quality Non-Conformal Reports and following the trending charts and performance.
• Responsible for assuring the quality of the products (SSD-State Solid Drive, MM-Memory Modules, and SA- Safety Alarms) and to respond to the customers.

Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor for SMT, Automatic Insertion Machine. Wave solders, Metal Mechanics and finishing, Machine Shop Area and Cables area. (2008 – 2019). SPELLMAN DE MEXICO S.A DE C.V. Electronic Field & Metal-Mechanic Field.

• Manufacturing Supervisor: Major Project for SMT area – My Data Equipment new layout to increase capacity, reduce cost, and increase production, Coordinate the expansion of the building 67 sq-ft. Product System Designs Project and ezGEN project to common set up for Auto-insertion machines. SMT utilization from 48% to 58%. Acceptance Quality Rate from 85% to 95%..
• Drawing coordinator for the Best ACAD Practices to standardize the method to draw at Spellman MX (PCB: AEGIS Software. Machine Shop: AutoCAD Software, Solid Woks, Master CAM, Fabri Bend and AP100US software).
• One piece flow project is being implemented at PEM area and sheet metal.
• Manufacturing Lead coordinator engineer responsible for introducing new products in Metal Shop Area (Stamping and Machine shop), Painting Area, Spot Weld area, Progressive Lines and Final Assembly, for the DFM for new products, and flow chart process.
• Knowledge in RFQ for metal structure, Quotation for Metal Parts such as Steal, Brass, Copper, and Aluminum with plating finishes.
• Define and work on the silkscreen project & development a local vendor for decreasing the cost and giving saves for the company from $350 USD to $75 USD. Reduce the cost from $16,800 USD annually to $3600 USD annually. Cost Reduction 79%.
• Set up and Layout of the assembly area, Development and define the process of the new product in order to release to production.
• Coordinate manufacturing engineers, leaders, quality engineers, technicians in order to release new products for CNC Machines. Also answer and coordinate corrective action for internal & external customers.
• Major project completed in an aggressive timeline to close operations in New York, Valhalla, Bohemia and ramp up operations in Mexico. Organized the equipment transfer and installation from New York to Mexico.
• Measure the metrics (safety, quality, on time delivery, efficiency, productivity, first past yield) to focus the area & the manufacturing team in order to meet the final goal that the company pursue through the DASHBOARD tool.
• Selective Solder installation and ramp-up.
• MCS winding machines installation and ramp-up.
• Eubanks winding machine and Cable project implementation.
• Yamaha Screen Printer evaluation at Kimball Reynosa and evaluation at Boston City and machine installation and ram-up at Spellman Mexico.

New product Engineer (2005-2008) Tyco Electronics. Electronic Field.

• Lead engineer responsible for introduce new products in progressive lines, for the DFM for new products, and flow chart process.
• Lead Engineer responsible to coordinate and execute the Control Plan and PFMEA for Motorola and Verizon Wireless audits.
• Green Belt Course taken and develop a SMT project to improve component placement and avoid defects, also modify floor layout to increase the production output.
• Coordinate and execute Engineering changes, bill of materials and create SAP routings.
• Development of the process area; also responsible for originating work instructions, verifying the process, and calculating the production rate (balance of lines) and running the samples for automatic machine insertion sequences.
• Responsible for originating supplier quality complaints, address design issues with corporate offices, reviewing 8D responses and answering field quality defects in 8D format.

Process Engineer (1997-2005) Lucent Technologies. Electronic Field.

• Generate programs for Universal Machines as DIP, VCD, VCD8, RADIAL & RADIAL8. Also responsible for programming Panasonic machines, and getting information about product such as: cad files, programs, make deviations, Part data list, fixtures and materials.
• Run initial production run samples (IPR'S) for the introduction of new products (NPI). Also responsible for performing the initial production runs for newly introduced models, and releasing the production of such new products to regular production.
• Administrate the DHA system (Dynamic Head Assignment System), generating software for automatic machine insertion equipment, such as: Basic scripts in Unix.
• Execution of engineering changes such as modifications on the Production Programs for Machine Insertion
• Optimization of programs for families of products, obtaining remarkable team participation on such optimization winning the Engineering prize week.

Industrial Engineer (1996-1997) AT&T. Electronic Field.

• Developed work instructions for the surface mount area (SMT).
• Updated work instructions for five productions lines.
• Designed layouts with AutoCAD.
• Worked on the elaboration of small programs on Basic Unix.
• Balance progressive lines of 12 operators (small) and 25 operators (big) using M.TM. predetermined study times. Based hours in Excel.

Quality engineering intern (1995-1996) Olson Internacional S.A. de C.V. Metal-Mechanic Field.

• Responsible for generating the documentation needed for the ISO 9000 certification.
• Responsible for making AutoCAD designs for Metal shop and machine parts.
• Responsible for the measurement SPECS for metal products.
• Responsible for generating the PPM’s graphics.

2026: Statistics Academy - Six Sigma Green Belt certified, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México

2026: Sola Scriptura Institute - Leadership Course, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México.

2015: Master’s degree in business administration in productivity at Instituto Tecnológico de Matamoros

2012: Electronic Engineering at Universidad del Atlántico, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México.

2002: The Language Institute UTRGV at Brownsville, Texas, USA. English 90%

2000: English as a Second Language at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon

1997: Bachelor degree of Science in Industrial Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Matamoros

1993: Started Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Cd. Valles SLP.

1990: COBATCH #22 (High School) Tamuin, SLP, Chemical Analyst Specialty.

1987: Esc. Sec. Ponciano Arriaga #1 (Secondary School) of Tamuin, SLP, Electronics Specialty.

1981: Esc. Prim. Pedro Antonio de los Santos (Elementary School) of Tamuin, SLP, México,