Richard B Elwell is a senior manufacturing engineer with over 20 years of experience in manufacturing roles. He has extensive experience supporting electronic and mechanical assembly operations for commercial and military/medical applications. Some of his qualifications include lean manufacturing techniques, process improvement, product development, and root cause analysis. He has held engineering roles at several companies and has a bachelor's degree from UA Huntsville. Some of his professional successes highlighted include improving production line throughput by 88% through process analysis and redesign, and reducing circuit card test failure rates from 37% to less than 2% by identifying and addressing a soldering defect. Co-workers and managers have also provided comments praising his training of others, resourcefulness, commitment to teamwork