Rick Arnold
Sr. Staff Materials & Process Engineer
San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Arnold is a Sr. Staff Materials & Process Engineer with three decades of experience driving design-for-manufacturing and SMD process improvements in the automotive electronics sector. He has led worldwide DfM initiatives for PCB design and assembly, focusing on scalable, auditable processes that reduce defects and improve throughput. A chemistry graduate from Northern Arizona University, he pairs deep materials expertise with strong operational skills in business process improvement and data-driven decision making. Rick completed MIT’s Additive Manufacturing course with a 93% final grade, signaling a sustained commitment to advanced manufacturing methods. Now based in San Antonio, he continues to apply veteran-level judgment from long tenures at Continental and Vitesco while staying intellectually active in engineering practice. Unusually for an engineer rooted in hardware, he also notes a background as a software engineer and senior technical fellow at legacy communications firms, reflecting cross-disciplinary fluency.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry at Northern Arizona University
Github Skills (53)
scripting10
bash10
scripting-language10
programming-language9
environment-variables9
golang9
shell9
act8
end-to-end-encryption7
nodejs7
security7
secrets7
pki7
python7
react7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ntwrick/abs
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Home of the ABS programming language: the joy of shell scripting.
Contributions:17 pushes, 10 branches in 11 days
scriptingabsshell-scriptingbashjoy
ntwrick/pythonTest
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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