SUMMARY

• Proven excellent communicator.
• Proven to be able to use an excellent mechanical and technical mind.
• Proven to communicate and lead cross - functioning teams.
• Proven Program Management and Project Engineering success.
• Can figure out problematic areas and root causes with following corrective actions immediately.
• Goal oriented and driven to gather knowledge and understanding to better communicate with others to achieve goals and objectives
• Budget conscientious.
• Always willing/wanting to work and help on any tasks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Program Management
• Project engineering
• Polymer process engineering
• Packaging engineering
• Tooling knowledge
• APQP
• GD&T
• ISO 14001
• PPAP
• PFMEA
• Manufacturing engineering
• Mechanical thinking
• Logical thinking
• Negotiating
• Share Point
• MS Project
• Microsoft Office Package
• Gauge R&R
• AIAG reports rganization
• Mold Flow
• SAP
• PLM
• Rplan
• Lean Kit
• Dimensions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tooling Engineering Manager

Confidential, Rochester Hill, MI

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of tooling engineers and single component planners in all tooling operations.
• Track monthly/yearly spend of all injection molds against the actual budget.
• Develop processes for how team interacts with the rest of the organization.
• Maintain overall timing matrix to ensure team is on track with program timing.
• Evaluate employees to ensure optimal performance.
• Mediate in cross functional meetings as necessary.
• Report out monitored team dynamics to directors monthly.
• Manage, utilize and maintain internal internship program to grow future engineers.
• Manage diversity spend for injection molds.
• Visit new potential tool makers and evaluate to add to pool as necessary.
• Escalate team issues and organization issues as necessary.

Program Manager

Confidential, Rochester Hill, MI

Responsibilities:

• Manage the execution of the project plan in terms of budget, time, quality, organization and information and ensure that the objectives, deliverables and milestones are met.
• Travel to customer and internal facilities for program support.
• Identify and resolve cross-functional disputes.
• Evaluate the project and define improvement recommendations for current and future projects.
• Conduct program overview meeting with management.
• Liaison between customer, commercial, tooling, molding, manufacturing, logistics, quality and outside contractors.
• Develop, Maintain, Present program timing and open issues.
• Manage both production programs(AEP) and new programs(PEP).
• Manage VA/VE activities for programs.

Engineering Program Manager/Sales Engineer

Confidential, Clinton TWP, MI

Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact for all engineering activities for company.
• Travel to customer to meet with buyers and purchasing teams.
• Develop quotes for new programs.
• Manage RFQ activity for all new programs.
• Maintain tooling cost records.
• Manage weekly sales meetings.
• Manage new product launch meetings.
• Compile quote books for all programs and all tooling activities.
• Manage and control program budget.
• Review, manage and control all engineering documentation (APQP, PPAP, Math data, budget/expense etc.)
• Review and discuss GD&T documents with management, tooling and customers.
• Maintain/control inventory for all programs/service.
• Manage all service/transfer activities.
• Develop packaging for all programs.
• Hold weekly APQP/PPAP meetings with customer and management.

Project Engineer/Engineering Program Manager

Confidential, New Baltimore, MI

Responsibilities:

• Manage the execution of the project plan in terms of money, time, quality, organization and information and ensure that the objectives, deliverables and milestones are met.
• Travel to customer and internal facilities for program support.
• Identify and resolve cross-functional disputes.
• Evaluate the project and define improvement recommendations for current and future projects.
• Conduct program overview meeting with management.
• Liaison between customer, commercial, tooling, molding, manufacturing, logistics, quality and outside contractors.
• Develop, Maintain, Present program timing and open issues.
• Maintain duties as Project Engineer.

Project Engineer

Confidential, New Baltimore, MI

Responsibilities:

• Oversee due dates on the Engineering Data Base are being met accordingly.
• Manage and maintain all MSDS’s for engineering.
• Review all technical tooling and part drawings for multiple programs.
• Perform all statistical studies for programs (CpK, SPC, Attribute, R&R etc.)
• Perform Gauge R&R’s to ensure repeatability and to ensure fit and function for parts and opposing elements.
• Communicate daily with customers with all updates on program advances
• Maintain all open issues and follow through with corrective actions to ensure all are closed out.
• Set up all funding requests and freight transfers.
• Review CMM (Metrology) reports (AIAG, Excel etc.)
• Attend tooling tryouts and perform SPC checks to ensure parts are dimensionally stable per internal and customer demands.
• Attend all internal and customer APQP meetings to ensure all gates of PPAP are being met.
• Troubleshoot technical problems with programs and choose the best logical way to fix and proceed.

Engineering apprentice/Process Development Department Manager

Confidential, New Baltimore, MI

Responsibilities:

• Assist program managers with programs to ensure timelines are met and programs get launched successfully into production.
• Assist with manufacturing engineering manager to help develop secondary/automation for production.
• Develop production cell layouts for optimal flow. Assist in location bottlenecks in manufacturing to improve floor functions.
• Attend APQP/Launch Readiness meetings and assist where needed.
• Also still maintaining process development department as manager.

Process development department manager

Confidential, New Baltimore, MI

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of quality personnel/operators, process engineers and mold setters.
• Ensure development of molding, quality, I&I work instructions and safety instructions are ready and met on time via engineering schedule to be properly launched into production.

Die setter/process engineer

Confidential, New Baltimore, MI

Responsibilities:

• In charge of setting/pulling of all molds for process development department.
• Developing and testing all mold variations (water, tonnage etc.).
• In charge of development of all plastic processing parameters to make a robust molding process and manufacturable plastic part.