PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• To obtain a highly visible technically challenging position where my experience, diverse technical abilities and strong interpersonal skills will be challenged and utilized.
• Where opportunities for advancement are based on contributions to company growth.Skills and Attributes:
• Seasoned engineer with over 20 years of experience.
• Proven history of success in customer - focused, technically challenging roles.
• Optimistic, persistent and resilient personality.
• History of communicating technical subject matters with all levels of customer personnel.
• Proficient in SolidWorks and all MSOffice software applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Product Development Engineer

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned pneumatic drive system for the EVEN-MIXTM product line for cost reduction and efficiency. Design efforts resulted in a 70% reduction in manufacturing costs, a 60% improvement in output torque and lowered air consumption by 45%.
• Redesigned EVEN-MIXTM planetary gear reduction drive system to better utilize in-house manufacturing capabilities to reduce costs and improve manufacturing lead-times.
• Revised material selections, bearing specifications, lubrication, heat-treatment requirements and final surface treatments for further cost reductions and substantial improvement in product life-span under continuous duty use.
• American Assembly Tools business unit dissolved as of September 2017.

Project Management Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project management engineering responsibility including initial customer communications, design for manufacturing, tool build and communicating regular status updates.
• Contract design engineer for multiple customer products resulting in several novel concepts.
• Authored procedures to ensure accurate records for tool history and revision control.
• Standardized communications with tool shops to ensure traceability and accuracy of all tool rework.

Project Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Initial customer engineering contact for part design evaluation.
• Responsible for selling the “MIM process” to customer personnel with the goal of developing confidence regarding the capabilities at Confidential and the metal injection molding process overall.
• Oversaw double digit sales growth year after year.
• Cradle-to-grave project management responsibilities ensuring customer requirements are met, including part cost calculations, negotiating tooling pricing, tooling design review, release and implementation and process development.
• Responsible for communicating fundamental tooling and part design constraints to customer personnel. Work cooperatively with customer engineers to optimize the component design for functionality within the constraints of the MIM process.
• Concurrently managed up to thirty separate successful product launches.
• Trained in LEAN and QRM manufacturing methodologies. Six Sigma Green Belt Trained.
• Work closely with tool shops to ensure low cost/high quality injection molding tooling.
• Designed and developed low-cost short lead-time prototype tooling concepts to further aid in selling “MIM” into customer applications.
• Developed and installed CNC machining capabilities to meet customer requirements (aerospace, firearms and telecommunications applications). Solely responsible for engineering, programming and maintenance. Developed a strong working noledge of CNC G-Code programming (predominately self-taught) as part of these responsibilities.
• Implemented press automation robotics that resulted in increased productivity and reduction in product defects across all product lines.
• Designed and built an automated vision inspection system for high-volume production.

Process/Product Development Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with customer personnel in new product development in LIM and TPR materials. Generate quotes and bid tooling costs for new applications.
• Developed multiple visual basic enabled database applications to streamline data analysis and to organize and calculate manufacturing costs for quote preparation.
• Provided direct supervision for a staff of seven injection molding process technicians.
• Assigned as design leader for the layout of production and all secondary processing equipment in Plant 7 for processing efficiency and a one-piece flow.

Product Development Engineering Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with physicians to design key components of medical device systems.
• Solicited physicians and customer personnel for prototype evaluation and design inputs.
• Redesigned two major product lines for safety, efficacy and efficiency.
• Co-Inventor on multiple patent disclosures resulting in at least one U.S. patent (Pat #: 6,099,566: Prosthetic Implant Valve Cover; Vonderharr, K. et. al.)

Set-up Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided 100% funding for education.
• Proposed innovative packaging design solutions for ultra-pure PFA Teflon tubing products that are still in use today.
• Tested, compiled and reported quality control data directly to customer personnel.
• Provided skilled training to customer personnel at client facilities and internal company personnel in: Material properties test procedures, Injection molding processing, Extrusion process troubleshooting