ERMANNO PETOCCHI

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Blackstone, MA 01504 acdzhy@r.postjobfree.com

MECHANICAL Design ENGINEER

Extensive experience designing machine components as well as new molded

plastic designs, within organizations ranging from small privately owned

companies to global Fortune 500. Managed all facets of design from concept

to market. Recognized strengths include problem solving and creativity.

Successfully organized and led teams acknowledged for solving complex

technical problems, for benchmarking competitive products, and for creating

innovative and highly marketable product designs.

. Awarded 9 patents, with 3 patents pending.

. Delivered a wide variety of designs including paper feeder designs for

printers/copier and a complete drive subsystem to production and

market.

. Received multiple awards including Special Merit Award for developing

a low cost tensioner, a Special Contribution Award for directing a

shipping test, and a Team Excellence Award for leadership in

benchmarking the competition.

Technical skills include: Solid Works, GD&T, Creo Parametric, NX-5,

Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, Lean Development, VA/VE, IDEAS CAD.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Zebra Technologies, Lincoln, RI 2011-2013

Developer and manufacturer of bar code printing systems.

Product Design Engineer -Development

Delivered solutions to issues in printers such as electrostatic discharge

and a systematic failure of the media door switch.

. Delivered the plastic design and prototype for standard and extended

life battery for the pocket printer.

. Defined the critical parameters of print head pressure and torque

demand for high print quality in a new printer.

. Developed and directed the test to define the factors influencing

noise level in the proposed printer.

. Generated the protocol and directed the testing of the impact of

Health Care Cleaners on the housing materials of printers.

EASTMAN KODAK CORPORATION, Dayton, OH 2010-2011

Developer and manufacturer of ink jet printing systems.

Product Design Engineer -Development

. Developed and designed structural systems to integrate proprietary

technology into industrial printing presses.

. Designed and delivered the multi head scanner used in the development

of a new high speed roll printer.

WAUSAU PAPER CORPORATION, Harrodsburg, KY 2008-2010

Converter and manufacturer of paper towel, tissue, soap and dispensing

systems for the "away-from-home" market.

Senior Product Development Engineer - Hardware

Led the creation and development of a new product line for the Towel and

Tissue division.

. Using Solid Works designed a pleated paper towel plastic dispenser

that would fit within the confinement of a folded towel holder and

would dispense, at the wave of the hand, a metered pleated towel

substrate.

. Filed 3 patents, 2 for new dispenser designs and 1 for a new paper

format product.

LEXMARK CORPORATION, Lexington, KY 2005-2008

Manufacturer of printers and inks for professional and personal use.

Mechanical Engineer - Hardware Development

Implemented designs, in plastic, that significantly enhanced monochrome

division products.

. Directed overseas partners and vendors as well as local prototype

shops.

. Defined product performance problems and developed innovative

solutions including changes to the paper path that eliminated jamming

of certain paper sizes.

. Resolved production problems by the redesign of the rear access door

that resulted in a simplified and less expensive tool.

. Collaborated with and directed oversea partners and manufacturing

suppliers in delivering enhancements to the design of desktop printers

that resulted in a more reliable and manufacturable printer.

GYRICON LLC, Ann Arbor, MI 2004-2005

Developer and manufacturer of Smart PaperTM pricing-sign systems for retail

stores.

Mechanical Engineer - Product Development

Designed and coordinated the manufacture of testing fixtures.

. Developed new solutions to existing design implementation problems and

researched new technologies for product enhancements.

. Collaborated with and managed multiple vendors achieving desired

product enhancements and reducing costs.

XEROX CORPORATION, Rochester, NY 1987-2002

Manufacturer of copiers, printers and inks for office use.

Mechanical Engineer - Subsystem Engineer/Team Leader

Directed the Drive Team and the drive's assembly vendor in the Extended

Enterprise project. Achieved a production assembly that met all the

subsystem's critical parameters and cost targets.

. Led the first engineering team at Xerox to do a benchmarking

evaluation on competitive products, resulting in reduced design cycle

and a design that outperformed the competition.

. Managed the feeder design team in the delivery of a new design of

paper feeders allowing a new architecture in a mid-volume copying

machine. This new design maintained the critical parameters required

to meet the Function, Features, Price and Quality of the machine.

. Designed and implemented a customer replaceable feeder unit that

lowered the feeder maintenance cost to the customer. This design

incorporated a semi-active retard clutch so unique that it merited a

patent.

. Took ownership of the development of a paper drawer design that

eliminated costly and unreliable electrical devices in the drawer.

This design was so innovative that it was patented.

. Managed the Decurler Team in the delivery of a production subsystem

design resulting in a lower shut down rate for the machine.

Successfully selected and directed vendors reducing manufacturing cost

and delivery.

. Took ownership of a cost-down task resulting in a 40% cost reduction

of a production drive subsystem. Engaged a new, overseas production

vendor, guiding this vendor in the development of robust manufacturing

processes.

. Led a cross-functional team through testing, redesign and acquisition

of a decurling kit for the Duplex Module. The project reduced the

jamming rate of sheets in the paper path by 30%.

. Designed and coordinated the manufacture of the frame and drives for

the document handler of the Xerox 5100 machine.

. Developed and implemented pre-configuration shipping strategy for

Xerox 5100 photocopier, reducing shipping costs by $1.5 million.

. Developed a non ABEC-1 ball bearing idler design that met the cost,

performance and noise targets of the Xerox 5100 photocopier.

EDUCATION

BSME, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

AASME, University of Maine, Orono, ME

TECHNICAL TRAINING

. Robust design

. Quality and reliability strategies

. Benchmarking

. Planning for project management

. UMC management process

. Concurrent Engineering

. Mechanical Advantage

. Triz

. GD&T

. SolidWorks

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