My Current Goal

To share **+ years of Experience in Lean Manufacturing (TPS) with you.

Elgin Sweeper

Industrial Engineer

(Contract/Mid-State Technical) Elgin, IL -

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. Cost/Process analysis of recently acquired product line of Semi-

Custom builds on truck chassis. Deliver analysis on (5) trucks

built by (10) Installers in (6) areas of the facility.

Caterpillar

Supplier Collaboration Engineer

(Volt/Contract) Aurora, IL - 02/2012 - 05/2014

. $2.1mil in cost reduction/avoidance for purchased finished parts in

2013.

. "Cost Model" purchased finished materials to determine expected

cost.

. Negotiate with, or challenge suppliers with these cost models.

. Visit suppliers worldwide and assess processes, capabilities,

and audit assigned "APQP" and "Gate Review" elements for NPI.

Ind. Eng./Constraint Management Team

(Volt/Contract) Joliet, IL - 12/2007 to 02/2009

. Constraint Management team successfully raise OEE in selected areas

to meet Takt time.

PC-Tel

Lean Manufacturing Engineer

(Contract/Benchmark) Bloomingdale, IL - 03/2011 to 08/2011

. $110,000 yr. savings by identifying productivity/design

opportunities in a med volume/high mix assembly lines.

Electro Motive Diesels

Sr. Industrial Engineer

(1099/Direct Contract) LaGrange, IL -

03/2007 to 08/2007

. 33% increase in turbo housings saved in the "Refurbishing Machining

Center" by standardizing the process and creating "Visual

Operational Standard".

Lean/6S Facilitator

(1099/Direct Contract) LaGrange, IL

- 02/2006 to 08/2006

. Train 6-S and basic lean concepts (Toyota) to 101 employees

including hourly, staff, engineers, management in weekly events

with Friday report-outs.

Knowles Acoustics

Sr. Industrial Engineer

(1099/Direct Contract) Itasca, IL -

03/2004 to 08/2005

. Create "Visual Operational Standards" for "MEMS Release" process in

Itasca.

Sr. Industrial Engineer

(Techni-Power/Contract) Elgin/Itasca, IL - 08/2000 to

11/2000

. Create "Visual Operational Standards" in English and Chinese for

NPI in China Plant.

Sr. Industrial Engineer

(Techni-Power/Contract) Elgin, IL -

02/1998 to 09/1999

. Replace MTM Operational Standards with newly introduced "Visual

Operational Standards" for NPI in Elgin and Itasca Plants.

Molex Fiber Optics

Sr. Industrial/Manufacturing Engineer

(Perm) Downers Grove, IL - 11/2000 to 12/2002

. Devised and built module burn-in system that yielded a

o 300% increase in daily output.

o 70% reduction in daily labor

. 50% reduction in labor. Replace inconsistencies in hand soldering

operation with Automated Soldering System. ROI ($150,000) in four

months.

. 67% increased output with new "Lean" floor lay out. (00:01:21 Takt

time now met).

Patriot Range Technologies

Project Manager

(W2/Direct Contract) Burr Ridge, IL -

08/2010 to 03/2011

. Construction of firearm training systems and facilities for Law

Enforcement, Military, Homeland Security, and public/privet use.

. Weapons Technician for DOD "M-2" feed bolt assembly proof-firing

test program.

Overland Bowling

Production Manager/SMED Training

(Beco/Contract) Franklin Park, IL - 04/2000 to 08/2002

. 75% set up reduction during SMED training exercise with "0" spend.

Nalge Nunc Inc.

Industrial/Project Engineer

(Oxford/Contract) Naperville, IL - 09/1999

to 10/1999

. 75% labor reduction by redesigning plastic injection molding "Auto

Packaging Project".

Mitsubishi Electric Automation

Industrial/Logistics Engineer

(Avalon/Contract) Vernon Hills, IL - 12/1996 to

01/1998

. Cad-Layout (1) new warehouse to combine (2) existing warehouses.

. Spec, bid, and supervise trades installing pallet racking etc. in

new warehouse.

Stenograph Corp.

Sr. Industrial Engineer

(Perm) Mt. Prospect,

IL - 08/1995 to 05/1996

. 87.5% set up reduction during SMED training exercise with "0"

spend.

. Create "Visual Work Standards" for machine assembly.

Krack Corp.

Sr. Industrial/Lean Engineer

(Avalon/Contract) Addison, IL - 05/1996

to 11/1996

. Build a "Product Focused" work cell that yielded a

o 95% reduction in "Lead Time" (2 days to 48 minutes)

o 60% reduction in labor content (4 hours to 1.6 hours)

Sr. Industrial Engineer

(Perm)

Addison, IL - 06/1995 to 08/1995

. 98% reduction in Industrial Engineer needed to make routing/job

packets.

Sr. Industrial/Lean Engineer

(Beco/Contract) Addison, IL - 01/1995

to 04/1995

. 90% reduction in handling time of "Large Coils". Move machines for

"1 Piece Flow".

AMMCO Tools Inc. - North Chicago, IL 1990 -1994

Kaizen Manager

. Co-ordinate internal Kaizen activities with outside Consultants.

. Coached full time Kaizen Implementation Team members in completing

action items form all shop floor Kaizen team activities.

Product Focused Manager

. Increased customer part order daily fill rate from 60% to 95% in a

two month period.

. Redesign Product Focused strategy. Merge four product Focused

groups into three.

Industrial Engineer

. Designed and implemented a Kan-Ban (Visual Inventory Control)

eliminating 100% of parts shortages to the welding cells.

. Implemented Kan-Ban in raw material to increase turns from four per

year to 26.

. Implemented Water Spider delivery system from Grocery Store style

parts supply to reduce model change over time from four hours to

zero.

Education

. Four-year student of "Shin-Gijutsu Ltd.", Masters of the Toyota

Production System.

. Honorary Degree in Engineering/Management from the "University of

Hard Knocks". I have earned this honor through 30+ years of

life experience, decades of focused self education, hard work, and

a commitment to being the best at what I do.

Professional Development

TPS - Shin-Gijutsu Ltd @ Ammco Tool

SMED - C. Nakao (Shin-Gijutsu @ Ammco Tool)

Standard Work (Shin-Gijutsu @ Ammco Tool)

5-S Instructor Training (Shin-Gijutsu @ Ammco Tool)

Concurrent Engineering - C. Nakao (Shin-Gijutsu @ Ammco Tool)

Pre-Production Planning - C. Nakao (Shin-Gijutsu @ Ammco Tool)

Coaching - B. Stiwell (Ammco Tool)

FMEA - R. Mehraban (Molex)

APQP - R. Mehraban (Molex)

Gage R&R - R. Mehraban (Molex)

SPC-I - R. Mehraban (Molex)

SPC-II - R. Mehraban (Molex)

Supervisor Development Program (Molex)

SMED - (LMR @ CAT)

Constraint Management (CAT/Honda)

GREEN belt Certified (CAT)

TPM (LMR/CAT)

Standard Work (LMR @ CAT)

Takt Time (LMR @ CAT)

5-S (LMR @ CAT)

Root Cause Analysis (LMR @ CAT)

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