Stephen H. Sliger

**** **** ******, **** ****; Dallas TX 75202

Tel: 972-***-**** Mobile: 775-***-****

Objective Technical Management/Plant Supervision position in Steel or Aluminum foundry.

Profile Broad-based technical and supervisory experience encompasses strong hands-on

responsibility for complete foundry operations, including management,

engineering, quality assurance, costs, training, and procurement. Historical

profitability for start-to-finish processing of high spec/high tech castings.

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree/Metallurgy, Portland State University, Portland, OR

Western Nevada Community College, Carson City, NV

Numerous continued education courses as well as instructor of metallurgy at community college.

Career Summary

Consolidated Casting Corporation, Dallas, TX July 2011 – May 2015

Title: Technical Director/Metallurgist

Responsible for welder training and audits. Developed welding procedure to comply with industry and customer specifications.

Prescribe heat formulation, maintain and ensure accuracy of chemical testing lab, audit chemistries daily.

Oversee mechanical testing labs both internal and external.

Control heat treat processes and audit external heat treat vendors. Design and control heat treat processes to avoid cracking and fully comply with mechanical property requirements.

Audit and maintain internal shop router instructions as well as process control procedures.

Responsible for MRB function; issue reports for failure analysis and initiate effective corrective actions.

Team member for new tooling pattern design and gating to avoid shrinkage, hot tears, and other casting flaws. Develop processes for new products to ensure customer satisfaction.

Interact as required with customer purchasing and engineering entities. Provide customer support as needed. Was appointed account manager for a new large customer account.

Extremely familiar with customer and industry specifications.

Dameron Alloy Foundries, Compton, CA September 2006 – July 2011

Title: Engineering Manager

Head up technical staff responsible for all engineering including tooling group.

Responsible for both product and process engineering functions.

Start up NDE Lab for LPI and Magnetic Particle inspection.

Assigned to upgrade weld process for Nadcap accreditation. Authored procedures in compliance with ASTM A488, and AWS D17.1. Administered training and certification of all welders and welding inspectors. Received accreditation at two facilities, passing 4 audits with no major findings.

Leader of MRB activity.

Left due to plant closure.

Remet Corporation, Headquarters in Utica, NY September 2004 – September 2006

Title: Territory Manager

Sales team manager for broad spectrum foundry products manufacturer and distributor.

Provided technical support to customers for trouble-shooting and implementation of products/processes.

Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corporation, Carson City, NV January 2001 – September 2004

Title: Metallurgist/Foundry Manager

Supervise production of blade and vane castings.

Oversee start up of single crystal operations and ceramic core development for production.

Advanced Group Multi-National Corp., Guangdong, China August 1999 – January 2001

Title: Foundry Process Advisor

Provided consulting services for investment casting foundry producing golf products for major worldwide golf products companies in southern China.

Specified equipment and plant layout for 100% expansion; provided on-site customer support for technical and quality considerations.

Coordinated and organized functions from wax injection through finished casting.

Wyman-Gordon Investment Castings-PCC, Carson City, NV December 1978 – May 1999

Title: Foundry Manager/Metallurgist/ Alloy Materials Manager

Managed foundry operations for high-volume facility producing medium-to-high tech specification castings.

Directed materials purchasing responsibility for two West Coast divisions with combined annual sales of $60,000,000.

Managed quality systems, authored procedures to ensure ISO-9000 accreditation. Internal Auditor over Quality Assurance department and NDE Lab.

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