Cliff Ankersen

acqtbb@r.postjobfree.com 303-***-****

http://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffa

Engineer

Experienced in many areas of manufacturing from one-off parts/vehicles/systems to

high volume serial product and discrete part manufacturing, machine tool engineering,

process improvement.

AutoCAD

Revenue Generation Innovation Leadership

Business planning Product Development Coaching

Proposal Development New Market Penetration Lead by Example

Solution Sales Market Insight Persistent

Account Management Creative, Innovative Get it done attitude

Business Development Process Improvement Collaboration

Problem resolution, mechanical aptitude

Developed and implemented manufacturing improvement s and processes

JIT, KANBAN, ISO9000, SPC, Machine run off

Team member and leader - root cause analysis

Self-starter with high degree of initiative and focus on completing projects in a

timely manner with high degree of quality

Accomplishments

Project engineer responsible for new high volume broach machine, successfully installed on

time with many new features budget apx. $375,000

Team leader improved broaching process, resulting in 20% scrap reduction and improved

statistical process control variation

Designed, developed, programmed and implemented grinding operation improvement

resulting in over $800,000 annual savings

Managed purchasing of over $4,000,000 annual budget through 70 vendors for JIT (Just In

Time) KANBAN automotive manufacturing operation

Key focus individual for incoming call resolution, providing answers and handling prompt

response effort to outside sales as well as customer and supplier questions

Orchestrated retrofit sales effort throughout North America yielding 6 figure sales from an

otherwise untapped segment of the fabricating industry

Improved inside sales department by providing over 90% same day turn-around on RFQs

Managed marketing effort including trade shows and trade journal representation resulting in

consistent generation of new inquiries

Sold $1.2mm punch plasma cutting machine

Sold $515,000 punch plasma cutting machine

Prepared AutoCAD drawing packages for over 20 special vehicles in one month

Designed and engineered new products layouts, equipment and hardware using AutoCAD

in the building of over 200 vehicles in 2014

Published author of various trade journal articles related to industrial laser processing and

metalworking

Speaker International Machine Tool Show, Chicago, Illinois, Laser Cutting

Team member Indy 500 Crew

Cliff Ankersen

Career Overview

Project Manager Summit Bodyworks div. Transwest 2012 - 2015

Interim positions Denver, CO 2009 - 2012

Regional Sales Manager - Lantek Systems, Inc. 2008

Product Manager Laser & Water jet - ESAB Cutting Products, Florence, SC 2007

Other Experience

Regional Sales Manager W .A. Whitney, Rockford, IL

North American Sales Manager Precitec, Inc., New Hudson, MI

Inside Sales Manager GSI Lumonics, Livonia, MI

Continuous Improvement Specialist Kennametal @ Ford Motor Co., MI

Design Engineer Herman Miller, Zeeland, MI

Manufacturing Engineer Federal Mogul Corp., Greenville, MI

Mechanical Design Engineer - Howmet Turbine Components, Whitehall, MI

Mechanical Design Engineer Lyons Integrated Systems, Muskegon, MI

Mechanical Design Engineer Grinders for Industry, Wixom, MI

Field Service / Combustion Engineer J.A. Kozma Co, Royal Oak, MI

Knowledge/experience in the following engineering processes :

Welding Drilling, Milling, Turning Continuous improvement

Soldering Aluminum & zinc die casting Roll form technology

Brazing Continuous casting Product development

Sintering Investment casting Water jet cutting

Broaching Laser cutting, welding Plasma cutting

Grinding Zinc Melting Furnaces Vacuum Furnaces

Combustion Sheet Metal Aluminum Melting Furnaces

Fabricating ISO9000 Press Brakes

Fiber Laser CO2 Laser Nd:YAG Laser

KANBAN JIT (just in time) PPAP (production part apvl

process)

Education

Bachelor of Science Industrial Technology/Engineering - Grand Valley State University,

Allendale, Michigan 3.55/4.0

Post graduate studies toward MBA Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Personal Activities

Cycling, apx. 1500 miles/yr avg.

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