RICHARD J AGNEW

www.linkedin.com/in/richardjagnew

Raleigh-Durham, NC 919-***-****

acvwdh@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Dedicated engineer with over 20 years experience at Fortune 500 companies in mechanical manufacturing, procurement engineering, and project management. Proven ability to impact business efficiency in product design, cost, and sourcing, by providing technical support and clear communication across multiple geographies and organizations. Strong mechanical commodity management, problem solving, and teamwork skills. o Materials Applications o Competitive Analysis

o Supplier Negotiations o Plastics and Metal Processes o Cost Estimation o Production Tooling

o Design for Manufacture o Team Leadership

EXPERIENCE

Lenovo / IBM RTP, NC 2000 – Nov 2015

Technical Evaluation Center – Mechanical Engineer

Competitive analysis of mechanical parts and assemblies relating to design, manufacturing processes, cost, and sourcing for: notebook, tablet, server, workstation, and desktop computers. Provide recommendations at concept, planning, and budget phases, and cost estimates at pre-production phase of new products. Identify and communicate industry trends and new mechanical materials and process technologies for competitive advantage. Mechanical team leadership.

Extensive knowledge of engineering plastics materials and molding- including carbon fiber filled nylon, magnesium and aluminum die casting, sheet metal, cosmetic and auxillary operations, EMI-RFI shielding, cables and wireless antennas, thermal solutions, cost estimating and production tooling.

Support business groups product planning by providing strategic input and benchmarking of competitor products, per schedule, to development, marketing, sales, procurement, serviceability, and usability functions: o Recommendations drove implementation of improved customer serviceability designs on products. o Dell and HP Mechanical design reports. Competitor “Yoga Hinge” design report. o Provided input for new Ultrabook and Premium Consumer notebook and tablet markets designs. o Recommendation of Sony Post Consumer Content material to Green Coordinator affected use for AC adapters.

Completed cost estimates for entire ThinkPad Series portfolio products with support to procurement supplier negotiations resulting in cost savings and avoidance exceeding $10M annually.

Contributed to establishing multi-million dollar budgets and cost targets for future ThinkPad products annually.

Provided mechanical input to DTX, DFX industry analyst workshop on ThinkPad E Series resulting in over

$2M cost savings and avoidance.

Technical leadership of multi-geography mechanical team: o Costimator estimating software database - maintain material and process updates, training, and testing. o Analyze and distribute consultant data of engineering resins to teams for use in supplier negotiations. o Focus on developments in industry materials, processes efficiencies and cost drivers by supplier on site visits and meetings, such as: RocTool, ACON, Kasui, PolyOne, Sabic, EcoTech, Solvay, Sony, Compal. o Acquire and maintain calibration, inspection, and teardown equipment for competitive analysis lab. RICHARD J AGNEW

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IBM RTP, NC 1984- 2000

Polymer Manufacturing Engineering Dept. – Manufacturing Engineer Coordinated the manufacturing engineering of tooling and parts for plastic and metal assemblies through complete life cycle, for multiple types of business machines.

Provided recommendations for material selection, tooling and part design manufacturability, and cost savings.

Coordinated supplier tooling and part activities – quotation and sourcing, design and build, engineering change management, production process qualification, capacity management, and process / quality problem resolution.

Supported procurement in successful supplier negotiations using part cost analysis estimating tools.

Worked with manufacturing and supplier teams in U.S., Mexico, Japan, Belgium, and China to establish worldwide sourcing strategies, tooling introduction, and capital planning for notebook products.

Established new molding and painting supplier sourcing in Guadalajara, Mx, for IBM assembly facility.

Successfully managed the introduction of new materials and processes for cam mechanism, keyboard assembly, and chassis of award winning IBM ThinkPad 701c “Butterfly” notebook.

Provided engineering services to IBM medical / healthcare customer, Medtronic, for new Heart Monitor / PC product. Responsible for tooling and part management, of chassis and internal part assemblies from initial design to production.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Plastics Engineering,

University of Massachusetts at Lowell

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: Costimator, CATIA, MoldFlow, MS Office, JIRA/Agile/Kanban

Quality: Six Sigma (Lean) Yellow Belt Certification

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