Chris Oliphant – Mechanical Engineer, MBA

Phone: 801-***-**** * E-mail: acvwkd@r.postjobfree.com

**** *. ****** ***. **** Valley City, Utah 84120

SUMMARY: I am an experienced Engineer seeking a position as a Process Engineer in injection molding or a Manufacturing Engineer. My skill level, experience, and education will help your company create higher quality parts, be more lean, and save money.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Press Operator / Mechanical Designer at Oliphant Research 7 years

Designed for Manufacturability various plastic parts with many different polymers.

Made entrepreneurs successful by advising inventors on plastics design and guiding them through the product development process.

Adjusted and Operated injection molding presses to their maximum capabilities.

Mechanical Engineer/Water Jet Programmerat MakStride LLC 2 years

Saved $25,000.00 more per month in the manufacture of a class I below-the-knee prosthetic by: Programming water jet machining center to cut more efficiently, saving 4 minutes every 30 minutes of machine time. Also changed the layout of the material to make 39 more parts.

Supervised the finishing team (3 people) to eliminate bottleneck created by higher production on water jet.

Medical Device Engineer at Moog Medical 1 year

Brought to launch a portable enteral feeding pump.

Reviewed and Approved (IQ, OQ, PQ) Installation Qualification, Operation Qualification, and Production Qualification documents for injection molded pump parts.

Reviewed FAI’s and capability statistics. Made sure tolerances and capabilities matched and were within design requirements.

Solved material cracking issues by finding the right polymer formula.

Wrote test protocols for durability of push buttons, electronic enclosures, and entire devices according to ISO 13485 standards.

Process Engineer at Compeq Intl. 1 year

Supervised circuit board manufacturing processes that included: layup, pressing, plating, etching, gold-plating. (10 people)

Chief Mechanical Engineer/Designer at Secure Alert 4 years

Generated 3 million dollars by: Designing upgrades in enclosure for new generation of offender tracking device, dramatically improving assembly and repair time, and eliminating device failures in the first place.

1 patent: An ankle cuff on an offender tracking device that takes longer to cut through, giving time for authorities to capture the offender.

Decreased false strap alarms from 10% in the field to 0.3% by redesigning optical pathways in ankle strap for better alignment.

Supervised the engineering team (4 people) to improve PC board envelopes and connections between boards. PC boards tested better for RF interference. We also proved with lab and beta tests that false strap alarms were eliminated.

Medical Device Engineer at Depuy Synthes - Johnson & Johnson 1 year

Designed new autoclave-ablecamera head for arthroscopic surgery.

Designed Experiment to test and validate prototypes to 500 cycles of 134 degrees Centigrade.

Electrical Controls & Mechanical Drafter at Doppelmayr CTEC 8 years

Saved 6 hours per layout for civil engineers by programming AutoCAD to automatically lay out sheave trains for ski lifts.

Designed Ski lift terminals and electrical controls to high safety standards.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Business:

Leading and Contributing to Teams

Cost Analysis and Budgeting

Business Planning

Supply Chain Planning

Organizing Engineering Database

Organizing Engineering Department

Lean Manufacturing Principles

Theory of Constraints

Supervising up to 10 People

ISO 9001 and ISO 13485

Engineering:

Design for Manufacturing

Solid Modeling (SolidWorks)

Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerance

Prosthetics Design

Plastic Design

Mold Design

Finite Element Analysis

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Electrical Enclosure Design & Layout

Electrical Control Schematics Drafting

Manufacturing:

IQ, OQ, PQ

Injection Molding

Injection Press Operation

Water jet CNC Programming

Water jet Machining Center Operation

Thermoforming

Production Lathe

Production CNC Milling

EDUCATION/TRAINING:

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering University of Utah

Master of Business Administration University of Phoenix

Certificate- Computer Assisted Drafting and Design Salt Lake Community College

Injection molding and mold design Oliphant Research

Lecturing and Consulting Intermountain Inventors Society

Teamwork All-Terrain Walker Project – University of Utah

ISO 9000 Documentation & Implementation Doppelmayr CTEC

CNC Programming Oliphant Research & Makstride

Fluid Dynamics Self Taught & University of Utah

AutoLisp Programming Self Taught & Doppelmayr CTEC

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:

AutoCAD

Promis-e

Excel

Word

SolidWorks

Creo

coordinate measuring machine

composite molding and layup

geometry

physics

trigonometry

origami

music (harmonica, guitar, saxophone)

woodwork

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