Dennis Varga

ms2joc@r.postjobfree.com

586-***-****

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BAKER COLLEGE, Clinton Twp. MI. 2009 to Present

Adjunct instructor

• Teaching Paint I, Paint II, Paint III, and Non Structural Body Repair.

CATERPILLAR CORPORATION, Peoria, IL. 2008 to 2009

Advanced Operations Paint Technology

• Support CAV (Customer Acceptance Validation Audits Paint Audits ) Quality audits at Caterpillar plant paint operations.

• Develop and coordinate a Paint Repair process for Caterpillar

• Support Laser Oxide removal

• Support Rust Preventative Coatings project.

• Six Sigma Green Belt Certified

• Support Cat University for Painter Training program for plant activity.

• Powder coat application project.

• Validated paint quality using equipment such as an elcometer, gloss meters for DOI and gloss, adhesion testing, and orange peel, and hardness testing.

Independent Technical Consultant 2005 to 2008

I have been providing independent technical consulting services to Southern Casting and RP Manufacturing in the areas of paint finesse, paint casting supports, and paint carrier design as a technical consultant on a part time basis.

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Detroit, MI 1984-2005

Senior Manufacturing Engineer, 01/2000-04/2005

Paint and Polymers Engineering G.M. Tech Center

• Responsible for the successful and timely design and launch of injection molded polymer tooling for several Saturn programs.

• Managed paint casting designs with suppliers for all Saturn painted parts programs and produced 25% cost savings, minimized costly pattern changes and met program timing.

• Validated part to casting fit utilizing math data that resulted in minimal pattern change resulting in a cost savings.

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SATURN CORPORATION, Madison Heights, MI 06/1989-01/2000

Vehicle Engineering Center.

Engineering Shop Supervisor Paint / Fab / Facilities 1989-2000

• Responsible for managing technical shop activities including technical training for the skilled trades technicians, prototype build activities, and special projects in the paint area.

• Expertise with 2K and 1K solvent paint materials.

• Support Saturn Plant Launch, developed common practices and process workflow templates for technicians in the paint area such as e-coat and primer sand, and repair, reprocess prep, and metal finishing.

• Identify and root cause paint quality issues such as, dirt in paint, craters, solvent pops, sags, contamination and application issues etc.

• Trained technicians for in-line metal finishing, that resulted in a non-destructive metal finishing station.

• Developed training for technicians at the engineering facility and the assembly plant in the first use of water borne paint topcoat with a polyisocyanate clear coat.

• Coordinate and oversee paint area deep-cleaning activities in conjunction with cleaning contractors.

• Co-support body fabrication activities.

• Establish and monitor a yearly budget for prototype ecoat, prototype paint shop, and facility maintenance activities.

• Prepare and spray test panels with a Spraymation unit.

• Trained technicians in OEM paint application, aftermarket paint applications, and paint repair.

• Trained and supervised technicians in numerous high quality show car projects.

• Trained technicians in metal finishing, all types of polymer repair.

SATURN CORPORATION, Madison Heights, MI 03/1987-06/1989

Skilled Trades Paint Technician

• Responsible for the initial launch of the prototype paint shop.

• Applied all types of seam sealers over E-coat space frame.

• Painted, high level show vehicles ,and other specialty projects using OEM and refinish materials.

GENERAL MOTORS, Fisher Body, Warren, MI 07/1984-03/1987

Skilled Trades Paint Technician

• Responsible for the application of OEM seam sealer, paint topcoat materials, and specialty show car projects as a prototype / experimental paint technician.

GENERAL MOTORS Dealership Repair Facilities 1976-1984

Dealership Body Repair.

Senior Paint and Body Repair Technician

• Responsible for all levels of automotive collision, and paint repair of damaged vehicles including heavy collision repair, welding, sheet metal refinish, and paint refinishing procedures, and assembly.

• Repainted production vehicles to achieve a show car quality for local and national car shows.

CHRYSLER CORPORATION, Dodge Truck Assembly, Warren, MI 1972-1976

• Assembler, final assembly area, final line repair, and metal finishing.

EDUCATION / TRAINING

Associates in Applied Science, Oakland Community College, Royal Oak, MI 1998

Major: Industrial Technology

Eastern Michigan University Additional training Coatings Processes 1 and 2 1986

Additional Corporate Sponsored Training

The following is a partial sample of some of the additional training I have completed

B.A.S.F. OEM Paint Seminar 40 Hour PPG Custom Paint Seminar 40 Hour

B.A.S.F. REFINISH Paint Seminar 40Hour PPG Phosphate E-Coat Seminar 40 Hour

PPG OEM Paint Seminar 40 Hour Spray paint defects cause and cure 40 Hour

PPG Refinish Paint Seminar 40 Hour Paintless dent repair 40 Hour

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