Engineer Manager

PAUL ANDREW RUSSELL

**** **** ********** • Fayetteville, TN 37334

931-***-**** Residence • 931-***-**** Cell

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SENIOR MANUFACTURING / AUTOMATION / QUALITY - ENGINEER / MANAGER

Results-focused management professional with a more than 20 year career of proven technical experience, knowledge and skills in automated manufacturing machine systems, controls engineering, robotics integration, and engineering management. Experience in Automotive , Industrial, Commercial, HVAC and Defense Industries. Demonstrated ability to provide automated manufacturing solutions for domestic and international automotive, industrial, and defense industry manufacturing operations. Experience includes PC and PLC based control systems programming, Servo based motion control systems, HMI, Robotics. Engineering / Maintenance department management, assembly automation and systems integration, automated controls systems and automotive quality control department management. Expertise in conceiving and implementing solutions to complex technical manufacturing challenges. Proven managerial experience ranging from supervision of engineering professionals to unionized employees. Superior written, verbal, computer, communication, training and leadership skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

L-3 COMMUNICATIONS / ELECTRO OPTICAL SYSTEMS – NIGHT VISION –EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS, Huntsville, AL

Senior Staff Manufacturing/Automation/Controls Engineer 2008 - 2011

• Supervised plant wide manufacturing equipment and process engineering – tooling, molds and fixturing design - AutoCad

• Managed manufacturing automation, continuous improvement, and lean cell initiatives for a 40,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility producing complex high voltage power supplies for the night vision equipment / systems – defense industry.

• Served as process improvement-automation projects lead senior engineer at 2 facilities,- PLC programming - Huntsville, AL and Tempe, AZ light intensifier / night vision tube manufacturing.

• Managed new product introduction with new processes and robotic automated manufacturing integration engineering and new tooling.

• Instrumental in achieving yields improvements from mid 70% to 98%+ in 2 years on 3 different product lines with regards to manufacturing automation, process control, and tooling projects.

CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE (formerly Siemens VDO- Chrysler AE), Huntsville, AL

Senior Tool & Process Engineer/Lean Integrator Specialist 2005 - 2008

• Continuous improvement/Lean/5S/Value Stream/Kaizen/Productivity Specialist – IP & BS Divisions.

• IP products final assembly line manufacturing/robotics engineering/ PLC software developer

• Provided error proofing/cell design and implementation for IP product lines, saving $500K in quality inspection costs. Acknowledged by Siemens VDO Worldwide by designing & implementing: 3i Suggestion of the Month-Feb. 2006 for IP Robotic Ionized Air Mask & Lens cleaner.

• Instrumental in saving $1.6M service build requirement for design/build-OES/Service Flex Manufacturing Cell-Robotic pointer set system-IP products.

TRANS TRON LIMITED/FUTABA, Huntsville, AL

Manufacturing Quality Control Manager 2003 - 2005

Served as QS9000 Quality Control Engineering Manager for this automotive electronics manufacturer with annual sales of $60M.

Provided quality supervision of Automotive Tier 2, Industrial, Commercial manufacturing engineering.

Managed QS 9000 Automotive Quality Systems, production, test, PPAP, 8D, 5 Why, Failure Analysis, and Customer Quality Liaison Engineering.

RUSSELL CONTROLS, Fayetteville, TN

Owner/Automated Systems Integrator/Controls Design Engineering 1998 - 2003

Engineering management and integration of automation projects on an industrial and commercial level including PC / PLC / Multi Axis Servo / Robotics, Motion Control as well as

Vision Systems, programming, projects ranging from $5K to $500K

Implemented and managed sales and application engineering for the North Alabama and Middle Tennessee territories of Bertelkamp Automation. Increased territory’s sales volume by 18%

Designed / Developed arcade redemption games as Tennessee Automated Amusements including: “Bubba Golf” Animatronics Bear Golf Game, Dollywood Theme Park; Video Image Capture Shooting Gallery Game, Dave & Buster’s; “Betty Bomber” 2 axis motion ball drop target game, Chuckie Cheese; “Light Em’ Up” LED target shoot game, TILT.

AVEX ELECTRONICS, Huntsville, AL

Automated Manufacturing Engineering Manager 1990 - 1998

Responsible for all in-house designed and built automation and robotic assembly projects installed in every AVEX manufacturing facility worldwide.

Managed manpower and budget resources responsibilities for 3 separate technical departments comprised of cross disciplined engineering personnel, tool and die makers, and machine maintenance technicians. (80+)

Corporate “Design for Manufacturability” automation engineering specialist.

Project coordinator of contractor supplied custom assembly systems and related sub-systems.

Capital project management and implementation ranging from $50K to $6M involving entire line and complete factory automation and many single cell labor saving projects.

Provided dotted line organization reporting to AVEX CEO for in-house manufacturing system solutions to unique customer assembly requirements.Hi-volume bid team and cost estimator of automated assembly systems. Major projects completed were Ray-O-Vac $5.2M, Polaroid $3.6M, Wireless Access $2.7M, all new product launches. Direct labor saving cost reduction in excess of $6M over life of projects.

OTHER EMPLOYMENT:

AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Birmingham, AL, Robotic Manufacturing Systems Manager, 1989-1990

CHRYSLER AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS, Huntsville, AL, Lead Radio Manufacturing Engineer, 1985-1989

ELECTRO-VOICE, Sevierville, TN, Microphone Manufacturing / Product Engineer, 1979-1985

EDUCATION and TRAINING

BSBM, Technical Business Management, MARSHAL UNIVERSITY, Huntington, W.Va.

ASEE, Electrical Engineering, W.Va. UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Mongtomery, W.Va.

20 + years of industrial automation training: Adept, IAI, Sony, SCARA robot software training / Allen Bradley, Omron, TI, Siemens, Mitubishi PLC software training and experience / AutoCAD /

Animatics Smart Motor, AB, Galill, servo software, Chrysler Institute: Pneumatics & Machine Design – Lean Manufacturing Training, Kaizen event training, Value Stream, 5S

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