Quality Control, Project Management, Mech Design, Fabrication

Lawrence D. Little

Santa Clarita CA ***** Tel: Cell 661-***-**** Home 661/297-2877

Email: ***************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/lawrencelittle1

A highly skilled manufacturing generalist: Experienced in manufacturing

management and supervision, project planning and manufacturing engineering,

mechanical design, tooling, problem solving, quality control and

estimating. Hands-on experience in machining, fabrication, tooling, and

inspection. Computer Skills: SolidWorks, Catia 4, Fabriwin CNC, Microsoft

Office applications. MRP/ERP: BAAN, HMS CAPP, Infysi Global Shop.

Aerospace experience

o Project engineering and detailed process planning for the work flow of

various processes and assembly.

o Supervision of a tooling department maintaining and making tools used for

composite parts and assemblies.

o QA inspection of first article machined parts and assemblies

o Hands-on experience in building, planning and design of tooling.

Commercial experience

o Manufacturing management, planning and supervision in production and

custom manufacturing environments.

o Employee skill development through coaching, training, leadership and

encouragement

o Quality control, evaluation of parts, assemblies and processes for

functionality, economy and manufacturability.

o Estimating many manufacturing processes and materials, with and without

MRP system.

o Mechanical design of tooling, sheet metal and machined parts, assemblies,

and producing associated drawings.

Manufacturing Work History:

Quality Control and Detail Design Engineering

Engineered Lighting Products and Videssence, El Monte, CA. 3/19/08 to

8/24/12

Lighting manufacturer. ELP: commercial and architectural lighting.

Videssence: video studio lighting.

Supported Manufacturing Manager with detail part and assembly designs,

BOMs, drawings and mfg data. Performed quality control and FAI on parts and

assemblies, and directed corrective action. Backed up CNC programming.

Assisted and backed up fabrication supervision, directing 9 people.

Materials used: sheet metal (steel, stainless, aluminum), aluminum

extrusions, spinnings.

Fabrication processes: CNC and manual punching, CNC and manual bending,

spot welding, PEM hardware and rivets.

o Introduced SolidWorks 3D software, improving accuracy, assembly ease,

reducing prototypes and scrap.

o Designed and built tools used in fabrication and assembly, addressing

problems with new and existing products.

o Performed nearly all detail design in complete re-design of Videssence's

Powerkey line of video studio fixtures.

o Performed nearly all detail design of the ExceLED series, and other

Videssence LED products.

o Videssence unit made record sales in 2011 after the above improvements

and new LED introductions.

Tooling Supervisor

Ducommun Aerostructures, Monrovia, CA. 8/7/2006 to 2/9/2007

Aerospace subcontractor specialized in complete flight hardware assemblies

utilizing bonded composite fabrication techniques. Products include Apache,

Carson-Sikorsky and Bell helicopter rotor blades, C17 spoilers and winglets

for Boeing 737 and Hawker. Duties included direct supervision of 7

toolmakers maintaining hundreds of tools for operations, serving the

Process Engineering group with revisions and making new tools, interfacing

with management of all production departments, managing workflow to support

needs of production, ordering material, assisted process engineering and

estimating. Participated in Kaizen events.

Manufacturing Manager/Supervisor

Lighting Parts, Inc. / Totally Tubular 'N More. Los Angeles, CA. 9/99 -

11/05.

This company was a metal fabricator and importer, its history in lighting

components. I was hired because of my broad experience to help the company

gain general metal fabrication work. Our core skills were fabricating

tubular parts: cutting, bending, beading and thread rolling/thread cutting,

using steel, aluminum and brass material. Duties: shop supervision,

fabrication management, 2D drafting, procedure planning with BOMs,

estimating and procurement of materials, tools and supplies. Directed nine

people.

o Designed and built special tools. Solved problems with expensive cutting

and bending equipment purchased by management but not used by prior

supervision, and utilized this equipment to reduce labor and expand our

capabilities.

o Organized, planned, estimated and managed projects using these new

capabilities, and outside suppliers to successfully gain work in non-

lighting projects to replace our decreasing volume in lighting

components.

o Trained our people to work to a level of accuracy which they were not

capable of before, and to use the newly utilized equipment, enabling us

to capture work previously out of reach.

o Designed and implemented a quality system with documentation to satisfy

the requirements of an ISO 9001 certified customer.

Project Engineer

Aircraft Engineering Corp., Paramount, CA. 11/94 - 2/12/99.

Aerospace subcontractor. Provided project management, detailed process

planning and troubleshooting for military and commercial aircraft tooling

and flight hardware programs, working from engineering drawings and BOMs.

Assisted estimating and QA. Produced and modified tool designs using CATIA

4, and provided CAD shop support.

Jig & Fixture Builder

Northrop, Aircraft Div., El Segundo, CA. 1/94 - 11/94.

Fabrication and modification of precision assembly tooling for military

aircraft. Used theodolite, conventional optical systems, precision

mechanical tools and coordination to master gages.

Project Engineer and Inspector

Aircraft Engineering Corp., Paramount, CA. 12/92 - 4/93.

Provided project management, planning and troubleshooting for major

assembly tooling for commercial aircraft.

Assisted inspection department by performing CMM inspections.

Jig & Fixture Builder

Northrop, Aircraft Div., Hawthorne CA. 5/91 -12/92

Fabrication and modification of precision assembly tooling for military

aircraft. Used optical sytems, precision mechanical tools and coordination

to master gages.

Toolmaker and Inspector.

Aircraft Engineering Corp., Paramount, CA. 2/89 - 5/91.

Fabricated conventional and composite jigs and fixtures and soft tooling

using theodolite and conventional optics.

Inspected tooling and machined parts using precision mechanical tools, CMM,

Theodolite and conventional optics.

Mockup & Tooling Development Specialist

Lockheed, Skunk Works, Burbank, CA. 10/88 - 2/89.

Fabricated RCS models using a variety of materials, such as honeycomb,

steel, aluminum, wood, foam and fiberglass.

Jig & Fixture Builder

McDonnell Douglas, Long Beach, CA. 3/88 - 10/88.

Fabricated and modified assembly tooling for commercial and military

aircraft using optical sytems, precision mechanical tools and coordination

to master gages.

Soft Toolmaker

Northrop, Aircraft Div., CA. Hawthorne CA. Pico 1/87 - 3/88.

Fabricated fiberglass and plaster tooling, master gages and jigs & fixtures

for military aircraft. Designed support frames for plaster and fiberglass

tools.

Custom Fabricator

Modi-Graphic, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. 2/82 - 1/87 and 9-72 - 6-77.

Manufacturer of custom items such as lighting, furniture and accessories,

signage, architectural elements and specialized equipment. Duties included

fabrication, tooling, design, supervision and estimating working with

metals, plastics, wood, and castings. Utilized machining, forming, welding,

bonding and other processes. Made thermoforming molds, drill and router

jigs and foundry patterns.

o Introduced the use of procedure planning sheets for repeat items.

o Created specialized router jigs to eliminate time consuming manual work.

Education:

BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles CA.

AA, El Camino College, Torrance CA.

CATIA V5, El Camino College, Torrance CA.

CATIA V4, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita CA.

Cert, C Programming for Computer Graphics, West Coast University, Los

Angeles, CA.

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