Engineer Manufacturing
Resume:
Stephen Rulli Sr.
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Summary of Experience
Production
o Thirteen years of direct supervision experience.
o Completed 21st Century Leadership from CCSU.
o Supervised Tool Room and Layout Department, responsible for tooling
and gage recall system.
o Night shift supervisor with total plant coverage and closing
responsibility.
o Certified in Total Productive Maintenance by Fuss & O'Neil.
o Familiar with ERP systems and workforce management software; Kronos
and Cosmos.
o Experienced in training workforce in all aspects of lean manufacturing
as well basic skills needed to work effectively using SPC and
automated equipment.
Quality
o Certified Internal Auditor for ISO9001: 2008.
o Trained in basic and advanced SPC, competent using Minitab.
o Fully trained in GD&T.
o Experienced with aerospace and powdered metal blueprints and quality
procedures.
o Completed hundreds of CMM and Vision machine programs. Familiar with
PC-DMIS, Tutor for Windows, View Engineer software and OGP software.
o Completed NADCAP approval for EDM at Howmet Corp.
Manufacturing Engineering
o Trained in Lean manufacturing-Toyota Production system; Alcoa Business
System; P&W Ace program. Member of over forty Kaizan teams-five as
leader.
o Six Sigma trained from GE and CCSU, certified Green Belt.
o CAD design of fixtures, gages, tooling and solid models for
programming using AutoCAD, Solidworks, Cadkey, and some Unigraphics.
o Developed applications for following machine groups: Sinker and Wire
EDM; 5-axis CBN grinding; CMM and Vision system inspection; Robotic
Finishing Cells; various Machining Centers; Automated Marking systems.
Experienced in CNC programming for all listed equipment.
o Directly involved with the procurement of over two million dollars in
capital Equipment.
o Published "Grinding Aerospace Materials with CBN in Water Based
Coolant", Society of Manufacturing Engineers, October 2006, with Dr.
Stuart Salmon, Dr. Milton Hoff and Laurence Dillon.
Work History
1/2008 to 3/30/2011 Mott Corporation Farmington, CT 06032
Second Shift Foreman
Responsible for the production and quality of porous powdered metal filters
throughout the shop on second, and into third shift.
Supervisor of twenty-eight people, including time and attendance, using
Kronos.
Schedule seven production furnaces, and all other activity throughout the
shop.
Support all lean manufacturing efforts. Helped develop value stream
production of 10,000 ISO tubes from powder to finished filter cartridges.
Part of management team that produced record profits in 2010.
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10/2006 to 9/2007 MC Machinery Systems
Wood Dale, IL 60191
EDM Service Technician, New England
Install, service, and troubleshoot Mitsubishi wire and sinker EDM
throughout New England.
Installed eight large gantry type 5-axis sinker EDM's at P&W.
7/2005 to 8/2006 Fenn Technologies
Newington, CT 06111
Cell Leader, Chinook Hubs and Swash plates
Directly responsible for the production of up to 2.5 million dollars of
Chinook Helicopter parts per month.
Supervisor of twenty-three people over two shifts.
2/2005 to 7/2005 Perry Technologies
New Hartford, CT 06057
EDM Manufacturing Engineer
Responsible for wire and sinker EDM manufacture of splines, gears and
associated hardware, including all EDM programming.
Supported tool room in making fixtures and gages.
12/2004 to 2/2005 Applied Controls
Bristol, CT 06010
Robotic Cell Technician
Construct robotic finishing cells from the floor up, including mechanical
and electrical construction.
Work out correct application materials and then program Motoman robot to
produce parts to customer specifications.
5/1984 to 10/2004 Howmet Castings Winsted, CT
06098
Manufacturing Engineer
Direct responsibilities for all EDM operations in shop, including initial
concepts thru design of tooling and electrodes to programming equipment.
Responsible for Howmet to achieve NADCAP approval in EDM.
Directly responsible for all CBN operations including fixture and wheel
design as well as programming Huffman 5-axis grinding machines.
Oversee manufacturing in 3 cells producing Solar Turbines; GE; Rolls Royce
and Pratt & Whitney vanes.
First Cell Engineer at Howmet, implementing cellular methodology in 1994 in
the production of turbine vanes for Pratt & Whitney.
Education
The Gilbert High School, Winsted, CT Graduated in 1976
Central Connecticut State University, 1976-1977
Northwestern Connecticut Community College
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Winsted, CT 06098
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