Desired job

I would like a technical leadership role to help increase the company

profitability. This role would lead activities focused on reducing process

nonconformances, improving process control and developing processes for new

products and business opportunities.

Work Experience

COQ Engineer - North American Stainless (2006-Present)

I am the team facilitator/leader for many melt shop cost-of-quality (COQ)

teams. These teams were responsible for doubling the success rate of

meeting "Tier-One Customer" chemistry requirements for 409 ferritic

stainless steels by using Six Sigma problem solving techniques (DMAIC) -

$2.5 million cost savings over one year; statistical analysis of

hot mill temperatures and 316L grade chemistries yielded processing

guidelines to reduce sliver defects by 80% - $400,000 cost savings over 6

months. I have experience working with EAF, AOD and Continuous Casting

quality and cost improvement projects.

Director of Product Development - ECOMold Products & PST Bronze (2002-2005)

I helped the successful startup of ECOMold Products, a spin-off of PST

Bronze. I successfully led the company R&D effort to develop a material

process for large plate and bushing products to replace 2% beryllium

copper. I developed heat treating processes for copper alloys including:

solution annealing, age hardening, ausquenching, martempering, cryogenic

treatments, and general annealing heat treatments. I experimented with the

quench severity of many quenching mediums including: fast, medium and slow

quenching oils in integral-batch heat treat furnaces; polymer-water

quenchants at different solution strengths; and ausquenching salt-water

solutions. I also investigated the use of cryogenic and shot-peening

treatments to alleviate residual stresses caused by severe quenching. I

developed the supply chain to produce these products including hot forging,

machining and cold forging processes; managed the production of these

products and assured conformance to customer specifications. Annual sales

for these products reached $1.8 million in 2004.

Manager of Metallurgy - Ampco Metal Incorporated (1998-2002)

I successfully led the company R&D effort, in collaboration with MIT, to

develop a material process (solution annealing, age hardening and stress

relieving) for a rod product to replace beryllium copper. I led a multi-

department technical team to develop a product cited in a customer patent

for use as a casting wheel for casting amorphous metal ribbon. I developed

cold working and annealing treatments for aluminum bronze and nickel-

aluminum bronzes (quench and temper; precipitation and age hardening);

developed and refined hot-extrusion, hot-forging, batch-annealing, quench

and temper treatments for copper alloys; managed the spectrographic and

mechanical test labs; supervised five technicians, two metallurgists and a

metallurgist intern; facilitated inter-departmental team efforts and

implemented corrective action plans to reduce the nonconformance COQ by 65%

in the extrusion mill and by 44% in casting ($200,000/yr savings);

responsible for failure analysis of all products corporate-wide.

Senior Metallurgical Process Engineer - Olin Corporation (1990-1998)

I helped develop a material process for a product to replace leaded brass -

over 500,000 lbs of this product was shipped in 1996; designed wire drawing

and annealing processes for the startup of an $8 million dollar equipment

investment to meet production goals; improved rod rolling, wire drawing and

annealing processes to help double production volumes off this equipment in

3 years; created the annealing recipes used in the Ebner batch-annealing

furnaces; designed and improved thermo-mechanical processes to acquire and

maintain over $2 million/yr in sales of new alloy rod/wire business;

developed and implemented quality assurance corrective action plans to

reduce the internal cost of quality by $100,000/yr; designed and improved

processes for hot extrusion, rod-rolling, drawing, annealing of rod/wire

copper alloys; designed and improved processes for hot rolling, cold

rolling, strip-annealing, degreasing and pickling of sheet copper alloys;

determined cause of failure of components manufactured from copper alloys

via metallographic, chemical and mechanical testing techniques; established

standard operating procedures for personnel to assure product quality. I

traveled to many customer locations in a technical service capacity.

Teaching Assistant* - University of Illinois (1988-1990)

Taught students metallurgical laboratory techniques and theory - techniques

included characterization of metals and alloys via metallography and

mechanical testing; analyzed test data via graphs and curve fitting.

Process Engineer Intern* - Olin Corporation (1987)

I helped improve the quality of copper alloy castings by modifications to

existing casting practices guided by statistical analysis of process

parameters.

Janitor* - University of Illinois (1985-1987)

Electrician Mate - US Navy (1979-1983)

Education: University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL:-M.S.,

Metallurgical Engineering - 1990 (G.P.A.: 4.4/5.0). Graduate coursework:

polymers, ceramics, metals; B.S., Metallurgical Engineering - 1988 (G.P.A.:

4.3/5.0)Lewis & Clark Community College, Godfrey, IL-Pre-Engineering

Curriculum - 1985 (G.P.A.: 4.8/5.0)

Honors/ORGANIZATIONS: Highest Award for Achievement - Dale Carnegie Course.

Meritorious Advancement to E-5 (U.S. Navy-1982); Chemistry Student of the

Year (LCCC-1984); Alpha Sigma Mu - Metallurgical Engineering Honor Society;

Engineering Open House Central Exhibit First Place (Illinois-1986); UIMS

(Student Metallurgy Society); ASM (Materials Engineering Society)

Salary: Negotiable.

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