Manager Engineer

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Charles "Ron" Sherman

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Experience

Trim Masters, Inc Bardstown Plant

Engineering Manager

Directed the Engineering and Maintenance force of 28 salaried

Engineers, Maintenance Manager and subordinates to establish new assembly

lines, maintain current production lines to exceed our customers

expectations. Established goals and managed performance to reduce scrap,

labor and improve efficiencies. Authorized and managed departmental

budgets and met annual 10% budgets reductions

. Assigned and trained a cross functional team to integrate an

assembly line utilizing 11 Fanuc robots and vision systems to reduce

labor by 60%

. Adopted Hoshin Konri, Kaizen, Jishukin and the Toyota Production

System to obtain the goals set by the customer and corporate management.

. Reduced mold and color change times on 9 injection molding machines

from 20 minutes to 9 minutes, increasing productivity 12% annually

. Retrofitted HID high bay lighting and T-12 Lighting to reduce

energy consumption in the plant by 16,000 Kw/h

Trim Masters, Inc Harrodsburg, KY

Manager (Senior Eng)

Directed Injection Engineering force of 4 senior engineers and

engineers to establish tooling guidelines and implement quality injection

molds to establish process parameters in 5 corporate facilities in the

United States and Canada. Established Capital Budgets for tooling and

Capital equipment for the corporate executives.

. Managed the successful launch of product in Canada and the United

States simultaneously and on time with quality parts to the customer.

. Utilized computer skills with MS Projects and Excel to establish

timelines for project management and tooling tracking schedules, also

implementing an in-depth tooling guideline (standards) for vendors to

reduce errors in construction.

. Instituted a common bid meeting with the tooling vendors with set

tooling target costs and timing, to reduce the lead time for tooling and

cost of tooling by 25%

. Allocated an injection molding machine from a bankrupt supplier and

set it in our facility up and running quality parts in 3 day (start to

finish)

Security Plastics, Inc McAllen TX

Tool Room Manager, Tooling Engineer

Directed Tool room work force of 12 mold makers, apprentices and

cleaners to repair, implement engineering changes and perform routine

preventive maintenance on 110 injection molds with a tolerance of 0.01mm

producing 1 million parts a week.

. Administered hands on training for 2 apprentices on EDM, Surface

grinders, Electrode cutting and grinding with in the Texas labor

guidelines.

. Embellished my mold maker skills and experiences on the tool room

team to improve the efficiencies and standards of the work performed.

. Refurbished multi-color injection rotary molds scheduled for

destruction to accommodate new cavitations for a company savings of

$60,000. Per tool.

Summit Polymers, Inc Mt. Sterling, KY

Manufacturing Engineer, Tooling Engineer & Tool Room Manager

Regulated the preventive maintenance, ECI's and repairs for all in

house injection molds and equipment to meet lean production schedules.

Managed tooling and equipment for 7 assembly programs. Directed a team of

5 mold makers and cleaners in the tool room for all in house tooling

needs.

. Developed a vertical quick mold change process to reduce the change

over time for 30 minutes to 5 minutes per tool, Good part to good part.

. Contributed my mold maker skills and experiences on the tool room

team to improve the efficiencies and standards of the work performed.

. Re-gated injection molds to reduce operator handling and allow

multiple presses for one operator with an annual savings of $120,000.

Macdonald Molding / Textron Mt. Clemens, MI

Tooling Engineer, Maintenance & Tool Room Manager

Supervised the installation and start up of 16 injection molding

machines, cooling tower and central loading system in an empty warehouse.

Set up the process parameters and quality standards for 150 production

molds. Directed maintainence force of 12 Union maintenance employees to

maintain the injection machines.

. Managed the retrofit of a 1965 HPM injection machine for a clamp

unit problem in the hydraulics; this retrofit saved the company 1.2

million dollars to replace it.

. Utilizing my process abilities, 150 injection molds for 3 different

programs were allocated from sub-suppliers and ready for mass production

in 45 days.

. Worked with customer engineering to redesign 4 parts to eliminate

an at the press secondary operation, saving the company $214,000. and

eliminate customer returns for missing components.

Lescoa Inc Grand Rapids, MI

Tool Room Supervisor

Assisted in the supervision of tool room work force comprised of 17

mold makers and machinists. When in 1990 assumed the position of

supervisor. Directly responsible for the acquisition of supplies, new

equipment and repairs of existing equipment. Performed hands on repairs

and engineering changes as directed by the engineering staff.

. Engineered and retooled all molds and hot plate welders for a tail

light assembly line to eliminate $550,000. warranty returns from the

customer.

. During the apprenticeship period, I exhibited excellent skills and

was advanced to group leader over the seasoned mold makers and

responsible for their productivity.

. Designed and constructed a prototype and production mold for multi-

color injection molded tail light, in turn brining 5 million in new

business to the company.

Lacks Ind. Grand Rapids, MI

Tooling Repair Technician

Built and repaired Spray paint masks and equipment, assisted in the

paint shop supervision and scheduling in the supervisors absence.

Responsible for the mixing and tinting of the production paints used in

body color parts.

U.S. Navy Mare Island, CA.

Bosins mate

Education

2008

The Toyota Way, Bardstown, Ky.

2007

Toyota Production System, Bardstown, KY.

1997

Team Oriented Problem Solving, Mt. Sterling, KKY

1997

QS-9000 Internal Auditor Training, Kalamazoo, Mi.

1996

Safety Committee Training, Mt. Clemens, Mi.

1995

Textron 2000 Management Training, Mt. Clemens, Mi.

1991

Kona Injection Systems Seminar, Grand Rapids, MI.

1990

Mold Masters Injection Systems Seminar, Grand Rapids, Mi.

1986

Mold Makers Apprenticeship, Grand Rapids Community Collage, Mi.

3.95 GPA

1976

Basic Electricity & Electronics, U.S. Navy 3.90 GPA

Personal

I have 25+ years in the plastics process and Automotive Industry,

with time spent in Mold Making, Mold Design, prototyping, plastics

processing and tooling engineering. I strive to improve my skills to

benefit the company and myself. I always set my goal to achieve 125%

devotion to any task or project regardless of difficulty. I have always

completed every task and or project on time or early. I enjoy working on

and building computers, and I am very acquainted with Microsoft operating

systems and Office. I am very familiar with AutoCAD 2006 and Lt. 01~07,

Catia V5 R12~R15.

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