James R .Free

**** ***** ******* **. * Home: 419-***-****

Lexington Oh 44904 Cell: 419-***-**** abmdy7@r.postjobfree.com

Performance Remarks

-Highly skilled proactive results-orientated professional

-Consummate team player

-Effectively manages and prioritizes multiple responsibilities

-Works very well with others

Profile

Obtain a position in general management or a position that allows

me

To utilize my skills, experiences and education to benefit my

Employer and provide good customer services.

Experience

Communicator

Employment: InfoCision Corporation

. Telemarketing calls for various organizations

Mod-Shop Supervisor

Employment: Siemens Automotive and Electrical

. Supervised Electrical Breaker Modification using SAP support system

And warehouse inventory control.

Material Handling Supervisor

Employment: General Motors Corporation

. Supervised fork truck drivers for the press room, maintained rack and

storage containers to meet production needs, supervised all yard

drivers.

Supervisor of Production

. Supervised employees in several metal assembly lines at General Motors

Ohio Mansfield Fabrication Center. This involved facilitating team

meetings, monitoring all quality issues, participating in workplace

organization projects, making sure employees were working in a safe

manner using all their personal protective equipment, monitoring the

work area for safety issues, implementing and rewarding the suggestion

program, working to continually improve throughput and monitoring

daily attendance. Worked with such manufacturing concepts as

resistance welding, metal fabrication, injection molding and stamping.

QS9001 certified.

Tool and Cost Estimator

. Estimated tool cost (hours and materials) for the Assembly Tool Build

Operation. Estimated hours for weld fabrication tooling,

scheduled

Hours for tool construction, machine shop and integration,

tracked

Impact of design revisions, allocated work to outside vendors,

made

Contacts with suppliers concerning delivery dates and

engineering

Problems.

Project Manager

. Coordinated weld tool construction, integration and shipment to the

assembly plant. This also involved working with project engineers form

headquarters to plan timing of the project, cost controls, engineering

changes and final delivery of the system. Helped implement lean

tooling standards with cost reduction strategies to reduce cycle time

and eliminate unnecessary processes. Reduced costs by eliminating

inefficient in house manufacturing procedures and using outside

vendors who not only expedite the process, but lower the final cost.

Coordinated the moving of our rubber and plastic components to outside

vendors when cost and OHSA guidelines became more stringent concerning

outside ventilation systems that would have had to be installed.

Tool Construction Supervisor

. Supervised tool build process which involves fabrication, machining,

assembly, data certification, wire and pipe and delivery to

integration. I was supervising six skilled trades' group and four

unskilled classifications.

Cad Cam Programmer

. Programmed digitally scanned data to machine cutter paths for NC

Locator blocks and provided the certification data. Created the

cutter

Paths for the molds for the poured plastic locators.

Machinist

. Worked in large and small machine shops ran CNC Toshiba copy mills

and conventional boring mills

Toolmaker

. Worked in the weld gun construction and jig and fixture operations

at Mansfield Ohio Tooling. Assembled weld guns, fabricated brackets

for weld assembly tooling, operated small machines for final

fabrication and worked in the final inspection process. Worked with

polymers and high density rubber used for casting N.C. data locators

Toolmaker Apprenticeship

. Completed toolmaker checking fixture apprenticeship at Fisher Body

Plant # 21, Detroit MI. This involved construction of validation

Fixtures, participating in prototype assembly operations

For the future product lines. We made the framework for future

plastic . Die models

Education

. BSBA in Management with a minor in marketing. Ashland University,

Ashland, OH.

. Attended NC State College majoring in mechanical engineering before

transferring to AU 1983-1985.

. Completed toolmaker apprenticeship at Macomb Community College.

July 12, 2010

HR Director

Dear HR Director:

I am interested in employment with your firm. I know that my education and

experience have prepared me for the position you have available.

As you can see from my enclosed resume, I have many years' experience in

the Manufacturing field. I also have extensive business and management

experience, which has broadened both my perspective and abilities.

Please contact me if you have any further questions about my references. I

do have experience with Microsoft office app;ications.

Sincerely,

James R. Free

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