Engineer Manager

Harry V (Pat) March

Phone: 513-***-****

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Cincinnati OH 45248

EDUCATION: Case Institute of Technology 1954 BSME

MORE TRAINING: Electro-Magneto-Hydrodynamics (GE)

Field Supervisor (GE)

Effective Presentation (GE)

Jet Engines and Controls (GE)

PERT (Maynard)

Predetermined Motion Data (Kenner)

Value Engineering (U. Wisconsin)

Artillery Mechanic (U.S. Army)

Artillery Survey (U.S. Army)

Sound and Flash Ranging (U.S. Army)

Material Requirements Planning

(Brunswick)

BAMP V Advanced Management (Brunswick)

AutoCad 14 (Sinclair)

EXPERIENCE: SKONK WORKS, Cincinnati 1991-present

Proprietor. Providing design consulting. Primary skill in plastics. Long

experience and bottom-line thinking make my designs less costly to tool up

and produce with fewer startup problems

Clients include Young Concepts, Scientext, Hammacher-Schlemmer, RTP

Electrix, Ballards'. Facilities include an engineering library, two

computers, scanner, two printers, huge old drafting table, strobotac and

other equipment..

Kodak, Kettering OH, Sep 1981-Dec 1991

Various Positions: Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Principle Engineer.

Responsible for insuring the product engineer's designs are producible.

Critiqued designs. Proposed alternatives. Evaluated vendors. Negotiated

tooling contracts. Monitored tooling progress. Advised on plastic, metal

and die-cast design. Trained engineers and technicians. Two patents.

Retired Dec 1991

Brunswick Consumer Division, Marion VA, Oct

1979-Apr 1981

Director of R & D. Supervised engineers, draftsmen and technicians in

development of new products.

Playskool, Chicago Jul 1977-Sep 1979

Senior Project Engineer. Coordinated development of Alphie, an electronic

toy for toddlers. Product was ready on time despite an unusually tight

schedule involving coordination of resources throughout the United Stated

and four foreign countries. Developed four other toys. Also made design

contributions resulting in annual savings of more than $200,000.

Kenner Products. Cincinnati Ohio, Jun 1961- Jun

1977

Engineering Manager. Responsible for development of new products from

concept through pilot production and beyond. Managed a small group of

engineers. Devised and developed the Easy Bake Oven, an all-time top

selling product. Invented and developed Mold Master, another top toy. And

Propstreak and Jetstreak, which were electric powered flying models. Value

engineered an existing product, saving over $275,000 in one year. Several

patents. Served on Underwriters Industry Advisory Council and Underwriters

ad hoc toy safety committee.

General Electric. Various locations Jun

1954-Jun 1961

Various positions. Initiated redesign of engine test adapter to be more

user friendly. Also reduced cost from $3,000 to $800. Devised novel non-

electric method of positioning a nuclear reactor control rod. Served as

tech rep on J-47 engine in Japan.

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