Manager Sales

JAMES KEMPSTON Tel.: 1-519-***-**** Email: *****@******.***

***-** ****** **., ******* Ontario, M8V 0A9

September 17, 2012

3K Consulting

Job Ref.: Mechanical Engineering Supervisor

Dear Human Resources and Hiring Manager,

I am interested in applying for the Mechanical Engineering Supervisor position

advertised on the 3K Consulting Website.

Over the past eight years I have had progressive responsibility in a lead R&D engineering

role on application of laser optics for biomedical research, engineering and design of

formula race cars and research, analysis, engineering and testing of survivability systems

for military vehicles. In my current role I provide leadership and technical direction to

engineers and technical drafters for the design, analysis, 3D CAD and manufacturing of

mechanical systems for military vehicles.

I have developed many professional capabilities which I know will help your team in

accomplishing their goals including:

Working in and leading cross-functional teams comprised of manufacturing,

systems and design engineering, sales and marketing, finance and program

management.

Technical project management including resource management, creation of bill of

materials and drawing/specification/CAD reviews for simple sub-systems up to

integration of multiple complex systems on military vehicle platforms.

Mechanical engineering experience in 3D CAD, FEA, GD&T, FMEA, product

research and development, standards and regulatory compliance, product testing

and validation

Systems engineering and creation of system specifications for Aerospace and

Defence contracts from sub-system level up to full vehicle platforms

Manufacturing engineering, lean production, DFM&A, Kaizen improvements

Fully qualified for P.Eng designation including completion of Professional

Practice Examination.

Thank you for your consideration for an exciting career opportunity. Feel free to contact

me at any time.

Best Regards,

James Kempston

JAMES KEMPSTON, BESc, BSc, P.Eng (Eligible)

706-15 Legion Rd., Toronto Ontario, M8V 0A9 1-519-***-**** *****@******.*** Skype: jamesbradleykempston

SUMMARY

Experienced Research and Development engineering professional with strong management experience, in-depth

application of strategic business planning, regulatory compliance, project management and contract negotiation.

Recognized for the ability to lead both technical and non-technical teams. Diplomatic, results driven, professional who is

able to work independently and in groups to exceed business and customer expectations.

Professional Strengths Include:

Contract Negotiation Product Development Public Speaking Mechanical Engineering

Strategic Planning Constructive Teamwork Project Management Resource Allocation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ARMATEC SURVIVABILITY CORP (Dorchester, ON)

Feb 2011 Present

Project Lead Research and Development

Oct 2009 Feb 2011

Junior Defence Engineer Research and Development

Apr 2009 Oct 2009

Junior Engineer Vehicle System Engineering

Progressive responsibility in Engineering, Research and Development (R&D) and Corporate Strategy reporting directly to

the CEO. Works in-line with Directors and VP s for strategic planning and corporate direction. Actively manages R&D

programs for internal, government and commercial partners. Accomplished in technical team management and

application of engineering principles to solve real world problems. Contract negotiation experience ranging from $50K to

over $200M. Active in applying for government incentive programs such as NSERC, SR&ED and SADI.

Highlights

Progressive corporate advancement to top of engineering group managing up to 6 people on technical

and non-technical teams on multiple simultaneous projects.

Go-to person at Armatec for conducting client facing technical presentations. Recognized with ability

to wow a crowd and effectively deliver the winning message.

Spearheaded internal business decision for US Army and US Marine Core HMMWV upgrade program

resulting in commercial partnership for vehicle demonstrator. Partnership generated additional

business opportunities with combined total >$1B over the next 10 to 15 years.

Work performed on occupant and vehicle survivability has been recognized by various military

customers as leading edge, particularly with Canada and the USA. As a result, Armatec has been

coined a Centre of Excellence for occupant survivability resulting in new R&D contracts worth over

$50M.

Details

Lead role for system integration on light and medium class military vehicles ranging from 5T up to 30T.

Design and integration of survivability systems (appliqu armour, spall liner, mine protection shields,

RPG/EFP shields), automotive systems, electrical systems, mission systems, pneumatic/hydraulic

systems, suspension, drive train and internal/external stowage. Directly involved with integration of

simple sub-systems up to full vehicle platform integration including drafting and finalizing performance

specifications that were contractually accepted by the customer. As lead on integration team, set-up

strategic partnerships with sub-suppliers for systems not within Armatec s core business or

manufacturing capabilities and actively involved with overseeing the sub-supplier s performance.

As part of daily role as project lead in R&D, work in collaboration on RFIs and RFPs with Business

Development, Sales and Marketing, Finance, Design/Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering

and Systems Engineering. Support technical portions of contracts, influencing wording to ensure

capability and compliance to contractual requirements, functional performance specifications and

system specifications. Liaison between R&D team and Program Management for active contracts.

Active in managing, developing and reviewing system specifications and functional performance

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specifications (FPS) for internal development, RFP s and contractual customer programs. Have

personally drafted system specifications and FPS for various seating systems, appliqu armour

systems, spall liners, mine protection kits as well as multiple full vehicle platform system specifications

and functional performance specifications including the Australian LAV II Enhanced Survivability Kit

(ESKi) and US Army M-ECV program. Have detailed understanding of associated military and non-

military standards for vehicle design including survivability (STANAG 4569 AEP-55 Vol. 1&2, ITOP 4-

2-508, NIJ 0101.06, MIL-STD-662, ATPD 2352), Human Factors Engineering (MIL-STD-1472, Def

Stan 00-25/14), and Climatic Conditions (MIL-STD-810).

W orking with Quality Assurance and Configuration Management, lead the cross functional team in the

company wide implementation of Armatec s Standard Program aimed at formalizing procedures

around standard compliance for various ASTM, ASME, ISO and MIL standards. As a spin off,

formalized Armatec s anti-corrosive coating requirements and flow-down procedures for vendors to

ensure proper coating types, cleaning methods, tolerances and limited use of toxic materials.

Standardized Armatec s entire hardware and fastener list (roughly 3000 discrete parts) such that all

fasteners conformed to ISO standards and contained proper callouts to simplify procurement process.

As Project Lead in R&D have run various design and new product introduction programs ranging from

simple sub-systems up to complex full vehicle survivability kits. Have been personally involved in

drafting and presenting business cases, design and implementing test plans, design and

manufacturing of test rigs, running destructive and non-destructive testing, collecting data, writing

formal test reports and providing internal and customer facing technical presentations. Extensive test

experience in high energy dynamic impacts, drop tower testing of mine blast seating systems, ballistic

testing of all STANAG levels for both kinetic energy ballistic and FSP threats, multiple STANAG and

ITOP live fire mine and IED blasts on both surrogate and full vehicles. Skilled in using high speed

cameras, data acquisition systems and anthropometric test devices. Have additionally done extensive

analysis and development work with Canadian government in structuring STANAG requirements for

mine blasts. As part of this, developed mathematical program used for characterizing mine blast

loading on military vehicles which has been subsequently proven through various live fire mine blasts.

Program is currently being used to develop formal test set-up procedures which will further define the

STANAG requirements.

NET SUPPORT INC. (Thornhill, ON)

Jun 2006 Apr 2009

Business Development and Account Manager

Led business development for a small start-up company in business-to-business technology sales. Worked in

multifunctional team environment. Developed corporate marketing strategy and executed capture plans for new and

existing clients. Directly involved with sales cycle from initial cold calling through to full company sales team integration.

Spearheaded sales strategy for horizontal and vertical integration within client pool to gain 100% of client s business.

Highlights

Increased lead generation by 3000% with contact of over 300 potential customers. Client

development success rate of 33% resulting in quick sales growth.

Within 2 years increased active international business customers from 10 to 110. Annual sales of $2M.

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO FORMULA SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS (London, ON)

Jun 2005 May 2007

General Manager and Lead Technical Authority

Jun 2004 Jun 2005

Manager Vehicle Chassis and Suspension

Sep 2003 Jun 2004

General Laborer

General Manager and Lead Technical Authority for University autosport race car team consisting of over 40 student

engineers and technicians. Developed and managed annual budget, schedule and resources. Lead technical reviews

from component level up to full system integration.

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Highlights

Progressively improved international standing with best place international finish of 17th out of 125.

Restructured organization chart into smaller efficient functional units. Improved information relay

resulting in more robust design and system integration. Resulted in increased regular team

membership from 12 to 40 volunteer student engineers and technicians within 2 years.

Lead team to maintain 100% on-time delivery of systems for vehicle build.

Spearheaded corporate fundraising campaigns resulting in increase of operating budget by 165%.

Details

As Chassis and Suspension Manager, performed full design, analysis and manufacturing of chassis

and suspension system from 2004-2006. Performed Human Factors Engineering for design and

integration of human interface, automotive and electrical systems. Designed and manufactured

system integration of engine, drive train, suspension, electrical and cooling. In progression into

General Manager position, oversaw the various sub-system managers in the integration and design of

the full racecar.

Developed system specifications based on FSAE race league rules and regulations and flowed down

requirements to sub-system managers for design of their sub-systems.

Heavily involved with communications between the race team, the University and the corporate

sponsors. Actively worked in promotion of team to University and corporate sponsors to increase

team s public recognition.

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS GROUP (London, ON)

May 2004 Jun 2006

Project Lead

Project lead for a NSERC project reporting to the Principle Researcher. Applied electromagnetic theory, optical design,

high powered lasers and fluid dynamics, to design and built in-vitro flow apparatus for measuring change in endothelial

cell gene transcription due to turbulent flow from stenosed arteries.

Highlights

Co-author Experimental investigation of flow-induced shear stress on endothelial integrity, CSME

conference 2008

Details

Produced electromagnetic mathematical models for micro Laser Doppler Velocimeter (LDV) with

associated optics for focusing of laser beams for measuring fluid flow. From mathematical models

designed lenses, transmission optics, optical sensors and laser beam requirements for production.

W orked closely with optics manufacturing company to ensure compliance to performance

requirements.

Designed in-vitro flow rig and prepared manufacturing drawings. Developed interface drawings and

requirements for flow rig integration with microscopes and micro LDV.

ENDPOINT RESEARCH (Mississauga, ON)

May 2003 Aug 2003

Coordinator Assistant

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO CANADA OLYMPIC ROWING TEAM (London, ON)

Sep 2001 May 2002

Research Assistant

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EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO (London, ON)

Bachelor of Engineering Science (BESc); Mechanical Engineering with distinction (2007)

Bachelor of Science (BSc); Physics (2007)

Cumulative Average (GPA in brackets) of BESc and BSc: 87.10% (3.85)

Dean s Honour List, both BESc and BSc: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

GOVERNMENT CLEARANCE LICENSES SOFTWARE

Active Canada Secret (Level II) Restricted and Non-Restricted Proficient in SolidWorks CAD,

Security Clearance Firearms for Ballistic Range Ansys/Autodyn FEA, Matlab

Operation Simulink, Microsoft Office Suite,

W indows platform, DTS Slice Data

P.Eng (Anticipated Oct 2012)

Acquisition, MREL DataTrap II

Data Acquisition, Sabre Ballistics

Data Acquisition, Photron

FASTCAM High Speed Camera,

AOS S-VIT High Speed Camera

Familiar with IDEAS, ProE Wildfire,

ADAMS, Adobe Dreamweaver,

Mac OS X platform

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