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Project Manager Engineer

Location:
Cedar Park, TX
Posted:
February 18, 2013

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William Hagans

Email: abqnr6@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** ******** **** *** ****

City: Cedar Park

State: TX

Zip: 78613

Country: USA

Phone: 727-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $80,000

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William Hagans

727-***-****

abqnr6@r.postjobfree.com

Project Manager

(I currently live in the Metro Austin TX area.)

A long term user of Six Sigma, Lean, quality and process systems. Skilled in presentation, verbal and written communications. A person with an -engineer`s eye- for detail and an MBA`s approach to meeting objectives, schedules, budgets and managing client relationships. A leader of cross-functional teams.

Experienced in the -field- application of the following:

Project Management * Budgeting and Resource management * Lean Manufacturing * Six Sigma * Continuous Process Improvement * Earned Value Management * Change Management * TQM * Problem Resolution * Root Cause Analysis * Programmable Controller system design, programming, installation, troubleshooting and startup * Plant Maintenance * Contractor Management

FORMAL EDUCATION

Masters of Business Administration, Hartford Business School, Hartford, CT

Masters of Management, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hartford, CT

Bachelor of Technology-Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, Middletown, PA

ADDITIONAL TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

Six Sigma Green Belt (Design for Six Sigma)

Ito Professor in United Technologies ACE, Lean-Six Sigma program

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Discreet Scan, LLC, Palm Harbor, Florida * 2008-2012

Privately held provider of videography, film production, and scanning services. We create broadcast quality video productions using on-site video recording, motion graphics creation and editing. Finished projects are delivered to the client in the requested professional format for broadcast or the web.

Project Manager

Manage marketing efforts, meet with clients to gather requirements for proposals, create and present proposals to clients. Schedule resources for field shoots and manage the on site production team. Over see the post-production process and client delivery.

Honeywell International, Clearwater, Florida * 2003-2008

Honeywell International is a $36B diversified company whose products include Aerospace, Automation and Control, Specialty Materials and Transportation Systems.

Engineering Manager

Supervise the daily activities of a group of 16 software engineers in the Test Equipment Software group. Schedule production support activities and prepare cost estimates for new products. The charter of the group is to supply software to test the performance of inertial navigation and global positioning (GPS) navigation equipment for aircraft, land vehicles, artillery, missiles and other munitions.

* Manage and control department budget.

* Recruit and hire personnel

* Represent the Test Software group in customer meetings and product reviews

* Identify and implement metrics for measuring department performance

* Conduct software audits

* Created lean process models to identify solutions for bottlenecks and delays

* Coordinate with Supply Chain, Engineering, and QA for the development of new software for new products.

* Schedule and manage the upgrade of existing test software

* Manage the outsourcing processes associated with sending test software to a Honeywell facility located in India

* Monitor performance to uncover and address long term test software and equipment issues

* Earned -Green Belt- rating in -Design for Six Sigma- program

* Maintain a Six Sigma, Lean environment managing the group and relationships with stake holders

* Improved department cost performance by 7%

United Technologies Corporation (UTC) / Hamilton Sundstrand, Windsor Locks, Connecticut * 1996-2002

UTC is a $60B diversified company whose products include Carrier heating and air conditioning, Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace systems and industrial products, Otis elevators and escalators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Sikorsky helicopters, UTC Fire & Security systems and UTC Power fuel cells.

Program Manager, Test Engineering

Responsible for the upgrading existing test equipment, specification of new test equipment and providing technical line support to the Central Manufacturing Engineering organization to maintain customer satisfaction.

* Key member of the team that transformed the Windsor plant into a -lean manufacturing- showcase that served as a teaching center for cost control, quality, and bottom-line growth.

* Lean Manufacturing 5S Professor providing guidance on process control and quality standards

* Interface with customers to insure no misses in schedule or budget were caused by new processes

* Equipment upgrades were installed and certified with no impact to production schedules

Lean Manufacturing, 5S Professor-Ace Program (Ito Professor)

Ito University was the United Technologies Executive Quality College for the -ACE- (Achieving Competitive Excellence) program. The ACE program is designed to improve product quality and financial performance through the use of various quality tools: QCPC, 5S, TPM, Root Cause Analysis, Mistake Proofing, Market Feedback Analysis, Passport, Process Certification.

Trained plant personnel in the United Technologies Process Improvement -ACE- Program. Lead eight plant-manufacturing team through the three phases of the program: Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Acted as consultant and facilitator to support the change management of the work cells.

All teams reached a minimum level of silver -ACE- implementation.

Taught classes to company wide attendees including UTC executive staff at United Technologies Ito University.

Rockwell Automation, Milwaukee Wisconsin * 1994-1996

A manufacturer of industrial electrical controls.

Senior Project Leader - Circuit Board Technology

Project Leader for cost and budget to expand manufacturing capabilities.

* Responsible for leading a multifunctional team for Purchasing, Quality, Materials and Engineering departments formed to expand company manufacturing capacity outsourcing printed circuit board to contract suppliers.

* Identified potential contract suppliers and dispatched team members to evaluate potential suppliers on manufacturing process compatibility, quality, manufacturing capacity and price.

* Customer interface to address concerns and issues.

* Analyzed internal manufacturing forecasts.

* Make status presentation to senior management.

* Expand identified trends in products and product lines, which required production capacity. Selected and outsourced printed circuit boards to qualified contract suppliers.

* Selected and qualified contract suppliers for printed circuit board production.

* Outsourced annual production of 1,300,000 printed circuit boards valued at $92,000,000 to contract suppliers. This represented a manufacturing capacity increase of 20%

McGaw Inc, Irvine California * 1989-1994

The medical intravenous solutions and accessory manufacturing division of IVAX Corporation, a manufacturer of health and beauty care products.

Engineering Specialist - Facilities Engineering

Manage building construction projects to assure on time delivery to the drawings and specifications. Supervise onsite contractors and verify progress before releasing scheduled progress payments.

Analyzed plant utilization of electrical power and process steam. Prepared the technical and capital justification for the installation of a second 5 megawatt gas turbine generator to meet expanded demand for electricity and process steam.

Plan and supervise the installation of new process equipment and it`s connection to plant facility systems.

Provided day to day engineering support designing and implementing changes to the plant electrical water, compressed air and steam systems as equipments was replaced changed.

Senior Project Engineer - Automation Engineering

Design, build and install plc based electrical controls for intravenous solutions dispensing equipment. The equipment was used to fill 1 liter and 3 liter containers on the same equipment.

Analyzed a persistent fill volume accuracy problem with the production line. Designed and implemented changes to filling equipment to improve solution fill accuracy. Fill volume rejects were reduced from 10% to 0.1%.

Ford Motor Company, St. Louis, Missouri * 1983 to 1988

An automobile manufacturer. (Plant was 3 million square feet)

Senior Plant Engineer

Performed installation of new manufacturing equipment, conveyors, robots, paint ovens etc. Scheduled and managed contractors. Implemented preventive maintenance procedures to insure equipment availability required to meet production demands.

Designed, scheduled and supervised changes to plant utility systems: electrical, compressed air, process water, gas and steam.

Supervised changes to plant structure, roofing, chiller, environment protection and HVAC systems.

Supervise plant construction involving changes to the buildings and grounds.

Immediately address and eliminate reported plant safety hazards.

Supervise the installation and startup of a plant wide 3,000 control point energy management system

Assure facility changes did not create out of compliance issues with county and state regulatory agencies.

Supported 10 hour a day 6-day production operations with troubleshooting and repair production equipment as required.

Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Illinois * 1980 to 1982

A manufacturer of medical devices and products.

Equipment Engineer - Flexible Container Engineering

Designed, built and installed programmable controller based control systems for intravenous solutions filling and packaging equipment.

Designed, built and supervised the installation of a programmable controller based control system for an intravenous solutions filling and packaging line in Montreal Canada.

Corning Glass Works, Corning, New York * 1977 to 1980

A manufacturer of high quality special purpose glass and ceramic products.

Shift Supervisor - Television Picture Tube Components Plant, Bluffton, Indiana

Directly supervise 50 hourly workers in a -hot glass- manufacturing plant.

Equipment Engineer

Designed, built and installed programmable controller based control systems for ceramic products and glass optical waveguide production.



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