DENIS JAKSINA

E-mail: ac27f5@r.postjobfree.com

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West Hartford, CT 06117

860-***-****

OBJECTIVE:

Senior level management position in an innovative, productive lean manufacturing facility.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

20 plus years’ experience in a manufacturing facility

20 plus years’ experience in an engineering environment

20 plus years’ experience in a lean manufacturing facility

20 plus years in Lean Manufacturing, Kaizan (continues improvement), SMED, and TPM which is key in running a stamping and eyelet operation.

18 plus years’ experience in a supervisory capacity

Successful Project Manager purchasing capital equipment

Extensive study of lean (J.I.T.) manufacturing in U.S.A. and Japan, Shingijutu Co., LTD, Japan.

RELEVANT SKILL AND EXPERIENCE

Leadership Skills

Supervised technical support operations of 75 direct and indirect technical associates including tool and machine designer, environmental engineer and facilities engineers. Managed budgeting, profit and loss of departmental operations.

Served as director of safety team, including writing safety polices and procedures.

Managed multi-million dollar projects including purchasing of capital equipment, resulting in 1.3 million cost savings.

Designed and conducted training programs in lean manufacturing.

effectively planned production control using Kan Ban cards.

Engineering Skills

Managed all aspects of manufacturing and processing including advance automate robotic manufacturing lines, CNC programming, tooling, and fixture design, and quality control and CAD systems.

Coordinated and supervised building of specialized machinery from Japan.

Purchased and designed capital equipment.

Processed prototype components and developed production cells using one piece flow.

troubleshooting the processing of all types of CNC and manual equipment.

5/16 – Present Anomatic Co., Naugatuck, CT

Plant Manager

Responsible for all Plant operations: Production, Engineering, Safety, Quality, and Maintenance.

Responsible Plant KPI Metric (Safety, On time Delivery, Quality, and Cost.

Champion for Lean Manufacturing. (SMED, 5 Why, 5’s, )

NPD (New Product Development)

6/14 – 5/16 General Electric Company, Plainville, CT

Advance Manufacturing Lab Leader

Engineering Manager to a group of engineers, toolmakers & machine Build, to design and build prototype automated manufacturing production lines.

Work along with Advance Manufacturing Engineers on projects

Work with NPI (New Product Introduction) Teams, to develop and design prototype components for manufacturing ability.

Meet with automation suppliers, And Building automated equipment, Robotic, Pick & Place units

4/14 – 6/14 Cyient Inc. East Hartford, CT

Process Engineer (Contract Position)

Writing process for assembly jet engines components.

9/12 – 6/13 Kerite, Marmon Utility L.L.C. Co, Seymour, CT

Project Engineer (Contract Position)

Working on safety projects Building & Designing machine guards (mechanical & electrical)

Working with OSHA guide lines to upgrade the factory standards

Working with employees - safety training

Processing projects

Lean Manufacturing

7/11 – 4/12 Precision Punch Inc., Berlin,, CT

Engineering Manager / Quality Manager

New technology implementation and improvements.

Manage capital Equipment purchase

Interaction with customer

DPMO & Quality Assurance

Monthly Metric

Manage current and new product process improvements

Manage process engineers

Responsible for ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 certifications.

9/07 – 3/10 Shelterlogic, Watertown CT

Director of Operations

Responsible for all factory operations including steel and fabric fabrication, warehouse and distribution, shipping and receiving, including supply chain, responsible for budgeting and P&L.

Purchase of capital equipment.

Lean Coordinator, Safety Coordinator

Set-up Kanban systems for on time delivery

93% - 98% on time delivery to ensure customer satisfaction

Develop a quality system for manufacturing doors and end panels

Reduce the monthly backlog to an acceptable dollar amount

ERP System (Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply chain management)

12/05 – 9/07 Accellent Inc., Watertown CT

Engineering Manager

Work with customer to produce quality parts, and process (Eyelet)

Lean Coordinator SMED, TPM

Corp. Safety team

Work with tool/die maker with operation processes

Purchase capital equipment

ERP System (engineering)

Working with Quality - ISO 13485

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5/04 – 12/05 Fenn Technologies, Newington, CT

Hub & Small Parts Cell Leader

Responsible for the production and operations of the Hub and Small Parts Cells. This includes supervision of associates and the P & L of these departments.

AS 91023 first piece inspection report for PW&A and Sikorsky Aircraft

Responsible for Quality (GD&T) in Cells.

9/02 - 9/03 C. Cowles & Co., New Haven, CT

Manufacturing Manager

Supervised Shipping and Receiving, Materials Flow, Tool Room and Manufacturing Floor. Responsibilities included budgeting and P&L.

Supervised three supervisors and fifty associates.

Initiated lean principles, Kan Bans, 5’S, and quick changeover (SMED).

Daily routine included production meetings with supervisor and group leaders to insure daily shipments of 250,000 pieces were met. Also included were meetings with Tool Room Manager for die maintenance; Materials Manager for weekly and daily production scheduling.

2001 -- 2002 The Stanley Works, New Britain, CT

Corporate SPS Manager, Consulting in Lean Manufacturing

Worked with five Stanley plants to achieve Key Production Indicator (KPI) Goals. Worked with other Stanley plants in my expertise of SMED and TPM.

Implemented Kaizen tools: Key Production Indicators, visual controls, Poke Yoke, TPM, Kaizen, 5'S, balance production, production scheduling, changeover (SMED), equipment flexibility, standard work and focused factory.

KPI, road maps and/or process maps were used to determine the areas needed to improve production. At that point Kaizen or TPM events would be set up accordingly.

My primary job was to assist the plant manager, to increase his or her productivity by implementing and teaching lean tools and principles.

Some accomplishments were - Set reduction of a cold header from eight hours to forty-five minutes was achieved in the Dallas plant

Implemented extensive Kan Bans systems of components from supplier to finish goods in the Cleveland air tools facility.

Organized the move of the Access Door facility in Farmington, Connecticut to an open facility in New Britain.

In the time, I spent with Stanley I have performed and participate in over 50 Kaizen.

9/92 - 2001 Wiremold Co., West Hartford, CT

Team Leader of Technical Support

Machine Design, Tool Design, Tool Room, Facility Maintenance, Maintenance, Environmental and Safety.

Managed three supervisors, 75 associates including engineers, die design engineers and tool/die makers.

I was responsible for budgeting (4 million) and P&L in my department. This included capital equipment, tooling, facilities' maintenance (i.e. building and grounds) and salaries. I had the responsibility designing, building and maintaining all tools within Wiremold.

Major accomplishments - Building a 48-inch progressive die from six months down to 56 days. Dividing the tool room into cellular concept to work more efficiently. Built a diagnostic tool room to maintain tools (MASH UNIT). All these accomplishments were achieved through Kaisen events and process mapping.

A Kaizen event was scheduled in my department at least once a month.

Safety Team Director.

I was responsible for the safety and well being of all Wiremold associates according OSHA and Wiremold standards. This also included safety training of all associates. Wrote safety programs; had safety videos made for training (lock out / tag out, haz-mat, fork lift); met with the safety team once a month and did self-audits.

Technical Supervisor Tool/Die.

Supervised 50 tool/die makers. I was in charge of the day to day routine of managing a tool room. This included scheduling of building and maintaining dies.

Technical Team Facilitator

Supervised nine maintenance associates and eight tool/die maker within one of the Wiremold maintenance groups. I had the responsibility daily of maintenance, repair and troubling shooting of all the equipment in my area.

Established and supported TPM groups.

ccomplishments were buying and rebuilding roll formers and establishing a maintenance program through TPM.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Responsible for all the processes in my department, roll formers to assembly.

Worked with the setup / operator to make processes easier and more efficient.

Major accomplishments in setup reduction in roll formers from 8 hours to 7 minutes. Press setups from hours to minutes. These were done by Kaizen events.

I also established TPM and 5'S.

1988 - 1992 Jacobs Vehicle Equipment Co, Bloomfield, CT

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Processed of prototype and production components. Developed production cells using Lean Manufacturing principles. This included: CNC programming of 5-axis milling centers, 6 axis lathes, cost developing of components parts, purchasing capital equipment and tooling.

My job would be to develop the cell, purchase all the necessary tooling and equipment. Trouble shoot the cell and then turn the cell over to the department engineer with all the tooling and programs.

Coordinate, design and supervise building of specialized machinery from Japan.

1984 - 1988 Standard Motor Products, EIS Division, Berlin, CT

Manufacturing Engineer

Design, build tools and fixturing for master cylinders and wheel cylinders for the automotive aftermarket. This included CNC programming of 4 axis milling centers and 3-axis lathe; purchasing of tooling and equipment.

1983 - 1984 Apex Machine, Farmington CT

Tool Designer

1979 - 1983 Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Middletown, CT

Tool/Die Maker

Building fixtures and tools - GD&T

EDUCATION

2008 Masters Degree in Technical Management Central Connecticut State University

1999 Bachelor Science in Industrial Technology Central Connecticut State University

1984 CNC Program Course, Hart Tech. Institute.

1983 - 1984 Tool Design, Porter Chester Institute

1979 - 1983 Tool, Die & Gage Program, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.

CERTIFICATE COURSES

2000 Certified Occupational Hearing Conservationist. #64786

1994 Lean Manufacturing, Shingijutu Co., LTD, Japan.

1993 TPM, Productivity Inc.

1991 Statistical Process Control, S.M.E.

1990 Quality Function Deployment.

1988 &1989 J.I.T. Courses, Five Days one Night, Productivity Inc.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Power Point

Cad – Solidworks, Auto Cad, Kad Key, Mastercam, Cam 8

OTHER ACTIVITIES

1999 - 2000 TBM Seminar, Speaker, - Single Minute Exchange of Die, and Diagnostic Tool Room.

1999 Productivity Inc., Speaker - Single Minute Exchange of Die, and Diagnostic Tool Room.

1992 Fabrication Technician Speaker - Quick Change Rolling Mills

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