Project Manager Lean Manufacturing

CARL T. FRANCIS

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937-***-**** mobile

SUMMARY

A Tool and Gage Designer with hands-on experience from concept to design; applying AutoCAD, SolidWorks, SolidEdge, Unigraphics NX, ProE and other related programs for the Manufacturing, Medical and Consumer Products industries.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Lean Manufacturing

Fixtures

Special Machines

Dies

Gages

Machine tool

Materials handling

Aerospace applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RETIRED 2015 - PRESENT

PRODUCTIVE ENGINEERING INC. 2014 - 2015

PEI Specializes in design and build of special machines.

Senior Level Machine Designer

L-3 (Amelia, Ohio) 2006 – 2014

L-3 Fuzing & Ordnance Systems is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the Department of Defense. It specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of mechanical and electromechanical safety and arming mechanisms and timing devices.

Senior Level Tool and Gage Designer

Worked as a senior level tool and gage designer for a top producer of timing devices for the DOD.

Concept and design gages and special tools.

Facilitate, build and coordinate with inside and outside resources

Collaborate with metrology insuring calibration to be valid and current.

PCS (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2005 – 2006

TSS Technologies, located in Cincinnati, is a company that specializes in the design, engineering and manufacture of components and assemblies. It provides a full range of services with specialized experience in aerospace, automotive, medical systems, packaging, and aviation power and marine power.

Contract Designer, TSS

RAPID DESIGN SERVICE (Dayton, Ohio) 1999 – 2004

Was a leading supplier of design, drafting and technical services; RDS was a global integrated technical engineering and design firm.

Project Manager

Project Leader

Designer

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Associate Degree, ITT Technical Institute, Tool & Die Design Technology

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified in ASME Y 14.5M-1994 Dimensioning and Tolerancing

WORK RELATED PROJECTS

Welding machines

Thermoform mold change system

Large body panel dies

Progressive dies Robotic transfer and process equipment

Form and pierce dies

Medical hypodermic needle grinding equipment

Aerospace component fixturing

Large materials handling equipment

High speed bottle manufacturing equipment

Floor plan layout and structural steel rearrangement

Composite high speed machining dial machine

Optics/Laser applications

Pneumatics/Hydraulics design and applications Gages

Comparator charts, Equipment integration

Machine Tool dial machines, layouts, fixturing and cluster boxes

Hydroforming machine presses

Test equipment

Lean manufacturing assembly cell design

Heater core automated assembly machines

Automated dial assembly machines

Laminating machine for clutch material

Bosch transfer and structural systems

Medical component assembly machines

Safety equipment

Ergonomic and OSHA requirement projects

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Shriners, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)

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