Hassan Mourad

734-***-****

E-mail acbm59@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Project Engineer with proven experience in assessing and analyzing needs and creating innovative solutions to complex problems. Excels at building efficient relationships with teams that clarify and define project outcomes. Leads through coaching and establishing clear goals and objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

New Product Development Engineer 2009-2013

Graham Packaging York, PA

Graham Packaging Company, L.P. is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of custom blow-molded rigid plastic containers.

• Assessed customer needs; conducted cost analysis that informed business cases and collaborated with commercial managers to provide cost effective, high quality product quotes that increased project executions by 25%.

• Managed four projects for Coca-Cola Brazil; designed innovative-patented 1 liter juice container that introduced new product launch to population of 198.7 million potential consumers.

• Met with German manufactures in Munich to prototype new innovative light- weight packaging product to fulfill the requirements of Coca-Cola Brazil that increased profitability by 5%.

• Designed durable refillable containers for Coca Cola Mexico that reduced manufacturing costs while making positive impact on environment.

• Collaborated with customers to articulate, identify and define product specification in host’s language; led efforts of industrial and engineering designers to ensure product met 100% of customer requirements and criteria.

• Assessed and reviewed designs and provided recommendations that improved product performance and profitability.

• Tracked, monitored and proactively identified production problems and created solutions that produced accurate prototypes; attended and supervised sampling trials that ensured 100% full production runs.

• Collaborated on-site with production plant engineers to assess and analyze product specifications and identify out of specification dimensions; created and implemented customized solutions that maximized product performance and guaranteed on-time, high quality products that met all budget constraints.

Amcor PET Packaging Ann Arbor, MI 1998 - 2009

Product Development Manager – Latin America 2002 - 2009

Global leader in responsible global packaging solutions supplying a broad range of plastic (rigid & flexible), fiber, metal and glass packaging products to enhance the products consumers use in everyday life; $12 billion sales 33,000 employees.

Won CEO award for best innovative project of the year 07-08

• Supervised Project Development Team that managed over 30 projects in Latin America market including Mexico, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, and Argentina.

• Introduced over 100 new products to Latin America customers that increased market share and generated over $500M of additional revenue.

• Developed and implemented non-traditional heat set design for Gatorade, Mexico, which increased market share and was subsequently produced in Canada, USA and other South American countries; awarded utility patent for 20oz Gatorade Heat Set container in Mexico.

• Researched, developed and produced innovative, container for carbonated Malta that allows for pasteurization; this, first of its kind in company, was awarded design patent for 1.5L pasteurized Malta container in Venezuela.

• Developed wide mouth jar for mayonnaise in Mexico that is blown on Sidel machines; product was eventually produced in Venezuela and Brazil.

• Developed first pasteurized beer bottle of PET material.

• Directed programs that provided technical training for commercial managers, plants personnel and customers that increased technical proficiencies and allowed for greater participation in product development.

• Managed all product development projects performed by designers and project engineers; wrote and maintained up to date status reports that increased transparency and maximized production.

Project Engineer 2000 – 2002

• Directed process and quality lab activities; acquired change parts, materials and tooling and established product acceptance criteria.

• Established performance specifications and tolerances for new products.

• Directed new container, perform, and finish design activities.

• Collaborated with manufacturing plants with start-ups and validated new products.

• Implemented FMEA in design and process phases as a problem-preventing tool.

• Conducted design experiments to solve quality problems and to optimize processes.

Quality Engineer 1998 - 2000

• Performed all tests required to ensure new products met customer’s requirements.

• Prepared comprehensive report on each qualification with comments and suggestions that improved performance and process capabilities.

• Made recommendations for design and weight changes to meet product specifications.

• Provided technical support for commercial and plant managers and customers when required including technical presentations, training and advice.

• Established and documented testing protocols for new tests that ensured product met customer specifications.

PATENTS

20oz Gatorade utility patent # D516,922

1L Juice bottle, Brazil design patent # D652,734 S

1.5L Maltin Design patent in Venezuela

Texture for refillable bottles utility and design patents (pending)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Quality Planning Eastern University Michigan

Advanced Statistical Control Eastern University Michigan

Reliability Eastern University Michigan

Quality Audit Eastern University Michigan

Design of Experiments Eastern University Michigan

Project Management Training

FMEA Training

Trade Shows:

NPE show in Chicago

Drinktec show in Munich, Germany

Argentina

EDUCATION

Masters of Science Mechanical Engineering; UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO London, Ontario

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering; WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, Detroit, Michigan.

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