Sales Engineer

Jeffrey R. Boll

**** ********* ***** ? Tallmadge, OH 44278 ? 330-***-**** ?

*****@***.***

Tooling Engineer / Project Engineer / Plastics manufacturing

A Plastics professional with extensive experience throughout the

manufacturing life cycle process and technical design functions of plastic

injection molding, structural foam molding, metal stamping, roto-molding,

stack molds and blow-molding processes. Thrives in busy complex work

environments requiring strong organizational, problem solving, analysis,

and communication skills which combine to deliver on-time, on-budget

results. Additional competencies include:

New Product Development Kubotek KeyCreator CAD, AutoCAD

Multi-Plant Tool Room Management Lean Practices (SMED, JIT, 5S)

Project Management OSHA Safety Practices

ISO 9001, QS9000, ISO 1400 MS Office Pro

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AKRO-MILS, Wadsworth, OH 1996 to 2013

Manufacturer of plastic bins, totes, containers and shelving systems for

material handling, storage and transportation industry, with annual sales

of $65 million, 3 facilities and over 350 employees.

Tooling Engineer, New and Existing Products

. Provided leadership role in multi-plant environment to maintain 1200+

molds production-ready and for creating innovative new product tooling

while coordinating with sales, marketing and manufacturing to meet

deadlines for product release.

. Collaborated with Finance Manager, General Manager, Sales Managers and

Plant Managers to meet custom project expenditures and customer

requirements. Representative projects included: Walgreens Pharmacy Bin

(cost $100k), increased sales $1.2M annually; Greg Bin (cost $75K),

increased sales $1M annually; Attainment Bin's (cost $65k), increased

sales $500K annually.

. Managed tooling process from design, material specifications, build,

assembly, sampling, rework, to final approval and production.

Collaborated with process technicians, set-up and tool-room personnel

thru weekly meetings to resolve tooling-related issues. Estimated,

quoted and submitted all capital expenditures for tooling projects

ranging from $75K to $2.5M with budget of $6M annually.

. Maintained and enhanced vendor relations by actively researching and

visiting new and existing vendors to help lower capital expenditures.

Lowered costs by 15 to 30 % generally. Prepared and approved all tooling

expense purchase orders. Chaired weekly new and existing mold review

meetings for engineering department, coordinating projects with the CAD,

Product Design and Project Engineers.

. Managed Ameri-Kart Enviro-Fill OPS fuel technology system, product

concept through production.

. Functioned as Lead Engineer on Grainger/Dematic totes for warehouse

logistic systems and enhanced products to meet customer needs,

coordinated and approved all tooling and injection process needs to meet

strict delivery guidelines for production. Added sales of $4M annually.

. Coordinated and implemented transfer of tooling and $11M product line for

Kord-Valmark medical petri dish line from Canada to Sandusky, OH.

. Managed new and existing petri dish line including continuous improvement

through new product ideas, and enhancements to maintain customer needs

for medical research business.

. Developed new mold specification documents and instituted preventative

maintenance procedures to standardize all tooling and designs to meet ISO

requirements.

. Re-designed and enhanced Akro-Mils Shelf Bin and AkroBin product lines to

improve material options (PP, HDPE) and cycle time efficiencies resulting

in 15% reduction in material cost which directly increased bottom line

profits.

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Tooling Engineer, New and Existing Products (continued)

. Utilized LEAN principles to generate continuous mold improvements to

reduce cycle times and enhance mold reliability. Integrated SMED, 5S,

JIT (Lean) system. Achieved 98% on-time delivery of molds to meet

production / customer needs.

. Introduced off shore tooling and new product lines (China) saving $5

million in capital expenditures (2011-2013).

COLONIAL MACHINE COMPANY, Kent, OH 1992 to 1996

Utilizes state of the art computer aided design CADCAM systems to

manufacture simple to complex single and multi-cavity injection molds, with

65 employees and annual sales of $10.8M per year.

Plastic Injection Mold Designer

. Supervised mold building process through production, final mold

inspection and sampling for plastic injection molds using various CAD

programs.

AKROMOLD INC, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 1992

A 100,000 sq.ft. factory that produces compression and injection molds for

automotive, consumer, industrial and aerospace industries with annual sales

$16.7M+ and 100 employees.

Plastic Injection Mold Designer

. Designed complex plastic injection molds for automotive and industrial

markets. Maintained BOM's, quoted and ordered materials.

AMERITECH DIE AND MOLD, Mooresville, NC 1988 to 1992

A designer and builder of molds for the plastics industry using the most

updated equipment and technology within its two facilities. Annual sales

of $9 M and highly trained staff of 40.

Plastic Injection Mold Designer

. Designed plastic injection molds and served as CAD-CAM system manager

involving complex 3-D parts for CAM operations, product design of plastic

bottles and embossing dies for furniture industry.

EMPIRE CORPORATION, Akron, OH 1986 to 1988

Designed, built and produced custom injection molded parts for Little

Tikes, Mr. Coffee, Whirlpool, with a staff of 120 employees and multi-

million dollars in annual sales.

Plastic Injection Mold Designer

. Designed plastic injection molds, jigs, fixtures and purchased materials.

EDUCATION

. Currently enrolled, Engineering Technical Studies, 44credit hrs., The

University of Akron, Akron, OH

. Supervisory Leadership & Responsibility, Certificate of Completion, The

University of Akron,

Akron, OH, 2002

. Accredited Certification, Injection Mold Design, Akron Machining

Institute NTMA,

Barberton, OH, 1986

Completed 1040 hours of Mold Design Training

. Accredited Certification, Machine Trade for the Plastic Industry,

Garfield High School,

Akron, OH, 1984

Completed 1100 hours of training

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