GEORGE VLASIC
Long Beach, IN **360 1714
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CAREER SUMMARY
Accomplished and Successful Manufacturing Operations Professional with broad based experience in a
variety of environments, specializing in tool, die & machine design, debug & procurement. Decades of
engineering experience allows me to quickly adapt to new processes, procedures, and technologies.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIECE
Federal Mogul Corporation – Wiper Products, Michigan City, IN 1973 – 1998 and 2011 – 8/2013
(Plant closed & moved to Mexico)
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
• Responsible for metal component tooling (progressive and single stage stamping dies, CNC wire
bending)
• Responsible for hand & semi automatic assembly of components.
• Project Manager on internalizing brake shim stamping, moving production from outside supplier
to in house production $700,000 project.
Senior Tool Engineer (1994 – 1998)
• Supervision of four tool engineers & designers.
• Numerous multi million dollar tooling capital projects.
Tool Designer (1978 – 1994)
• Tool Design on CAD beginning in 1987
Draftsman (1973 – 1978)
CAD Tool Engineering Business – Home Based 1998 – 2011
• Worked with Tooling Job Shops designing progressive stamping dies, plastic injection molds,
fixturing, hand and semi automatic assembly systems & controls.
Carter Controls, Lansing, IL 1972 1973
CNC Turret Lathe – Set Up and Operation
EDUCATION
PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Mechanical Engineering Student, 1 Year
High School Graduate – Highland High School – Highland, IN