Engineer Sales

Jorge R. Pacheco

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Hickory, North Carolina 28602

828-***-**** mobile

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

I offer over twenty-six years of experience in industrial product management, project design and

technical engineering support for various manufacturing corporations with emphasis on new product

development and manufacturing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2010-2014 New Product Development Program Manager, SAFT America Inc., Valdese, North Carolina

Principal duties are to, manage new complex primary lithium Sulfur Dioxide, Manganese Dioxide and Thynol

Chloride also rechargeable Li-Ion, Nickel Cadmium and Nickel Metal Hydride battery projects and sample

requests in addition to monitoring battery sample request work load, supervise staff in the company’s model

shop and support the battery production division and provide customer/sales team technical engineering support

• Fully manage complex and simple battery projects from concept to full production phase

• Manage complex battery design sample requests

• Fully support the battery production lines with complete product & industrial engineering support

• Application engineering support for the Saft Valdese sales team

• Internet field calls, product hotline email support and all battery marketing inquires

• Improved battery production efficiencies

• Technical liaison between factory and customers

• Cost reduction on high-volume manufacturing battery assemblies

• Explore and develop new technologies for product improvement

2005-2010 Rechargeable Battery Systems, Product Manager, SAFT America Inc., Valdese, North Carolina

Principal duties are to, manage the rechargeable Nickel Cadmium and Nickel Metal Hidride battery production

division, product engineering support, provide customer/sales team technical support, generate sales leads for

sales team and monitor sales forecast with Saft systems prophecy and cognos programs

• Product manufacturing support

• Improved battery production efficiencies

• Reduced design process lead-time

• Provide direct technical interface with the customers and sales team

• Technical liaison between factory and customers

• Cost reduction on high-volume manufacturing battery assemblies

• Provide regular analytic trouble shooting on products to obtain ultimate operational requirements

• Explore and develop new technologies for product improvement

• Generate sales leads to assist the sales force by market studies, trade shows and internet search

• Manage and monitor all cell and battery cost and integration within the company’s MRB system

2001-2005 Battery Product Engineer, SAFT America Inc., Valdese, North Carolina

Principal duties are to, manage primary lithium military battery products, communicate design requirements,

determine application of assembly methods, specify testing requirements and resolve complex product-related

issues.

• Plan and manage all aspects of assigned projects to ensure goal/objective

achievement utilizing departmental and supplier resources

• Maintain external network of technical expertise among suppliers, consultants,

other company’s battery groups, military and non-military agencies

• Standardize materials, components and assemblies in order to minimize items to

be procured, manufactured or inventoried resulting in product cost reductions

• Design and develop new or substantially redesigned existing products in

accordance with industry regulations, market conditions, military specifications, cost

and quality guidelines

• Maintain a schedule on all new military projects to monitor milestones, deadlines

and delivery dates on prototype parts, production tooling and qualification testing

• Participate in development of new innovative profitable products, meeting

acceptable standards for manufacturability, quality, and on time delivery

2000-2001 Promoted to Battery Engineering Manager, SAFT America Inc., Tijuana, Baja California Mexico

Principal duties are to, manage the Battery Engineering and Prototype Lab departments, communicate design

requirements, application of all battery products and methods of assembly to company's manufacturing

departments.

• Improved Battery Engineering’s efficiency

• Decreased Engineering Changes Request backlog

• Documentation routing process was improved

• Design process lead-time was reduced by half

• Provide direct organizational interface with the marketing and sales groups

• Developed a tracking system to track each project from start to finish

• Supervise, develop and train departments’ design engineers, documentation clerk and prototype

lab technicians

• Experience in high-volume manufacturing processes of battery assemblies and cell manufacturing

• Provide regular analytic trouble shooting on products to obtain ultimate operational requirements

and lower it’s overall production cost

• Explore and develop new technologies and contribute to product improvement within the company's

products

1999- 2000 Promoted to New Product Manager, SAFT America Inc., Tijuana, Baja California Mexico

Principal duties were to control all new product introduction requests from the Sales group and manage the

company’s prototype lab and technicians.

• Provide new production and new tooling cost estimates for all new product quote requests from the

company’s Sales group

• Under my direction Battery Engineering Model Shop’s efficiency has improved

• Customers quote estimate request backlog was decreased

• Documentation routing process was improved

• Prototype completion process, lead-time was reduced to 4 days

• Supervise, develop and train company’s prototype lab technicians

1998- 1999 M echanical Engineer, Saft America Inc., Tijuana, Baja California Mexico

Principal duties were to develop customer concepts into cost effective battery designs.

• Provide technical support to company's manufacturing and product sample labs

• Responsible for all tooling regarding injection molded plastics and metal fabrication

1996-1998 Promoted to Project Engineer, InteSys Technologies Inc., Gilbert, Arizona

Responsibilities are to manage major projects from start to finish for injection mold plastic part tooling of portable

cellular products as well as value added assembly tooling when required.

• Prepare detailed quotes for low-cost, high-volume assembly tooling

• Customers Motorola, Cellular/Pager and Nokia Cellular required a well control assigned project

management process

1994-1996 Design Engineer, InteSys Technologies Inc., Gilbert, Arizona

Responsibilities were to evolve product concepts into prototype designs and low-cost, high-volume solutions for

rechargeable battery systems.

• Knowledge of high-volume manufacturing processes such as injection molding and ultrasonic

welding

• Experience in electro-mechanical product design and analysis

1987-1993 Product Design Engineer, Eveready Battery Company, El Paso, Texas

Principal duties were to develop customer concepts into cost effective battery designs.

• Provide technical support to company's manufacturing and product sample labs

• Provide leadership role in the training and development of product designers

• Battery manufacturing process, Injection molded plastics design, Ultrasonic-welding process, and

Metal fabrication

1987-1992 Part-time Design and Drafting Instructor, Community College, El Paso, Texas

Responsibilities were the preparation and implementation of lecture-demonstration, lab projects.

• Audiovisual presentations, classroom discussions based on assignments and exams

• Assigned classes include Statics, Advance Machine Drafting I and II, Machine Drafting and

Individualized Drafting Fundamentals

1986-1987 Technical Layout Specialist, GTE Communication Systems, El Paso, Texas

Responsible for the design of all mechanical assemblies and schematic layouts for Instrumentation

Development and Factory Service Departments within the company.

• Maintain and up-date documentation of designated units for production departments

• Assist process and Product support engineering in their developments

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE:

• Solidworks Rel. 2012

• Pro/ENGINEER Rel. 2001

• Co Create ME10 Rel. 9.0 and Solid Designer Rel. 5.10

• AutoCAD Rel. 2000/LT and Myriad Rel. 3.3

• Microsoft Word, Project, Excel, Outlook, Access and Office 2000

• MRP systems Oracle and MFG-Pro

• Hewlett Packard Kayak XW/NT Engineering Workstation

• Hewlett Packard C110/900 Series Engineering Workstation

• Hewlett Packard Apollo/700 Series Engineering Workstation

EDUCATION:

1986 Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Kennedy-Western University, Boise, Idaho

1983 Associate of Applied Science Degree in Design and Drafting Technology

El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas

2012 Solidworks 2012v Training (40 hours)

2008 Saft systems Prophecy and Cognos programs (40 hours)

2004 Professional Business Report Writing, Dun & Bradstreet Business Education. (8 hours)

2002 Multi-Project Management, Dun & Bradstreet Business Education. (8 hours)

1998 Co Create Mechanical Engineer Rel. 9.0, Design, Vision Technology Corp., (24 hours)

1998 CoCreate Solid Designer Rel. 5.1, Part Design, Vision Technology Corp., and (24 hours)

1997 Project Management, Dun & Bradstreet Business Education. (8 hours)

1995 Pro Engineer Rel. 17 Part Design, Motorola University. (40 hours)

Pro Engineer Rel. 17 Advanced Part Design, Motorola University. (40 hours)

1995 Pro Engineer Rel. 14 Surfaces Part Design, Parametric Technology Corp., (24 hours)

Unigraphics Ver. 9 Part Design, Self Study Course, InteSys Technologies Inc., (40 hours)

1991 Molders Workshop, General Electric Plastic Inc. (16 hours)

Plastic Welding Seminar, Branson Ultrasonic Corp. (16 hours)

PERSONAL:

1990-1993 Certified Member of the Society of Plastics Engineering

1987-1992 Design Technology Advisory Committee member at El Paso Community College

REFERENCES: Furnished Upon Request.

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