CHRISTIAN DENARD

**** * ***** ***** • Greenville, NC 27834 • Phone: 919-***-**** • acpzz3@r.postjobfree.com

Executive Statement

Talented multilingual Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Engineer with strong communication skills.

Experienced with both sides of a product lifecycle from conception to production, focusing on design for

manufacturing up front and lean principles for production. Exposure to a wide range of industries from

aerospace research with NASA to furniture design and metal fabrication. Fluent in English, French and

Spanish.

Core Competencies

Mechanical Design Engineer Manufacturing Engineer

Solidworks Lean Manufacturing

Part Design & Assemblies Kaizen/Continuous Improvement

GD&T 5S/6S Principles

Rendering SAP/ERP Systems

AutoCAD Bill of Material

Sheet Metal Part Design Bill of Operations

Wood Part Design Lean Six Sigma Quality Systems

Matlab & LabView CNC Router Programming

C++ & Java Programming Microsoft Office & Project

Work Experience

Penco Products Inc. Hamilton, NC 10/2014 – Present

Process Engineer

• Evaluate manufacturing processes and apply lean tools to improve fabrication, assembly and

tooling

• Create current and future value stream maps to eliminate waste from order processing to

manufacturing

• Identify and implement new fabrication routings that save the company $150,000 annually using

hard tooling versus CNC punch press equipment

• Program a recently commissioned new automated door cell line that doubled product output with

25% of the manpower required on the previous manual assembly line

• Conduct process capability studies to reduce semi-finished parts inventory

• Update and modify existing routing sequences to eliminate waste and work-in-process

• Test finished product for quality purposes and recommend changes to meet product specifications

as necessary

• Produce plant layout drawings for process and workflow improvements

• Conduct time studies to improve work center efficiency and changeover times

• Maintain reliable and safe systems while improving production and quality

• Communicate with original manufacturers to conduct preventative maintenance on production

equipment

Penco Products Inc. Hamilton, NC 6/2013 – Present

Manufacturing & Product Design Engineer

• Responsible for designing all standard and custom parts, creating drawings for approval and

specifying hardware and material requirements

• Conduct all training for new design engineers

• Simplify design to reduce manufacturing cost and increase quality

• Evaluate manufacturing processes and apply lean tools to product design to fabrication,

assembly, tooling, and materials

• Maintain CAD libraries within product families and revision control

• Create and update Bill of Materials and Bill of Operations

• Contribute to design team efforts by accomplishing related results as needed

• Provide technical solutions to specific customers

• Create and locate drawings for the purchasing department in order for suppliers to meet exact

specification

• Test finished product for quality purposes and recommend changes to meet requirements

• Provide support to manufacturing to ensure product is fabricated and assembled based on the

intended functionality of the design

• Create layout drawings for field installation

Cotton Belt Inc. Pinetops, NC 4/2012 – 4/2014

Product Design Engineer

• Create 3D product designs and renderings for marketing in Solidworks

• Take the product from new design directly into production by programming CNC code to

manufacture parts

• Design furniture frames in SolidWorks, send instructions to CNC Router

• Produce finished drawings for customer approvals and supplier quotations

• Manage inventory, and bill of materials to create purchase orders

• Modify work flow for better throughput

• Analyze purchase orders to fulfill customer specifications

• Analyze sketches to interpret customer requirements

• Test finished product for quality purposes and recommend changes to product specifications as

necessary

• Prepare product layout drawings based on customer specifications

• Direct and coordinate manufacturing of prototype products

• Provide support to manufacturing to ensure product is fabricated and assembled based on the

intended functionality of the design

• Create purchase orders based on materials and specifications of newly developed parts

• Maintain working knowledge of new technologies developed by the industry and government

regulators

East Carolina University Greenville, NC 8/2010 - 6/2011

Senior project in coordination with NASA, Langley, VA

• Designed a bio-feedback system to help users view and control their emotional state using

ambient lighting

• Estimated emotional states from heart rate variability

• Measured and converted heart rate signals from analog to digital using a Coulbourn Bioamplifier

• Created a Labview program that analyzed and interpreted the data to output visual indicators

through a LED lighting strip

• Conducted economic analysis beyond the testing phase

East Carolina University Greenville, NC 8/2009 - 6/2011

Research Assistant -Teaching Assistant

• Electrospun nanofibers out of prepared protein samples

• Handled bio-hazard materials, improved waste management, tested and adjusted fluid properties

• Perform laboratory research, and record experimental data

• Graded homework and tests, computed and recorded results

Education

Lean Six Sigma Black-Belt Graduate Certificate, Quality Control, 2015

East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering 2013

East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Associate in Science, Pre-Engineering, 2008

Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC

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