Engineer Manager
Resume:
Keith Sturgill
Holland Michigan, 494242
*** **** *****, ** ******** Kentucky, 40353
**************@*****.***
Career Goal
Seeking a career position where I can utilize my extensive manufacturing and management experiences and capabilities.
30 years of Tool and Die, Fabrication, Welding, Stamping, Transfer/Deep Draw, Die Casting and Roll Forming Experience
30 years of Tooling Engineer Experience
25 years of Management Experience
20 Years of Experience, Lasers, Turret Press, and Brake Press
30 years of Stamping, Fabrication, Metalforming Experience
Extensive Quoting Experience, I can quote from a Part Print, Calculate Required Tonnage and Tooling Cost
I have Designed and Built Dies, and I have Managed others in Designing and Building Dies
20 years Metal Fabrication
Extensive Toolroom Management Experience
Extensive Hot Stamping/Hot Forming experience
ASME Code Welding
Managed Programs from Start to Finish, including the Strip Layout, Quote, Design, Build and Program Launch.
Lean Manufacturing principles and structured problem solving (e.g. 8D, 5 Path, etc.)
Areas of experience, knowledge and skills include:
Journeyman Tool and Die Estimating/Quoting Cold Forming/Forging
Aluminum Die Casting Strip Layout Certified Manufacturing Engineer
Program Management Die Casting Weld Fixture Design
Fabrication ASME Welding QS9000/TS16949/APQP
Hot Stamping Continuous Improvement 4-Slide/Eyelet
Progressive Dies Deep Draw Hot Forming
Fine Blanking Roll Forming Transfer Tooling
Employment:
Consulting /Contract Service, my own consulting business - January 2001 to Present
Manufacturing Consultant
Responsibilities:
Quoting and Estimating New Die and Takeover Programs
Management of Overseas Toolroom and New Build Programs, Toolroom Management
Progressive Dies, Transfer Dies, Roll forming and Deep Draw
Hot Stamping
High Pressure Aluminum Die Casting
Lean Manufacturing
Rollform Tooling and Process
Metal Fabrication
Press Break, Turret Press, and Laser
Updating Toolroom Procedures and Die PM Program
Project Management
Die Casting
Modineer (Niles, MI) - November 1998 to December 2000
Title: Tooling Manager
A Tier One and Two Automotive parts stamping facility
The departments I managed were Tool Design, Project Management, Quoting and Estimating New Tool Build and Die Repair.
Accomplishments:
Updated quoting and estimating procedure into a standard format
Implemented a Die PM program
Program Launch Support
Continuous Improvement
Decreased die downtime from 30 percent to 8 percent
Developed a “Don’t just patch it/Fix it” program for dies
Delphi (General Motors) (Dayton, OH), Metal Fabrication Division (General Motors) May 1992 to November 1998
Title: Tooling Manager
A Tier One Automotive Parts Supplier
The department I managed was responsible for new die outsourcing and the maintenance of existing tooling. The department consisted of three permanent engineers; three contract engineers, three supervisors and forty tool and die makers.
Accomplishments:
Developed procedures for internal estimating and strip layouts
Program Launch Support
Lean Manufacturing
Continuous Improvement projects
Updated Die PM programs
Decreased Die downtime through intensive die repair program, and Refurbishment
Tooling Development and Management of Off-shore Die Build Programs
Emerson Electric Company (St. Louis, MO) - May 1982 to May 1992
Title: Tool Engineer, Senior Tool Engineer, and Tool Room Manager
A tool and die manufacturing facility, I was responsible for designing and building, Quoting, Customer Contact, and Program Management, for Progressive Dies, Transfer Dies, Deep Draw Dies, Die Casting, Cold Forming, Cold Heading Dies, Roll Forming and Hot Forging Dies, Assembly Fixtures, Machining Fixtures and Tooling. I was responsible for quoting, designing, and program management, for either the in-house build or coordinating with outside shops.
Started as a Tooling Engineer and moved up through the ranks into the position of Toolroom Manager
Was responsible for strip layout, quoting, design and build of new dies
Designed and built progressive, transfer, roll forming, and deep draw dies
Jefferson Tooling (Jeffersonville, IN) - July 1978 to 1982
Title: Tool and Die Apprentice, Tool and Die Journeyman
A privately owned tool and die shop serving the automotive and appliance industry.
I worked my way through my apprenticeship and school as a tool and die apprentice, toolmaker journeyman, completed apprenticeship and received journeyman’s card.
Worked second shift completing apprenticeship program and completing BSME in a four year period
Education:
BSME, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 1982, Tool and Die Journeyman, CmfgE (SME) numerous classes on Program Management, Management, Tooling and Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing and APQP.
Professional Membership:
SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), PMA (Precision Metalforming Association), SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)
Military:
United States Marine Corp Reserve, 1979 to 1984 (Honorable Discharge), active 1982 to 1984
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