Project Manager - Innovative Problem Solver for Mechanical Equipment

EDWARD D. DODGE, MBA, PMP

Coopersburg, PA

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A project manager with excellent results in performance, compliance, establishing relationships, and successful completion of projects. A history of extending exhaustive efforts to meet deliverables by providing leadership for custom manufactured equipment, where specifications and design pose many challenges that require constant attention to details and problem solving.

QUALIFICATIONS

Managed projects to $40M, while concurrently managing multiple projects in various phases

Expanded gross margin from 30% to 47% on one project by optimizing procurement, logistics, and construction

Launched new battery line with $18M in annual sales

Patent Holder for an office product with integrated calculator

Project Manager with PMP, M.B.A. and B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology and experience with supplying various structural, electrical, process, mechanical, and thermal equipment for construction and installation as systems and Capital Equipment. Lead cross-functional teams as necessary for scope

Career includes positions as Manufacturing Engineer, Designer, Mechanical Engineer, Product Manager, and Project Engineer, all focusing on the engineering and manufacturing of products and services for industrial customers with highly technical specifications and requirements

Astute attention to details, Professional, Self-motivated and Excellent customer focus while meeting company objectives, and stakeholder expectations on performance objectives and contract deliverables

EXPERTISE

Project Management: Utilization of PMBOK in project scope planning and execution, team building, strategic and tactical planning, management of capital budgets

Engineering: Mechanical, Structural Design, Process, Fabrication, Thermal, Quality, Codes & Standards, and engineering design as necessary

Technical Tools: MS Project, TEKLA, AutoCAD, ProE, MS Office, Excel, SAP, JDE, Cloud, and company systems as required

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Accudyne Precision Flow Systems, Ivyland, PA January 2015 – August 2015 (Layoff)

Sr. Project Engineer / Project Engineering Lead for a global manufacturer of metering pumps

Coordinated internal kick-off meetings with cross-functional teams to review and develop sales order execution, with manufacturing facilities in the US, China, and France

Completed staffing assignments / workstreams for engineering, manufacturing, and sourcing of equipment. Coordination of testing and inspections of key components and finished pumps to appropriate specifications. Monitored progress and solved problems while corresponding with customer

As Team Leader, monitored, and reported progress of sales orders assigned to Project/Application Engineers with a self-developed tracking tool based on real-time JDE data for roughly 100 projects.

Frazier Industrial Company, Long Valley, NJ March 2014 – December 2014

Project Manager for design-build structural-steel rack systems used in distribution and storage facilities

Planned projects with scope up to of 1,750 tons / 81K structural members for field construction with safety equipment

Optimized fabrication, packing, and delivery sequence for planned erection

Coordinated 100+ deliveries and offloading to site, in adverse site conditions with extensive problem solving

SPX Cooling Technologies, Bridgewater, NJ February 2007 – March 2014 (Relocation of PMO)

Project Manager for engineering and procurement projects of capital equipment, Air Cooled Condensers

Executed capital projects with up to ~400 pages of technical specifications and decomposed as necessary to develop project plan for design, fabrication, sub-contracts, logistics, and construction oversight to final sign-off.

Accountable for commercial and technical aspects, including sub-contracts with up to 43 cost accounts of various components, systems, and services, including P/L reporting and revenue forecasting

Project Plans up to 600 lines, 30+ BOMs, 400+ erection drawings from 800+ fab drawings, 400+ documents, 6,500+tons of materials in 750+ global and sequenced deliveries

Managed procurement activities for up to 35 sub-contracts from global suppliers; developed SOW, issued RFP, commercial negotiations to final acceptance and delivery. Conducted QA & QC activities

Extensive use of problem solving in all aspects, as equipment was custom designed for exact application

PREVIOUS POSITIONS and HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

Project Coordinator EnerSys – Coordinated new product initiatives / development projects into engineering

Product Manager III, C&D Technologies – Launched new battery line with $18M in annual sales, sales, marketing, presentations, applications, training, and configuration of product lines. Post sales support

Product Specialist, Maintech, Inc. – SME of AOI equipment for PCBs

Engineer III, C&D Technologies - Developed telecom battery system with $5M in annual sales, and various designs of seismic qualified battery racks for standby/failsafe systems

Designer, Dumont Industries – Steel fabrication job shop / light structural designs, CAD, CNC, Quotes

Manufacturing Engineer, Saunders Manufacturing & Marketing Co., Inc. – CNC, CAD, Quotes, and one Patent

EDUCATION

MBA, Keller Graduate School of Management, 2006 - Concentration in Project Management

B.S. Mechanical Engineering Technology, University of Maine, 1990

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