Engineer Project Management

RICHARD M. SANDUSKY

**** ***** ******* ***. ■ Palatine, IL. 60074 ■ Mobile: 847-***-**** ■ **********@*****.***

Summary of Qualifications

Experienced engineer with 15 + years of thermoforming experience and a demonstrated background in manufacturing and production processes. Qualifications include tool design experience, project management, tooling procurement, capital project management and leading teams with product design for manufacture guidance. I am a self-propelled employee who works well independently or as part of a team.

Professional Work History

Pactiv Corporation – Lake Forest 04-2007 to present

Engineer III

Current position as a thermoforming tooling engineer working within the Foodservice/Food Packaging products division. Responsibilities include:

Create tooling specifications and guide designers for thin sheet thermoformed tools for wide bed platforms such as Irwin, Lyle,TSL,GN and Brown machines.

Manage capital projects for acquiring matched metal Irwin, Lyle and TSL wide bed tooling and trim in place (GN) thermoform tooling and commercializing products

Manage multiple projects simultaneously ensuring that all projects stay on target and within budget

Procurement of out-sourced tooling and services to maintain production equipment

Manage maintenance projects for production plants in order to service tooling, provide cost saving changes and expedite tools back to manufacturing plants

Manage the accounting aspects of projects, such as purchase requisitions, invoicing and asset creation utilizing SAP

Working experience with rigid sheet materials such as APET, CFPP, TFPP, PP, OPS and HIPS and familiarity with EPS cups

Responsible for maintaining departmental SharePoint site, Streamline site and Smarteam vault

Solo Cup Company – Highland Park, IL.

Senior Project Engineer 12-2000 to 04-2007

Began as a Design Engineer II and was promoted to Senior Designer in 2004, then Senior Project Engineer in 2006. Duties included;

Designed thermoforming tools using UGS I-DEAS solid modeling software

Manage cost saving projects by implementing automation to manufacturing plants

Created detailed plant layout drawings using ACAD and I-DEAS

Managed projects using Microsoft Office Project 2003

Support many manufacturing plants as the Engineering contact responsible for tooling projects

Researched and wrote capital requests for tooling and automation projects

ITW Signode P.S.M – Glenview, IL.

Designer/Detailer 10-96 to 11-2000

Responsibilities included:

Using 3D and Solid Modeling software (Personal Designer 6.10 and Solidworks 99) to design sheet metal and/or investment casting parts for use on power strapping machines for the automatic plastic strapping industry.

Designed and detailed and quoted parts for fabrication, managed major assemblies and compiling and creating Bills of Materials for customer and service manuals.

Education, hobbies and specialized training

Northern Illinois University – NIU

Bachelors degree in Industrial Technologies with a Associates degree in Computer aided design. (CAD)

Critical courses taken were:

Supervision in Industry

oPrinciples, methods, and techniques for supervision of people in their work

oFor supervisory personnel and those preparing for such positions

Industrial Project Management

oConcepts, principles, and skills of project management

oDesigned to cover a variety of types of project management

oEmphasis on computer tools, project management techniques

Work Simplification and Measurement

oTechniques for improving and standardizing methods

oProcedures for measuring work and developing time standards in production and service activities

Military service

United States Army Multi-Channel Communications equipment operator (31M)

Honorable Discharge

Overseas Ribbon

Army Achievement Medal

Good Conduct Medal

Technical skills

Started career as a CNC machinist

Microsoft Office Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Publisher

Autocad, Smarteam, Sharepoint

3D solid modeling experience

Microsoft Office Project

SAP – purchasing, CAP and EXP management, asset creation, manage invoices

Hobbies and other interests

DJ Hobby job for dances, weddings, 5k, 10k, half and full marathon races

Volleyball, running and pick-up basketball games

Coaching kids basketball at 5th., 6th. and 7th. Grade levels

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