Engineer Electrical Engineering
Resume:
James D. Shontz
Waterford, Pa *6441
Email: ********@*****.***
SUMMARY: Engineering/quality professional with over 15 years of development experience and 15 years of operations and supplier quality experience. Certified six sigma black belt with experience in cost reduction and lean manufacturing programs. Management experience in engineering and quality
EXPERIENCE:
General Electric
Lead Systems Quality Engineer 6/03-5/16
Lead international team of supplier quality engineers
Perform audits on current and potential suppliers
Develop and/or enhance supplier QMS to meet requirements
Work with suppliers for corrective and preventative actions for quality issues
NPI projects from RFQ and supplier selection thru production
United Defense LP (Louisville, KY.) 6/01-6/03
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Reviewed and standardized procedures and drawing helping to reduce assembly time by 15%
Instrumental in driving LEAN practices and procedures within the hourly work force.
Responsible for reprogramming and updating test equipment
Directed the successful assembly and testing of 3 new gun controls and 3 overhauls
General Electric Appliances (Louisville, KY.) 5/00-5/01
Lead Engineer for the Quantum/LEAP refrigeration programs.
Lead successful introduction of electronic controls into refer production.
Lead successful launch of new production lines in a new production facility
Brose Automotive of North America (Auburn Hills, MI) 8/98-5/00 Supervisor of Electrical Engineering Department.
Successful start-up of electrical engineering department
Successful launch of three new U.S. programs.
Mentored and supervised engineers
Technical lead for all U.S. programs developed in the states
General Motors Truck and Bus (Pontiac, MI) 8/89-8/98
Development Engineer for GMT360 HVAC Control Module
Defined software requirements for the control module
Defined hardware requirements for the control module
Defined functional and communications requirements
General Motors Truck and Bus (Pontiac, MI)
Program Management for Class 2 Serial Communication
Defined new message structures for GMT 360 program
Coordinated with multiple groups to define new messages
Validated all new message structures and commands
General Motors Truck and Bus (Pontiac, MI)
Development Engineer for Passlock Security System Control Module
Successfully brought the controller to production after being cancelled the prior year
Successfully worked with after market manufacturers for interfacing with controller
Worked with dealerships on diagnostic issues found in the field.
Coordinated with service to define the diagnostics needed for dealership tools.
General Motors Truck and Bus (Pontiac, MI)
Electronic test technician
Instrumented vehicles for vehicle control validation
Performed vehicle controller validation
Performed serial communication validation
Performed diagnostics on prototype controllers.
EDUCATION
1994 Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
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