Objective
A position in which my experience and my Bachelors degree in Organizational Management / project management will be of value to an organization offering expanded experience and growth. I have experience with P&L responsibility for a department. I have created and executed operation plans. Identified and driven continuous improvements projects. Forecast, plan, and schedule production operations according to priority. Justify and plan capital improvements
Experience
Operations Manager / Design Engineer, Albco Foundry and Machine, Lisbon OH 5/12-present
Create a safe and productive environment for all employees.
Manage Zinc and aluminum molding operations and CNC machine shop, P/L duties, responsible for quality in both departments. OSHA compliance. Conduct employee reviews.
Design and engineer assembly’s, parts and molds that reduce customers cost. New product design / Manage all aspects of manufacturing. Zinc mold design, review and approve. Root cause analysis. Utilized Six Sigma DMAIC to improve quality and increase profits. Lean / JIT manufacturing.
Ensure productivity and quality of every new Zinc mold and machined parts, establish quality standards
Software: SolidWorks 2016, Mastercam X9, Microsoft office
Project management with Gannt charts or excel spreadsheets
Assist in developing new sales and providing technical information to support sales, sales engineering
Train employees on procedures and safety. Designed and managed quality system. Problem solving using the 5 why system. Develop preventative maintenance plans.
Mentor other supervisors, this time includes contract work and direct employment
Project Manager / Designer, GE Healthcare, Aurora OH 1/07-5/12
Mechanical design of new MRI Coils and fixtures for the medical industry, regulated by 21 CFR 820. Develop and justify capital improvements. Implement and maintain preventive maintenance programs.
Design for manufacturing plastic parts and electronic enclosures, B.O.M.’S, drawings, verification test plans, and performed ECO’s. CTQ Identification, Geometric Dimension's and Tolerancing (GD&T), mechanical and electrical drawing’s, Reliability testing, cost reduction, root cause / corrective action and quality improvement engineering.
Managed the Fused deposition modeling (FDM) machine, Stratasys Vantage 360. Scheduled personnel and ordered material and maintenance. Utilized Six Sigma DMAIC to improve quality and increase profits. Cradle to grave ownership of machine installation.
Software: SolidWorks 2012, Pro-Engineer Creo Elements 5.0 and 3.0, Autocad, Smarteam, Windchill, Microsoft office, and Oracle ERP system. Assisted CAD administrator.
Utilized x-ray machine and dial calipers, height gauge, pin gauge, micrometers, etc.. For inspection.
Mentored other designers and engineers as directed by management. Large Assembly management, Simplified Representations, Interchange Assemblies, Top Down Design methods.
Participated in the Reliability Engineering, cost and quality improvement process. ASME 14.5.
Experience with electrical / electronic packaging components and electro-mechanical design. non-ferrous metals. Participated in the rewriting of quality standards.
Review and approve molds designed in North Carolina and India
Evaluate and manage new and current suppliers. Participated in customer product review / customer focus design improvement meetings, supplied technical information to sales team.
Communicated with customers regarding due date, quality, technical issues, and price.
Project management and PPAP compliance for ECO's, this time includes contract work and direct employment
Mechanical Designer / Self Employed 8/03-1/07
CAD/CAM Contract work: Estimate cost, Designed plastic injection molds.
Created B.O.M.’S & drawings. Cadkey, Solidworks & used Mastercam to program C.N.C. vertical mill.
Project & Plant Manager / mold designer, Techni-Tool Industries Inc, Poland OH 2/94–8/03
Create a safe and productive environment for all employees.
Plastic part and plastic injection mold design for the automotive material handling equipment and Residential Door Industries. Packaging design of containers, dunnage and flipper fingers.
Managed tool room employees to ensure on time mold builds and maintaining budget.
Communicate with customers regarding completion times, quality and price. Develop and justify capital improvements. Implement and maintain preventive maintenance programs.
Assist in developing new sales, cradle to grave ownership of products. Product development
New product design / Manage all aspects of mold building from start to finish including plant manager responsibilities. Determine new equipment needs. Responsible for quality at the production plant and the machine shop.
Schedule all tasks for the shop floor. OSHA, state and local compliance. Reporting production to clients.
Ensure productivity and quality of every new mold design, manufacture and production run.
Estimate cost, Collect competitive quotes, purchase material and mold components. Ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Designed and managed quality system.
Conducted injection molding feasibility studies for parts currently being manufactured in other methods.
Designed in house preventative maintenance programs for molds ran in house. This included many aluminum injection molds that have lasted for decades.
Create B.O.M.’S, drawings, program C.N.C. vertical mills. Programmed fabrications and castings.
Track job expenses, bill of materials, purchasing, delivery Schedule. Work with customers.
Evaluate and purchase computer hardware, software, and tooling.
Retrofit and redesign machine tools to utilize C.N.C. controls. Designed custom manual and C.N.C machines. Cradle to grave ownership of C.N.C machine retrofitting and installation.
Software: SolidWorks 2003, Cimatron version 9.0 with solid and nc module, Mastercam version 1, Cadkey 19, Vericut for N.C. toolpath verification. Business works, Microsoft Excel, Word, Windows XP, 2000 and NT4. CAD administrator
Created custom post processors for several different CNC controls, wrote custom gun drilling routine for post processor.
Performed hardware and software upgrades to PC’s in office and C.A.D. Room, IT manager.
Utilized dial calipers, height gauge, pin gauge, micrometers, etc. For inspection.
Mentored and trained other designers, machinist, production workers and quality control personnel.
Education:
Bachelors degree in Organizational Management, Ashford University 2010 to 2015
minor in Business Administration and project management with a specialization in Human Resources Management. Studied Six Sigma methodologies.
Machine Trades, Columbiana County Career and Technical Center
Graduated in top 10 percentile