Gary Durham

**** * **** ***

Fresno CA *****

Tel: 510-***-****

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Proven Senior Project and Team Member Manager with commiserate supporting education and training: Six Sigma Black Belt, Master of Business Administration, and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.

• Provided leadership, engineering, and management skills, gained in the Fuel Cell Industry, Wafer Handling Equipment, Automotive industries, Bio-Medical Supply Distribution industries and Food Manufacturing.

• Strong leadership, interpersonal, analytical, and presentation skills to complete complex products and projects.

• Actively support and participate in manufacturing team-building to increase uptime and reduce defects.

• Regularly lead product manufacturing and quality improvement meetings, with the participation of Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Control, and Suppliers.

• Practice Lean Manufacturing principles: TPS, Kanban, Andon, Kaizen, Teamwork, TQM, Six Sigma, Operations Management, ERP, MRP, CMMS, HACCP, FDA, GMP’s and cost-cutting programs.

• Provide comprehensive coordination of product development activities, from research to market, to fulfill the ultimate objective of designing and developing a commercially marketable product.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Owners.com Fresno, California

Real Estate Agent BRE 01930441 Jan 2013 Current

• Assist investors and completed open houses for Broker.

Kraft Foods Fresno, California

Continuous Improvement Engineering Manager July 2013 Jan 2015

• Work with management to identify wastes in process flows and line efficiencies.

• Identify critical process points and crate calibration index for yearly or bi-annual calibrations.

• Work on capital improvement projects with maintenance such as wastewater or refrigeration equipment.

• Train floor packers 5S, 5 why’s, fishbone diagrams for root cause failure analysis.

• Work with floor on SOP’s for more complete job function listings with pictures.

• Maintain and update PI+ database with projects and ROI’s.

VWR International Visalia, California

Industrial Engineering Manager Jan 2011 Feb 2013

• Lead team in analyzing labor management system performance with associates.

• Critique and evaluate ergonomic operations on operations in a distribution center.

• Re-align and scrub standards so that all Distribution Centers are following same guidelines.

• Work with team on new start up of 500,000 sq ft facility in Visalia including refrigeration and clean room.

• Coach floor associates on daily scorecard on performance and efficiencies

Bloom Energy Sunnyvale, California

Senior Manufacturing Engineer (Hot Box and Stacks Group) Mar 2009 Aug 2010

• Provided momentum into lean manufacturing with management and production members.

• Started and maintained floor stock program for ease in use of small parts for lines.

• Managed production floor members as the manufacturing engineer by working in teams and developing production to a trunk and branch design for better line efficiencies.

• Started accessing contract manufacturing with Evolve Manufacturing on outsourcing sub-assemblies.

• Met with floor daily to go over quality problems and address any engineering issues with management.

• Strategized designs for ‘Factory of the Future” layouts for expansion of products

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Tel: 510-***-****

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Asyst Technologies, Inc Fremont, California

Senior Project Engineer (RMA Group) Jan 2006 Mar 2009

• Provided technical and engineering upgrades for new product development.

• Staffed projects and maintained quality through line reviews and product testing.

• Evaluated and coordinated outsourcing robotics repair with Ascenx Technologies as Project Manager.

• Worked with Evolve Manufacturing on outsourcing repair on 200mm and 300mm products.

• Coached, Mentored and provided training and qualifications of members in repair group (10 members).

• Developed and maintained quality control of products and customer satisfaction to exceed management goals.

Asyst Technologies, Inc. Fremont, California

Senior Manufacturing Engineer (ME Group) May 2000 Jan 2006

• Managed and implemented outsourcing of manufacturing lines from Fremont to Flextronics in Singapore.

• Managed implementation of new products to customers: NRI, Front Load S3, Indexers, and 200mm products.

• Led the strategic setup and counter measures activities between engineering staff and production groups on customer concerns of various products.

• Chaired product meetings with the QC Department and Manufacturing Engineers on quality issues related to the 200mm products.

New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. Fremont, California

Engineering Assistant Manager (Assembly Engineering Group) Jun 1990 May 2000

• Provided over 4+ years of systems integration experience implementing solutions to motive and augment production groups succeed in meeting their goals.

• Coached G/L’s and A/M’s with production problems by discussing problems, implementing countermeasures and following up on Kaizen’s or continuous improvement of processes.

• Led with project management experience on major engagements ($.2 – 1M average.)

• Applied Japanese and American philosophies and practices in utilizing corporate culture to its fullest potential.

• Responsible for (4) four engineers as part of engineering team on the Passenger Engineering Assy Team.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

Six Sigma Black Belt February 2007 Villanova University Philadelphia

Master of Business Administration August 1999 San Jose State University

BS, Mechanical Engineering July 1990 California Polytechnic State University

SOFTWARE:

MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, ACAD, Pro E, Visibility, PeopleSoft, ProductView, ABPLC5, Panelview

MILITARY:

USCG Marine Safety Office, San Francisco, CA Apr 1982 -Apr 2012

• Mentor, coach and train (20) twenty reservists thru annual reviews and semi yearly certifications.

• Currently rated as Boatswain Mate Chief (BMC) as pollution investigator for MER.

• Extensive involvement managing relationships with public and command on pollution incidents.

• Held Secret Clearance and Hazwoper certified.

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