Engineer Sales

TOBY McGUIRE

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Home – 909-***-**** - email: ***********@**********.***

STRUCTURAL AND PACKAGE DESIGN PROFESSIONAL with over 20 years experience in a variety of industries. I now seek an opportunity to utilize my design/packaging skills, along with my experience with high speed equipment and associated subsystems, supervision, project management, and IT background to leverage another company’s assets in enhancing their bottom-line and most of all, design appealing, sustainable, intuitive and runnable packaging that creates sales and adds value.

SKILL SET

Artios Cad (advanced user training)

TOPS and CAPE Pallet optimization

Score Cad

AutoCad

SolidWorks Cad (some)

Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Deep knowledge of paper – corrugated and solid fiber

Experienced Project management

Package testing ASTM/ISTA

Kongsberg Samplemaker

Supplier/material sourcing/ development

Good overall knowledge of printing methods

Holistic troubleshooting of production lines

Former Electrical Field Engineer

Sourcing

Good awareness of manufacturability

Managed design department on a daily basis

Supervised electricians during install of high speed equipment.

BOM experience

Approved first articles for production

Project Management

Ordered and verified tooling

Went on sales calls, alone and with others

JD Edwards

Agile

Strong knowledge of beverage packaging.

Strong knowledge of printing technology

Advanced user or MS office suite

AGILE

JD Edwards

Food and Beverage packaging.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

The fastest wine bottling line in North America was losing 7% to 8% of effectiveness due to skewing of our cases. The problem mired production lines, and several redesigns didn’t help. I discovered the problem by an inspection of the warehouse cases. The corner protectors were flimsy and the impacts deflected all the corner cases out of square. I replaced the corrugated corner boards with stout laminated protectors and a reuse program was instituted. Production immediately increased by 8%.

Designed 12 pack beer carrier that can be used by a 24 bottle case filler.

Designed a 24 bottle wine case that could be easily split into 2-12 packs with all sides printable that was patented.

Our company lost sales due to an inability of salesmen in the field to access program to recommend a cost effective paper combination. Nor could they access the information by phone, resulting in lost sales due to ambiguous answers. I designed a spreadsheet employing an algorithm based on the company’s actual paper qualities as manufactured. Sales reps and designers could access the data. I certified the results with 2 experts in predicting paper performance at the mill. This allowed sales reps to offer immediate data to customers, increased sales, and the predictive compression is now based on the paper mill’s product.

Samples of My Work

May be found at the following locations:

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Work History

Gibson Overseas, Commerce, CA 2011 – 2015

Structural Packaging Designer Design Retail packaging, floor and counter displays, sleeves, labels and hang tags for kitchenware industry to be manufactured in Asia. Completely redesign entire flatware packaging to cut cost while standardizing product lines.

Heritage Paper, Livermore, CA 2011 – 2012

Packaging Engineer Designed retail displays and other types of Point-of-Purchase packaging such as dump bins, Shelf Ready shippers/trays, gift boxes for wine and other commodities. Designed structures that were used for digital print and promotions. House expert on agricultural common footprint packaging. Introduced more accurate method of measuring corrugated paper, resulting in lower costs and better material specs.

Siemens Industries – Mobility Division, Sacramento, CA 2009 – 2010

Packaging Engineer/Consultant - (Contractor) Evaluated, designed and implemented kitting materials and techniques to build light rail and high-speed rail systems. Designed custom totes for use in stock carts. Designed, coded and implemented shipping data base. Worked to modify WMS to build correct assembly sequence into totes and carts.

Proactive Northern Container, Stockton, CA 2008 – 2009

Packaging Engineer Engineered packaging for a wide variety of foods and wines and agriculture. Routed the job throughout the shop floor in the most cost effective manner for the company and the customer. Responsible for ordering all cutting dies, and ensuring they not only produces the correct structure but that would run on our machinery.

Longview Fibre Company, Oakland, CA 2003 – 2008

Packaging Engineer Completely responsible for day to day operation of Design Department. Designed packaging for a wide variety of foods and wines for automated filling lines and tray formers. Problem-solved customer packaging issues that involved packaging partners by visiting customers and offering warehouse and packaging solutions with onsite visits to customers. Oversaw photo shoots and wrote promotional copy. Facilitated marketing program to redefine customer perception of plant.

Kent Landsberg Company, Hayward, CA 2000 – 2003

Packaging Engineer Designed packaging for various Hewlett-Packard including corrugated, folding carton, foam, poly bags, Korrvu, thermoformed plastics.. Project manager for various H-P world-wide structural and graphic designs. DocuShare Administrator for the company.

Longview Fibre Company, Oakland, CA 1997 – 2000

Structural Designer Designed corrugated items: counter displays, end aisle displays, pallet displays, cartons, various styles of boxes and cartons. Created compression spreadsheet for Sales.

Everett Graphics, Oakland, CA 1996 – 1997

Structural Designer Responsible for folding carton design and die layout. Designed and developed database to track samples from design to manufacture. Administrator for Novell 3.12.

Chapco Carton Company, River Grove, IL 1994 – 1996

Structural Designer Responsible for all folding carton design and die layout.

Creative Steel Rule Die, Carol Stream, IL 1990 - 1994

Steel Rule Die Designer Designed flat and rotary steel rule dies for corrugated packaging industry.

Rockwell Graphics systems (Goss), Cicero, IL 1984-1990

Programmer/Analyst Supported 325 workstation engineering computer. Created electronic document control facility.

Electrical Field Engineer Oversaw on-site electricians. Set up and calibrated electrical, pneumatic, optical and magnetic systems on newspaper printing presses.

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, CA., Studies in Novell 3.xx System Administration

Control Data Institute, Chicago, IL, Became proficient in Fortran, Cobol, PL/1, RPG2, IBM Assembler.

Kansas Technical Institute, Salina, KS, Received BA, Liberal Arts

Triton College, River Grove, IL., Studies in Logic and Philosophy

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