Project Management Product Design
Resume:
ROBERT J ELWELL
Spring Hill, FL 34608
Home 352-***-**** Cell 330-***-****
Stowhanger5.com
PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
To design, develop, optimize, and manage world class injection molded products, devices, and projects. I would like like to also like to work with many different types of materials plastics and processes. This would then require a diverse type of manufacturing proccesses and the project management to support them. I enjoy the entire art to part process and have experience taking projects from design through to production. I also product and manufacturing problem debugging enjoyable as well.
My goal is to be able to focus on customer satisfaction and company requirements while allowing creative engineering solutions to be the catalyst for continuous improvements within designing and manufacturing processes.
CAREER SUMMARY
PROCAD Technologies, LLC (2-2014 – Current)
Product Design and Engineering
Mold filling, stress, thermal, impact, linear, non-linear analysis Tool Design and Engineering
Develop complete product design and tooling solutions for various types of customers. Develop various electro-mechanical projects including the manufacturing process. Was required to use Stress, Thermal, Impact, Dynampic, and Flow Analysis to optimize the product designs and tooling designs. Utilized Solidworks Simulation Premium and Moldex3D flow analysis software. The Product designs included plastics housings, cast housings, and sheet metal.
Work directly with OEM’s or Tier 1 Tier 2 suppliers. Helping customers develop new products or redesign entire existing product lines. Helping customers pull work back from China and help them optimize domestically to be more efficient and compete with offshore tooling and manufacturing.
Contract Position - 11/12 – 2/14
Staff Engineer - Designed and managed multiple projects both onsite and directly with customer. Used ANSYS to evaluate high stress areas and monitor part performance. Developed, designed and introduced test fixturing to duplicate stresses and check for part failure.
Contract Position - 3/12 – 11/12 –
Sr Molding Engineer – Designed and managed all aspects of tooling, and interface with tool shop. Reviewed product line to determine best combination of design features for product and associated tooling. Design complete set of molds and inserts to produce product line along with other new custom projects. Recommended selected and managed installation of molding machine and auxilliary equpiment.
Avid Technologies - 2/08 - 3/12
Sr Mechanical Engineer - Managed tooling specifications and quoting process for product components. Design and Engineer complex mechanical housings for electronic products, including complete 3D and 2D design packages of plastic, sheet metal, and machined components. Received patent on metal / plastic explosion proof enclosure for first of its kind.
Audiopack - 6/06 - 12/07 (Company closed and moved out of state)
Global Tooling Manager / Sr. Product Engineer 10/06 – 12/07 –
Managed complete tool design process from conception through production. Qualified, selected, and monitored tool shops and molders for custom products. Reviewed, improved, and / or corrected existing tooling and processing problems to improve efficiency and quality. Managed 17 tools in China.
Designed and developed concepts for military and fire-fighting communications equipment.
Contract Position - 6/2005 - 6/2006
System Analyst/Project Engineer - Reduced Product Design process from 1-2 days to 4-6 minutes while merging several CAD systems. Created standards for engineering department to follow along with complete training program for product and tool designers.
A&E Products - 2/9/02 - 4/22/05 (Downsized-division sold)
Project Engineer - Design and develop new concepts to solve customer - specific requirements. International tooling travel and project management in Portugal and China. Improved rapid prototyping, low volume prototype mold design, fixture design, inspection, product test specifications, and testing by creating an inspection spreadsheet for calculation of the strength of an I-beam hanger profile to its specified material without the use of chemical analysis. Several patents are in process and approved.
EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
BS Mechanical Engineering Technology
Fenn College of Engineering, Cleveland State University (Cleveland, OH)
Summa Cum Laude - 3.42 GPA Dean’s List
Plastics Engineering Technology
Penn State University
Associates in Science with major concentration in Tool & Die Design
Alliance College - 3.6 GPA (Awarded Outstanding Student for Technical Achievement)
Crawford County Area Vocational Technical School
Drafting Design and Technical Mathematics - 3.8 GPA
TECHNICAL SKILLS
PRODUCT ENGINEERING Involved in the plastics and metals industries throughout most of my career designing products in a wide variety of manufacturing settings. Proficient with multiple processes and applications in those settings. Utilized Moldflow and Cosmos FEA for product optimization and processing verification. Optimized processing to improve impact resistance, RF transparency, static disipptive, chemical resistance, and tensile strength.
SOLIDWORKS
Solidworks and Moldflow Independent Online Training Seminars
Maintain Professional Solidworks Software License including Solidworks Simulation Premium
ADDITONAL CAD SOFTWARE
Moldex3D, Moldflow, ANSYS, Inventor, Catia, Pro-Engineer, Unigraphics.
OFFICE SUITE SOFTWARE
Office 365, Billquick, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
PROFESSIONAL ACHEIVEMENTS
Modified Tooling thereby reducing cycle time by 50% (from 75 seconds to 38 seconds).
Reduced Product Design process from 1-2 days to 4-6 minutes while merging several CAD systems.
Adjusted Automated molding and fixturing process such that parts cooled 400% faster and reduced warpage by 60% at the same time.
Developed an inspection spreadsheet to calculate the strength of an I-beam hanger profile to its specified material without the use of chemical analysis. Several patents are in process and approved for this.
Developed a code of standards for engineering department complete with training protocol for product and tool designers to increase efficiency and maintain uniformity in processes.
Acquired PO for $6 million in parts following completion of first project with new customer in new division of company.
Received patent on metal / plastic explosion proof enclosure for first of its kind.
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