John D. Kaminski

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

Taylor Mi *****

734-***-****

adt68h@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Tenacious and ambitious Program manager and senior engineer with over 20-years of plastic industry experience in plastic material technology and component manufacturing. Astute networker with deep relationships within and across industry sectors. Extensive experience in high pressure injection molding, part

design, tooling feasibility, tool builds, assembly fixtures and part gauges.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Business & Sales: Business Intelligence, Lead Generation, Technical abilities, Relationship Management, Program Management, Budget Control, Project Management, Interpersonal and Customer-Service Skills, and Research

Engineering: Manufacturing, Component Development, Product Development, Tooling, Injection Molding, Material Testing, Medical Injection Molding.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

ABC Technologies

June 2011-Sept 2022

Southfield MI

Program Manager/Senior Project Engineer

Lead customer development projects from acquisition to product launch phase considering technical and commercial aspects for seven GM garnish programs. Kia front end module program and Ford partial shelf program.

Program manager for the new EV programs for exterior trim components.

Plan, structure and coordinate all project related activities of a cross functional team in accordance with the Development process to ensure the achievement of quality, timing and commercial targets

Ensure the achievement of quality requirements by initialing and coordinating all required activities (risk analysis, feasibility, product assurance plan)

Lead team of engineers to support all of customer requirements for tooling, assembly fixtures and gauges.

Responsible for creating and implementing Lean Manufacturing initiatives for all launches.

Worked with our advanced engineering group for new technologies and new customer requirements.

I lead benchmarking activities for several program for cost analysis and design analysis for future programs.

M-Tek inc.-Nissan

Jun 2010 to June 2011

Farmington Hills Mi

Product Engineer

Engineering /design responsible for the luggage system for three program lines

for a new Nissan project.

Concept to Production tooling (3) luggage Systems.

*Analysis (FEA, Tolerance Stacks, RSS Models).

CAD development within Catia V5, and SDRC (IDEAS).

Manufacturing feasibility with tooling source.

Coordinate prototype/production builds/testing.

Support customers engineering requests within compressed timing plan.

Coordinate all prototype builds with Japan and working with industrial engineering to resolve fit and finish issue (build issues).

Developed a build issues matrix in order to resolve issues in a condensed time line.

IAC-International Automotive Components

May 2008 to January 09

Dearborn MI

Product Engineer

Responsible for engineering and designing over head systems,

including lighting systems and headliners.

Leading a cost reduction team for lighting mechanisms

Also completing design and feasibility studies for hard trim program. Responsible for all engineering disciplines on project FEA, tolerances stacks, RSS Studies and fit and finish decks

Currently using SDRC in all related design tasks.

October 2007 to May 2008

Blue Water Plastics @ Ford Motor Co. PDC Dearborn MI

Product Engineer

Responsible for design, feasibility, manufacturing, costing, of hard

trim components for the U502 program.

Currently working as the studio interface for all responsible parts

Coordinate prototype/production builds/testing

Support Customer engineering requests, studies, DFMEA, FMEA, etc.

Responsible for all engineering disciplines on project FEA, tolerances stacks, RSS Studies and fit and finish decks

Leading a group of Catia V5 designers and ICEM designers for part designs and tooling Feasibility

March 2004 to July 2007

Karmann Technical Development, USA, Plymouth, MI

Product Design Engineer

Responsible for costing (budgets) of all four latching systems on the retractable hard top and for the soft top on the JS27 Program.

Lead a group of 4-5 designers for the latch systems.

Worked with manufacturing (Industrial Engineers) to develop assembly process sheets, ergo issues, cycle times and responsible for changing designs of the systems to meet requirements.

Developed a build issues matrix in order to resolve issues in a condensed time line.

Design Engineer - for latching for convertible top system on DCX program.

Concept to Production Development (4) Latching Systems.

*Analysis (FEA, ADAMS, Tolerance Stacks, RSS Models).

CAD development within Catia V4, Catia V5, and SDRC (IDEAS).

EDUCATION

Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI

Aero Detroit/ Pioneer, Dearborn, MI

Digital Buck Training-FORD MOTOR CO.

SDRC (IDEAS) Training - Modeling I, II, III, IV

CATIA V4 TRAINED 2-5-2006 COMPLETED

CATIA V5 TRAINED 9-1-2007 COMPLETED

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