Alan King Jan09

Alan J. King

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Objective: Design Engineer

Motivated, proven performer in Design, Design Engineering within the Automotive Industry in the area’s of Seat Mechanisms and Interior Trim plus Body Exteriors and Interiors. Surfacing and Body Structures.

Key Skills:

• Seat Recliner/Latch Mechanisms

• Body Structures and Surfacing

• Advanced Seat Concept Design

• CAD Operator of Catia V5 and PDGS

• CAD Design Interior, Exterior Trim and Body Structures and Surfacing.

• Create PowerPoint presentations.

• Cad Designer for 30years.

• Certified Cad trainer for Ford PDGS cad system.

Work Experience:

Mayflower Vehicle Systems (Part of Commercial Vehicle Group) Wixom Office

in Wixom, MI

Design Engineer Nov 2006 to Present

Responsible for design and manufacture of a prototype Panoramic Glass roof system, also Modular Roof and Fairing designs for Semi Trucks and Belts to seats for Bench Seat System.

Johnson Controls, Inc. Plymouth, MI (Contract with Mayflower Vehicle Systems formally IAD)

Design Engineer 2001 to Nov 2006

Working in Advanced Engineering on various concepts, major being rearward folding flat seat system for

2nd and 3rd rows. Plus Power Track Systems.

Design Engineer 1999 to 2001

Responsible for design and engineering of two new programs, one for second row seat latch mechanism and the other for a dumping manual recliner for a two seater sports car, plus responsibility for current

Production latches and recliners in both Engineering and Design.

Designer Nov 1993 to 1999

Responsible for design and producing drawings of Latches and Recliners both manual and power for various seat systems, for both JCI and customers. Spent 10 weeks in England in 1996 at JCI Chelmsford

FBU involved in design for C170 then Dual recliner.

Designed and packaged the EZ entry for the C170 on the Jupiter track.

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (Contract with IAD)

Cad Trainer/Designer Jan 1993 to Nov 1993

Main involvement as Cad trainer to designers on one of the Electric vehicles that Ford/IAD/Masco where jointly working on. This entailed training designers with Electric vehicle experience on PDGS (Ford’s own CAD system). As well as training I was also involved in the Front-End Vehicle design.

The training involved putting together appropriate courses for the needs of the areas of design within the vehicle.

Ford Motor Company, Koln, Germany (Contract)

Cad Designer May 1992 to Dec 1992

Working in conjunction with Interior Design Engineers on concept Instrument Panels. This entailed generating 2D sections in the PDGS Cad system and then creating 3D lines through the appropriate sections, then surfacing the line data for use in the Interior design package within the Green House

(Glass Area).

Britax Ltd., Chicester, Hampshire, England. (Contract)

Surface Designer Jan 1992 to May 1992

I took a basic Scan of a clay model of an Exterior Door Mirror and generated what is known as a Set of Surface Lines and finished Math Surface model in PDGS. From this math model data the Tooling people

Cut a soft model for approval. Then used said Math data to cut tooling for the Plastic Injection mould for both the Mirror Housing and the Door mounting foot. (The Mirror Housing was for the Jaguar XJ series)

Professional Training:

Pressed Steel Fisher (Now part of BMW)

• Apprentership – Automotive Body Design (5 years)

Ford Motor Company (UK)

• PDGS Cad training

• PDGS Certified Cad Trainer training (In USA)

• Training Course Development

• Public speaking

ICL Ltd. (UK) (Computer Manufacture)

• Sales and Marketing

• Team Building

• Business Communication

Green Card Holder.

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