Christopher A. Stires

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Stow, Ohio 44224

Home Phone: 330-***-**** E-mail Address: jfpnye@r.postjobfree.com

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Career Seeking a position in the area of Engineering or Management, that will allow me to utilize my

Objective: skills as both an engineer and a manager to help further company goals.

Summary of Qualifications:

• A strong team builder and leader that enjoys the challenge of engineering business integration, organizational restructuring, product development or expansion, and taking projects from concept through to completion

• Hands-on, customer oriented manager with strong capabilities in forming and implementing innovative and creative strategies, and dedicated to the principle of higher company goals

Experience: Project Manager, Mork Process, Inc. (March 2009 – Present)

• Mork Process is a manufacturer of clean in place (process) units for the pharmaceutical, food and beverage markets servicing customers world wide.

• As Project Manager it is my responsibility to engineer custom clean in process solutions that deliver the least downtime to customer and best long term solution for their various product lines going forward

 Researched and purchased steam generator and in-line water system that eliminated FAT product development and process flow problems allowing the company to turn around more then twice as many CIP units

Product Development Supervisor / Technical Data Administrator,

ACS Industries, Inc. (April 2006 – January 2009)

• ACS Industries, is a national manufacturer of construction attachment

• As Technical Data Administrator it was my responsibility to integrate the various departments within the organization through an ERP system and turn this information into a web based selling platform to service our customers throughout the US.

• As Product Development Supervisor I managed the day to day activities of several engineers as we brought to life various products and released them to production

 Obtained OEM information pro-actively to reduce lead-time to design and build products. Reduction in lead-times resulted in an increase of almost $1 million in additional sales

 Successfully led multiple patented design projects from concept through manufacturing. Company realized over 3 million in additional sales from these projects over a 18 months

 Successfully led ERP project bringing our customers the ability to order, track inventory, and assign equipment all via a web based platform

 Built company wide project management application to use in conjunction with the existing MRP system

Product Engineer Trelleborg Wheel Systems Americas, Inc. (July 2005 – April 2006)

• Trelleborg Wheel Systems is a manufacturer of tires and wheels for lift trucks, man lifts, jet-way bridges and other small utility vehicles with a world wide customer base

• As Product Engineer I was the lead engineer in bringing new products to market and supporting existing product through product redesign and process improvements

 Initiated destructive testing of products by artificially accelerating their aging process through various types of environmental media to determine failure points. This type of testing saved the company potentially millions in of dollars in defective products and lost man hours

 Brought to life patented project and helped lead the time through product line start-up. This product potentially brought millions of additional dollars in sales and more importantly reduced downtime for our customers.

 Implemented SOP and safety related information to senior staff, peers, and subordinates

Product Designer Mantaline Corp. (ISO: 9001/2000) (June 2004 – May 2005)

• Mantaline Corporation is a manufacturer of rubber extruded products serving the heavy truck, RV, automotive, and architectural markets

• As Product Designer I supported other engineers in bringing new products to market while supporting existing products through redesign and process improvements

 Proved product quality was not due to poor product design rather the use of outdated capital equipment and non maintained equipment

 Identified through real time trends where product production problems occurred and corrected those problems before valuable time and money were lost

 Pro-actively determined the need for additional capital equipment to improve product development, process development, and current products

Technical Manager NPC Custom Rubber Inc. (July 2001 – January 2004)

• NPC Custom Rubber is a manufacturer of rubber extruded products serving the concrete pipe and plastic pipe industries

• As Technical Manager I designed, cost, and quote new products for the market. In addition I managed shop floor employees and improved processes while maintaining high quality standard

 Successfully led 5 million capital improvement project doubling our capacity, increasing throughput by 40% all without shutting down production

 Created viable process during product development phase for high volume product with very little waste during start-up

 Provide technical information to senior management as well as operational information to process operators and managers on the shop floor

Education: The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio

Masters of Business Administration Management

Graduation: December 2008 GPA: 3.8 / 4.0

Bachelor of Applied Science Mechanical Engineering Technology

Graduation: December 2000 GPA: 3.8 / 4.0

Professional Development: ISO 9001:2000 Internal audits for organizational success

Mantaline Corp.

ASTM Chair member, Rubber, Plastics, and Concrete materials

NPC Custom Rubber Inc., Mantaline Corp., Trelleborg Wheel Systems

Board Member

Akron General Wellness Center, “East Campus”

Computer Skills: 3D design Other

AutoCAD Mechanical/Mechanical Desktop, Lotus, Microsoft Office,

Autodesk Inventor, Pro-E, SolidWorks, Project, PowerPoint, Access

FEA CNC Programming

Algor, ANSYS, Cosmos Basic G Code, Master Cam

PLC Computer Programming

Basic Latter Logic C and C++, Visual Basic,

References: Available upon request.

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