Van Patrick Beck

*** ***** **** – Shepherdsville Kentucky – 502-***-****

Professional Work History

GE Business and Home Solutions

May 2011-Present

Transition Manager AP4 Center of Excellence

• Managed a team of 28 team members from various disciplines within the GE appliance group

• Identifying infrastructure, equipment, maintenance, and skilled labor needs in order to transition existing plastic injection operation into Center of Excellence

• Created budget to tear out old manufacturing area, buy all new equipment, replace outdated infrastructure. Budget was 20 million for all projects within building AP4

• Worked with other groups within the appliance park group to build new assembly lines, and upgrade outdated building infrastructure and equipment

• Organized bid process for all outside contractors, as well as internal maintenance teams

• Delegated team members to work with each contractor to resolve any issues

• Built a transition core team members from production, advanced manufacturing, Quality and current production

• Develop with transition core team detailed plan to upgrade equipment, preventive maintenance plans, and training required to have an efficient and well trained work force, where work force is a union labor force

• Hire a launch team of tool setters, processors, operators to implement the transition of all new NPI’s that are assigned to the Center of Excellence, after launch of NPI these new team members would be absorbed into our talent pool

• Schedule arrival, installation, testing, qualification, and training of team members on all new equipment and tooling

• Upon completing transition into Center of Excellence I would train new Center of Excellence Operations Manager or assume this role

September 2010-May 2011

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer (Tooling)-NPI

• Managed a team of 14 Tooling, Design and Quality engineers

• Establish tooling budget, including any auxiliary equipment, testing systems, and quality fixtures to support 125 plastic injection molds. Budget was 7.5 million

• Created Specifications for each tool, equipment, etc. in order to pass GE’s stringent requirements

• Support design engineering teams with DFM, DFA, and feasibility studies

• Generated time lines using Microsoft Projects for Advanced Manufacturing Engineers (tooling) to follow as well as suppliers (including detailed contingency plans for unforeseen misses)

• RFQ plastic injection mold tools and leverage cost with volume with GE qualified mold builders

• Develop Value stream map for all tools, parts, and part presentations

• Assigned labor to support NPI within Injection molding Center of Excellence and assembly lines

• Qualified new tooling and equipment suppliers

• Member of GE’s recruitment team, interviewing, hiring, and corporate sponsor of new hires within the Advanced Manufacturing Engineer group

Electrolux Major Appliances

September 2004-September 2010

Rapid Prototyping Engineering Manager/ Tooling Engineer

• Lead the Designing, development, prototyping and patenting the dish care industries first adjustable side mounting system for installation of their version of a stainless steel dishwasher

• Worked with the Product care engineering group to eliminate steel reinforcement from the plastic inner doors that resulted in an annual savings of $6,000,000 in material costs alone

• Organized, developed, prototyped, and patented vented drying system that produced an industry wide best drying scores, resulting in a $1,500,000 annual cost savings

• Responsible for building of multiple internal quality labs, new Tool and die shop, as well as engineering test labs Budget was 4 million

• Coordinated effort to bring more productive equipment to rapid prototyping/ model shop, as well as machine shop to eliminate the need for out sourcing projects saving the company several hundred thousands of dollars

• Instructed Tool room on maintaining progressive stamping die, injection molds, and use of CNC machines

• Continually worked to improve cycle times to reduce price molded part costs, introduced more productive thermulators, resin mixing systems, and created more restrictive process control documents, resulting in 25% more productive molding dept.

• Implemented use of flow charts to accurately document pm procedures and tooling repair activities, resulting in the use of our computerized machine tools to manufacture die spare parts, eliminating a dependency on venders, and reducing large amounts of down time

• Spearheaded work with Research and Development engineering group to introduce child safe features on our future product lines

• Worked with maintenance group to establish P.M. structure for the molding teams aging 3200 ton IMM’s, due to their age we had to rebuild most of them back to proper running conditions

• Consulted with Manufacturing engineers with mold, die, and fixture issues with their respective projects, worked with outside suppliers to resolve tooling issues

• Instrumental in training apprentice Model makers in various prototyping procedures

• Obtained Green gear for Continuous Improvement thru Electrolux Manufacturing Systems training

• Fostered a winning team atmosphere based on my willingness to work side by side with each element of the team.

• Supervised Tool makers, Mold makers, and Model makers throughout dishwasher facility

ASMO of Greenville of North Carolina

June 2000-September 2004

Tool and Die and Maintenance Supervisor / Tooling Engineer

• Used schooling in Toyota Manufacturing Systems to create cost savings program where each tool maker could offset their salary by finding more productive procedures, and eliminating down time for tooling, savings averaged $250,000 based on a six man tool and die team

• Instructed in practical use of the Six Sigma principles of DMAIC, and DMADV

• Obtained Six Sigma Green Belt thru Toyota Manufacturing systems training

• Developed improvements to production processes to eliminate problematic areas resulting in dramatic rise in productivity and realized cost savings

• Coordinated outside training for Maintenance teams to upgrade our teams skill levels

• Implemented standardized tool and die training so our tool makers became more skilled, productive, and redefined themselves as a TEAM instead of individuals

• Set up Preventative maintenance programs for production, manufacturing, and assembly equipment to increase up time and reduced downtime to a bare minimum

• Researched and purchased computerized machine tools to increase productivity, as well as robotic equipment

• Coordinated maintenance of progressive die systems, injection molds, and aluminum die casts dies, while continuing to improve the processes was a daily mission.

Education

Pitt Community College

Winterville, North Carolina 1997

• Associates degree in Machining Technology

• Certification as Welder

• Certification as Machinist

• Associates degree in Electronics Technology

• Certification in PLC

Mercer University

Macon, Georgia 2007

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

• Project Management Certificate

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina

• Masters of Science in Engineering Management (Graduating December 2012)

• Have completed all classes by August 2012, need to complete Thesis.

Additional Leadership Training

• Toyota Production Systems Training

• Zinger Miller Management Training

• Zinger Miller Front Line Leader Training

• PLDC ( Primary Leadership Development Course)

• BNOC ( Basic non-commissioned Officer Course)

• Army Ranger School Fort Benning, Georgia

• Completed General Electric Management\ Lean systems training

Accomplishments

• Accepted into Warrant Officers Candidate School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

• State of North Carolina Journeyman Tool Makers Certificate(Card)

• State of North Carolina Journeyman Mold Makers Certificate(Card)

• United States Department of Labor Journeyman Tool makers Certificate(Card)

• Six Sigma Green Belt Thru Toyota

• Certified Environmental Auditor Thru Toyota

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