Engineer Manufacturing

Monica J. Brockway

269-***-**** (c) ******.********@*****.***

Personal Characteristics:

This candidate holds her faith based personal integrity and work ethic at the highest standard. She is committed to serving with excellence and enjoys learning and personal application.

Skills Summary:

This is a self-managed and motivated individual. Your choice of this employee would allow you, her manager, to better complete your job while trusting her to work responsibly and diligently either in a team or on her own.

This proven candidate is skilled in multiple and diverse project management offering broad experience and comprehensive skills. She brings with her professional and systematic organization and offers significant strategic planning capabilities. Efficiency and consistency are among her assets.

She is able to conceptualize and optimize product designs, assembly processes and machines using excellent oral and written communication skills to convey details for quoting and design completion.

The ability to make objective, fact based, and logical decisions comes naturally.

She enjoys budgeting, tracking, and hands-on work. She also brings experience in investigating, evaluating, analyzing, brainstorming, and root cause problem solving giving a wide variety of expertise.

She is exceptional in Microsoft Excel and Word. Excellence in Project and PowerPoint with additional experience in SolidWorks design reviews (eDrawings) and Vis Mock-up detailed.

Qualifications:

Organizational

Established corporate standards for product specific assembly processes and machines;

Developed fact based assembly labor times for manufacturing planning and evaluations;

Developed and maintained documents and procedures;

Trained personnel in the use and function of controlled documents and procedures;

Management

Managed and tracked from 10 to 16 programs concurrently in various stages from product design to manufacturing;

Managed multiple engineers and followed their programs acting as director and a technical resource;

Assisted in product cost estimating and cost reduction scenarios for new business;

Coordinating and training volunteers;

Planning

Advanced detailed planning of manufacturing - processes, sequences, flow, time elements for new products;

Created and specified details in assembly sequences, concepts and specifications for assembly machines;

Evaluated potential product concepts and developed cost estimating and cost reduction scenarios for potential business acquisition;

Engineering

Technical resource for product engineering and domestic and international manufacturing locations;

Participated in design reviews for new products to provide input for manufacturability and ensure the best possible overall designs;

Specified, procured and evaluated assembly equipment for all new programs;

Under budget overall by more than 40% on equipment;

Professional Experience Brief Summary:

Personally Established and Funded Kalamazoo, MI

Sabbatical 2011 - present

Summit Polymers, Inc. Portage, MI

Manufacturing Technical Leader 2005 – 2011

Functional technical expert for a specific commodity;

Multi-program project management from design to manufacturing;

Program Manager, Manufacturing Advanced Quality Planning 2001 – 2005

Managed eight to ten engineers;

Tracked multiple programs;

Ensured on-time, under budget, and quality of work;

Technical resource to product engineering and manufacturing.

Project Engineer 1997 – 2001

Interfaced between the customer, engineering and manufacturing facilities;

Responsible for product development from design to testing to manufacturing and customer approval.

Engineering Intern 1994 – 1997

Supported engineering staff;

o Mocked-up parts and tested to meet requirements;

Responsible for product development reported to project engineer.

Education and Training:

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 1997

Minor: Mathematics

Bachelor of Arts in Physics

Albion College Albion, MI 1994

AMA Training Seminars:

Multi-program management

Management Skills

Job Specific Training:

Toyota Production Systems (TPS – lean manufacturing); Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T); Team Oriented Problem Solving (TOPS); Design for Assembly/Design for Manufacturing (DFA/DFM); Failure Modes Effects and Analysis (FMEA).

References: Available upon request.

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