Tool room manager
Resume:
MARK NOVAK
Windsor, CA **492
Cell – 707-***-****
***************@*****.***
Summary
I started Tool & Die in High School that was also a Vocational School and got a job in my senior year, while starting my apprenticeship. A few years after high school, I became a grinding foreman at an early age because I did very well at handling the tolerances, the people and the work.
I then started my own Tool shop in Erie, PA building spare tooling for local companies and some friends who became successful with large companies; I then opened another shop in North Carolina by going direct with AMP Inc. who gave me my first direct vendor number.
It ended up being easier for me to run out of one location so I closed the Carolina location. Back in my Erie, PA location, I achieved working direct with Boston Scientific, Molex, and Thomas & Betts. I did very well for many years and then the economy got bad so I decided to get out while I still could (by my own choice).
I then took a job doing QA/QC (which was far from what I did) just so I could figure out my plan in life now that I didn’t have my shop anymore.
I then relocated in California to be SMC LTD’s Tool Room Manager and it has been great to work for a company that I can be involved in all facets of manufacturing and to also play a big role in helping the company succeed.
Objective
After all my experiences, I am looking for a job that I can use my background to the fullest. In these times of competitive tooling and manufacturing costs, I would like to always have a position that I can help lead and feel like I am helping our company stay on that competitive cutting edge to make a difference.
Relevant Experience
Keeping molds up and running by trouble shooting, fixing, and stocking relevant spares
Quoting projects with production efficiency in mind.
Design improvement on existing tools, steel types, Venting, Gate type/system efficient to cost savings
Review of designs to make more cost effective for upkeep, longevity
Traveling to vendor sites to review jobs, get work or review changes.
Traveling to vendor sites to repair molds.
Developing fixtures.
5S system
Hot tip, valve gate tools
• 18 Years of Grinding
• 20 Years of Milling
• 15 Years of EDM
• 6 Years of CNC EDM
• 3 Years of Wire EDM
• 20 Years of Lathe
• 10 Years of Polishing (Also capable of good #2 diamond finish)
• 10 Years of hands on Mold Repair
• 10 Years plastic trouble shooting
• 14 Years of Supervising
• 15 Years of Plastic Injection Experience
• 2 Years of Compression Molding Experience
• 3 Years of Tig Welding
All years have been working on + - .0001 and .0002 work ( I know all about 1 Micron)
Work History
SMC LTD TOOLROOM MANAGER (July, 2007 - Current)
3250 Brick way Blvd, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
RESPOSIBILITIES
Deal with outside vendors for outsourcing jobs.
Evaluate molds that need repaired and how, then delegate work to the proper toolmaker or employee.
Improve production molds to run more efficient (such as plating, inserting, changing steel types)
Come up with fixtures for 2nd operations and ways to help QA check parts in a repeatable manner.
Give guidance daily to Mold Techs for preventative maintenance.
Help production planner by getting molds repaired and coordinated in ever changing order.
Design reviews with Engineers.
Set up molds.
Clean and fix hot runner and valve gate systems.
Set up and enforce PM schedules (I wrote our Tool PM Procedure that the company currently uses).
Set up work procedures.
Troubleshoot molds once set up (burning, splay, knit lines, etc).
Weekly Continuous Improvement Manufacturing Meetings.
Morning production meeting (So I can schedule repairs and cleaning that I am responsible for).
I also 5s all of the company’s Molds by cataloging them and gave them a rack/ pallet location.
Total production support from the Tool room.
On call.
Custom Engineering QA/QC TECHNICIAN (July, 2006 - June, 2007)
2800 McClelland Ave, Erie, PA 16510
RESPONSIBILITIES
Reviewing PO requirements for customers.
Document control for material certificates, welders qualifications, document pressure checks on valves, make sure blast profiles are taken and correct, paint records are in order, take readings such as rub test and gauge paint thickness to double check paint records.
Check weld joints and welds to make sure they met customer requirements.
I was in charge of 80% of all source inspections from 3rd party inspectors to present all records.
Made sure all impact tests and mag particle tests were done prior to inspectors visits.
Responsible for material certs.
Performance Tool & Mold, Inc. (2 Locations)
2404 McKinley Ave, Erie, PA 16503 OWNER (Jan, 1994 - Jan, 2006)
307J Westgate Blvd, Greensboro, NC OWNER (Oct, 1995 - Dec, 1996)
RESPONSIBILITIES
Build molds and prototypes
Sample/Run (Off Site)
Develop fixtures
Quote, Sales, Job Planning
EDM - CNC/EDM, Wire, Grinding, Milling, Polishing
Design (Auto CAD/Solid works)
Mold assembly, Mold repair
Vendors included AMP, Boston Scientific / NAMIC, Molex, Thomas & Betts, and various local companies
Repair valve gate and hot tip molds
• On site troubleshoot
Close tolerance + - .0001 electrical, automotive and medical work
Parm Tool Came back to be the Foreman (Oct, 1992 - Jan, 1994)
2727 West 16th Street, Erie, PA Grinder Hand (Jan, 1990 - Jan,, 1992)
RESPONSIBILITIES
Surface Grinding, EDM, Milling, Pantograph
Second Shift Grinding room foreman
Mold Assembly
Close tolerance + - .0001 electrical and automotive work
Micro-Mold GRINDER (Jan, 1992 - Oct, 1992)
4820 Pittsburgh Ave, Erie, PA
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Finish Surface Grinder
Close tolerance + - .0001 electrical, automotive and medical work
Tool All GRINDER / MILLHAND (Feb, 1988 - Jan, 1990)
2053 East 30th Street, Erie, PA
RESPONSIBILITIES
Lapping (+- .000015 on stack dimension laminate cores)
Milling
Grinding
Radial drill press (drilling water lines, eye bolt holes)
Close tolerance + - .0001 electrical and automotive work
Education
Tech Memorial High School / Vocational School (Tool & Die)
Graduated with diploma June, 1988
• Received certified journeyman certificate (Commonwealth of PA)
• Formal Manager Training from my current Employer
• Solid works
References Available Upon Request
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