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Objective

My over ten years of manufacturing and management skills can be effectively utilized for increase profitability and build a dynamic team environment.

Positions Held

Designer- Manufacturing Engineer- IT Administrator 2000- 2008

Kitchener Die Craftsmen Ltd., Kitchener, ON, N2B 2E8

•Quoting Tooling price for various Automotive Projects throughout North America.

•Able fully design and build automotive compression mold, trim tool check fixtures.

•Purchase material as per bill of material

•Project Management task and manage the production supervisor duties.

•Able to design and build up acting presses and work with Hydraulic & Electrical contractors for all press control within Press safety related features.

•Able to Design and CNC Wire EDM with Sodick machines.

•Work with Cimatron 3D Design package and produce surface files for CNC.

•Worked very closely with OME Solutions for possible Research & Development grants.

•Coordinate and manage IT related duties and taking care of Accounting Dept IT work.

•Support for production floor. (Schedule daily production & coordinate work according shop load, prepare engineering and production report, APQP core member)

•Maintain CAD log sheet for customer data.

•Responsible for Design review with customer prior to project kickoff.

CAD Designer – Tooling Engineer 1999- 2000

Bauer Industries Ltd., 187 King St South, Waterloo, ON, N2J 4A9

•Read and interpret blueprints and maintain the CAD database.

•Worked on Plant Layout & Machine layout and Manufacturing Engineering Duties.

•Responsible for building Tooling for 3 plants in North America.

•Core member of APQP team.

•Maintain supervisory role with tooling support team.

Sr. CAD Technician 1995- 1998

Custom Trim Ltd., 185 Weber St South, Waterloo, ON, N2J 2B1

•Produce all aspects of Industrial drawings

•Automotive Leather wrap blue prints specialized.

•Logged all the tooling data and maintained the log sheet for traceability.

•Digitize and nested for water jet cutting.

•Responsible to produce all aspects of Plant Layout and change for two plants.

•Maintain supervisory role for Jr. Cad personal.

Punch Press Amada Programmer /Quality Inspector 1992- 1995

Bedco Inc., 2305 Francis Hughes Avenue Laval, Quebec

•Design & Nesting Programs for various Amada Punch press.

•Very knowledgeable on clearance and punch for various thin gage material.

•Responsible for ordering punches & dies and overseeing maintenance of all machines.

•Responsible for first off inspection and checking production related issues.

•Machine maintenance and tooling maintenance.

Draftsperson 1991- 1992

CTC Tube Company of Canada Inc., 10220 Armand Lavergne Street, Montréal, Quebec

•Assembly Detail drawings for plant production.

•Machine drawings for machine components.

•Design Pulley and Timing Belts for rotary machines.

Lead Hand Punch Press AMADA 1987- 1989

GFI-Dometal Inc., 180 labrosse Avenue Montréal, Quebec

•Responsible for preparing tooling setup for 5 operators.

•Maintain the tool crib with all Amada related tooling

•Amada machine maintenance.

Education & Awards

•Sodick Wire EDM Design & CNC Programmer Certificate Chicago, US

•Cimatron Design Surface & Solid Design E7 & E8

•Maverick Solution Toronto CATIA Intro & CATIA Solid

•SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineering) Plant Layout

•ExecuTrain Microsoft Word, Excel, Microsoft Project, Excel Data Management

•In House Solution CadKey Computer Aided Drafting ( Basic & Surface Modeling)

•Mechanical Engineering (Drafting – Design) – Montreal

courses taken Machine Theories, Robotics, Automation and Fluid power and AutoCAD basic and 3D modeling.

Hobbies & Interest

Secretary of non profit organization in performing arts, Producing soundtracks for modern and contemporary dances, Playing Golf, Games etc.

References

Available upon request.

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