Teioronhiate Boots
Statesville NC *8625
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
• Designed, built and implemented automated machinery for production saving $120K annually.
• Designed and implemented production cell with $1.2 mil. Increase in projected sales.
• Designed and built fixtures and tooling for new and existing products saving $30K annually.
• Determined failure point of part and designed, built and implemented automated part verifier for leading automotive manufacturer.
• Developed, documented, and implemented Quality Training Standard Work for panel assembly process.
EXPERIENCE:
Manufacturing Engineer October 2010 - September 2011
Kewaunee Scientific Corp. (Wood Cabinet Manufacture)
- Investigated, wrote Capital Apparition Requests, specified equipment, installed equipment and generated standard work for new equipment.
- Modified machine programs to manufacture parts for assembly.
- Designed and built prototypes to decrease customer complaints and increase efficiency of manufacturing.
- Develop fixtures and gages to aid the manufacturing process.
- Designed specialized tooling to manufacture parts on more efficient machine.
- Implemented tests to determine most efficient manufacturing process.
Manufacturing Engineering Technician November 2009 – October 2010
Gilbarco Veeder-Root a subsidiary of Danaher Corp.
- Final inspection of units for Atlas and Encores production lines.
- Designed fixtures to aid in manufacturing of AST pump assembly and frontload boot assembly.
- Implemented new quality checklist for Atlas production to improve quality of final product.
- Trained in DBS Daily Management, VRK, Root Cause Assessment and Countermeasure Development and Standard Work.
- Participated in 3 Kaizens; a VRK, Cell Workflow and a SHINGIJUTSU.
Manufacturing Engineer September 2006 – October 2008
Maxon Furniture Inc. subdivision of HNI (HON) Office panel systems
- Applied and instructed Lean Manufacturing principles in daily operations.
- Lead 5 Kaizens (8D) events and participated in over 20 Kaizen events.
- Managed production machinery for Assembly, Metal Processing, Sheet metal and welding departments.
- Continuous improvement project leader.
- Saved $10K annually, managed tooling for new products and designed and built in-house tooling for existing products.
- Automated production machinery – saved $40K and decreased foot print 35%.
- Managed process improvements-saved $35K on project, increased efficiency by 25% and increased capacity by 113%.
Quality Engineer March 2005 – September 2006
Maxon Furniture Inc.
- Quality Improvement leader-increased capacity by 50%,quality by 66% and CCPM by 12%
- Staff process trainer-assembly, inspectors and incoming materials.
- Involved in over 20 customer complaints solutions, ranging from a phone call, shipping redesigned part, or several on-site visits.
- Drove APQP, DCP, and PPAP
- Temporary hardware department supervisor of six staff members.
Manufacturing Engineer December 2001 – November 2004
Engineered Sintered Components (Tier 1 Automotive Parts Supplier)
- Managed daily operations of precision production machinery and quality machinery.
- Improved machine capability, set-ups, cycle times and quality.
- Automated machine design-retrofitted production machinery saved $42K.
- Managed tooling for new and existing products.
- Designed and implemented manufacturing cell layouts.
- Managed and implemented quality systems
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EDUCATION:
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology
-NYS Native American Indian Education Unit Scholarship
State University of New York at Morrisville
Associate in Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology
-Honors Graduate
-Dean's list
- Ahksewahsne Board of Education Scholarship
SKILLS:
ISO9002 and QS9000 Tier 1 Supplier
Pro-Engineer Troubleshooting machinery
AutoCAD Solid Works
DFMA & DFM Machine Design
Poke-yoke 5 whys and 6S
Microsoft project Mechanical Desktop
Microsoft Office Medical first responder
HOBBIES:
Automotive enthusiast
Volleyball coach, elementary and middle school
Robotic coach
Hotwheels collector
References:
Available upon request.