GREG GORDON

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Summary

• Engineering with over 20 years of experience in machine design and manufacturing of high volume products for large consumer companies.

• Proven record of accomplishment in productivity improvements in manufacturing quality products such aircraft, injection molds, high-speed assembly and packaging.

• Responsible for setting manufacturing strategies for new products in leading consumer companies.

• Strong engineering background in machine design and controls.

• Broad range of equipment and process experiences including injection molding, blow molding, 600+ parts per minute assembly of molded and metal components, metal dies, powder presses and packaging systems.

• Extensive training and application of Six Sigma, LEAN and GD&T.

• Proficient with planning budgets and strategic thinking.

Experience:

Osram Sylvania, Hillsborough, New Hampshire December 2010 – March 16th 2012

Operations Manager / General Foreman

Public Company, division of Siemens. Managing a high volume assembly department at Osram Sylvania's Automotive Light plant in Hillsborough New Hampshire.

A123 Systems, Watertown, Mass 2008 – December 2010

Director of Manufacturing Engineering

A123 Systems is one of the world's leading suppliers of high-power lithium ion batteries using our patented Nanophosphate™ technology designed to deliver a new combination of power, safety and life. Responsible for high volume automation of cell assemble processes. Using automation to improve quality and improve product cost of automotive batteries in high volume. Position mirrors role at Duracell.

Smiths Medical, Keene, New Hampshire 2006 to 2008

Director R&D Support & Validation

Engineering Manager, Keene

One of the world’s leading manufacturers of medical products. It employs over 5,000 people in six Continents. Its products are known and trusted in anesthetic departments, operating theatres and intensive care units throughout the world. Responsible for all engineering projects in the Keene, NH facility that included the development processes and high speed automation for new products such as needle syringe assembly. Responsible for FDA validation of processes and equipment.

Merck & Co., Inc, Manufacturing Division, Whitehouse Station, NJ 2004 to 2006

Director of Mechanical Design, Packaging Technology

Responsible for driving manufacturing productivity improvements, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and LEAN, within the Packaging Technology, Pharmaceutical, and Vaccine manufacturing divisions of Merck.

• Presented DFSS experiences at Gillette and assisted with the selection of an outside consulting firm to provide black belt training.

Worked with DFSS consulting firm to develop pilot DFSS Black Belt course, and to tailor it to Merck’s requirements.

• My DFSS certification project was for the new Vaccine Manufacturing Facility (VMF) in Durham, NC. The goal was to ensure that the new plant operates as a world class plant …OEE, 6 Sigma quality. The plant started FDA validation process in 2006. Introduced computer simulation methods (ProModel & Arena).

• Involved in resolving equipment root-cause issues identified by OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) teams throughout Merck. Assisted Merck plants in Netherlands, Italy, and Australia to increase OEE% so that future purchase of additional equipment could be avoided.

• Worked with Merck Operational Excellence group to apply LEAN principles to Packaging business process to reduce resources and time to print labels, write component specifications and other processes.

The Gillette Company

Duracell Division, Boston, MA & LaGrange GA 1992 – 2004

Duracell was acquired by Gillette in 1997

Director of Equipment Engineering (New Products), DESC, Duracell, GA

Formed this group to focus on development of processes and equipment for new products. Worked directly with Duracell’s R&D groups. Accomplishments included:

• Reduced time to market from a historical 5-year cycle to less than one year.

Lithium prismatic battery, 12 months to develop and build battery assembly equipment and labeling.

• Alkaline prismatic battery assembly equipment, developed in six months including new packaging equipment.

• Worked with outside vendor (PDC) to develop rectangular sleeving equipment. Developed prototype to prove feasibility and to share development risk with vendor, reducing cot and time to build.

Director of Equipment Engineering, DESC, Duracell

Responsible for development of equipment and processes to bring new products to market and to support productivity initiatives within the eight manufacturing plants.

• Implemented the Gillette/Duracell strategy to centralize Equipment Engineering and for $200-300 million of capital investment per year.

• Directed a group of 50 people (30 engineers, 13 technicians, Equipment Purchasing, Project Management and Administration) whose mission was to bring new products to market and to reduce cost to manufacture current Duracell products.

• Managed multiple programs, in-house machine design from concept to implementation including development of manufacturing processes, cost estimates, financial and technical feasibility decisions.

Worked with plants to increase battery assembly efficiency from 50% to 80+%.

• Supported Duracell Pack Center with installation and debug of material handling system and packaging equipment purchased from outside vendors (Paal).

Developed and implemented new Zinc Air (hearing aid battery) East Tab™ packaging including auto-pack line from ATS.

Manager Continuous Motion Assembly Technology Group, Blades & Razors, MA

Directly managed $200+ million in capital for assembly equipment for the Mach3 program. This group of mechanical and electrical engineers developed Gillette’s continuous motion assembly technology, and evaluated other areas throughout Gillette where this technology could be applied.

• Responsible for continuous motion equipment strategy and Gillette’s first 600+ parts per minute assembly equipment (for Mach3), which was developed in less than two years.

Manager Mechanical Machine Design

Managed a group of mechanical engineers designing $200 million of equipment for Mach3. Principal engineer in the development of continuous motion, 600 parts per minute assembly machines, assembling nine components fed from reels, magazines or tray systems.

• This program introduced new assembly and feeding technology into Gillette’s manufacturing of high volume products totaling 2 billion assemblies per year.

Assistant Mechanical Engineering Manager

Led a team of engineers in Productivity Improvement Program that:

• Increased Gillette’s Sensor cartridge assembly from 120 to 185 parts per minute, efficiency from less than 50% to 85%, and reduced scrap to less than 2%. These improvements were obtained through kinematics and dynamic analysis of cams and mechanisms.

• Introduced continuous reel feeding of metal components (ribbon clips and ribbon blade supports) to reduce inefficiencies due to vibratory feeder bowls.

• Developed cost reduction program to eliminate Sensor cartridge component (over-cap). This program involved concept, design, build and implementation of $20 million of new equipment. This program also introduced a tray material handling system for Gillette Sensor components.

• Worked with Tisma (now part of SWF) packaging company to debug continuous motion packaging equipment for Gillette Sensor cartridges.

Avery Dennison Manufacturing Co., Fastener Division, Framingham, MA 1987 -- 1992

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Responsible for mold design, process control and maintenance of high volume injection molding (200 to 800 cavity molds for plastic fasteners) at Dennison’s Fitchburg, Massachusetts facility. Coordinated all activities of Mechanical Engineering, Equipment Maintenance and Tool Maintenance Groups at this facility. Managed the staff of six person machine design group, process engineering group, 12 person tool room, 24 + person maintenance shop. The Fitchburg facility is the primary plant in the Fastener Division and is responsible for the development and implementation of new products, equipment and processes. Major projects included:

• Reduced six months of back orders and 12 months of inventory through a program to “Reduce Set-up Time”.

Directly linked packaging to molding equipment, including robotic systems to load product into cartons or hermetically sealed bags.

• As part of a TQM program was trained as a DMIIAC Six Sigma Black Belt.

Project Engineer for Dennison International

The Fastener Division manufactures Swifttach™ label attachments and cable ties for the retail and automotive industries. These products are manufactured in 200-800 cavity injection molds, with secondary processes … stretching, degating, and packaging attached directly to the molding machine. As project engineer was responsible for:

• Transfer of technology to Fastener plants in Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands and Korea.

Developed tool shop in Brazil to negate import restrictions and provide low cost source of molds.

Summit Packaging, Manchester, NH 1984 -- 1987

Engineering Manager

Summit Packaging manufactures aerosol valves and other packaging products. Managed and led a group of nine people in the development, design, build, and debug of continuous motion machines that assembled aerosol valves at 600+ parts per minute.

• Established a manufacturing operation for Summit Packaging in Australia.

• Initiated Statistical Process Control in an injection molding operation.

Full time student 1980 -- 1984

Education

University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

B.E. Mechanical Engineering … a 6-year program, 4 year BSME program plus 2 years of formal co-op training. Majored in Machine Design and Controls.

East Coast Aero Technical School Lexington, MA … 2 year technical school

F.A.A. Airframe and Power Plant License

Professional Experience

CAD – Formal training on Unigraphics 3D, AutoCAD 14, Inventor 3D and Solidworks 3D

Computer Analysis – ADAMS Kinematics and Dynamic analysis

Simulation Modeling training and experience – ProModel

Computer programming knowledge: Fortran, Pascal and a number of PLC languages.

Six Sigma Black belt … DMAIIC and DFSS

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