Jean-Paul Louis 574-***-**** (h)

***** ******** ***** 574-***-**** (c)

Granger, IN 46530 wv84s3@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Multilingual Manufacturing Engineering Professional offering exceptional hands-on engineering expertise combined with practical and effective management skills. Highly skilled manager in World Class Manufacturing techniques (lean-six sigma) encompassing complex electronic assemblies for in-house and contract manufacturing facilities.

EXPERIENCE

OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS – St Charles, IL 2010-Present

Manufacturing Engineering Group Manager for this First Tier Manufacturer of Electronic Assemblies (ECU) and switches for the automotive industry with major customers like Ford, GM, Chrysler, Honda and a few others.

Lead a Team of 5 Engineers and a supervisor with 20 Technicians maintaining the heavy automation used for final assembly, providing guidance to lean and six-sigma initiatives (heijunka, kaizen, 5S), supporting current production and transfer of product to/from other plants, new product introduction and leading cost and efficiency improvements with added automation.

CROWN INTERNATIONAL – Elkhart, IN 2007-2009

Manufacturing, Test & Industrial Engineering Manager for this leading provider ($100M sales) of very high power sound systems for the touring industry, convention centers, movie theaters and sport arenas (ex. 30 arenas for Beijing Olympic games, NYC Met & Yankee, Indy Colt stadiums).

Lead a Team of 8 Engineers and 25 Technicians chartered to improve factory test, assembly processes and repair center, support six-sigma initiative (several green belt projects) and maintain ISO standards in our group.

Selected accomplishments include:

Achieved $.5M annual cost reduction overall

Streamlined test requirements and improved fault coverage, efficiency pre-ship

Improved service turn-around time from 30 days to 5 days

Achieved 15% cost reduction in hand-insert and final assembly lines

Decreased Field returns from 3% to 0.5% on new products.

DECATUR ELECTRONICS – Decatur, IL 2004-2007

Trailer & Signs Engineering Manager & Manufacturing Engineering Manager for this leading manufacturer ($20M sales) of speed radars for law enforcement. Responsible for all departmental activities including 1 engineer, 2 technicians.

Selected accomplishments include:

Developed Improvement plan for the manufacturing of existing products (20% cost reduction)

Designed several new models which:

~ More than doubled Trailer & Signs portfolio

~ Grew trailer business from 10% to 35% of the overall company business

Streamlined factory assembly processes

Reduced delivery cycle for trailers from 6 weeks to 2 weeks lead time

ALCATEL France & USA – Orléans, France, Herndon, VA & Raleigh, NC 1986–2003

Manufacturing Technology and Web Applications Manager in Raleigh, NC 1988–2003

for what is now Alcatel-Lucent, one of the largest Telecommunication Equipment Manufacturer from cable to fiber optics to wireless.

Managing a Capital Budget of up to $2 million, without overruns or delays, lead a team of 6 Engineers and 5 Technicians to support Manufacturing Operations improvements, creating a Component Change Review Board (CCRB) to decrease number of parts and suppliers used in new designs. Led the effort to achieve ISO 9001 certification in 1993, then TL 9000 certification in 2000 during a period of accelerated growth (tenfold) of factory output to over $1.1 billion, contracting out production overload and minimizing support staff increase.

Instrumental in: Raleigh plant was ISO 9000 certified in 93, won the Shingo Prize in 95, was listed in the Top Ten Best Plants by Industry Week magazine in 98, was nominated to the NCQLA (North Carolina Quality Leadership Award based on the Malcolm Baldridge Award.

Selected accomplishments include:

Reduced new product costs by more than $20 million

Reduced New Product Introduction cycle time of SMT assemblies from 5 to 2 weeks

Developed high-volume SMT capability (From Prototype lab to 5 SMT lines running 24/7)

Developing CAD / CAM interface software, DFM / DFA guidelines to R&D (Electronic Assembly and Enclosures) and new process procedures.

Halved prototype build cycle time - developed tracking system & automated data transfer method

Increased overall SMT assembly productivity from 56% to 85%.

20% increase in productivity of Manufacturing Support Engineering & NPI processes with no increase in personnel

Reduced computer usage costs by 40% or an average of $150k per year

Created numerous Web applications encompassing all areas of Raleigh operations from the tool crib to the repair center to the Component database to the Quality system saving 1000’s of hours transaction time per year

Repair Center and Customer Support Manager - Herndon, VA 1986–1988

Efficiently managed a multi-million dollar Repair Center and Customer Support staff during introduction of new High-Speed Digital Transmission Systems (Cable and Optical fiber) into the North American market.

Reduced repair costs by 40%, saving $200k per year, inventory by 25% ($500k) and Mean Time To Repair by 50% from four to two weeks

Test Engineer and Foreign Contracts Support Engineer - Orleans, France

Started as Test Engineer, then moved to the Export division to supervise commissioning, training and acceptance test of telecommunication systems on overseas contracts, including Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, India, Iraq, Jordan, Malta, Norway, Peru, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, UK, and Yemen.

EDUCATION

MS in I.E. - ENSAM – Paris (recognized as Best Industrial Engineering School in France)

BS in E.E. & Computer Eng. & M.E. – ENSAM – Aix-en-Provence

Additional Training includes:

Motorola Design for Manufacturability six-month course (Six Sigma black belt equivalent)

Total Quality System implementation (several courses).

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (several courses and refreshers).

Languages include fluency in:

English, French and Spanish

SKILLS SUMMARY

Skill Level Industrial Engineering Skills Last Used

Advanced Manufacturing, Test & Industrial Engineering Current

Advanced Factory Layout Current

Advanced ISO 9000 Current

Intermediate Just In Time (JIT) Current

Intermediate 5S, Kaizen Current

Intermediate Point Of Use / Kanban Current

Intermediate Six Sigma Current

Advanced DFM/DFA/DFT Current

Intermediate TL9000 Internal Auditor 2003

Advanced Feeder / Line Dedication 2003

Skill Level Software Applications Skills Last Used

Intermediate SAP Current

Intermediate AutoCAD, SolidWorks Current

Advanced PROTEL Current

Intermediate Gerber tools (Valor, CAM350, GerbTools, CAMTASTIC) Current

Advanced MS Office Pro (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) Current

Advanced MS Project Current

Intermediate MS Visio Technical Current

Advanced Gain Seeker (Hertzler) Current

Advanced Minitab (V14 & 15) Current

Intermediate Macola 2007

Beginner PRO-E 2004

Advanced Exceed (X Windows Client for windows) 2003

Advanced Exaline (User and programmer) 2002

Advanced Unicam, Fujicam 2002

Intermediate Oracle Manufacturing 2002

Skill Level Programming Skills Last Used

Advanced MS Windows Current

Intermediate Linux, Shell scripting (C, Bourne and Korn shells) Current

Advanced VBA for Excel and Word Current

Intermediate C Current

Advanced Pascal, Delphi Current

Intermediate Java (using Oracle Jdevelopper) 2003

Beginner SAS Base Programming 2003

Advanced SUN-OS, Solaris 2002

Intermediate HPUX, Ultrix 1996

Advanced Basic (Various Flavors like VB, HP-Basic) 1995

Skill Level Web Programming Skills Last Used

Advanced Perl Current

Intermediate PHP and XML Current

Advanced HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS Current

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