Engineering Manager / Sr. Product Development Engineer

Christopher R. Roll

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Engineering Manager / Sr. Product Development Engineer / Six Sigma Black Belt

EXPERIENCE Responsibilities

Direct, manage and develop new product working with customer design and quality teams. Mentor other engineers. Review customer specifications and requirements to write and implement procedures to assure compliance.

Industries and

Parts Engineered Aircraft, IGT, missile, rocket, medical and commercial castings.

Process Air melt, vacuum melt, flux cover melting, inert cover melting, static pour, vacuum pouring, counter gravity casting, centrifugal casting, kinetically activated solidification and high energy finishing.

Success through Cost savings

Innovation Manage raw material purchases and inventory for annual savings of 100K.

And Team Work Participate in and direct 6 sigma black belt projects with savings in excess of 150K.

Doubled product yield for complex non-weldable parts.

Improved productivity in wax and shell by 30%.

Changed mold design to yield a 40% reduction in labor and materials.

Increased productivity in shell production to yield a $250,000 savings.

Designed and constructed fixturing to eliminate costly CMM inspection.

On Time Delivery

Delivered First Article missile casting one and a half months ahead of schedule.

Developed first article fixed process parts on time with tooling packages in excess of 300K.

Team Work

Formed a cross functional team to increase productivity, reduce scrap and improve product quality.

Appointed Group Leader for interdisciplinary cost savings team.

Member of the alloy team, gating team and counter gravity team.

AFS chapter board member.

Managed 41 employees in eight departments.

Innovation

Designed and developed the swirl trap to eliminate dross flow back.

Introduced vector controlled gating and serpentine runner designs.

Redesigned pouring plug to improve the evacuation of molds with inert gas.

Developed phantom bracing to eliminate flow problems on non-weldable high volume commercial product.

Developed a process to eliminate cracking in processing of prototypes.

EDUCATION BSc Metallurgical Engineering Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

Other: Accounting, management, economics, computer programming. Colleges, CA

TECHNICAL Six Sigma Black belt and Leadership Training

TRAINING ICI Melt Practices for Stainless Steel, Nickel and Cobalt alloys

New Product Development and Introduction

STOP Safety training for Supervisors

MiniTab Training

SPC for Short Production Runs

ICI Advanced Technical Ceramics

AFS Gating and Risering of Investment Castings

SPC and DOE for Engineering

SME Geometric Tolerancing and Dimensioning

Super alloy Metallurgy

Titanium Metallurgy

AFS Metallurgy of Aluminum Casting Alloys

ITAR

Computer Skills Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point. Project, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Solid View,

AutoCad, Unigraphics and Solid Works

Job History Engineering Manager, Doncasters Southern Tool, Oxford, AL

Manager of Engineering and Metallurgy, WI Investcast, Watertown, WI

Sr. Product Engineer, Hitchiner Manufacturing, Milford, NH

Sr. Product Development Engineer, Wyman Gordon, Gorton, CT

Product Engineer, Hitchcock Industries, Bloomington, MN

Chief Engineer/ Quality Manager, Image Casting, Oxnard, CA

Sr. Process Engineer, Cast Alloys, Tijuana, Mexico

Shell Manager/ Process Engineer, Dolphin, Phoenix, AZ

Foundry / Process Engineer, Teledyne PICCO, City of Industry, CA

Process Engineer, Richwood Industries, Garden Grove, CA

Part Engineer, Precision Castparts, Portland, OR

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