CAREER SUMMARY
A Senior Product Engineer with a wide diversity of experience in the automotive industry. Combined experience includes the capabilities of a manufacturing engineer with 20 years of varied plant and corporate office experience. Experienced in quality control and program management functions. Tool and die background provides a unique perspective for reviewing product and manufacturing problems.
Senior Product Engineer, Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Control, Program Manager
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LEAR CORPORATION, Southfield, MI 1998-2008
Senior Product Engineer 2002-2008
Engineered, managed and implemented design, testing and launch of seat structures.
Dodge Durango hybrid electric vehicle seat structure:
Reduced tooling cost by 95% using low volume tooling and manufacturing.
Decreased overall program cost by 50%.
Innovative tooling allowed for inexpensive, rapid product changes.
Cadillac CTS – 2nd row reclining seat for Chinese market:
Increased common components and reduce tooling by 20%.
Reduced fasteners by 25%, resulting in a 10% decrease in TAKT time.
Facilitated prototype process and assembly.
Nissan Altima – thigh extender:
Spearheaded program management to take program from three months behind schedule to on-time delivery.
Re-engineered product from 85% of strength specification to 140%.
Resolved unclear customer expectations resulting from cultural differences.
Provided QS9000 and TS16949 quality documentations including: DFMEA, GD&T, process simulation, FEA, PLM, DVP&R included dynamic and static testing in support of product release.
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Manufacturing Engineer 1998-2002
Estimated cost and, timing implemented new and existing tooling and processes.
Managed a team of 25 skilled trades to rebuild a precision link assembly machine:
Improved first time quality from 90 to 99%.
Increased throughput from 64% to 85%.
Increased equipment uptime from 85 to 95%.
DELPHI, Warren, MI
Senior Manufacturing Project Engineer
Estimated cost and timing implemented new and existing tooling and processes.
Managed interplant transfer of six pieces of automated assembly equipment to support corporate cost savings initiative.
Devised error proofing that eliminated a problem that occurred in 14 parts per million.
DELPHI, ( continued )
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Estimated cost and timing, implemented new and existing tooling and processes.
Managed a manufacturing process lab to develop production tooling and processes.
Built modular and synchronous assembly tooling using outside vendors.
Invented a process capable of eliminating ergon...
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