OBJECTIVE
Seeking a senior manufacturing position within a growth and new product oriented corporation that will utilize my overall manufacturing management and technical expertise.
SUMMARY
Experienced manufacturing professional with broad experience in the electronic component and connector industry. Proven capabilities in regards to factory floor management, manufacturing engineering, project management, new product start-up, sourcing, quoting and quality engineering. A manager with an extremely strong work ethic and the ability to motivate and direct a results oriented manufacturing team.
•Extremely strong ability to manage and motivate personnel in a team environment.
•Experience in implementing and maintaining QS 9000 and TS16949 standards, APQP process documentation and PPAP requirements.
•Extensive program management experience from conception through production release.
•Extensive new product development experience, including manufacturing process development and quality assurance.
•Extensive progressive die component stamping experience.
•Extensive electronic component plating experience.
•Extensive component injection molding experience.
•Extensive experience in assembly tooling.
•Extensive experience in quoting new products and programs.
•Extensive experience in supplier selection, coordination and management.
•Strong troubleshooting abilities.
•Extensive experience in cost reduction efforts:
oUse of mistake proofing.
oRe-engineering of products and processes.
oReduction in down time.
oCost effective purchasing levels.
EXPERIENCE
Autosplice Inc., San Diego, Ca. 3/07 to Present.
$70KK electronic component and systems manufacturer with worldwide sales and manufacturing facilities. The company designs and manufactures electronic connectors, components and integrated SMT assembly systems for solving unique interconnection problems in the automotive, telecom, medical and industrial market segments.
Director of Manufacturing Engineering and Machine Design Engineering:
Recently promoted to this position after one year of demonstrated performance in development of departmental strategic plans as well as continued daily management of both departments activities.
Responsible for long term strategic plan development for the two departments.
•Provided leadership in the development and implementation of global tool design and building specifications and costing model spreadsheets.
•Provided leadership in the development and implementation of global tool design and building specifications and costing model spreadsheets.
•Retained previous responsibilities of daily department management and project planning.
Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and Machine Design Engineering Manager:
Responsible for the management of all activities of the Adv. Mfg. Eng. and Machine Design Engineering Group for developing new products from initial cost estimates, prototyping, tooling, quality engineering through release to production.
•Key decision maker responsible for investigation and implementation of best manufacturing methods for new products from initial costing phase through product and process development stage to full scale manufacturing.
•Responsible for sourcing suppliers, pricing negotiations and continued management of supplier activities from validation of tooling and product through release to production.
•Process improvements and cost reduction programs for existing product lines.
•Document control.
•Quality management implementation per TS 16949 standards.
•Successfully managed automotive stamped terminal programs for various automotive customers through production release, on time completion and within initial cost estimates.
•Successfully managed automotive molded connector assembly program through production release, achieving on time completion within initial cost estimates.
•Responsible for the daily management of 8 Manufacturing Machine Design and Electrical Engineers, 1 Mechanical Designer, 1 Model Shop Coordinator and 1 sample assembly technician.
Wire –Pro Inc., Salem, N.J, 2/06 to 3/07.
A $65KK electronic connector manufacturer, part of the Cooper Crouse-Hinds division of Cooper Industries. The company designs and manufactures electrical connectors and components in the communications and mil-aero market segments.
Senior Manufacturing Engineer:
•Responsible for process improvements and cost reduction programs for existing product lines including new equipment design and implementation.
•Designed and implemented new assembly processes and equipment for a filter connector resulting in cost savings in excess of $130k over 150k units.
•Designed and implemented a new assembly tool resulting in elimination of 3 hours per day of re-work equating to $90.00 per day or $22k in savings over one year.
A&L Handles Inc., Pottstown, Pa., Division of Pratt-Read Corporation.
8/04 to 2/06.
A $15KK plastic fabrication manufacturer of extruded and turned handles serving customers in the hand tool industry.
Operations Manager:
Responsible for the management of all manufacturing activities for this privately held corporation.
•Responsible for the daily management of 81 production employees and 5 supervisors.
•Increased on time delivery from 65% to 95% through implementation of proper planning and scheduling strategies of raw materials and customer orders.
•Increased productivity 11% through:
•Implementation of proper planning strategies to reduce setups.
•Leading by example on the production floor.
•Focusing on production metrics and quality
•Focusing on team building within and between shifts.
•Developing pride in the work place.
•Reduced finished scrap from 5% to approximately 3%.
•Reduced extrusion scrap from 14% to an average of 4%.
•Implemented a simple scrap recovery unit resulting in $20,000/yr savings.
•Responsible for continuous improvement projects in coordination with the Corporate Director of Lean Manufacturing.
Autosplice Inc., San Diego, CA. 6/95 to 8/04.
A $70KK electronic component and systems manufacturer with worldwide sales and manufacturing facilities. The company designs and manufactures electronic connectors, components and integrated SMT assembly systems for solving unique interconnection problems in the automotive, telecom, medical and industrial market segments.
Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Manager 1997 to 2004.
•Responsible for the management of all activities of the Adv. Mfg. Eng. Group for the development of new products from initial cost estimates, prototyping, tooling, through release to production.
•Key decision maker responsible for investigation and implementation of best manufacturing methods for new products from initial costing phase through product and p...
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