BACKGROUND SUMMARY
• Experienced Manufacturing Engineer, with more than 25 years manufacturing and machining experience at various size organizations.
• Project management of new product launches.
• Experienced at process troubleshooting, poka-yoke, corrective action, and process optimization.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Recognized for persistence, tenacity, and exceptional follow through.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MAXXAIR VENT CORP., Tampa, FL 2004 – Present
Manufacturing Manager / Engineer
Design, source and launch new products. Supervise molding and assembly operations. Develop and implement efficient, ergonomic, cost effective processes to meet cost, quality and delivery objectives. Improve existing processes to reduce costs and ensure quality.
•Designed, detailed, and tested new vent cover for new product launch.
•Transferred plastic injection molding and assembly of electro-mechanical products to a third party manufacturer. Trained new manufacturer in assembly process & quality requirements. Realized a 35% cost reduction.
•Improved assembly process and re-layed-out assembly area to increase productivity on electro-mechanical assembly.
•Designed, detailed, and tested new aftermarket bracket assembly, including consumer packaging.
•Represent MaxxAir Vent Corp. in booth at industry trade shows.
•Provide technical customer support.
GILLETTE MACHINE & TOOL INC, Rochester, NY 2003 – 2004
Project / Manufacturing Engineer
Lead the launch of new products from customer inception to final delivery. Develop and implement efficient, ergonomic, cost effective processes required to meet customer requirements. Quote manufacturing and assembly of various CNC machined components and assemblies. Improve existing processes to reduce costs and ensure customer deliveries.
• Championed a Kaizen team to improve productivity on machined product by 25%. Improved cost, leadtime, process flow, and quality utilizing lean manufacturing principles.
• Successfully implemented product launch to bring in and establish cylinder head machining process. Managed tooling and product deliveries per customer requests. Fully met customer’s delivery requirements as well as internal cost objectives. Zero customer quality rejects.
• Launched machined transmission castings for a tier 1 automotive supplier, on time and within budget. Achieved 25% gross margin.
• Performed daily root cause analysis to provide corrective actions for discrepant material.
VALEO WIPER SYSTEMS, Rochester, NY 2001 - 2003
Manufacturing / Methods Engineer
Worked on a cross-functional team to successfully launch new wipers products and processes. Managed design, build, and procurement of new assembly equipment for the Rochester wipers facility. Worked with manufacturing to continually improve and reduce costs of existing assembly processes.
• Managed build of assembly equipment with outside vendor for introduction of new motor on existing wiper system. Gross margin of wiper module increased from 5% to 12%.
• Launched on time and under budget, with a 100% quality audit score, a new wiper module assembly cell in the Rochester facility.
• Provided manufacturing engineering support to team launching a new wiper module into production at the Rochester facility.
SOUTHCO INC., Honeoye Falls, NY 1996 - 2001
Manufacturing Engineer 1997 - 2001
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