Daniel Dalfonso
PROJECT MANAGEMENT ENGINEER • DESIGN & MANUFACTURING
PROJECT OBJECTIVES | PROJECT PROPOSALS | PROJECT PHASES | PROJECT SCHEDULE
Highly-technical, dynamic and performance based Engineering Professional adept at planning, creating, and providing leadership of production optimization initiatives across Aerospace, Automotive, Energy and Medical Industries. Solid technical acumen of workflow efficiencies and manufacturing improvements that provided strategic solutions to highly complex problems. Excellent communication, organizational, interpersonal and presentation skills that will motivate, & lead your high-caliber multidisciplinary teams. Together we will rethink the critical dimensions of the work, & get the deep changes implemented right.
KEY SIGNATURE STRENGTHS
Program Management • Project Management • Product Design Management • Cost Management • Quality Management • New Product Introduction • Research & Development (R&D) • ISO 9001
Design for Manufacturing (DFM) • Process Mapping- Product, Paper & People Flow • Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) • Process Development, Design - Improvements • Plant Layout • Line Balance
Design for Assembly (DFA) • Workflow Optimization- Designs, Material Flow, Labor • Performance Improvement • Product Development: Design- Improvements • Lean Six Sigma Methodologies
Supply Chain • Reliability • Vendors • Bids • Contracts • Contractors • Control & Monitor • Logistics
Written Communication Skills • Procedures • Processes • Business Profits • Executive Staff Interface
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
* Significant contribution in preventing 16-week production halts by reviewing Valve Design Sheets, 2D Drawings, 3D CAD models, & then immediately initiated Engineering Change
* Authored new assembly procedures, & test documentation for various applications that, greatly improved adherence to ISO 9001 quality standards & reduced assembly line errors by over 95%
* Doubled overall operational manufacturing (product & production) efficiency on 6A & 6D applications via lifecycle and DMADOV analysis, which greatly increased project billability rate.
* Offered significant contribution in the calculation of financial metrics for a $900 million dollar business pursuit. We won the contract, and developed follow on business relationships.
* Bachelors Science, Mechanical Engineering & Bachelors Science, Aerospace Engineering
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VALVTECHNOLOGIES, Houston, Texas 2014 – 2015
Manufacturer of API 6A and 6D Oil & Gas valve applications
Senior Manufacturing Project Engineer
* Quickly became Lead Manufacturing Project Engineer for their newly launched API 6A portfolio. Offered significant contribution to other Engineering, Product Line Management, and Product Design functions that served as the catalyst to highly successful Operational implementation.
* Drove the development of product design standards by leading customer specification evaluation, creating procedures / workflows, training staff, and establishing operational methods that obtained maximum utilization of production facilities & multidisciplinary personnel.
* Provided tracking and reporting of operational performance metrics, such as project schedules, and staff requirements. Communicated status to management of all key performance indicators: trends, and goal attainment. Teams exceeded expectations & accomplished all assigned tasks.
* Managed on-time development of innovative software products that included BOM & Routing analysis tools. These tools were highly effective in reducing errors that disrupted valve assembly production. Achieved across the board companywide production output improvements.
DRESSER-RAND GROUP, INC., Olean, New York 2012 – 2013
Rotating equipment supplier for energy, and power industries
Senior R&D Estimating Engineer- Computer Simulations
* Main developer of Virtual Production Environment (VPE) cost analysis simulations software that supported executive management cost targets. Fully responsible for overcoming the technical challenges of enabling software to recognize Engineering R&D 3D models. These efforts resulted in $6 million dollars of cost savings & improved engineering alternative design efforts.
DELPHI, INC., Lockport, New York 2010 – 2012
Leading global supplier of Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning
Chief Cost Estimator & Junior Business Finance Analyst
* Complete management of 300+ project cost estimates that achieved $195+ million dollars of new business contracts. Became catalyst in the attainment of profit margin increases / cost reductions.
* Provided strategic and tactical leadership to global teams of Manufacture & Industrial Engineering on projects that determined worker functions, operations sequencing...
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