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THOMAS K

Engineer - 5 Years of Experience - Near 47401

Occupation:

Engineer

Education Level:

Associate

Will Relocate:

YES

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-CAREER HIGHLIGHTS - New Product Development Engineer Oct 2007 to Current COOK Medical, Bloomington, IN (One of the world's largest privately held medical device companies with 16,000 products globally.) * Product development and design for manufacturability, Interfacing with marketing and mechanical engineering, issuing patent disclosures and additional coverage * Support mechanical engineering by addressing ongoing quality, costs, and production requirements * Managing and maintain prototype lab and equipment. Program and operate CNC micro coiler, CNC micro grinder and CNC vision gauge * Providing real time prototypes for product evaluation * Estimate production costs when warranted to justify project assessment * Provide my vast tooling experience to resolve manufacturing problems, and address quality concerns Key Contributions * Delivered thirty plus patent disclosures that have led to nine patent pending. * Successful start-up and operation of prototype lab * Implemented year-over-year cost savings $100,000 - $200,000 totaling over one million dollars in nine years. -CAREER HIGHLIGHTS (cont.) - Tooling and Manufacturing Engineer 1996 to 1999 KRASBERG, Des Plaines, IL (Purchased by Innovative Manufacturing Solutions) (A consolidation of contract manufacturing operations providing tooling, metal stamping, sheet metal fabrication, machining and sub-component assembly for leading manufacturers.) * Provided engineering and sales account support for metal stamping and tooling * Calculated production cost estimates for customers * Renegotiated pre-released programs to ensure accuracy of pricing and lead times * Wrote plans for production, purchasing of raw materials, and components for assembly * Approved design prints for qualifying parts, released purchase orders, coordinated production schedules, and worked with quality control to ensure parts passed inspection * Indirectly led toolmakers, laborers, and assembly personnel in troubleshooting and production runs * Established key customer value relations leading to new account referrals Key Contributions * Initiated new account relations with value added stamping producing $7 million in three years * Improved profitability by $300,000 annually by combining secondary operations to a single press * Established and negotiated with new tool builders, material suppliers, and finishers to improve profit management, lead-time, and reliability Tooling and Manufacturing Engineer 1994 to 1996 CERTIFIED TOOL, Elk Grove, IL (A fully integrated manufacturer with state-of-the-art equipment and a full service tooling department serving both small business and Fortune 500 companies for 50 years) * Provided engineering and sales account support for metal stamping and tooling * Calculated production cost estimates for customers * Renegotiated pre-released programs to ensure accuracy of pricing and lead times * Wrote plans for production, purchasing of raw materials, and components for assembly * Approved design prints for qualifying parts, released purchase orders, coordinated production schedules, and worked with quality control to ensure parts passed inspection * Indirectly led toolmakers, laborers, and assembly personnel in troubleshooting and production runs * Established key customer value relations leading to new account referrals Key Contributions * Saved $30,000 in material costs by evaluating and reporting a supplier discrepancy * Initiated and reestablished relations with a corporate client resulting in $1.5 million in tier one automotive contracts * Renegotiated production schedules to increase production volumes resulting in an annual $800,000 savings in assembly costs able to source a portion of the savings back to the client THOMAS A. KAY (812) 929-4247 mbl Page 3

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