Professional Summary Experienced Manufacturing Engineer with Production Management and Product Development Engineering Experience. Started career in product development where I managed projects and cross functional teams eventually being promoted into engineering management. Later, as production manager, I managed a 30 million dollar manufacturing department and was responsible for maintaining all KPI's and providing engineering support to the department. As a Manufacturing Process Engineer I supported 9 production lines involving CNC machining, stamping, finishing, assembly and packing of mechanical and electromechanical products. Most recently, as a manufacturing engineer for a medical device contract manufacturer I developed and validated new processes and supported existing operations. Areas of Expertise Lean Manufacturing Manufacturing Engineering Value stream mapping Tooling & fixture design Quality - Root cause analysis Accomplishments include: * Developing, implementing and validating a new deburring system * Creating new plant layout using lean manufacturing principals * Designed and managed build of Electro polishing equipment for new production line Product Engineer / Project Manager Albea Metals America - Watertown, CT May 2014 - March 2015 Albea is a manufacturer of deep drawn metal stamping and plastic molded containers used in the cosmetic packaging industry. Manage multiple new product development projects involving high volume injection molded plastic parts, deep drawn metal stamping and the finishing / decorating to customer demands. Responsibilities include project management of all plastic molded products involving cross functional inter-company teams. Accomplishments * Design and construction of a light weight end-of-arm tool for a mold unloading robot that saved $50,000 and 12 weeks on a new mold qualification project. * Developed simple means of preventing damage to soft aluminum parts during anodizing operation that reduced scrap by 85% * Redesigned fixture to improve quality of silk screen decorating system - reduced scrap by 30% * Created master data (bill of Materials and routings) in Syspro, the company's first ERP system. * Providing manufacturing engineering support to three Albea facilities. Accomplishments * Design and construction of a light weight end-of-arm tool for a mold unloading robot that saved $50,000 and 12 weeks on a new mold qualification project. * Developed simple means of preventing damage to soft aluminum parts during anodizing operation that reduced scrap by 85% * Redesigned fixture to improve quality of silk screen decorating system - reduced scrap by 30% * Created master data (bill of Materials and routings) in Syspro, the company's first ERP system. * Providing manufacturing engineering support to three Albea facilities.

Highlights:

• Manufacturing
• Construction
• Engineering
• Enterprise Requirements Planning
• Green Belt
• Injection Molding
• Kaizen
• Layout
• Lean Manufacturing
• Management
• project engineer
• project manager
• mechanical engineering
• SOLIDWORKS
• Medical Device
• OQ IQ PQ
• validation
• product development
• Tooling design
• Fixture design
• manager