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~PROFESSIONAL PROFILE~ * High performer with expertise in Engineering Management, CAD, Project Management, Continuous Improvement in Defense, Aerospace, Avionics, Automotive, Construction, Manufacturing and Production Industries. * Accomplished Operations and Management professional with more than 20 years of optimizing departmental processes to maximize business results in service and operations nationwide. * Results oriented Manager with proven ability to drive projects to successful completion by using engineering principles to resolve complex and practical problems while maintaining balance within organization. * Improving factory and manufacturing systems and infrastructure concurrent with engineering process, for all projects, to insure seamless design transfer to manufacturing to launch success. * Lead teams in specification, design, development, and validation of electrical, mechanical, or electro-mechanical products for military, aerospace, or industrial and commercial markets. AREAS OF EXPERTISE ~ * * Design and Review Plan Specifications * Project Planning/Execution * Organize and Develop Projects * CAD Training and Development * Strategic Planning and Management * Continuous Improvement * Managing professional staff * Cross-Functional Team Leadership * Manage remote site * Product development/R&D * Construction and Design * Machining/Welding * Capitol Budgeting * Industrial design/Automation * Financial Analysis and Planning * Lean Manufacturing Practices * Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) * Productivity and Manufacturing * Project Engineering/Manager * Customer facing ~ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ~ CAD Solutions Consultant, Lectra USA, Smyrna, GA SEPT 2015 - Present * Pre-sales audits, presentations, customized demonstrations of the proposed solution, implementation plan preparations * Consulting and training on CAD solutions for 3-D to 2 -D flat pattern creation. * Post-sales trainings and consultation * Briefing of the implementation teams on the commitments that have been made to the customer and the approach that was used to propose the implementation plan as well as assistance in the coordination of implementation process to achieve customer goals * Participation in implementation, managing audits and performing training sessions * Ensuring customer satisfaction, project budget and deliverables * Reporting on all pre-sales and sales activities including objections and best practices on a weekly basis * Providing updated knowledge on Lectra products, competitors' offering, and industry best practices in the manufacturing processes * Planning scoping and Customer quantification * Preliminary project preparation and demonstration * Participation in international fairs and exhibitions * Design Concept, Diamino, Formaris, Modaris, and Mosaic Continuous Improvement Manager/ Project Manager, Gestamp Automations, McCalla, AL JUL 2012 - AUG 2015 * Promoted from Project Engineer/Manage to Continuous Improvement Manager. Plan, deploy and lead all lean activities that produce significant cost savings through productivity, quality, waste reduction improvements and improving business processes * Conduct root cause analysis to solve issues from design to flow of operational procedures. * Direct teams in value stream mapping process to generate accurate documentation of the current and future states of operations. Design Lift assigns and fixtures for production per NAAM and TS standard. * Leading the plant wide cost savings program to meet annual targets. This includes identification, validation, and execution of projects. * Leading Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metric and process including maintaining measurement standards, facilitating improvement plans and strategies, training, and monthly reporting. * Strategies, training, and monthly reporting. * Establishing and maintaining plant KPI's and visual factory tools, and serving as KPLAS / downtime reporting system owner. * Deploying Lean practices, 5S, Kaizen, and TPS tools across all levels of the organization to deliver business results. * Identifying process inefficiencies and leading activities using cross-functional resources to deliver business results. * Lead Projects and has helped in the Launch of Programs for Large Tier One Automotive Company * Leads all technical aspects of automotive metal products from concept through launch * Prepares and updates Launch Schedules Works with designers and analysts to prepare FEA, CAD, other analyses * Interfaces with customer engineering and program management * Champions root-cause analysis Fishbone, 8-D's, 5-ways and 3-ways * Track capital expenditures * Provides new concepts and ideas for RFQs, VA/VEs and continuous improvement ~ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (cont.)~ Continuous Improvement Manager/ Project Manager, Gestamp Automations, McCalla, AL (cont.) * Manage prototype builds * Develop methods to address maintenance trouble shooting, operational programming, cycle time reductions and robotic (Fanuc & ABB) zoning structures. * Managing capital projects * Drive local Projects that require new Tooling, Processes, Product changes, and implement process improvements and cycle time reductions through optimization of tooling and improved product flow. * Assist maintenance technicians during major issues and help determine repetitive down time causes. * Collection, monitoring and implementation of corrective actions for down time issues caused by tooling or process design problems. * Lead part of Engineering change teams and implementation of new tooling or processes. * Tooling and Process Development, in an automotive environment for structural stampings and assemblies (Body-In-White parts). * Redesign process layouts and machinery and implement automation from inception through installation and commissioning. * Capital projects including design, cost estimates programming and installations Accomplishment * Reducing defects from Safety, Quality and Scrap for Fiscal year 2014 of 2M. * Wrote Standard Operating Procedures to ensure sustainment * Hosted 20 highly successful Kaizen events resulting in annual savings of over 3M * Completed plant layouts to improve flow, maximize floor space and increase productivity saving $50k monthly in off site warehousing * 2015 Q1 and Q2 -Four Kaizens, yearly savings from the Kaizens $1,322,738.00. * Successful completion rollout of 2014 OEE/KPI reporting system and training continued monitoring and support. * Successful development and facilitation of Forklift and Pedestrian training with monitoring results. Key results: Decrease in forklift-pedestrian incidents to date by 30 percent. * Create template for Standard Work Instruction collaborated with Quality to update SWI for TS audit * Redesigned and fabricated Lift Assist Tool. Saving of 100K in cost of tool (design, fabricate and installation) * Key member of 100K square foot factory expansion
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