SUMMARY:

A highly driven and accomplished engineer, with extensive sheet metal design experience, including product development, fabrication and layout. A detail - oriented and thorough contributor, with a keen eye for manufacturability and aesthetics. As a hardworking team leader with strong listening and communicating skills, effectively conveys goals to staff and ensures the of key objectives. Effectively analyzes and solves complex problems, with a solid commitment to success.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Desktop: MS Excel, MS Word

Engineering: SolidWorks, Fabriwin, Bysoft7, AutoCAD, Inventor, Meridian, EPDM

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Elmhurst, Illinois

Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Use Bysoft7 software and nest all fabricated parts to be laser cut.
• Purchase and maintain raw material inventory. Eliminate low usage sheet metal thicknesses and reduce waste.
• Project lead in converting 2D drawings into SolidWorks. Check/Approve and enter files into EPDM vault.
• Communicate with Engineering; make recommendations for standardization, and ease of fabrication.
• Improve drawings to include critical information, for fabrication by outside suppliers.
• Act as key contact for production staff to help troubleshoot manufacturing problems.

Confidential, Libertyville, Illinois

Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and processed ECO’s, created forming drawings, created DXF files of customer parts and verified blank size, generated routings and job packets.
• Created punch programs using Fabriwin software for Amada AE2510NT, AC255, Pega 345 and Pega 357 machines
• Acted as EOD two times per week to resolve various manufacturing problems.
• Introduced to quality department Inspection Xpert software, which resulted in reduced time in creating ballooned drawings and creation of FAIR document.

Confidential, Broadview, Illinois

Approval Drawing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Generate from quotes customer approval drawings of custom food service equipment.
• Converted AutoCad drawings of Rethermalizer unit into SolidWorks models and drawings and identified cost saving opportunities.
• Designed a unique Rethermalizer cover for field installation at 1000 Panera Bread stores.
• Made recommendations on how SolidWorks can be used to reduce approval drawing time to the customer.

Confidential, Wheeling, Illinois

Mechanical Designer

Responsibilities:

• Served as lead mechanical designer for all sheet metal components of AT 1500 Accutinter. Brought design from concept to production in six months. Exceeded cost target and footprint requirements while improving functionality, enabling company to penetrate previously unserved market segment, generating $5,000,000 incremental revenue in 2010.
• Functioned as MooBella 2.0 and 2.1 cabinet lead, guiding outside suppliers in the design and production of multiple modules used in MooBella Ice Creamery Machine.
• Co-invented MooBella Ice Creamery Machine patent.
• Recognized as key team member that drove $1,150,000 cost reduction out of existing products from ideation to implementation.

Confidential, Mundelein, Illinois

Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reduced customer approval drawing generation from two weeks to one to three days.
• Converted existing product line 2D sheet metal drawings into SolidWorks parts, assemblies and drawings.
• Resolved bend allowance discrepancy by creating conversion numbers for SolidWorks to match existing bend allowance table.
• Designed from concept to completion Waffle House Back Bar kitchen equipment.
• Created new esthetic features and accessories to provide a premium line of cafeteria equipment.
• Evaluated current product designs and implemented changes that reduced parts, work orders, inventory and assembly time.
• Worked with marketing and sales to provide accurate equipment specifications for updating of catalog.
• Demonstrated SolidWorks software to visiting sales representatives.

Confidential, Round Lake, Illinois

Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created all sheet metal part programs for 40-tool turret CNC punch press, utilizing Fabriwin-Cam software.
• Worked with senior managers to prepare preliminary layout drawings for customer approval.
• Designed and developed new oven features, from rough sketch idea through manufacturing into test.
• Created and organized engineering files to be consistent with catalog and product options.

Confidential, Mundelein, Illinois

Senior Reorder Buyer, Inventory Management Manager

Responsibilities:

• Held responsibility for 5,000 domestic items, which accounted for 42% of Medline’s total inventory.
• Maintained 97% service level while decreasing month’s on-hand and surplus inventory.
• Worked with suppliers to negotiate and monitor manufacturing schedules, labeling and ship dates.
• Used Medline’s mainframe computer programs and master production schedule to prioritize inventory to be repackaged, identified, labeled and restocked into smaller units of measure.

Confidential, Northbrook, Illinois

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed custom gas and electric-operated equipment.
• Updated existing products when regulatory companies such as UL, AGA and NSF-required design changes to meet parameters.
• Worked with representatives from sales and marketing to develop new modular bill of material to engineering and production to provide parallelism with catalog and sales force.
• Led special in-house development team that created raw material identification system for 500 units of measure.

Confidential, Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Design Draftsman

Responsibilities:

• Worked with lead engineers and senior management staff to implement design and development of more efficient boilers, steamers and kettles.
• Assisted sales staff in generating new drawings and bill of materials of food-service equipment to match customer requirements in a new kitchen setup.
• Executed engineering change notices for the improvement of sheet metal enclosures and parts.