SUMMARY:

• Have enjoyed working in the automotive tooling and metal stamping industry.
• Starting as a machinist, eventually through and advancement became a Die Maker, responsible for the planning, processing, building and tryout of progressive, line and transfer stamping dies.
• This experience and knowledge has made it possible to hold positions of Die Leader, Foreman, and Tool Room Supervisor in the production environment, Estimator, Tooling Engineer, Project Manager and Manager of Corporate Tool/Build Support over the last 19 years.
• In these positions, I have had the opportunity to travel frequently to Asia, Europe, Canada and Mexico, to work with suppliers and customers.

WORK HISTORY:

Manager of Corporate Tool

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Tooling Engineer Group in following all externally built tools for the 14 Shiloh stamping plants in the US, Mexico and Europe.
• Implement procedures, work instructions and tracking of all new tool follow up and Shiloh tool rooms throughout North America and Europe, bringing the plants in earlier in the process to help with plant ownership.
• Direct contact for all Tool Shops (US, Mexico, Canada, China, Taiwan and S. Korea).
• Scheduled and attended all new die build strip and die design reviews.
• Championed all weekly offshore supplier Open Issues Meetings.
• Trouble shooting and directing Die Shop and Shiloh personnel of all current and new dies, when issues arose.
• Continually implemented new processes in processing and tracking new die builds using lessons learned..
• Instrumental in updating current Die Standards and approved supplier database.
• Traveled to Mexico, China, Taiwan, S. Korea, Sweden, Poland and Germany reviewing and offering technical instructions for current builds and accessing possible new die and check fixture suppliers.
• Worked closely with Estimating, Sales, Product Engineers & Program Managers in obtaining and processing of all new and offload opportunities.
• Work directly with customer throughout the pre - to program completion.

Lead Tooling Engineer /Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Direct contact for all customers and Tool Shops.
• Lead Tooling Engineer for the building of Progressive, Line & Transfer dies that produced simple brackets to complex deep drawn parts (Structural and Suspension Assemblies).
• Scheduled and or attended all Concept, Process, Kickoff, Die Design Review & Check Fixture Design review meetings.
• Prior to meeting with customer to review tooling designs, it was my job to confirm the designs would produce parts that meet or exceed GD&T requirements.
• Prepared and provided weekly timelines, picture report updates and prepared APQP tracking documents to customers.
• During die build, acted as Lead Engineer for all tool builds in China, by utilizing my China staff with weekly and sometimes daily video conference calls and also personally visiting die shops in China several times during build to insure dies were being built to customer die standards.
• Worked closely with customers in reviewing MRD0 and MRD1 parts, to insure all requirements are met and parts adapt properly to customer weld line assembly process.
• Present for all Die Shop run offs, in House Die Support Runs to insure PPAP with final customer was successful.

Corporate Sales Engineer/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Direct contact of all company sales, utilizing direct marketing, Thomas Net, Global Spec and our company website to acquire new customers.
• Gathered pertinent information to share with China Engineering Staff.
• Prepared all quote proposals and handled Tooling Engineer & Project Management duties during tool build phase of all new projects.
• Worked closely with Sinotech staff in both the US and China to insure successful project process development.

Tooling Engineer/Supplier Technical-Quality Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Direct contact for all customers and Tool Shops.
• Following and approving supplier built Progressive, Line & Transfer dies that produced simple brackets to complex deep drawn parts (Structural, Suspension and Exhaust Assemblies).
• Scheduled and or attended all Concept, Process, Kickoff, Die Design Review & Check Fixture Design review meetings.
• Prior to meeting with customer to review tooling designs, it was my job to confirm the designs would produce parts that meet or exceed GD&T requirements.
• Prepared and provided weekly timelines, picture report updates and prepared APQP tracking documents to customers.
• Called onto investigate, make determinations and track progress of all issues found at Benteler Assembly Plants and Final Customer.
• Position required continuous travel to meet with suppliers and final customers in the US, Canada, Mexico and China.

Tooling Engineer/Project Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Direct contact person for all customer needs including advanced engineering, distribution of program tracking information to Program Managers, Design and Quality Engineers from customer also all day to day issues associated with current and future programs.
• Tooling Engineer & Project Engineer for the building of Progressive, Line, Transfer dies and weld assembly cells and lines.
• Responsible for the cost estimating of tooling, check fixtures, weld assembly gauging and piece price of all opportunities, new and current (Engineering Changes) submitted by customer.
• When work is ed, responsibilities include part design reviews with customer, internal kickoff procedures, math data/GD&T drawing downloading from customer using Catia, Ideas and AutoCAD formats, financial cost for building of tooling associated with program, ing and tracking of tooling builds.
• Create Process Flow, Control Plan and PFMEA, directing and monitoring internal departments as to individual responsibilities needed to bring program to PPAP/Production ready status.
• Internal team leader for process improvement and open issues associated with current and future programs.

Tool Room Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring and delegating die repair needed on tooling, both on production floor and preventative maintenance in tool room on progressive and line dies ranging from ton.
• Maintaining perishable inventory for all tooling currently in production.
• Purchasing tool room equipment and perishables.
• Designing, planning and monitoring of all in-house tooling builds and engineering changes/tooling improvement to current production tooling.

Shop Foreman

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supervised Tool Room, Production/Prototype/Quality personnel.
• Responsible for production scheduling.
• Personally designed & built stamping and prototype tooling. All designing of progressive, hand transfer and prototype tooling and customer driven engineering changes performed using AutoCad 13 & 14.
• Available for trouble shooting and repair/modifications of current tooling.
• Maintained perishables for both the tool room and production tooling, ordering of new tooling build materials and all production and prototype release materials.

Die Maker

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Tool Maker, responsible for the building of progressive, line and transfer dies ranging from ton, to customer provided GD&T and Die Standard specifications and due dates.
• Tracking progress, man-hours, expenditures, material ordering, layout, machining, processing, assembly, tryout and set-up at customer facility.

Machinist/Assembler

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed machining and assembly necessary to convert Confidential block engines into engines suitable for use in the marine industry.

Machinist/Mold Maker Apprentice

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working under the guidance of Lead Machinists & Mold Builders, received instruction in using a variety of tool room machines required to build and assemble plastic injection tooling.
• Eventually, was capable of performing all necessary machining to build molds for the automotive industry.