EXPERIENCE:

Product Manager

Confidential, Cedar Rapids, IA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Gable top beverage packaging machinery produced in Shanghai for APAC market.
• Troubleshot technical issues with hundreds of machines at various customer plants on short notice.
• Technical presentation and training for product details to internal staff - Engineering, Sales and customers in Asia. Industry analysis based on prior service data; develop strategies for achieving competitive advantage (cost focus, differentiation focus); product diversification to touch multiple segments of customer base, attaining competitive advantage in International.
• Leadership and Personal development with employee training.
• Using managerial skills to enhance individual, organizational effectiveness and competitiveness.
• Taking feedback from key customers on performance, options improvement, implementing innovative mechanisms to add value to product during new product line development cycle, and, testing.
• Project Management for designing of mid speed packaging machinery suitable for East Asian territory.
• Use analytical techniques for making business decisions; apply descriptive and predictive analytical tools to solve practical business problems.
• Implementing techniques such as linear regression, Confidential simulation to predict sales and growth.
• Process Center Owner for product line making sure budgetary guidelines are met based on sales and service data.
• Resource-planning, cost reduction, development of project documents for new line of machinery.
• Assuring procedures adheres to ISO standards for Engineering, and, Quality control.

Engineer

Confidential, Cedar Rapids, IA

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of packaging machinery for mid to high-speed market.
• Dynamic testing and developing mathematical models for of various aspects of product filling with optimization of precise servomotor-controlled polynomial/cycloidal/harmonic profiles during filling system design.
• Participate in team projects for designing options for Confidential State Safety apparatus for North American market, Drive calculations and timing calculations for power transmission and conveyor motion.
• Analysis of various properties of fluid flow for auxiliary particulate filling system during production mode as well as its cleaning-in-place (CIP) and sterilization-in-place (SIP).
• Developing SMART goals for relatively smaller group of professionals with diverse background using effective leadership and communication.
• Motivate team and stimulate effective organizational culture, recognizing individual differences, in conjunction with perpetual organizational changes resulting from mergers and policy updates.

Design Engineer

Confidential, Cedar Rapids, IA

Responsibilities:

• Finite element analysis using variety of available tools such as ProE/PTC Creo, Solidedge, SolidWorks and Parametric Modeling using Inventor, Mechanical Desktop, AutoCAD for design of agricultural/packaging machinery as well as for designing timing charts for Material handling equipment for heavy automotive industry.
• Developing modules of programs for 3D printing machinery. Assisted in multidisciplinary projects in various consumer products for transportation and industrial machinery for key customer such as Elkay, John Deere Engine, Caterpillar Excavator, North American Bus Industries, Six Flags machinery, Elgin.
• Identifying crucial relationship between marketing and other functional areas of business to facilitate business growth.
• Emphasis on how the Sales/Project Manager can achieve desired outcomes with the target market.
• Analyzing/predicting, marketing opportunities; researching and selecting target markets; developing marketing strategies.
• Using Project Management tools for designing and managing mid-sized projects; project selection, project planning and budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, integration of project planning tools with the help of project management software.

Project Engineer

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

Responsibilities:

• Product design and field support of automotive-mount industrial vacuum equipment.
• Team leader for developing Airport-Runway model and supervising certification for testing for final product delivery for heavy automotive equipment.
• Developing strategies for building, leveraging brands for aviation industry for Australian market; exploring principles of customer behavior, identifying how remote production facility deal with building own brand identity and for large customers for product and services.
• Supply Chain Management, assisted for managing an organization's operations in production activities with an emphasis on process design, timely delivery, capacity planning, and, day to day safety.
• Assessing dynamics of bargaining; applying skills for effective negotiation for supplier selection and internal vendor competition.
• Design for structural stability of industrial, military and light duty equipment.
• Testing for acoustics on final product and creating guidelines for installation of regenerative type vacuum head for heavy debris during road construction.
• Product documentation for Instruction manuals and sales brochure.
• Other miscellaneous projects included processing engineering change orders, performing corrective action requests, occasional statistical quality control for reliability to minimize scrap rate, and, organizing for biennial gathering event for service and customers.

Internship

Confidential, Fort Payne, AL

Responsibilities:

• Programming using CNC Predator for manufacturing for continuous production rapid-paced printing machinery parts.
• Monitoring production line for analysis and quantitative data collection on productivity at customer facilities.
• Reverse engineering using CMM and metrology for precise design of intricate machinery parts.
• Assess market opportunities, conduct organizational/industry analysis, define strategic direction with company VP, and compete for company profitability, market share.