SUMMARY:

Manufacturing and automation engineering professional with 17 years’ experience defining, designing and optimizing manufacturing processes, product test methods, and equipment. Provide expert insight into capital equipment purchases and participate in new product introduction processes. Established reputation for providing deliverables on time and under budget. Versed in applying Lean principles to increase manufacturing efficiency and reduce costs through studies of processes, methods, and capabilities that fuel recommendations for design and manufacturing improvements.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Critical Path Scheduling
• Process/Technical Specification
• Kaizen/Kan - Ban/JIT/TQM/Six Sigma
• Lean Manufacturing
• Acceptance Test Procedures
• Preventive Maintenance Programs
• Data Collection/Analysis
• Continuous Improvement
• FMEA (Product and Process)
• Product/Process Failure Analysis
• Risk Analysis/Risk Mitigation
• Process/Technical Documentation
• ISO 9000:9001, 9001:2000
• Process Startup
• DFM (Design for Manufacturability)
• CAD/CAM Drawings

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Project

CAD: SolidWorks, Solid Edge, AutoCAD, ProE

Statistical: MiniTAB, SQL

Programming: Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported aerospace manufacturing and serve as resource for analysis of process data to report findings to quality department and customers, including aircraft manufacturers and government defense contractors.
• Provided analysis of changes in process and impact on resulting laser output parameters.
• Handled supplier relations for distribution center liquidation, electrical system upgrades, compressed air equipment purchases, data cabling, and construction.
• Generated savings by negotiating optimal pricing and identifying value in supplier relations.
• Used SolidWorks 3D modeling software to design robot EOA tooling.
• Assessed company needs and oversaw transition of building from distribution center (DC) to factory. Coordinated all internal and vendor activities, in addition to coordinating installation of electrical, water, compressed air, HVAC, security system, and office/furnishings.

Confidential, Lockbourne, OH

Responsibilities:

• Leader in design, manufacture, and distribution of fashion, luxury, sports and performance eyewear that includes Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Vogue Eyewear, €9 billion in annual sales and 85,000 employees, as well as a global wholesale distribution network covering more than 150 countries and extensive retail network of 9,000 stores.

Process Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed capital investment projects for Luxottica Optical Manufacturing (LOM) division to increase capacity and improve operations as member of Corporate Engineering Department. Monitored budgets/timelines and reported to engineering management.
• Managed optical machine OEM relationships.
• Selected new equipment and leveraged OEM support for existing equipment and improvement initiatives. Performed troubleshooting on equipment and addressed technical issues to improve uptime, efficiency, and quality.
• Managed and trained new engineers.
• Applied continuous improvement concepts such as Six Sigma, SPC, DOE, ANOVA, and others to support cross-functional team activities/projects.
• Supported new installations of manufacturing technology. Worked with end users to optimize operational performance.
• Created and maintained documentation that included process specifications, work instructions, and check sheets.
• Managed supplier relationships involving OEMs, electricians, mechanical contractors, and equipment moving companies.
• Tested production equipment and contributed to success of new product launches. Achieved cost reductions by specifying/communicating company needs and accepting/reviewing proposals to identify best value.
• Planned, started up, improved and supported optical manufacturing operations :
• Instrumental in startup process for Columbus facility and supported Dallas, China, and Italy labs, representing $10 million in equipment.
• Gained subject matter expertise for DST processing technology used in manufacturing sites and traveled to other sites to start up and support operations.
• Spearheaded technology upgrade projects that included contributions to planning, capital investment, project management, startup, documentation, training, commissioning, and quality validation . Contributed to process design, planning, and equipment specification/selection:
• Saved $3 million by automating manual process by reducing weekly employee headcount requirements by 12 in 4-shift/7-days-per-week environment. First Luxottica representative to learn equipment platform and became company subject matter expert .
• Led installation and startup of new equipment that increased lab capacity from 300 to 350 jobs per hour .
• oversaw installation and startup of used equipment that increased lab capacity by 40%.
• Completed 6-month international work assignment in People’s Republic of China to start up new 60 JPH-capacity optical manufacturing lab and entire optical lens manufacturing process . Led training of local staff and mentored management team members in process operation, quality control, maintenance, and troubleshooting using Mandarin Chinese language skills. .
• Generated $300,000 savings by calculating consumables cost for 2 competing OEM polishing processes and identifying inefficiencies, which forced process improvements to improve their competitive positioning.
• Led initiative reducing percentage of error for automated surface blocking equipment from above 17% to less than 2% in 2 years by assisting in development of vision system improvements to reduce errors due to misread lenses, which enabled equipment to run at higher OEE rate.
• Reduced CCP breakage percentage run from high of 14% to under 2% .
• Developed system that collected data on misread jobs from machine vision system encountering high percentage of misreads . Used database queries to connect machine data with job data to determine most problematic lens types. Improved vision system parameters to reduce misreads.
• Generated $600,000 in annual savings by leading “War on Power” ophthalmic breakage reduction project (2016). Reduced breakage by leading cross-functional team in DOEs to test various factors’ effects on ophthalmic breakage and implemented production changes that reduced breakage volume.
• Helped bridge gap between engineering and production by gaining understanding of operation from viewpoint of production team members . Applied data collection and analysis skills to measure process and evaluate effectiveness of proposed changes, leading to immediate reduction in breakage and consumables costs.
• Served engineering manager role for lab to ensure ISO9001 compliance .

Confidential, Worthington, OH

Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led maintenance for 30+ pieces of capital equipment, including CNC lasers, wire and sinker EDMs, centerless grinders, surface grinders, and vacuum furnaces.
• Managed capital investment projects. Improved manufacturing practices and implemented Lean principles.
• Reduced finishing defects by 60%, saving $650,000 per year.
• Received recognition for contributions to lap feed cost reduction project.