Applicable Career Highlights:

• Experienced project manager with a project management professional PMP certification from the Project Management Institute PMI and member of the New Hampshire Chapter.
• Experienced lean manufacturing process improvement practitioner with Lean Bronze Certification LBC from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers SME .
• Using lean methodologies, I lead a continuous improvement team that increased productivity by 33 , decreased the production area by 20 and reduced process lead-time by 70 .
• As a project manager, I worked with a balanced matrix team to develop a process improvement plan which when completed, maintained a 100 on time delivery for more than 4 years and reduced process lead-time by 80 .
• Experienced with organizing and leading cross department teams to evaluate Senior Management goals and then developing project plans to achieve them.
• Experienced with Software Development Life Cycles SDLC , Project Management Life Cycles PMLC , Agile Project Management and Waterfall Project Management.
• Accomplished manager that uses a character base philosophy to lead and mentor direct and indirect reports.
• Experienced with optimizing taking pre-existing processes, policies and methods.

Skills:

Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Microsoft Project/Visio/SharePoint, Design of Experiments, Minitab, Computer Aided Drafting CAD , Team Building, Lean Implementation, Root Cause Analysis, VBA Coding

Work Experience:

Confidential

Product Development Engineer II

• Manages a cross functional team that supports more than 60 of the business division revenue.
• Responsible for developing metrics then report out on them regularly to the senior management team.
• Works with the business development group to review customer market segments and develops programs to support those segments and monitor the project associated with the program.
• Manages a team of engineers to actively seek and implements technical advancements.
• Actively reviews current processes, policies, change requests and methods, then develop project plans to improve/integrate those activities.
• Using agile project management methodology, I lead a balance matrix project team that developed software tools to improve and automate the quality management system.
• Created and maintains the capacity matrix which analyzes current customer demand and forecasts to calculate the required resources.
• Responsible for reviewing manufacturing drawings, CAD models, inspection plans, job routers to insure all information meets the customer requirements.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Worked directly with the project sponsors to identify the project team, works with this team to identify which project methodology is appropriate, create project execution plan, monitor plan and control plans, then closes the project.
• Advise and mentor other engineers to assist them with their responsibilities.
• Using Minitab, I analyzed data to improve processes and quality.
• Created project charters, statements of work, stakeholder registers, risk analysis and Microsoft Project plans for government and aerospace projects
• Worked directly with programmers to identify programming methodology and review it when completed.
• Worked with the senior management team to identify and define key metrics, then report on them regularly.
• Acted as the technical representative for the creation of long term agreements, as well as, reviewed contract terms and conditions with vendors and customers.

Confidential

Product Engineer / Project Manager

• Created project charters, statements of work, stakeholder registers, risk analysis Microsoft Project plans for industrial projects.
• Provided leadership with project integration and resolved issues as they occurred.
• Traveled to vendors, as well as, customers to hold strategic and tactical discussions.
• Responsible for organizing and leading team meetings with all pertinent stakeholders.
• Lead projects with stakeholders across multiple continents.
• Helped to create and facilitated kaizen events, such as, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Set-up Reduction, Cellular flow, Point of Use Storage and Work Standardization.
• Worked with appropriate departments to insure all the necessary items were available for production.
• Worked with the sales group to review customer drawings and requirements for new work quotation.
• Using lean calculations, determined resource requirements to meet customer demand, as well as, creating dedicated cells.

Confidential

Operations Manager

• Assigned plant personnel to their specific duties managed their personal training.
• Oversaw current and forecasted work to insure proper staffing levels and inventories were maintained.
• Ensured that all city, state, federal OSHA regulations were met which included, holding and maintaining all required New York Fire Department NYFD certificates of fitness.
• Integrated all aspects of production, marketing, maintenance, safety, sales and product delivery to insure strategic goals were met.
• Worked with the company's Certified Public Accountant CPA to develop operating budgets, maintain correct profit loss P L sheets and balance sheets.
• Lead the Material Resource Planning/Enterprise Resource Planning MRP/ERP software upgrade.
• Championed the company's lean manufacturing transformation by facilitating kaizen events, such as, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Set-up Reduction, Cellular flow, Plant Layout, Point of Use Storage, Batch Reduction and Work Standardization.
• Oversaw business costs and tracked their budgets.

Production Planner:

• Responsible for creating and implementing the company's master production schedule.
• Produced statistical data for production reports.
• Worked closely with marketing, operations and sales to prepare for forecasted demand.
• Communicated production and delivery schedules daily.
• Using lean calculations, determined plant capacity and capabilities.
• Maintained raw material inventories.

Design Engineer

• Created and maintained a standard library of fabrication profiles prints that were used for purchasing.
• Created and maintained a standard library of manufacturing prints that were used for different stages in the manufacturing process.
• Responsible for creating/managing, Bill of Materials BOMs , Methods of Manufacturing MOMs , Engineering Correction Notifications ECNs and Standard Operating Procedures SOPs .
• Worked with production to modify and created machinery to help increase productivity.
• Required to understand and apply Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points HACCP , Food and Drug Administration FDA and National Department of Transportation DOT regulations to the products I designed.
• Project lead for the creation of a custom cargo-trailer product line. The project lifecycle consisted of collecting requirements, drafting models and prints, dealt with regulations that were associated with building and selling trailers, built prototypes, received market feedback, improved the design based on the feedback, tooling up for production and then releasing to operations.

Confidential

Manufacturing Co-op

• Worked with the accounting department to define, develop and record time studies on all phases of fabrication to create costs standards.
• Created a work cell that supplied parts to one of the production lines, which included such responsibilities of identifying machine requirements, personnel requirements, machine placement, kanban creation, custom fixturing creation, designed custom storage solutions, and created personnel responsibilities based on takt time.
• Assisted with the creation of a PLC system to replace the relay control system used for the manufacturing production lines.
• Used corrective/preventive action and root cause analysis tools with other manufacturing engineer and manufacturing leads to solve quality issues.