Career Profile:

Experienced professional with a combination of technical and managerial leadership with a primary background in tool and die, stamping and press automation.

Objective:

To obtain a position that will enable me to use my knowledge and technical background as it relates to tool and die, stamping and press automation.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

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Project Manager II

• Develop and follow project plans, including scope of work, budget, and timing, ensuring milestones are achieved and providing project status reports to leadership.
• Direct the implementation teams to successful project completion acting as a key liaison among the organization and customers.
• Manage critical program dates, assess project deadlines by monitoring progress, and evaluate project results including confirmation of project deliverables.
• Ensure proper project management processes are followed, managing documentation.
• Creating project budget and material costs/spending profiles while maintaining systems and databases including Customer Specific Requirements
• Support sales staff in development of quotations if needed, knowledgeable in ISO, Process Flows, and Control Plans
• Support Sales during the quote and proposal phase, including scope of work, budget and timing
• Help develop mentoring process within Applications department, used to develop lower level designers
• Train new Project Managers in company processes, ERP system and company documentation

Applications Design Leader

• Work with Customer, Sales, Project Managers and Designers to maintain projects schedules and budget.
• Assist Applications Design Manager in day-to-day operations with job setup, investigations, estimating design hours and supporting quality and process improvement changes.
• Provide direction to the Designers by documenting and maintaining customer specific requirements and open issues, and documenting customer change request on design projects.
• Provide feedback to Project Managers regarding die processes are related to automation transfer and panel handling.
• Maintain day-to-day operations of tool designs of each project to ensure quality, timing and customer deliverables are met.
• Knowledge of press functions in relationship to the transfer of panels via Tri-Axis, Crossbar or Tandem line tooling.
• Promote a learning environment for Designers using Lessons Learned from feedback provided by customers, internal tool build and internal service and support experiences.

Automation

• Design and Check Tri-Axis, Tandem and Crossbar automation studies and designs to verify that Customer Specific Requirements CSR's have been followed.
• Design and Check automation for functionality and that the correct components have been used.
• Responsible for the release and entry of design Bill of Materials into ERP system.
• Responsible for the creation and maintaining of CSR's
• Responsible for automation design quality as related to customer feedback, internal build feedback and feedback from service department experiences during install at customer site.

Die Design

• Check stamping die designs to verify that customer standards and processes were followed.
• Check that designs are functional and easily machined and assembled during the die construction process.
• Provide customers with feedback regarding die function and intended process.
• Responsible for die design quality as related to customer feedback, track errors with MQ1 quality software and present Lessons Learned to Die Engineering group.

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• Check stamping die designs to verify that customer standards and processes were followed.
• Check that designs are functional and easily machined and assembled during the die construction process.
• Provide customers with feedback regarding die function and intended process.

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• Create NC toolpaths to cut stamping dies, models, proof tools, developments, and prototypes fixtures. Experienced with Catia v4, Catia v5R18 and WorkNC 3-D automatic NC cutting systems. Manipulate CAD data from part print position to machining position manipulate supplied CAD data to layed-out machining positions.
• Light draw development work for deep drawn stamping parts for the automotive industry, including binder and addendum layout and development.

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• Manage, plan and schedule work for production staff, including new work and repairs.
• Review job orders for correctness and manufacturability
• Responsible for generating engineering drawings for sales dept. and build drawings for production.
• Co-ordinate with purchasing to ensure all materials are ordered and in house for production staff to meet delivery dates.
• Responsible for final inspection of all products to quoted product and company engineering standards.
• Work with sales dept during quoting of new work to ensure products can be built in a cost effective and efficient manner.

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• Manage, plan and schedule work for all company departments programming, pattern shop, and die design.
• Quote future work and generate engineering change letters.
• Using UG NX2 and UG NX3 processed and directed die designers in new work to ensure customer standards are followed and that designs will produce a working tool that can be efficiently manufactured.
• Worked with customers on a day-to-day basis concerning, the progress of completion, die function, and die strength.
• Managed all aspects of employee benefits and payroll. Including health and dental insurance, workman's comp insurance, and liability insurance.
• Handled all financial responsibilities of the company including payroll, weekly cash flow, accounts payable, accounts receivables, and monthly financial statements.
• Manage all sales and marketing activities to current and potential new customers.

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• Designer of large transfer dies medium size manually run dies and progressive dies using UG NX2
• Check other employees work to verify standards and processes were followed and that the tools will function as designed using UG NX2

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• Worked customers on a day-to-day basis concerning the progress of completion, die function and die strength.
• Quote future work and generate engineering change letters.
• Manage, plan and schedule all CAD/CAM work for company.
• Intensive exposure manipulating and interpreting CATIA, CONFIDENTIAL
• , and IDEAS solid die design models. This includes the marriage of product data in solid model, verification of design functionality and alteration of solid model to enhance manufacturability.
• Convert manual die designs for the purpose of pattern build using the solid tooling process.
• Experienced with Class A and black metal automotive body panels.
• Created NC tool paths to cut product surface on all types of automotive stamping dies. This includes the marriage of product surface to binder and addendum surfaces, layout of developed trimline on addendum, and manipulates data to cut various filler cams, aerial cams, and die mounted cams.
• Heavy experience withCONFIDENTIAL , CONFIDENTIAL
• , and IDEAS solid die designs to create NC toolpaths to cut die shoes, posts, pads, various cams, trim steels, and flange steels. Working knowledge of Chrysler and automotive CAD/CAM, IGES file transfers, electronic file transfers, AIX UNIX OS. High familiarity with stamping dies and manufacturing practices