CAREER SUMMARY
* A Project Team Leader and Senior Mechanical Product Engineer with proven and comprehensive design, development and leadership experience turning challenging concepts into successful released products using VAVE.
* Supported products through production and provided customer support through end of life.
* Managed numerous successful teams and solved a variety of challenging design and process issues on time and within budget.
* Cost reduction efforts generated over $3,000,000 in annual savings.
* Utilized detailed model analysis, CAD design, prototyping, and cross functional teamwork to achieve desired objectives.
* Applied QFD, FEA, FMEA, DOE, VA/VE and DFM/DFA in development of product, wrote and ?compiled engineering content for all deliverables: engineering specifications and documentation, including, GD&T, BOM, prototype control plans, key product characteristics and engineering changes.
* Results focused self-starter, recognized as intuitive problem solver always looking to apply advanced technology holding twenty-two US patents, with six patents on mechanisms in production.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FORGOTTEN HARVEST, Oak Park, MI
3/2013-10/2013
Part Time Contract Position, Process Control Consulting Services and Technical Writer
* Provide Process Control consulting services to support Forgotten Harvest’s move into food processing and into farming.
* Write Process Control Documents necessary to meet Michigan Department of Agriculture and USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service HACCP, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points documentation requirements.
* Harmonize and update existing Process Control Documents to bring all documentation into the same HACCP and ISO acceptable format.
LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, Lexington, KY
12/2006-11/2012
Mechanical Hardware Engineer 4, High End Color Product Engineer.
* Supported High End Color Laser Printers from start of production through product end of life in the factory in China and in the customers’ office.
* Fielded and resolved field, factory and supplier DFA and DFM issues on all high end color laser printers and multifunction devices including scanning faxing and copying options.
* Managed and conducted thermal testing and developed thermal algorithm to control print speed and prevent over temperature issues.
* Directed issues to the appropriate disciplines and coordinated gathering required data. Provided interim and final answers and solutions to factory, suppliers, and the end-users. Prioritized issues and set resolution target dates. Prototyped, tested and released fixes.
* Fielded and resolved support issues for call-center and on-site support.
* Traveled to Customer sites throughout the United States to “show the flag,” installing hardware and firmware upgrades while gaining firsthand familiarity of how the end-user uses the device and performing on site trouble-shooting and fixing local issues.
* Analyzed and redesigned OEM switch to correct their GD&T design error causing random factory and field failures.
* Qualified and released cost reductions, performance and life improvements.
* Provided feedback of lessons learned to next generation design teams to avoid repeating a known problem in future products.
UNISYS CORPORATION, Plymouth, MI
10/1984-5/2006
Hardware Engineer 1, Senior Staff Engineer / Mechanical Project Manager & Team Leader.
* Lead design teams, producing and supporting document processing machines used by banks and other financial industries to process 50% of all checks and similar documents, worldwide.
* Managed engineering production support, fielding and resolving field, factory and supplier mechanical design issues on all product lines. Prioritized each issue, set resolution target dates and managed efforts of assigned engineers.
* Resolved 150-200 issues a year, providing 15 day “A” priority responses.
* Provided technical support to teams considering new designs and, jointly with several team members, wrote and received 13 additional patents.
* Managed development of feature enhancements for existing designs.
* Patented nine devices, six critical to the function of products in production. Earned five plant and two Group achievement awards for professional excellence and exemplary action. Managed team piloting QFD requirements and led new design from concept through customer acceptance.
* Led team that designed a new, critical to function transport, allowing use of an off the shelf inkjet printer cartridge for precision printing during rapidly and randomly speed changes.
* Managed team and designed, critical-to-function 300ips vacuum transport, and motorized precision OCR camera.
* Worked three+ months in Scotland playing lead role in team transferring design of new check sorter to US, resolving functional issues for qualification and product release.
* Volunteered for one year crash cost reduction taskforce. Team lead for mechanical redesigns that helped reduce material and labor costs for check sorting machines by 20%, producing $3 million in annual savings.
COULTER ELECTRONICS, INC., Hialeah, FL
11/1983-9/1984
Principal Reliability Engineer.
* Medical laboratory and Hospital supplier developing blood analysis systems and related equipment.
* Established and ran reliability tests on automated blood analysis equipment.
* Identified fault in a new system that had led to the hospitalization of healthy patients.
BURROUGHS CORPORATION, Coral Springs, FL / Wayne, MI
10/1979-11/1983
Staff Engineer / Section Manager.
* Product Development Engineering. Section Manager for stacker and microfilm camera design teams supporting document processing machine modules.
* Led crash stacker redesign providing $100+ cost reduction, $1.75 million savings to date.
* Worked in Germany, Scotland and England and supported machines in US and International industry trade shows.
* Led team Redesigning 600 DPM microfilm camera shutter, converting a sheet metal design into a GFRP filled molded plastic and fixing a warranty fatigue issue without increasing cost or component inertia.
ITT HANCOCK INDUSTRIES, DIVISION of ITT, Jackson, MI
7/1978-11/1979
Senior Project Engineer.
* Supplied Ford and Chrysler power and manual window and seat mechanisms.
* Directed power and manual window system development.
* Led team converting customer concepts into producible designs.
* Supported factory and auto production plants.
* Collaborated with buyer and customer design team to produce $200,000 annual steel cost savings.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Dearborn, MI
9/1972-3/1978
Power Train Engineer, Product Development Engineer.
* Automobile manufacturer.
* New Concept Lightweight Vehicle Department. Prototyped GFRP components for proof of concept “Plastic Car.”
* New Concepts Research Department. Studied concepts, conducted research and development, prototyping, and testing advanced automobi...
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