Alan Lyons Email & Phone Number

Boeing 300, Charleston, SC, is responsible for the assembly and integration of the Mid Body Fuselage for the 787 Dreamliner Program.Responsibilities include the design, implementation, and management of all special tooling used in the facility for structural and systems integration. Assembly and installation fixtures, drilling tools, special drill processes and assembly automation.

Cogsdill Tool Products manufacture Shefcut precision reamers, de-burring tools, roller burnishing tools and systems, and recessing tools.> Direct product engineering and manufacturing engineering group.> Responsibilities included the design and development of standard and special cutting tools and special manufacturing process tooling, as well as manufacturing process, automation, and CNC programming for in house manufacture of products.> Responsile for certified approval, time and project planning, budget control, resource allocation, and implementation.> Duties related to the standard product, special designs, and applications as well as in house manufacturing engineering functions.> Product training to Field Sales personnel and customers.> Direct and manage the day to day administration of all aspects of the engineering function.> Field travel in support of outside sales and customers.> Management liaison between sales and manufacturing functions.

> Part owner and co-founder of a small business enterprise.> PromaTec is the exclusive United States importer and service center for D’Andrea S.p.A, an Italian manufacturer of precision manual and automatic, numerically controlled boring and facing heads for the metalworking industry. Products include tools and accessories as well as precision boring systems and balanceable high speed toolholders.> Responsibilities included all activities related technically to the product, including applications, special designs, and training.> Day to day administration of all aspects of small business management.> Extensive field travel for training outside sales agents and construction of the sales and distribution network.> Day to day liaison with the principle company in Italy.

> Managed engineering group of both Product Engineers and Product Designers.> Focused products included rotating toolholder systems and drilling products.> Day to day management of the engineering group including design criteria, certified approval, time and project planning, budget control, resource allocation, and implementation.> Member of a cross functional product strategist committee and Research and Development coordinator for new product development.> Toolholder development for machine tool builder specific projects and “blue sky” development, including high speed machining research.

> Kennametal Erickson UK Ltd thru Kennametal, Inc USA> Member of the Advanced Product Development Group.> Developed live spindle tooling for Kennametal’s’ KM Quick Change system.> Research and development of tooling systems for rotating spindle machines, CNC machining centers, and lathes.> Developed tooling systems for various spindle interfaces including collet chucks and cutting tool adapters.> Product specialist for technical support of boring and facing systems from D’Andrea S.p.A.