Bill Tacker Email & Phone Number

Lansing, Michigan Area

Design of drop forge dies and trimmers for medical and airspace.• Design of single or multiple hit drop forge dies.• Design of flash trimmer at different stage of forging process.• Design of fixtures for machine operations.• Design of fixtures for CNC and other types of checking operations.• Design of carts and varies other enclosures for machines (guards, portable induction heating systems).

Lansing, Michigan Area

Instructor for applied manufacturing class - CAD, GD7T, drafting, Production Processes and others.

Lansing, Mi

General maintenance of student apartments, and janitorial services.

By giving a classroom presentation I am teaching history through living it. Portray everyday life as experienced by civilian and military of both North and South during America’s War Between the States. We attend reenactments, living histories, parades, and classroom presentations. At events we set up civilian and military camps with scenarios, military drills, skirmishes and/or battles, and encourage spectator participation throughout.

Rand Rapids, Mi

Coordinate between design engineering and testing facilities. This includes:• Procurement of prototype • Production components• Scheduling of assembly builds and testing equipment• Writing test requests and reports• Trouble shooting test procedures and test failures

Taking class for CAD and manufacturing engineering.

Charlotte ,Mi

Supervisor: supervised up to 25 employees; Wrap Guard Supervisor: 1 Coordinating the flow of vehicles through the processes of applying special wrap material to designated areas of exported cars.2 Responsible to file daily production reports to facility manager. Shuttle Supervisor:1 Processed vehicles from General Motors assembly plants to the Autoport shipping yard.2 Coordinated vehicles to be correctly located and loaded for shipment by truck or by rail which were then sent to other US or global shipping yards or dealerships.3 As supervisor I kept open communication with management and employees, and was responsible to file daily production reports to facility manager

Automotive supplier; Hinges (door, lift gate, rear door), door checks, and tire carriers.• Developed new concept for integral door hinge• Developed new power open and close side door.• Designed and packaged new power lift gate system into current GMT360. • Reduced packaging by 30%.

Automotive supplier of parking brake, shifter, cables and mirror systems.• Developed two way ratchet design for lumbar support.• Completed design of new pedal park brake concept. This allowed Ficosa to promote this product into new programs.

Automotive supplier of park brake, shifter, latch, and window regulator systems.• Solved several packaging and functional problems of the F-150 truck window regulator at the customer's assembly plant.• Redesigned the electric park brake that improved packaging and doubled life cycle durability. This allowed Dura to promote this product into new programs.• Simplified complicated assembly design of a new concept of window regulators by reducing part count by 25%. This allowed the project to continue to the next stage of development.• As member of VA/VE team reduced part number count and part costs on several programs by 3 to15%.

• Released overall design of trunk trim parts for the C-H platform at General Motors. • Design of window regulators for General Motors.• Created and expedited a cost savings of 1.3 million dollars per year for trim.

Design and manufacturing of leak test systems.• Manual Drafting, Created layout and light design of leak test fixtures, and completed drawings for test fixtures.

B.S., Mechanical Engineering Technology

A.S., Mechanical Drafting