Bob Mical Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Responsible for establishing testing protocol for new car programs on seat and safety devices that support global and local engineering standards and meet program timing.Responsibilities include: Homologation, COP, PV, DV and development testing. Working with Seat and Restraint Engineering in establishing seat and restraint test plans for various program requirements.Coordinating with Seat and Restraint test labs to accomplish the established test plans.Driving the assessment process for compliance to the specified requirements.

G-Tech ServicesAssigned at Ford Motor Co. 6/2/2010 - 12/1/2017Core Restraint Group – Seat Belt EngineeringResponsible for establishing and maintaining global seat belt core documents and strategies for seat belt requirements, hardware and child restraints systems throughout Ford Motor Co.• Lead problem solving analysis for issue resolution on supplier quality and design issues• Develop new design guidelines to reduce Prevent Recurrence Actions for seat belts for vehicles and cross carlines, to assure efficiency of seat belt hardware and there components. • Maintain key core documents DFMEA, Design Rules and Core Engineering Specifications as they pertain to seat belt design, implementation and quality improvements. • Creation of New Design Rules and Engineering Specification for continous improvement and prevent recurrence actions.• Developed new seat belt buckle and seat belt strategy for automobiles (Hybrid Buckle) at Ford Motor Co. for quality improvements as it pertains to customer satisfaction and useage.• Lead all bench marking activities on corporate and competitive car lines for new seat belt and hardware strategies, quality improvements and the JD Powers initiative. • Develop new restraint suppliers to assure competiveness across the supplier base.• Deliver body architecture for early development programs. • Assisted on the development of seat and seat belt comfort models to assure customer satisfaction with seat and restraints usage.• Assistance on CCRG’s (Critical Concern Review Group) on Stop Ship, Campaign Prevent and recall issues. • Support of all corporate Craftsmanship Initiatives across all car lines for seat belt hardware.

Stockholm, Se

Autoliv North America, Auburn Hills, MI 1995-2008DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER – Advanced Seatbelt Development Responsible for research and development of advanced automobile safety devices and the integral components that make up the systems.ACCOUNT MANAGER – Chrysler Inflator Group (1999-2003)Managed the marketing and sale activities of Air Bag Inflation Devices for there application in DaimlerChrysler Motor Corporation vehicles and TRW safety systems. PROGRAM MANAGER – Chrysler Seatbelt Group (1997-1999)Responsible for managing both design and engineering elements to assure a successful vehicle launch. APPLICATION ENGINEER – Chrysler Group (1995-1997)Responsible for delivering a well engineered product, on time and at cost into the customer vehicles.

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PRODUCT ENGINEER – Chrysler Group Responsible that all engineering elements are achieved, from concept to production, of current and future programs, of cable driven window regulator systems for five Chrysler car lines.