I was the sole employee at a niche machine shop that had survived countless shutdowns from area customers and manufactures. The ability to take any job that came through the door and have the equipment, knowledge and resources to complete it is what had kept me employed.

Built and maintained tooling and machinery for production line. Made changes to simplify the production lines jobs and improved safety measures. Set up and teach production workers to operate machinery. Programmed and set up CNC machines. Built, designed and maintained dies, fixtures, and jigs. Member of Research and Development Team. Assisted with the design of new products. Developed and built prototypes leading to three patents. Received the Hersteller Eurobike Gold Award for new product 2010. Responsible for quality control, safety testing standards and documentation of adherence. Designed test equipment in accordance to industry set safety standards. Member of workplace Safety Committee. Served as company representative at national safety conference. Coordinated and organized shop relocation. Customer service support.

Member of the production line building bicycles in the formats of the Toyota Process and Lean Manufacturing trained and competent through eight production cells. Utilizing comprehensive work experiences for tool design, building, improvements and repairs to increase quality and production.

Overseeing all operations, communicating directly with customers to identify goals and coordinate designs, build projects from concept to completion; to meet cost estimates, specifications and deadlines; managing accounts, order tools and materials and schedule multiple jobs and timelines and completing 90% of projects under budget while maintaining quality standards. Coordinating patent applications with attorneys and writers on pending projects.

Maintaining and repairing plastic injection molds, production fixtures and tools in a tool room of a large automotive parts production facility with thirty workstations producing thousands of parts per day, training apprentices, ordering material and tooling within a fixed monthly budget, assisting in process troubleshooting and production routing to maintain a just-in time inventory. Working with others to meet project deadlines and providing high tech industry customers with quality precision products to suit their criteria. Developing new molding techniques to reduce material waste and increasing production output.

Building and repairing die cast and plastic injection molds under the guidance of Master Tool & Die Makers. Maintaining records as required by the apprenticeship counsel to document learning all facets of the tool and die industry concurrent with related educational programs.