Chris Simon Email & Phone Number

Sarasota, Florida Area

Milford, Michigan

• Provided corrosion avoidance direction for chassis and body component design from virtual design to product test through customer use.
• Quantified corrosion performance on over 30 critical components from 2-3 post-test vehicles per month to complete validation prior to production.
• Trained more than a dozen colleagues in Michigan and China to identify corrosion types on specific components and necessary steps to assess performance
• Developed methods for evaluating metal loss in several corrosion types (galvanic for example) to set criteria for design changes; authored standard work documents for these tasks.
• Team determined that additional exposure weeks were not required to validate 10+ years performance, avoiding $100K per program.
• Routinely involved with problem solving to resolve vehicle component test corrosion failures (including electronic shifter, driveshafts). Fixing prior to manufacturing avoided costly recalls.