Christopher A. Silvers Email & Phone Number

Raymond, Ohio, United States

Develops and Manages all business planning within the Accessory Development Division to guarantee accessory development activity is integrated and supports the ADC and HDMA business targets including: accessory development project and manpower forecasting; plan versus actual results analysis; overall business plan for the division; and reporting to HDMA and ADC executives and AHM PST finance.• Leads the business planning activity within the Accessory Development Division including correlation with internal division leadership• Analyze accessory development requirements and develop appropriate budget and manpower forecasts.• Establish methods, tools, metrics and targets to clearly communicate division business plan achievement.• Correlate with external HDMA and ADC business planners to incorporate Accessory Development Division business plan activity.• Identify and implement effective solutions to business plan concern areas.• Present weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual business plan updates.• Correlate with external AHM PST business planners to incorporate Accessory Development Division business plan activities.

Carey, Ohio, United States

• Worked with the Corporate Team on product launch and acted as an operations Team Leader at the Carey Plant and Interdepartmental Liaison to help ensure the success of the Program Execution. • Developed schedules with MS Project, which would include, Coordination with Current Production without causing any downtime, Production trials for scheduled Customer Build Events and Pre-Production Ramp-up.• Worked with Corporate Team for New Programs to be Launched at the Carey facility with primary responsibilities to be approving new product designs, analyzing, and approving new manufacturing equipment for the products and assessing/approving new processes to manufacture the products. • Communicated between departments and with corporate engineering. • Worked as part of a team to achieve annual and quarterly goals • Was a Team Member of various other projects identified any potential Risks that would be needed to be managed throughout the Project.

Jackson Center, Ohio

• Worked with the Executive team to define and document the Initial Project Scope, Develop Budgets and identified any potential Risks that would be needed to be managed throughout the Project.• Developed Multiple Project Schedules, Resource Planning documents and coordinated with Product Development Engineering, Manufacturing, Purchasing and other pertinent departments for valuable input to obtain Project objectives.• Participated and Organized the Weekly Department Meetings and gave Progress Reports on activities and deliverables of my Projects to the Executive team when requested.• Communicated with the Manufacturing line daily and had open communication with the Line associates when necessary. • Responsible for the ECO Process (Engineering Change Order) for the Motorized Division

St Marys, Ohio

• Worked with customers to understand the specifications, requirements, and timelines that are required. • Coordinated meetings, before any tooling would be designed with the appropriate department personnel to lay out the scope of the program and to see that all the specifications, requirements and timelines are adhered to.• Collected data to start budgets to make sure all Departments had what was needed before programs could begin. • Identified risks from previous programs (DFMEA, PFMEA, and Control Plans)• Developed schedules with MS Project, which would include; Tooling Development / Manufacturing, Validation of tooling for Material and Physical properties of the wheel to meet the specification provided by the customer, Production trials for scheduled Customer Build Events and Pre-Production Ramp-up.• During the Production Trials, created reports on FTT (First Time Thru), Product Yields and Quality, so that the company can identify any potential improvement opportunities.• Document submission that the customer required for their own development process. These include Inspection Data Sheets (IDS), testing and Material Reports, Capability Studies (Cpk, Ppk and PPAP), MSDS and IMDS Reports...etc.• After the launch of the program into Mass Production, was responsible for gathering information through Lessons Learned meetings with the same department personnel from the beginning of the program. Responsible to discuss any issues that took place and to document modified processes and designs to make the next program more efficient and productive.• Most programs last from 12-18 month, maintained responsibility for up to 7 programs at one given time in various stages.

Piqua, Ohio

• Developed, validated, and released 3D designs and drawings, while leading problem-solving resolutions, root-cause analysis & continuous improvement efforts during product launch phase at either OEM or IPC’s manufacturing facility. • Member of the Product Development Team, which makes technical decisions for upcoming production processes and development of new products, equipment requirements and purchases as well as any prototyping needs. • Collaborated with the Purchasing and Planning Departments for External Tooling and Materials needs.

New Bremen, Ohio

• Worked and communicated extensively with Designers and Engineers to create 3-dimentional CAD models of appearance parts. • Validated surface geometry using a verity of tools available within software packages. • Collaborated with Engineering and Manufacturing Departments to ensure that manufacturability requirements were met. • Reviewed CAD files, Rapid Prototyping Modeling, engineering drawings, tooling, prototypes, and production parts to ensure that design intent was maintained. • Support Engineering and Manufacturing with Development of Prototypes, Manufacturing Check Samples, and pre-production units. • Utilized modeling skills to produce full scale design models, which consist of rough muck-ups, ergonomic/ human interface design features, and final design models.

Tacoma, Wa

• Was the Manager of Inside Sales / Customer service team• Responsible for all foreign accounts, which included 23 countries• Was a member of a team which designed new product and hand illustrated product and technical manuals.

Tacoma Wa

• Worked with Sr. Project Engineers on several projects that included designing structural support platforms, catwalks, and large machinery placement systems. • Managed several offsite sub-contracting companies, which consisted of the controlling and writing of bids, overseeing project timelines, and managing the projects to their completion

Puyallup, Wa

• Hand illustrated Product and Technical manuals for large scale, Remote Control aircraft kits. The wingspan on these kits were from 36” to 96” depending on which airframe I was working on.

Pmp Certification, Project Management

Activities and Societies: pmi.orgPMBOK & AGILE Course work followed by Test for Certification. Course work will be completed June 24th.

Bachelor Science (B.S.), Performance Managment, 3.4 Out Of 4.0

Obtained placement on Dean's & President's lists

Associates In Science, Mechanical Design Engineering, 2.9 Out Of 4.0

Associates In Applied Art, Industrial Design, 3.9 Out Of 4.0

Graduated with HONORS MAGNA CUM LAUDE

Education record