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Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Principal Engineer in charge of cosmetic tooth whitening product development and manufacturing. Designed and developed multiple Coperion/Ktron production lines with compounding extrusion and post-ex rewinds. Designed low-volume precision feed injection systems, loss-in-weight systems with auto refill and custom rewind Delta Mod-Tech system. Design, improvement and debug of web handling processes. Consultant on pharmaceutical transdermal design and manufacturing. Designed and developed microneedle manufacturing tooling and equipment.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

R&D development and manufacturing of transdermal, sub-dermal and mucosal medical and cosmetic devices. Design and implementation of specialty equipment including coating, die cutting, printing (flexo, gravure, offset, UV, etc.), lamination, winding, roll handling. Manage R&D lab with rapid prototyping center. Set up Sterility, Endotoxin, Stability testing for clinical test products. Forensic product failure analysis. Microneedle design and manufacture.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Engineering and Project Management for development and manufacturing of medical devices in a FDA registered company. Responsibilities include development of component materials, packaging, equipment and training to manufacture Cygnus Gluco Watch disposable component for measuring glucose levels transdermally, wound care products, cosmetic devices, etc. Technical support for printing and converting of multiple products. Clean room facility set up, manufacturing and microbial problem solving experience.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Product development and problem solving for converting manufacturers.

Developed flexographic printing of multicolor license plates on flexible film. Handled all aspects of license plates from purchasing, installing, rebuilding and modifying 57" CI flexo press, customer contact, purchasing materials, production oversight, ink mixing, billing, etc. Plant engineering with oversight of plant maintenance. Research and develop products and process for food and industrial packaging, lamination, printing, slitting and winding. Set up lab equipment and test standards, NAFTA and AIB.

100 employee unionized flexible packaging plant making food and industrial packaging, advertising and license plate materials. Responsibilities over wide web flexographic printing, LDPE blown film extrusion, slitting, bag converting, photopolymer plate making, plant maintenance, shipping, Personnel department and scheduling. Develop and train employees in flexo process printing and license plate production. Renegotiated union contract with union mid contract to optimize workforce.

Research and development of food, medical and industrial packaging with materials, printing, coating, diecutting, slitting and winding processes. Development of flexographic solvent, U.V. and waterbased systems; U.V. and conventional offset; rotogravure printing; hot melt and waterbased adhesive coatings; spectral color measurement. Rebuild and modify existing equipment including Webtron, International, Heidelberg, Miller presses. Purchase and install new equipment including 4/C 45" CI flexo PCMC, 8/C 16" Aquaflex Instaflex presses; NDC gamma radiation coat weight measurement gauge, Graphic Microsystems X/Y color measurement system, and clean room manufacturing. Courses in Kepner Tregoe problem solving, SPC, Autocad, Covey, etc.

Production planning, engineering, estimating, purchasing and billing of printed, die cut and slit products for pressure sensitive labels, tags, brochures, chipboard boxes and specialty items. Papers, films, foils, and lightweight to heavy gauge plastics. Flexo, U.V. Letterpress and Offset printing; bindry; envelopes. Set up bills of material for MRP. Participated in strategic planning, setting up SPC standards.

Commercial Artist, purchasing, estimating, employee trainer for business forms printer. Business paperwork systems analyst. Set up paperwork control systems agreements for major banks and hospitals and other businesses throughout Michigan.