David Eley Email and Phone Number

Product and Process Innovation - Intellectual Property DevelopmentSpecialty: Consumer ProductsIP Co- Owner/Inventor of 1+ patents issued or pending.Innovation Partner: Doug Bartow https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-bartow-05b33827IP Owner (sole inventor) of 20+ patents issued or pending.

Consulting Services / Innovation Partner: Quickly and effectively address specific areas of interest relative to: Process & Product Development including advancing products from an early conceptual stage on through the engineering development and manufacturing stages … Personal Professional Growth .. and Staff Development ... all on an unusually Progressive and Highly Successful Scale.

Specialize in Veterans Employment Services, including Regional Outreach with Local Industry & Community Based Organizations:Provide a full range of employment services: career guidance, training & development, job coaching, resume and cover letter development, cold calling engagement, & networking - including an advocate role with regional businesses, colleges, universities, and community based organizationsDemonstrated competencies in recruiting: product design, product engineering, manufacturing, operations, sales, marketing, federal and state government, private and public sector

Erie Community College - Advisory Board Member, Buffalo NY KEY CONTRIBUTING ROLE IN DEVELOPING:• Plastics Technology Certificate Program • Newly Accredited CAD Design Curriculum• An Outstanding Intern Program

PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ROLE within Fisher-Price's Global Headquarters/Team Center: Effecting Innovative Process and Product Change within all Product Engineering areas, including the Design and Manufacturing Areas David interfaced with. RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING DESIGN & ENGINEERING CONCEPTS and CONVERTING THIS INFORMATION INTO MANUFACTURABLE PRODUCTS while still capturing the original design intent - all in record time and within a high change intensive environment: •Work Location: Fisher-Price World Headquarters / Team Center, East Aurora, NY •Successfully Led a Central Service/Support Dept. (staff size 24) of Mechanical/CAE Application Engineers (FEA, Pro/ENGINEER/Solid Modeling/CAD, 3 D Printing, Pro/INTRALINK/PDM LINK, Product Lifecycle Management/ PLM) & Mechanical Designers (Solid Modeling/CAD)•Daily Product Development Support on 40+ new products per year, including design and engineering changes on past products•Maintained an Expense Budget of $2.25M - directly supporting an annual sales volume in excess of $500MDELIVERED SIGNIFICANT RESULTS: •Product development lead times & man-hours costs (reduced from months to a few weeks per average project)•Doubled the overall number of new products processed per year without increasing staff overhead or external resources•Outside Engineering Services virtually eliminated•Reduction of Finite Element Analysis lead-times from weeks to days/hours

* Managed staff development via skills assessment, ongoing training and coaching, standardization of 3D surfacing & solid modeling build techniques (Pro/E including the interface with Alias, Rhino, Scanning, CNC, 3 D Printing, & Rapid Prototyping), and the development of an outstanding college intern program.HALLMARKS TO MY LEADERSHIP SUCCESS:•Continuous Focus on Customer Needs•Product and Process Innovation and Creativity •Stretch Objectives & Insights Gained Influencing Change •Serious Employee Involvement •Ongoing Staff Development •Relentless Perseverance •Introduction of Enabling Technology (3 D solid modeling, 3D Printing, 3D Templates)•Continuous Focus on Quality