David Faram Email & Phone Number

Havant, Hampshire

• Budget Control and Planning.• Team management: Work allocation, supervision and guidance, personal development, coaching, mentoring and appraisals.• Design and development of new products in-line with the company New Product Development (NPD) programme, and which meet the Product Design Specification (PDS).• Develop robust, world-class, innovative and novel solutions to complex detail and design challenges. • Grow Knowledge base on current products and new technologies. • Share and grow expertise across teams. • Design and development of standard design specifications in support of the company NPD programme.• Specification of test requirements along with development and direction of prototype/product testing.• Development and implementation of methods and procedures for monitoring projects and regularly communicating project status to Senior Management and other employees.• Document and software control.

Portsmouth, Uk And Paris, France

Jan 2003-Feb 2005 - Product Cost Optimisation Champion - Responsible for coordination of VA/VE and other cost saving activities to meet aggressive group targets General Responsibilities: • Analysis and Implementation of local and global cost saving ideas.• Assisting other European factories in achieving targets.Dec 2001-Jan 2003 - Project Team Leader – Lighting SystemsResponsible for the design, development and manufacture of automotive lighting systems as a new product range from SVS UK. General Responsibilities: • Design and development of door mirror Led indicators to meet EEC regulations and customer requirements Jan 1997-Dec 2001 - Project Team Leader – Rear View Mirrors – UK /France Responsible for technical design/development of Nissan, Ford and Toyota Door Mirrors. Seconded to SVS France for 2 years responsible for Nissan Micra door mirror project. General Responsibilities: • Project co-ordination in line with Ford, Nissan and Toyota procedures• Management of Engineering change approval and customer sign off• Delivery of projects to meet Cost, Quality and Timing targets• Creation of FMEAs, Control plans, BOMs, Cost analysis plans, presentations, timing plans, and general project related documentation• Team co-ordination during the design and development processJan 1995-Jan 1997 - Design Engineer - General jig, fixtures, components etc Creation of 3D CAD models and drawings, documentation and general design related work General Responsibilities: • Detail design work using PDGS and Catia Cad systems

Malvern, Worcestershire, Uk

• Machining of 3D geometry from information obtained from drawings, models or supplied as surface information from the customer• Responsible for 3 CNC machines and their operators including cutter preparation and set up procedures• Various manual machining jobs using milling, grinding, turning and spark eroding machines