Promoted to manage the product engineering team for the entire Rogers, Arkansas facility including tungsten carbide products for mining and exploration in the oil and gas industry.Responsible for design and quotation of all new or revised products along with necessary tooling design.Assumed role of selecting the best manufacturing location for new part inquiries.Coordinated the consolidation of product engineering of two closed manufacturing plants into the Rogers, Arkansas facility.Executed the company's strategy to outsource engineering tasks to our India team as the workforce on site was reduced during economic downturn.Procured Ansys and utilized my team's strength to support FEA and CFD needs at the facility and expanded our support to the company at large.Led project teams to develop technologies that resulted in three patent applications.Led the project team through stage/gate process to support Halliburton AICD project, and our successful development work led to Kennametal being single sourced for this product line (eliminated 2 other competitors) and generated $1M annually in new sales.Led the project team to develop the Truetherm feature for pelletizing dies, which combined to improve safety and performance for our customers and generated $200K in additional revenue annually. The patent for this was awarded in 2015.Led the project team to improve brazing reliability by reducing average voids in the joint from 11% to 0% and improving minimum shear strength by over 400%.In 2017 both sales/applications engineers for the pelletizing die product line left the company, and I filled the void for one full calendar year bringing in $8M in sales without relinquishing any of my Engineering Manager responsibilities. There was no reward for this effort; I did it because I was too passionate about the customers, the product, and the people who make it to let it die.

Promoted to a management role for the Die Plates department to direct the work of the design engineers and tool designers.Managed all North American customer accounts outside of the Gulf Coast area, which includes 26 different customers.Guided the design team through the conversion from the old 2D CAD system, Anvil, to the new 3D CAD system, Unigraphics.Led the team to achieve sales plan in 2008-2009 in spite of the recession.Maintained all of the responsibilities and duties from my previous position shown below.

Traveled to support sales to our North American accounts where we achieved over 70% market share.Provided technical support, troubleshot application problems, learned cause and effect of design parameters and process conditions, and investigated new opportunities to apply Kennametal technologies.Applied training from an SPE course on Rheology to develop tools for calculating shear rate, shear stress, and viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids as they pass through die plates along with the resulting pressure drop.Managed all service and repair work, for the Die Plates Department, which accounts for $1,000,000 in sales annually. This includes inspection for damage and wear, assessing the root cause and providing technical assistance to the customers, coordinating any failure analysis, determining work scope, estimating the cost and price, and coordinating with customers with a proposal and quotation.Composed and submitted formal bid packages for new dies (a large capitol expense item), which accounted for $4,000,000 in sales annually.Applied techniques learned from the Value and Pricing Seminar to recover losses in gross margins from when the cost of raw materials increased by 35%.Guided the implementation and fine-tuning of SAP in the die plates department with regards to material masters, bills of material, routers, and cost estimates.

Responsible for updating all routers and related drawings for repair of aircraft engine parts according to approved FAA documentation.

Learned the basics of the trade by assisting my father with wiring of both residential and commercial buildings and accompanying him on service calls.

Learned the intricacies of production through preparation of weekly and monthly reports for manufacturing.Gained a better understanding of part costs and routing through collection of time studies.Improved CAD skills by updating and modifying the plant layout in AutoCAD.Prepared purchase orders and capital requests, ordered tooling, and coordinated the efforts of contractors with the maintenance department for the installation and implementation of new equipment.

Put five years of kitchen experience to good use learning the entrie menu of more than sixty items within a few days and making an instant impact on the team.Began training new employees after only a few weeks on the job.Earned my first pay increase before I received my first paycheck.

Improved German language ability through immersion in the culture.Learned about new automotive technologies through multi-media presentations.Learned about automotive manufacturing from the ground up by working on the line in several different positions.

Enhanced data collection skills by testing the effectiveness of aerosol filters.Improved 2D and 3D CAD skills by preparing the drawings and models of a reverse flow valve.

Enhanced communication skills by making appointments over the phone, presenting and selling the product in homes, and doing example presentations for new employee training.

Mastered AutoCAD by redrawing all old archive paper drawings of valves using AutoCAD 12.