Derek Blanton Email & Phone Number

Cumming, Georgia, United States

Cumming, Georgia

Program and project management for Control Panel and Safety product lines including VeriSafe.

Cumming, Georgia

Manage Project Schedule & Budget for New Product Development projects.

Cumming, GA

• Managed multiple projects to obtain UL certifications and to define regulatory requirements for entry into global markets.
• Led multiple Kaizen/Lean events to reduce cost, improve work environment, implement technology to improve communication and to promote collaboration and creativity.
• Worked as a product design expert on a Green Belt team and independently identified product design changes that creatively optimized our products and led to over $400k in annual savings. All design changes were.
• Managed multiple products from the concept stage to production using the flex gate process, spanning the fields of wire forming, metal stamping and plastic injection molding.
• Managed a project that validated over 300 unique parts which enabled the product team to launch a new product line in under 6months.
• Have proven communication skills by successfully presenting design review approval meetings, product verification approval meetings, led product kick-off and FMEA meetings. Created new standardized test plan/report.

Canton, GA

• Managed multiple projects from tool design, tool build, part testing/validation, through PPAP.
• Kept close communication with vendors during tool builds to in order to meet tight project deadlines.
• Worked closely with customers to promptly resolve product issues and engineering changes.
• Process improvement to decrease injection molding cycle times and to reduce off quality issues.
• Designed and programmed automated assembly systems to reduce labor cost and to improve ergonomics

Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing exposureMachine design for process improvement and product developmentProduced project reports and quotesIndependently identified areas of needed process improvement and led multiple group meetings to propose solutions and discuss benefits of such improvement projectsMany of my solutions were approved and implemented Prompt.

B.S, Mechanical Engineering Technology

Activities and Societies: ASME

Physics

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Phi Fraturnity