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Riverside, Ca, Us

Corona, California, Us

Manage overall plant activity to ensure safety, efficiency and key performance metrics are met. Direct reports include Engineering, Manufacturing, Laboratory, Quality Assurance, Tool Room and Shipping.

Corona, California, Us

Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, De

Manage Quality and Chemical Labs in the production of medical grade films.

Direct Quality Assurance and Quality Development departments for a custom molder and assembler of medical products. Responsible for the management of the overall quality systems continuous improvement and product realization processes.

Dublin, Oh, Us

Manage and operate two manufacturing departments that produce 28 million dollar combined value of production annually: PVPI manufactures iodine solutions for surgical prep. Injection Molding manufactures discrete units used for Airlife, Alaris, Medivac, and Alaris disposables. Responsibilities include maintaining costs within operating budgets; ensuring departmental compliance with FDA, ISO, CFR 211 and GMP requirements. Responsible for directing overall Lean deployment strategy for manufacturing and tracking progress of Lean transformation in Riverside facility.

Manage molded plastic product development for medical customers. Develop and validate all manufacturing processes for release to production. Provide technical and engineering support to all medical customers.

Us

Manage and operate three manufacturing departments with a combined operating budget of $1.4 million: Injection Molding, Extrusion, and Auto Assembly departments produce discrete units used in the manufacture of respiratory therapy and anesthesia products. Responsibilities include maintaining costs within operating budgets; ensuring departmental compliance with FDA, ISO and GMP requirements; ensuring that all personnel and productive assets are available to meet forecast and schedule requirements; and developing annual budgets, capital plans and salary plans.Facility was closed when operations was relocated to Mexico.

Directed a staff of engineers, supervisors, technicians and foremen for a 24/7 precision custom molding and assembly facility. Responsible for operating to standard costs and for the efficient management of flexible manufacturing resources. Engineering responsibilities included management of key accounts such as Microsoft, Alcon and Alaris Medical and oversight of a team of engineers responsible for process and manufacturing engineering and quality planning.Developed and implemented a comprehensive mold qualification procedure that utilized scientific molding practices to optimize the molding process and debug new or transferred tooling. This program is still the focus of a nationwide marketing campaign.Organized and led a management team to improve inventory control and product flow through full implementation of current MRP software. Developed and implemented plant-wide systems and procedures to comply with new FDA, GMP and ISO 9002 requirements.

Led manufacturing engineering team in tooling project management, injection molding process development, and custom manufacturing for a custom molder of thermoplastics materials. Traveled abroad (including Taiwan; Singapore) to review tool build progress, perform mold sampling and final tool buy-off.

Us

Developed set-up parameters for multi-cavity tooling and troubleshot production-related problems for a cosmetics packaging manufacturing firm. Researched, recommended and tested appropriate materials, processes and machinery.

Ba, Industial Technology/ Plastics

Education record

Bachelors Degree, Industrial Studies; Plastics Technology