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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

Responsible for designing of tooling and machinery to meet customer requirements. Specifing components and design to meet budget. Work directly with customer with design through run off. Project manage purchasing and making of components to meet customers timeline. Work directly with manufacturing to solve problems during assembly.

Manage projects from design to PPAP acceptance. Work with design engineering to complete design of tools on time. Manage tool built to have tooling on time to make timeline. Schedule production time for PPAP run. Worked on APQP process with APQP team to steamline ECN's APQP process.

Designed custom machinery and project managed build and run off.

Kohler, Wisconsin, Us

Engineering AnalystProcess owner responsible for the fixture design, machinery, designing machines, process improvements, project management, overseeing machine builds and machine implementation. • Reduced the training time of new operators by 50% by authoring Job Instruction Cards and Standard Operating Procedures.• Increased the through put of the cell by 10%. Involved with PAPP, SPC, Kiazen, and Black Belt projects to reduce the retesting of showering valves. • Decreased warranty cost by $150,000. Converted cap assembly from a snap fit to sonic welding. • Improved production costs by $450,000. Simplified the PBU assembly from screws and nuts to orbital riveted.• Improved production costs by $450,000. Redesigned the mixing stem to remove four hand operations, to one orbital riveted operation.

Kenosha, Wisconsin, Us

Tool DesignerResponsible for fixture design, assembly machine design, process improvement and designed and drafted tooling for all types of machining applications. • Eliminated $100,000 of operation costs per year. Headed up 120 cost reduction projects and implemented.• Developed a rebuilding cell for six spindle screw machines. The rebuilding cell reduced the rebuild cost by 10%. There were 20 machines that where rebuild for a $200,000 savings.• Improved drilling costs by 20% per year. Developed high speed drilling for flex sockets with the R & D Department and drill vendors