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Buford, Georgia, United States

Hull, Georgia, United States

I’m responsible for estimating incoming RFQ’s; this includes piece parts to major assemblies. I estimate all labor, material, hardware, and obtain outside vendors pricing then I submit the quote to the customer, I follow up after a few days checking stats on the quote. I help out engineering process drawings for the shop and order purchased parts from outside vendors. Company had a lay off and due to not being with the company very long I got caught up in the lay off.

Gainesville, Georgia, United States

I analyze the companies processes, procedures, drawings and manufacturing methods to find the best practices to efficiently serve our customers. When I see things that can be manufactured better I then have a meeting with our VP of Operations and our Engineering Manager to discuss my thoughts and if all possible we implement these changes to happen before the next time we manufacture the specified parts or assemblies. I also created bill of materials and routings in the ERP system.

Gainesville, Georgia, United States

I’m responsible for estimating incoming RFQ’s; this includes piece parts to major assemblies. I estimate all labor, material, hardware and obtain outside vendors pricing then I submit the quote to the customer. Once we receive the PO I create the laser or water-jet files, set up the Bill of Materials /Routings, Purchase Material’s and outside services if required. About 1/3 of the time I have to redraw customers parts in SolidWorks, create drawings and DXF files for our Sigma Nest software, the remainder of most customer’s supply 3D models or other forms of electronic files that we can utilize without having to redraw the parts. I deal with customers, engineers and vendors on a daily basis.

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

I’m responsible for estimating incoming RFQ’s; this includes piece parts to major assemblies. I estimate all labor, material, hardware, powder coat and obtain outside vendors pricing. Once we receive the PO I set up the Bill of Materials / Routings, Purchase custom tooling and maintain specified accounts from here on out, this may consist of quoting new projects, processing ECN’s to dealing with internal or customer issues and when needed go to customers to look at new projects. The shop comes to me with any issues that may need to be resolved, I look into issue and take corrective action if needed. I deal with customers, engineers and vendors on a daily basis. I used AutoCad and SolidWorks as needed to look up missing information on drawings to complete a quote.

Social Circle, Georgia, United States

I was initially hired as a project engineer then after a month I was offered the purchasing manager position, before this no one was over purchasing so everyone just ordered what they needed and there was no real good accountability of what was being purchased. I started obtaining at least three competitive quotes on raw materials for every order and then after I had several examples I showed ownership how their structural steel supplier they had been using for years was 10-15% higher on all of the quote examples I had obtained. I then had a meeting with the steel supplier and got them to agree to give us a 10% discount on all orders less than 50K and a 15% discount on all orders greater than 50K. I did the same thing with all of our other vendors on other items such as paint, hardware, grinding supplies, tooling, welding supplies and other various supplies. Some of the later vendors already had good pricing but some of them didn’t and wouldn’t decrease their pricing so I switched to new vendors to get the better pricing as long as it didn’t affect the quality on specific items. I got all of these vendors to agree to as long as we placed an order by a specified time that we would receive the order within 1-2 days on all stock items as long as the order wasn’t too exuberant such as 100,000 screws. I also dealt with several equipment rental companies, we rented different types of lifts, booms and other various equipment we needed for our field crews. I had a stock room attendant that kept up with issuing and replenishing our daily shop supplies, this person also gathered up tooling and supplies for our field crews and staged it where they could pick it up at the shop for the appropriate job. In December of 2011 work got very slow so due to being there less than a year I got laid off along with about 20 other individuals.

Alabama, Georgia, Florida And Puerto Rico

I was responsible for the sale of sheet metal tooling for Amada turret punch presses and press brakes. I obtain pertinent information to prepare quotes and submit orders for new and existing customers. I am the first point of contact for customers to resolve any issues. As I find out about used equipment being moved through auctions or used dealers I go into these customers and see if they need any tooling to go with the equipment and get them set-up as an account. I perform training with new customers or as existing customers have new employees that need training. My territory was Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Puerto Rico.

Austin, Texas, United States

I was responsible for estimating all incoming RFQ’s, this included piece parts, welded frames to major assemblies. I estimated all labor cost and obtained material, hardware, plating and painting cost from vendors and subcontractors. I submitted the quote to the customer with pricing, exceptions and lead-times. I started out quoting everything with pencil and paper then developed my own program in excel to speed up the estimating process. Once we received the PO I set up the Bill of Materials / Routings, Purchased custom tooling and maintain specified accounts from here on out, this may consist of quoting new projects, processing ECN’s to dealing with internal or customer issues. The shop come to me with any issues that may need to be resolved, I looked into issue and took corrective action if needed. I dealt with customers, engineers and vendors on a daily basis. I used Auto Cad and Solid Works as needed to look up missing information on drawings to complete a quote.

Sugar Land, Texas, United States

I was responsible for reviewing specifications on all new products to determine that all necessary information was obtained to manufacture customer’s parts. I used Auto Cad and SolidWorks as needed to look up missing information on drawings. I reviewed and approved quotes and routings on all new products. I coordinated with customers, program management, outside sales and the shop on all issues pertaining to manufacturing new products at the quote stage or if issues occurred during initial production run. I tracked all new products from start to finish on the initial run to assure it is ready for up coming production runs. I documented all issues on new product runs to turn into the appropriate personal to make corrections before the production run occurred. I got caught up in a lay off along with approximately 100 other employees on 01/30/2003.

Austin, Texas, United States

I purchased all shop related items such as tooling, equipment parts, and coordinated all service on the equipment I planned $15M per year using a Kan-ban system for parts we had to keep in stock for certain customers and also planned daily production, I tracked all jobs to ensure they were moving through the production process as scheduled. I filled in for the full time estimator and estimated piece parts, assemblies and welded frames as needed. I programmed Amada turrets and lasers. I developed flat patterns and did some design work and reverse engineering. I used AutoCAD to look up missing information on drawings as needed. I have 5S, Lean Manufacturing, Kan-ban and Kaizen experience. I also worked very closely with the manufacturing manager and filled in for him when he was out of the plant. In January of 2000 I was promoted to manage the new Proto-Type Shop. I was responsible for laying out the shop, purchasing and setting up the needed equipment for a dedicated precision sheet metal and machining cell for prototypes, short runs and quick turnaround jobs. I managed 24 employees and the shop after it was set-up. I estimated and reviewed all jobs for the Prototype shop and approved all due dates. I purchased tooling, parts, shop related items and coordinated all service on the equipment for the Prototype shop. Unfortunately after APW took us over they started running off all of our smaller customers so when the manufacturing recession of 2001 hit and our 1-2 large customers got very slow we had no small customers to fall back on and eventually closed the doors in June of 2001.

Dallas, Texas, United States

For 12 years I set-up and operated Press Brakes, Shears, Rollers, Turrets and various other fabrication equipment. I was a lead-man over a temporary 3rd shift of 12 employees for one year. I trained machine operators for our Dallas and Mexico plants. I was then promoted to programmer where I programmed Amada and Trumpf Turrets. I used AutoCAD to look up missing information as needed on drawings. I assisted and filled in for Production Control Supervisor, I would plan daily production and production for Kan=ban restocking. This was on the average about $30M per year.

Texas, United States

USMC ReservesInfantry then later aviation supply.

High School Diploma, General Studies, 3.5 Gpa

Certificate, Solidworks Sheet Metal

Learned how to create sheet metal 3D models, assemblies and detailed drawings.

Certificate, Solidworks Essentials

Learned basics in SolidWorks for machine and sheet metal parts, created models and drawings.

Certificate, Fabri-Win / Ap100

Learned how to program Amada turret punch machines.

Certificate, Fabre-Bend

Learned how to program Amada Press Brakes.

Certificate, Practical Skills For Managers And Supervisors

Learned basic skills for managers and supervisors.

Certificate, Laser 2D Cad/Cam

Learned how to program Amada Laser.

Certificate, Advanced Mathematics For Machine Technology

Went over basic math, geometry, trigonometry and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing for machine technology.

Certificate, Microsoft Dos, Windows And Excel

Took basic DOS, Windows and Excel classes at different times during this time period.

Certificate, G-Code & 2D Cad/Cam

Learned how to program using G-Code and 2D CAD/CAM for Amada turret punch machines.

Certificate, Maintenance On Trumpf 240

Went over hydraulic, pneumatic and other varies maintenance for the TRUMPF 240 Punching Machine.

Certificate, Maintenance On Trumpf 180

Went over hydraulic, pneumatic and other varies maintenance for the TRUMPF 180 Punching Machine.