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Senior Product Engineer with the Studio Customs group. Designing custom furniture to meet our customers needs.

United States

Senior Product Engineer with the Orangebox Group

Holland, Mi

Work with automotive OEMs and internal design studio to develop visor products that meet design, functionality and safety requirements.  Developed and managed design/drawing schedule.  Managed test requirements, part builds and schedules to meet the customer’s validation requirements. Verified product fit, form and function from prototype phase through start of production Designed and built new product sales samples to demonstrate new visor technology  Create and maintain BOM structure in Enovia ERP system. Six Sigma Green Belt Certified in 2018 Lead product engineer for Toyota visor.  Root caused test failures and implemented counter measures to satisfy customer requirements.  Stepped into manufacturing engineering role during launch to develop assembly process and ensure project stayed on time.  Continue to support launched product by managing VAVE activity and aiding plant with warranty and scrap issues.  Responsible for Toyota current production products and warranty.  Analyze warranty data for trends and issues.  Investigate returned product for root cause and communicate issues to the plant for root cause implementation.  Developed warranty tracking dashboard to quickly analyze data by various criteria (e.g. issue, model, date built) Discovered root cause and developed fix that saved $600k in warranty costs per year and saved next model year replacement business.  Regularly brought into problem projects to help solve issues.  Complete 10 step problem solving process (PDCA), Pugh charts and Design of Experiments (DOE) to understand root issues and relationships with other performance criteria

Holland, Michigan

Holland, Mi

 Current Production Support - Sun Visors- Toyota Business Unit Investigate warranty issues from the field Work with designers, product engineers, and customers to develop robust solutions Conduct A3 activities, pugh charts and maintain project schedules

 Supervise team responsible for supporting American Seating’s most important customer  Manage work load and projects for team of experienced applications engineers  Design, analyze and test dynamic load bearing structures for city bus applications  Responsible for $15 million in product orders per year  Design field service kits, and write service bulletins Substantially improved relations with customer engineering contacts Implement new structure design resulting in major cost saving each year Principle engineering representative in customer key account team  Design, test and implement product improvements

Grand Rapids Mi

 Prepare quotes for new parts Work with finance to streamline quote system. Replaced Excel based system by implementing function into dedicated MRP system

 Fuel tank design using Unigraphics NX6 for heavy truck and automotive customers Implemented standard parts toolbox to speed design process

 Manage paint line cost reductions  Implement tube bending software to allow for offline programming and integrated CMM input Design parts and assemblies in Unigraphics NX5, Inventor, and, AutoCAD Fixture and tooling design to aid in welding, machining, and assembly processes CMM, FARO Arm, tube bending, laser, and turret punch programming  Completed training courses for APQP, PPAP, and FMEA