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Greater Tampa Bay Area

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Developed and implemented manufacturing procedures and processes for Carbon Block Assembly and Extrusion departments. Provided hands-on comprehensive production, process, documentation, and maintenance support for the facility. Worked with quality to ensure on-time delivery of defect free products to meet customer demands.• Launched new manual assembly line with new processes to support customer during phase in of automated line. Met all customer goals and delivery.• Designed, layed-out, procured capital equipment and launched new assembly line for new product launch. Passed customer audit with excellent score.• Led install of new mixing machine and dust collection system to increase output and improve workflow and work environment to ensure operator safety.• Led Kaizen to reduce scrap by 30% in extrusion saw area.• Designed and detailed fixtures and tooling for manufacturing lines.

Largo, Fl

Supported manufacturing and facilitated the continuous improvement for the manufacturing methods and processes in Final Assembly and Sub-Assembly areas of the plant facility. Created work instructions and other engineering documents.• Coordinated move of Final Assembly and Sub-Assembly departments to new facility with no impact to on-time delivery or quality.• Re-layout of Final Assembly lines to improve process flow and reduce footprint by 40%.• Led Kaizen to improve paperwork for Electric Heat department to eliminate 317 hours of waste annually.• Developed manufacturing process for new assembly to meet delivery and cost targets.

Wichita, Ks

Designed, sourced and launched new products. Developed and implemented efficient, ergonomic, cost effective processes to meet cost, quality and delivery objectives. Improved existing processes to reduce costs and ensure product quality. • Transferred plastic injection molding and assembly of electro-mechanical products to a third-party manufacturer. Trained new supplier in assembly process & quality requirements. Realized a 35% cost reduction.• Improved assembly process and re-layed-out assembly area to increase productivity on electro-mechanical assembly.• Designed, detailed, tested and launched new aftermarket bracket assembly, including packaging.• Provided technical customer support.

Rochester, Ny

Led the launch of new products from customer inception to final delivery. Developed and implemented efficient, ergonomic, cost effective processes required to meet customer requirements. Quoted manufacturing and assembly of various CNC machined components and assemblies. Improved existing processes to reduce costs and ensure customer deliveries. • Championed a Kaizen team to improve productivity on machined product by 25%. Improved cost, leadtime, process flow, and quality utilizing lean manufacturing principles.• Successfully implemented product launch to bring in and establish cylinder head machining process. Managed tooling and product deliveries per customer requests. Fully met customer’s delivery requirements as well as internal cost objectives. Zero customer quality rejects.• Launched machined transmission castings for a tier 1 automotive supplier, on time and within budget. • Performed daily root cause analysis to provide corrective actions for discrepant material.