George Smith Email & Phone Number

Oakbrook Terrace, Il

Greater Chicago Area

• Development of Retail products • Manage client relationships• Develop project time lines• Create Project pricing and negotiate projects with clients• Negotiate pricing with factories, model shop• Ensure that projects are completed on time• Design and engineer products• Cost products• Coordinate with supply chain, engineering, factory, project management in China• Travel to China for manufacturing

Greater Chicago Area

• Engineering manager at Creata with direct engineering reports• Organize work flow and distribute to engineering team• Create standardized calculations and processes for team• Communicate with marketing and supply chain at McDonald's Corp. • Summarize current costing trends and present to supply chain• Personnel hiring• Coordinate with cross-functional organization - supply chain, creative and marketing teams.• Assist global team in resolving engineering, costing, and/or design issues (UK, Germany, Argentina, Japan, HK, China)

Greater Chicago Area

• Manage projects from initiation to production.• Design and engineer products for extremely high volumes for McD• Create time lines for global and local programs• Work with cross-function team - creatives, marketing, designers, sculptors, supply chain to make amazing toys - Happy Meal.• Coordinated efforts with engineering and supply chain team in China for high volume manufacturing.• Traveled to China for process improvement, model development, factory inspection, and for manufacturing.• Worked with movie studios, movie makers, and fellow toy companies to create fantastic toys.• Created standardized costing processes using excel and VBA effectively reducing errors and increasing efficiency.• Standardized time lines to improve processes and improve overall communication with internal and external groups.• Developed retail toys with global product placement.

• Development of mechanical face seals for TS certified high volume manufacturing.• Work with manufacturing team to resolve issues relating to metal stamping, rubber molding, machining, or lapping.• Conduct SARs (seal analysis reports)• Create DFMEAs and PFMEAs for new products (APQP, PPAP).• Used six sigma and lean principles to improve manufacturing efficiency and develop new products• Create pricing for new products.• Develop tests, test reports, and work on rotating equipment.• Design parts for many different manufacturing processes including: -> metal stamping -> Aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, carbon -> injection molding rubber - FKM, Buna, perfluoroelastomer -> machining 302/304, 311 stainless steel -> lapping - polishing to achieve extremely flat surfaces (1-3 light bands of flatness)