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Thirty plus years experience in the consumer products and electronics field including product design and packaging, mechanical design, and product validation (testing / certification / qualification) and a career emphasis on project management. As a competent energetic project leader, I enjoy developing products from notional documents to production realization and support them until their functional end of life (literally cradle to grave design and support). I am capable to lead the enterprising design of commercial appliances, personal care products, heavy duty architectural structures, industrial/commercial products, and rugged computers (including hand held digital assistants, tablets, laptops, and supporting accessories).Key Experience includes:- Design / develop / test electronic and mechanical consumer products- Project management and schedule creation / maintenance / tracking- Plastic part design & material selection using includes injection mold tools- Complex sheet metal part design & material selection- Die cast part design with magnesium (thixomolding), aluminum, & zinc parts- Design of wire forms and springs- PCB/PWB mechanical design fitment, large components, connectors, coatings- Create and maintain bills of materials- Create and maintain Assembly Drawings- Engineering Change & Design Control & Requests (ECR / ECN)- Deviations, Non-conformity, design improvements, corrective actions, failure analysis (CAR/FAR)- Create and maintain ISO-9001 design folders and logs- Support existing engineering and manufacturing process changes especially incorporating design changes for manufacturability- Directly & indirectly supervise engineers, designers, draft persons, and laboratory technicians- Build and test prototype products, accessories, and key components.

Listed skills include Manufacturing, Engineering Management, Product Development, Engineering, and 44 others.