Responsible for driving the Technical support of organizational needs such as ERP selection, Document Vault, and other special projects. Assisted in support and management of Application Engineering and Estimating, Operational Engineering and Design, Program Management, and Document Control. Interface with Sales and Manufacturing.

Responsible for Application Engineering and Estimating. Interface with Sales and Manufacturing to ensure technical and financial Project success from Proposal to Final Delivery and Warranty. Teams work on Programs ranging from Precision Machined Components to High Level Automation Systems for Contract Manufacturing to Design and Build of Manufacturing Systems and Robotics for Internal and External Customers.

Supervision of Application Engineers/ Estimators for design and build, build to print, and contract manufacturing. Supervision of Engineering staff, Mechanical and Controls, and Document Control. Management review of opportunity, risk and financial review throughout programs. Lead team that defined operating procedures for engineering of custom automation and gained ISO compliance. Work across all aspects of Sales, Applications, Engineering, Manufacturing, Debug, and Finance for Programs. Drive efficiency gains in processes both within and across departments. Various Customer industries. Purchasing interface for negotiation and monitoring of final sub supplier selection.

Application Engineering Manager - October 2006 – February 2011 - Supervision of (16) Application Engineers and Costing Managers in Dayton. OH and Livonia, MI. Dayton Facility performed design and build of assembly and test systems. Livonia facility performed design and build of component testing equipment ranging from fuel systems with environment chambers to powertrain components to wind mill gear boxes. Met with customers and worked with AE staff on system concepting, estimating, and proposal generation. Coordinated with Sales staff of (16) for sales strategy and customer interface. Performed Technical Sales presentations on many occasions. Supported Applications and Sales at (2) additional international facilities (China, Brazil). Evaluated opportunities for viability and risk with management staff. Developed quoting practices for standard cost, estimating spreadsheet, proposal template, cash flow analysis, and department standards. Industries included medical, pharmaceutical, consumer products, solar, battery, wind energy, automotive, and appliance.Application Engineer - September 2005 – October 2006 - Duties included system concepting, estimating, and formal proposal generation from interaction with customers to evaluate needs and desires relating to special equipment to meet associated needs. Establish cost while considering capabilities, associated job risks. Negotiate requirements, specifications, delivery, and pricing with customer to obtain and close the order. Seek outside vendor quotations for systems beyond the company’s expertise. Proposals prepared utilizing MS Office and AutoCAD. Lead continuous improvement team to identify solutions to reduced customer product usage in system debug / qualification to reduce customer costs.

Supervision of Applications Engineers. Worked with President/Director of Sales and Marketing to achieve sales objectives. Interfaced with Sales, Engineering and Operations and supported for contract execution. Responsible for company technical guidance and commercial aspects for potential work. Reviewed quotations. Significant customer interface during presentation of system proposals and company profile. Responsible for standardization of Omega quoting practices and implementation of QS 9001 with TE Supplement standards throughout department. Member of QS management team and assisted with standards and procedures for all areas.

Supervise Project Engineering staff. Mechanical Design Supervisor of approximately 20+ designers. Coordinated outside resources for additional capacity. Standardized design practices - implemented QS 9001 with TE throughout engineering. Ensured engineering profitably in the design and manufacture of special machines. Customer base: automotive, and appliance/miscellaneous industries. Systems varied from fully automatic to lean manufacturing cells for assembly, pressing, staking, pressure/vacuum decay leak testing and functional test. Assisted in the management of Controls Engineering staff. Responsible for CAD Administrator and CAD system standards.

Promoted as part of corporate restructuring - three SBU’s were combined. Responsibilities same as above without supervision of Project Engineering staff. CAD Administrator as a part of this position. Maintenance and upgrade of customized AutoCAD system - approximately 55 users. Integration of many customized features and upgrade of the purchasing system. Led concept and supervision of programming of custom purchasing system that fed information from AutoCAD to system based in MS Access. All Purchasing was performed from this system. Responsible for Mechanical Design Engineering staff of (12).

Supervise a design staff of (10) Mechanical – (2) Controls Designers in Strategic Business Unit (SBU) that designed $6 to $8 million dollars of special machines annually. Interface with Application Engineering for support of quotations and ultimate performance to budget.

Self-employed owner/operator of CAD design consulting service. Performed all operations ofcompany: sales, quote, concept, financial functions, design, detail, and check of special machinery, fixtures,gauges, and dies. Served automotive, aerospace, and medical industries. Provided services to localengineering and machine building companies. Utilized sub-contractors and coordinated work.