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Duluth, Georgia, United States

Eatonton, Georgia, United States

• Designed highly complex custom stairs as well as lead and mentored drafting team in design of doors, windows and railing to optimize production throughput • Established CAD department and SOPs for drafting, taking company process from the owner designing all projects himself to leading a department of 2 designers • Sourced and negotiated trade discounts on commonly used components that accounted for $3,700 in annual savings

Dacula, Georgia, United States

Winder, Ga

• Drove review process for assemblies, bill of materials, and configuration descriptions leading to a reduction in errors on manufacturing prints of 20%• Implemented changes to database of water coil parts, configurations and drawing numbers for quick reference reducing modeling time by 25%• Lead designer for Water Coil Department focusing on revamping outdated documentation for manufacturing according to factory processes after production was moved in house

Winder, Ga

• Lead redesign of Fan Powered Continuous Volume product line resulting in increasing line throughput of product by 67% while reducing fabrication time by 32% and scrap by 12% • Created manufacturing prints using AutoCAD and Solid Edge and maintained document database • Reverse engineered terminal units to facilitate work instruction documentation for field troubleshooting of issues

Winder, Ga

• Developed tooling management program to address obsolete tool and die inventory, setting up database to ease tracking of stock, reducing overhead for tooling by 52%• Coordinated CNC programming and manufacturing prints to make breakdowns for orders and perform first piece inspections ensuring parts were fabricated to established specifications• Managed CNC Department, reporting to the sheet metal supervisor; duties included supervision of 7 machine operators and 3 material handlers providing support across 7 departments, leading selection and alignment of tooling according to daily tool test results and training of staff to ensure safety guidelines and work procedures were followed

Lawrenceville, Ga

• Optimized detailed lists for CNC shearing and bending of rebar reducing labor by 15% • Spearheaded environmental program at Lawrenceville location recording runoff via soil samples and monitoring rainfall levels; implemented reporting documentation for corporate environmental manager• Created rebar placement drawings in Microstation for field installation according to blueprint specifications and maintained document database per internal audit standards • Customer support regarding project schedules, concerns, shipping dates, and other issues