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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• Lead designer for Water Coil Department focusing on revamping outdated documentation for manufacturing according to factory processes after production was moved in house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.

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