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Sugarcreek, Oh

North Canton, Ohio

Responsible for managing new grinding equipment purchases for international plants; perform metrologies at machine run offs; technical expert on bearing raceway profile inspections; engineering core team member for manufacturing Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) information delivery system.Accomplishments:- Technical lead for $5M capacity addition for European plant; primary contact with international equipment suppliers; involved with all aspects from project justification, vendor selection, purchasing, runoffs, shipping, installation, and training.- Technical project lead for acquisition & installation of $3M ultra-large bearing ring grinder in China.- Performed metrology analysis on newly purchased equipment to verify accuracy & repeatability of slides and servo systems.- Providing daily support and troubleshooting to manufacturing plants for profile inspection quality issues and KBE technical support problems.- Led KBE grind model software development for Chinese manufacturing line; coordinated programming efforts of associates in Bangalore and model validation in China.- Mentored & trained multiple summer interns and co-op students.

Canton, Ohio

Managed plant manufacturing engineering team to provide all plant engineering support. Responsible for project selection & justification and capital budget.Accomplishments:- Supervised 2 direct reports and 2 dotted line reports.- Lead plant projects involving plant closure and removal of equipment, relocation of Carpenter Shop, installation of new lathe, purchase of new face grinder, clearing warehouse of inventory.- Managed annual $1M capital budget spend to within 95% of forecast amount.

Canton, Ohio

Responsible for technical specification, purchase, process development, and implementation of OD & ID Grinders required for manufacture of tapered roller bearings. Directed support team from plant, purchasing, shipping, and machine vendors. Provided technical support to manufacturing plants worldwide on grinding issues.Accomplishments:- Established relationship with Japanese supplier and purchased first ID Grinder of this type within the company; installed grinder in Canadian bearing plant as part of new manufacturing line; developed first application of conjugate grinding tapered double cup ID raceways.- Specified, procured, developed, & installed first tapered bearing hub OD grinder in southern USA bearing factory.- Designed, procured, & developed first diamond rolls used for tapered bearing raceways, reducing grind cycle time.- Lead Lean6Sigma set up reduction effort in Canton Bearing Plant small grind line; created special line devoted to short runs and quick set ups.- Assisted Chief Engineer with capital budget planning by previewing & advising international plant project justifications; acted as technical consultant to international manufacturing engineers.

Canton, Ohio

Responsible for tooling design, engineering automation, and documentation. Designed tooling for cold forming roller headers, sound test machines, and OD & ID grinders used in the manufacture of tapered roller bearings.Accomplishments:- Worked as part of project team to deliver first Single Stroke Header to southern USA plant; met with supplier for tooling design training then designed first set of tooling used for runoff. Automated and documented engineering design so additional parts could be designed quickly.- Designed tooling for new set of OD & ID grinders in Ohio bearing plant; visited supplier to receive training on tooling design. Automated & documented design so that list of 50+ parts could be quickly tooled up for production.- Created many computer programs (Fortran) to automate various tooling designs; created parent CAD drawings to be used as templates for quick generation of child drawings.- Led tooling design notebook documentation efforts.

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering, 3.7 High Honors

Activities and Societies: Varsity Track, Tau Beta Pi

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