Manage a highly motivated and intelligent engineering and design team who supports both blow molding and injection molding in multiple plants across the United States.

Manage a highly motivated and intelligent team of engineers. Working on improving a class 8, clean room compatible, grinding and dust removal system. Use Scientific Molding and RJG molding. Manage many projects like installing central feed systems, bridge cranes, 87 injection molding machines, robots, ~ 449 molds, high temperature water systems, etc. Now supporting medical plastic extrusion regarding tubing.

Ran injection molding machines and improved mold designs. Also installed, improved, and ran an overmolding cell using robotics, stamped contacts, and vertical molding machine.

Ran injection molding machines. Also, overmolded contacts in horizontal molding machines and overmolded ceramic ferrules in vertical machines.

Managed automotive lighting and electronic programs from the development stage to the production stage, which entailed molding, stamping, and assembly manufacturing disciplines.

Realized over $1,600,000 in cost savings through improved mold designs, cycle time reduction, and material substitution.Accumulated over $150,000 in cost savings for cycle time and material usage reduction in the Personal Computer division.• Involved in a product manufacturing team geared to meet capacity requirements for an $80 million high precision, telecommunications product line that was exploding at a 50% annual increase in sales worldwide. These products involved precision injection molding, strip molding, tight-tolerance tooling, and precision equipment.Key member of a product focus team who is in charge of designing, implementing, and producing cost effective printed circuit board connectors for customers like IBM, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Alcatel, etc. Overmolded high precision, ceramic and plastic fiber-optic ferrules and delicate copper terminals / contacts. Received a patent for an innovative fiber optic connector design.In Fiber-optics: selected plastic materials for new products = engineering plastics and thermoplastic elastomers.