Mike Wiles, Cpp Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

• Manages the daily activities of the Design & Engineering Department which include but are not limited to, project management, design review, revision control and document control.
• Oversees the Design Lab and is responsible for facilitating small production run orders and prototype requests, inventory management of raw materials and verifying orders are produced to customer and industry.
• Assists Sales in working directly with customers to provide design suggestions that provide cost savings and/or better overall performance.
• Develops tools in Excel for internal use such as costing and pricing calculators, machine time estimators and material usage calculators.
• Conducts industry standard performance tests on packaging designs to verify they will perform in various shipping and storage environments.
• Calculates costs for various projects and puts together estimates to be submitted.

Houston, Texas Area

• Engineers packaging designs from concept to creation, produces prototypes and conducts industry standard testing to verify designs have met industry and customer requirements.
• Creates detailed, multi-view drawing specifications of engineered packaging designs for use by Sales and Manufacturing.
• Reverse engineers’ designs provided by customers to determine overall material usage and optimal fabrication methods.
• Develops material efficient nested layouts for various fabrication methods, such as steel rule die press, CNC hotwire and router.
• Writes the programming needed to fabricate parts on various CNC machines.
• Reviews architectural plans and creates geofoam layouts for projects pertaining to the construction side of our business.

Houston, Texas Area

• Designed products in AutoCAD and created 3D color renderings for visual representations of finished products.
• Created detailed, multi-viewed manufacturing drawings for Production with dimensions, materials and customer requirements.
• Created programs for CNC manufacturing equipment with consideration to material efficiency.
• Costed out each project and created estimates.
• Managed production and saw each project from start to finish.
• Inspected each project at completion to ensure quality standards were met.

Certified Packaging Professional Certification, Packaging Science

Cplp - Level 1 Technician, Package Testing

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas, Graphic Design, 3.5 Gpa

In addition to earning an AAS degree in Graphic Design, I earned a Digital Publishing Certificate and a Computer Graphic Design Specialist.