Contract Engineering Services in Product Design, Prototyping, Manufacturing Engineering.

· Designed fluidic components primarily for clinical and analytical medical device instrumentation (conception/prototype/production of valves/pumps/syringes).· Interfaced directly with customer's engineering personnel to establish requirements and specifications for product development.· Adhered to ISO 9001 certified environment during all phases of development through manufacturing .· Solidworks utilized for developing solid model components, assemblies, manufacturing drawings and Assy procedures.· Employed all aspects of IE and ME disciplines from previous experience along with JIT, WCM, Continual Improvement principals, and ASME Y14.5 dimensioning and geometric tolerancing.· Extensive experience with the product line and customer base identified at www.Kloehn.com

· Established and maintained product data using IBM MAPICS PDM software (Item Master / BOM / routings). · Designed and manufactured assembly tools and fixtures to improve product quality and reduce labor costs.

· Supervised Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing Engineering departments.· Managed all aspects of New Product Introduction, Cost Reduction program and Capital Equipment justification.· Managed and coordination all manufacturing related issues between California and Tennessee manufacturing facilities.

· Supervised Industrial Engineering department including shop floor manufacturing support personnel.

· Established and maintained product data using IBM MAPICS PDM software (Item Master / BOM / routings).· Performed all classic IE tasks: Labor standards development through actual and predetermined time studies, assembly line balancing, cost reductions through method and process improvements, raw material and purchased content changes and design simplification.