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Marietta, GA, US

Started a company to add value to Automotive Suppliers and OEMs to help get high quality engineering support without having to add headcount to their teams. Specialized in Automotive plastic injection molding design with ability to CAD Design, Engineer, and Draft Drawings for complex assemblies to mitigate tooling issues, allow for tuning, and meet.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

I managed an engineering team to set priorities and standards for the entire group. Create processes from the bottom up to work on transforming a 100 year old business into the modern agethrough diverse sourcing and category management. Enacted a “Scorecard” process to evaluate many suppliers at once in an easy to understand model that is familiarized with.

Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FR

Started a new office from the ground up with the Business Development & Engineering Manager to target an emerging market for a well established company. I work to grow new developments in an ever-changing automotive market with specific product knowledge in Electric Vehicle (EV) fastening environment. Lived in the San Fransisco Bay area to best interface.

Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FR

Responsible for creating and following projects from concept to production. I developed fully functional CAD concepts in CATIA V5 to give customer turnaround within 24hrs of a possible solution. I designed 34 unique parts specializing in bringing feedback quickly to the customer in order to win key business driven by management through direct relationships.

Troy, Michigan, US

Worked on long term cradle to grave development of exterior automotive product lines such as grilles, exterior moldings, exterior trim, and fuel doors. I worked through both development in early stages of the Ford milestones as well as product launches at the customer facilities. I found a solution to an ongoing launch issue on a new product (fuel door).

Dearborn, Michigan, US

Accountable for the major milestone of master section development within the Ford Global Product Development System (GPDS) from Feasibility Checkpoint 3 (FC3) to Final Appearance Approval (FAA). This included helping to determine feasibility for multiple separate concepts from the studio and progressing that concept until the final exterior design was.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Mechanical Supervisor in the Mechanical Car department in Elkhart, IN after relocating from Roanoke, VA. I managed carman and oversaw activity at the 2nd largest hump yard on the Norfolk Southern system. I worked to efficiently repair and find possible FRA defects on a variety of rail cars, both NS owned and customer owned, to keep product moving and.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

I was quickly thrown into management as the 3rd shift mechanical supervisor over 35 employees when the current supervisor was promoted to a new role. I learned the importance of teamwork and soaking up knowledge and experience of those around to deal with the diverse issues of managing a union workforce. Over the 6 month period os 3rd shift management, the.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

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