Sharlene Clark Email & Phone Number

Comstock Park, Michigan, United States

West Michigan

Currently In-House at Nucraft Furniture Co. in Comstock Park.Product design and development of high quality and craftsmanship tables and case goods for conference rooms, private offices, and training spaces.https://www.nucraft.com/

Zeeland, Michigan

Product design and development of doorglass and frames, enclosed doorglass blinds, severe weather Insulated Glass (IGs), and decorative glass for the fenestration industry.CAD Software: SolidworksAwarded Patent No.: US 11,713,618B2 - FOLLOWER ARRANGEMENT FOR A BLIND ASSEMBLY

• Product development and design for automotive interiors & exteriors, consumer goods and office furniture industries.CAD Software: CATIA v5 Pro-Engineer (Pro-E) CREO Autodesk Inventor Solidworks
• Managing engineering deliverables, while adhering to customer design requirements, objectives, product specifications, and program timing for several West Michigan customers.EVOLVE By Design, Inc. is full service.

• Feasibility and design of products utilizing parametric solid modeling CAD techniques for individual components, sub-assembly and full assembly products.
• Utilizing CATIA v5 CAD Software
• Manages engineering deliverables, while adhering to customer design requirements, objectives, product specifications, and program timing for several West Michigan customers.

Ottawa County Court System

• Community VolunteerCourt Appointed Special Advocate - (Specialized and Trained Volunteer)Child advocate for the Ottawa County Family Court System, Ottawa County, Michigan
• Work with Judges, lawyers, case workers and law enforcement within the family court system in deciding the best possible placement for children when their home environment is not safe.

• Oversaw productivity of eleven engineering release coordinators and two IT business analysts.
• Established collaborative relationships across North American, Europe and Asian teams which maximized performance, provided quality customer service, and took advantage of successful best business practices (BBP).
• Led projects which drove improvements and enhancements to product data management (PDM), central engineering applications and electronic data storage systems.
• Conducted Engineering Design Audits (Design Sign-Offs) for all North America Interiors programs prior to gate reviews and following the established product launch system. One of only two North American design auditors.
• Mentored Product Engineers in the product development process.
• Led the engineering product release team in processing bill of material changes (EBOMs and MBOMs) and operated as the liaison between engineering and manufacturing for engineering release and change.

• Led a Design Engineering staff of thirteen which utilized CAD (Computer Aided Design) in the development, feasibility and final design of products, resulting in top-notch execution of design and total customer.
• Performed PUGH analysis, root cause analysis, worked within design guidelines, established best design practices, and participated in competitive product benchmarking events that produced best in class products.
• Managed engineering deliverables, including product design, drawings and checking, and product specifications within customer design objectives and program timing.
• Led key objectives that focused heavily on people development such as core engineering skills, product knowledge, PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act), teaming, communication, business and leadership development.
• Developed and facilitated Lunch & Learn series of career enhancing and personal growth courses for the campus community of 1,500 team members.

• Shift lead for 42 engineers, designers, product development personnel and tooling personnel.
• Acted as a liaison between Premium Shift and 1st shift engineering teams.
• Acted as liaison for all corporate and human resource communications.
• Conducted cross-functional design reviews of pre-production products.

• Designed products utilizing wire frame, surface and parametric solid modeling CAD techniques, utilizing several different CAD systems. Provided detail drafting and engineering specifications for individual components.
• Developed JCI’s first insert molded plastic circuit housing reducing production cost by 50%. A $150K savings per year for 5 years of production for an OEM overhead console.
• Experience in Basic Engineering Analysis (BEA), Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), tolerance studies, vehicle packaging studies, fit and finish analysis, tool clearance and manufacturability.
• Perform studies to benchmark and evaluate competing design proposals and design concepts.
• CAD systems used: AutoCAD, CADKey, BRAVO!, ComputerVision (CV), IDEAS, PDGS and CATIA v4 and v5.
• Launched the: GMT430 Maplamp, UPN105 Overhead Console, DN101 Assist Handle, FN145OHS, U152 Overhead Console, EN114/FN145 Head Impact protection, U222 Visor, among many others

Pneumatic and fluid control products: actuators, valves, fittings, tubing, and flow control devices.

Truck Components Division - Truck transmission components and checking gauges.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering Graphics

Activities and Societies: • President - Society of Women Engineers (SWE) • Teaching Assistant to Dr. George Stegman: Instructor for.

Associates: Marketing & Advertising, Business Administration