Thomas B Garman Email & Phone Number

Galway, IE

Orlando, FL, US

Technical lead for all products throughout their life cycle, esp. Snow tools, Hose Reels, and Wheeled Carts and Wheelbarrows. Responsible for all Design Engineering changes as they relate to quality improvements, process improvements, and cost reductions. Manage product line extensions and product development. Work with a Drafter to update drawing.

Primary technical lead for insert molded leadframe assemblies (IMLAs, a.k.a. wafers, chiclets). Oversee the design, build, and qualification of high, medium, and low volume production molds for a variety of high tolerance assembly components for high-speed back-panel, orthogonal, and mezzanine electrical connector products. Number of cavities ranging from.

Orlando, FL, US

Manage fifteen hourly and one salaried employees. Coordinate with Production and Planning for the schedule of forty injection molding machines. Oversee the quotation, design, build, and qualification of eight (8) new and refurbished molds. Write twelve (12) policies and procedures for standard business practices. Polymer materials converted: PP, HDPE, ABS.

Lancaster, PA, US

Responsible for ‘art-to-part’ development and commercialization. Commercialized over 200 mold cavities for 15 different new product developments. Products commercialized across five (5) different manufacturing sites on five (5) different conversion platforms. Managed projects ranging from $7,500 to $1.2MM in monetary scope. Trained and mentored new hires.

Primary technical leader on pressure vessels. Primary technical leader assigned to PET tubes. Created and/or revised 273 designs using Pro/E and Pro/Wildfire. Products commercialized across five (5) different manufacturing sites on five (5) different conversion platforms.

Oversaw the design, build, and qualification of six (6) production molds for three different high tolerance assembly components for ink jet printer cartridge components. All mold and molded components were qualified via the rigorous Hewlett-Packard “FRQ” process, and the O-I four-corners process window DOE. Assisted manufacturing plants in resolving.

Wrote 1,500+ lines of object-oriented programming language to automate the creation of stock closure molds drawing on expert knowledge from ten (10) different tooling engineers with more than 100 years combined experience, mapped the thought process to designing molds. Member of the New Employee Support Team (NEST) during this period.

Created a catalog of company-wide injection molding machine platen layouts. Proposed and initiated a program for automated mold design.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Plastics And Polymer Engineering Technology/Technician

Associate Of Science (As), Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology/Technician

Advanced Physics, Advanced Chemistry, Ap English, Drafting