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Hickory, North Carolina, Us

Lead and guide R&D projects from conception to commercialization, managing budgets, timelines, and resources effectively.Conduct in-depth research and development activities, exploring new materials, technologies, and manufacturing processes for wire and cable products.Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales, and manufacturing, to ensure product development aligns with market needs and feasibility.Stay abreast of industry trends and market demands, identifying and evaluating emerging technologies and their potential impact on the wire and cable industry.Prepare technical documentation, reports, and presentations to communicate project findings and recommendations to stakeholders.

Hickory, North Carolina, Us

Establish global copper cable product engineering strategy. Partner with product management and supply chain to develop processes that ensures new products are implemented according to plan and sustaining projects are evaluated for cost savings and life cycle. Evaluate new product requests and determine project feasibility and designed for manufacturability. Review global request for proposal from suppliers and evaluate and recommend potential new suppliers to global supply chain. Manage and set priorities for North American sustaining product and product development cable engineers. Conduct research on current trends and technologies in the marketplace.

Galway, Ie

Global Leadership for a current team of 20+ global experts, engineers, and operation leaders that is focused on significant future growth potential that will provide tools, technology, processes and services to solve business and technical challenges. Partner with team to establish and transfer "Best in Class and Best Demonstrated Practices" to nine plants globally. Projects range from process improvements, scrap reduction, quick changeovers, and new technology for extrusion, pairing, quadding, cabling, jacketing, and other related cable manufacturing processes. Provide 3 to 5 year strategic Roadmap for new projects, resources, and partnerships.

Galway, Ie

Maintain and use a variety of continuous improvement tools to identify supplier quality problems and formulate action plans based on analysis of the data.Participate in daily production meetings and investigate root causes of supplier-related production problems and then take appropriate action to address and resolve the issues.

Galway, Ie

ENGINEERING MANAGER –Cable Operations Progressed from Senior Manufacturing Engineer to Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor to Engineering Manager during current 16 year tenure. Contributed to the company’s growth in $20 million in sales during tenure. Managed cable manufacturing and cable assembly engineers, and material development engineers, which included supervision of six engineers and one technical associate. Also had manufacturing responsibilities for production of wire and cable compounding which included direct supervision of a polymer chemist, a manufacturing engineer, and two technical associates. Key Accomplishments (TE Connectivity)• Managed and implemented of over $7 million in cost saving through material reduction, material substitution, increase productivity, better utilization of equipment• Managed projects that contributed to reduction scrap by 32% in cable operations • Managed and implemented of over $15 million of capital equipment • Contributed to transforming cable manufacturing to a best demonstrated practice in the industry• Initiated and developed process, machine, training, and certification documentation for over 66 types of machines• Assisted in ISO 9000 initial certification and maintenance of certification.• Initiated and implemented a best demonstrated practice in the industry for preventative maintenance of equipment (both operator and maintenance technicians)• Mentored three college summer intern students and two rotational engineers• Transferred cable operation from Greensboro, NC to Sidney, NE (Over $15 million of equipment)

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Responsibilities included quality, rework, scrap reduction, equipment upgrades, cost reduction, and documentation

• Responsibilities included development of coaxial cables for military and commercial use, voice and data grade twisted pair cables including categories 3, 4, and 5 and the IBM Cabling System.• Formal review of customer specifications to determine plant capabilities, testing requirements, government, automotive, nuclear, and/or regulatory certifications.• Approvals and follow-up services for communications, power-limited, fire-protection and appliance wire and cable through Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and Canadian Standards Association (CSA)

Lexington, Ma, Us

Summer Intern 1986 and 1987• Responsibilities included developing and reviewing test procedures for deep radar space technology.• Developed an ultrahigh frequency modulator for an array antenna• Classes at MIT in computer programming and project presentations

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

High School Diploma, College Preparatory