Production Manager, 04049

Resides in New Jersey

Salary: US $Open

Relocate: Yes

On the Market: Cutbacks -

Industry: Injection molding and sheet metal

Over 20 years experience in Mechanical Development of Consumer Electronic Products, including 5 years of managing mechanical engineering teams. Solid background in injection molded and sheet metal part design, design for assembly techniques and implementation of solid modeling CAD tools. Strong knowledge of all phases of product development: from concept, to design, through evaluation and into production.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Company) Eatontown NJ 04/01 - 11/01
Production Manager Manage a staff of technicians that manufacture PWB and Shelf assemblies for an Optical Networking Router. Group provides optical component assembly, fiber optic fusion splicing, mechanical assembly and final circuit pack testing that meet IPC-610 manufacturing standards. - Established a new staff of 5 Test, Splice and Assembly Technicians. Provided team with proper training and equipment to support production requirements. - Coordinated manufacturing resources to provide circuit packs to meet customer requirements. Team has assembled 15 Shelves and over 160 circuit pack assemblies to date. - Worked with Quality Assurance manager to establish a company wide ESD policy. - Utilized Great Plains ERP software to establish circuit pack workflow procedures and to schedule daily manufacturing activities.

(Company) (Formerly LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.), Eatontown, NJ 1996 - 2001
Technical Manager - Physical Design, Cordless Telephone Products 1998 - 2001 Provide management direction to staff of 7 mechanical engineers, 5 MCAD designers and 2 prototype technicians that develop Pro-E solid model designs of cordless phone products. Group provides data bases for offshore injection molding tool development and utilizes in-house SLA/Casting capability to provide complete prototypes to R&D. - Teams successfully introduced into production the Crush 1, Crush 2, Osprey and Falcon families of cordless phones. - Established and monitored mechanical design and tooling schedules for all cordless phone programs. - Implemented plan to conduct mid program design reviews at factory to allow manufacturing inputs to be incorporated into design prior to final release. - Performed staffing functions and conducted performance reviews for assigned personnel.

Member of Technical Staff - Physical Design, Cordless Telephone Products 1996 - 1998 Interfaced with Marketing, Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering and factory Manufacturing groups during design and product introduction of Cordless Telephones. - Led a team of mechanical designers and technicians during development and successful introduction of the Ocelot family of 900 MHz cordless phones.

THOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS (Formerly GE), Syracuse, NY 1980 - 1996
Manager Mechanical Design - Communication Products 1994 - 1996 Managed staff of 6 mechanical engineers. Department generated complete CAD concepts for release to offshore engineering functions and provided evaluation support through sample builds and production starts. - Coordinated resources with Electrical Engineering and Industrial Design functions to support product development requirements. Teams introduced 32 new phone products in a 3 year period. - Developed and implemented a plan to utilize SDRC solid modeling software in new product development. Software used to generate rapid-prototype pattern samples in 2 product designs. - Tracked and maintained the $5.2 million annual Communication products tooling budget. Provided tool estimates for new designs, followed all tool expenditures and led business efforts to utilize lower cost, second tier offshore tool vendors. - Evaluated O.E.M. vendor design/manufacturing/tooling capability and established realistic program schedules during product team Asian sourcing trips.

Senior Mechanical Designer- Communication Products 1986 - 1994 Interfaced with Marketing, Industrial Design, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering groups to develop new telephone products. - Designed a 900 MHz cordless telephone handset utilizing Pro/ENGINEER solid modeling software. Modular design approach utilized DFA (Design for Assembly) techniques to eliminate hand soldering of wires to chassis assembly. - Completed first design of Communication product (9810 answering machine) utilizing Cadkey 3-D design software. CAD method established was incorporated as global standard for all Audio and Communication product designs. Received General Electric Managerial Award, Dec. 1987. - Conducted design reviews with offshore Manufacturing, Engineering and Tooling groups. Concurrent engineering practices allowed for implementation of team inputs prior to design completion. Mechanical Design Specialist- Audio Products 1980 - 1986 Created engineering layouts and drawings of portable and cassette tape radio products.

INTERNATIONAL COMPUTERS LTD., Utica, NY 1979 - 1980 Mechanical Designer

MOHAWK DATA SCIENCES, Herkimer, NY 1973-1979 Mechanical Designer

EDUCATION Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, NY A. A. S. Mechanical Technology 1973 Analytical Geometry, Calculus I & II 1982 - 1983

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Pro- ENGINEER Basic Training SolidWorks 2000 Training Advanced Cadkey Surfaces/Solids Design for Assembly Plastic and Polymer Materials Kepner- Trego Problem Solving Project Management Workshop TCE Management Development Program Coaching/Counseling Skills Seminar

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