Obtain a Project Management position at an interesting company.
CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH LACHER
SUMMARY
Hands-on Department and Project Manager with an established reputation as a precise engineer and a dedicated work ethic to ensure all projects and product documentation are completed efficiently, within budget, and on schedule. Skilled at managing multiple technical departments while fully engaged in design and new product development. Confident, agreeable personality, along with an open door policy leads to a motivational management style that places an emphasis on guidance and leadership by example.
MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE
* Successfully managed a Mechanical and Electronic Design Department with a $1,000,000 annual budget. Department had a zero employee turnover rate which helped ensure projects were delivered on time and under budget. Increased employee productivity by introducing the latest design software and training.
* Successfully created a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design Department to certify Very Large Scale Integration Ball Grid Arrays to ISO9001 standards within a $500,000 annual budget. This department created more than seventy five new project designs in less than six years while also creating and maintaining, all manufacturing, engineering, production, configuration and purchase requisition documentation ensuring 100% of the projects were completed on budget and on time.
* Managed a staff of up to twelve employees across four technical departments including mechanical designers, electronic designers, lab technicians and hardware configuration engineers while creating annual reviews and determining salary requirements. To ensure company wide Six Sigma quality standards, responsibilities also included domestic and international external service bureaus, electronic design automation, PCB fabrication and assembly procedures.
* Established new PCB Engineering Department standards, procedures, formats, design rules and libraries.
* Managed revision and engineering change order control on all documentation including bills of materials, schematics and assembly drawings. This included configuration management approval authority.
* Served as technical liaison between PCB and mechanical design manufacturers, assembly houses, production facilities and overseas design teams.
* Maintained all departmental software and maintenance agreements.
* Worked with the purchasing department to update the engineering database to become RoHS compliant.
* Modeled and implemented the Engineering phase of the BAAN Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system within a six-month time frame.
* Delegated Printed Circuit Board (Orcad, Viewlogic, Cooper and Chyan, PADS PowerPCB, Gerbtool), mechanical, sheet metal (Cadra, AutoCAD), and solid modeling (SDRC-IDEAS, SolidWorks) designs.
* Prepared and presented monthly, quarterly and annual productivity logs to executive management.
* Maintained the Dictaphone Product Data Management (PDM) system - an Access\Oracle ERP database that logged all company wide project numbers, descriptions, part numbers, manufacturer part numbers and engineering change order documentation.
ENGINEERING/DESIGN EXPERIENCE
* Personally designed to Military Standards, extremely dense, Surface Mount Technology (SMT) Printed Circuit Boards using Orcad, Mentor Graphics - PADS PowerPCB and CAM350 Photoplot Editor.
* Created all required Engineering Change Order (ECO) documentation in AutoCAD for Configuration Management release into Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
* Personally designed substrates for fine pitch wire bond or flip chip Quad Flat Packs and Ball Grid Arrays using the Sigrity, Unified Package Designer software.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
CJL Consulting, Shelton, CT 2007 - Present
Independent Project Management and Manufacturing Professional
CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE, New Britain, CT
Bachelor of Science in Organizational Management: 2009
Certificate in Project Management: 2009
Associate of Science Degree: 2008
UNIVERSITY of NEW HAVEN, New Haven, CT
Attended school of Engineering to pursue ASEE/ASME: 1980-1985
PORTER AND CHESTER TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, Stratford, CT
Diploma in Electro-Mechanical Design - Received Engineering scholarship upon graduation: 1982
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