Multilingual Manufacturing Professional offering exceptional hands-on engineering expertise combined with practical and effective management skills. Highly skilled in World Class Manufacturing techniques encompassing complex electronic assemblies for in-house and contract manufacturing facilities.
SUMMARY
Multilingual Manufacturing Professional offering exceptional hands-on engineering expertise combined with practical and effective management skills. Highly skilled in World Class Manufacturing techniques encompassing complex electronic assemblies for in-house and contract manufacturing facilities.
EDUCATION
MS I.E. - ENSAM - Paris (recognized as Best Industrial Engineering School in France)
BS E.E. & Computer Eng. & M.E. – ENSAM Aix-en-Provence
Additional Training includes:
Motorola Design for Manufacturability six-month course (Six Sigma black belt equivalent)
Total Quality System implementation (several courses).
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (several courses and refreshers).
Languages include fluency in:
English, French and Spanish
EXPERIENCE
3/07-11/09 CROWN INTERNATIONAL – Elkhart, IN
Manufacturing, Test & Industrial Engineering Manager for this leading provider ($100M sales) of very high power sound systems for the touring industry, convention centers, movie theaters and sport arenas (ex. 30 arenas for Beijing Olympic games, NYC Met & Yankee, Indy Colt stadiums).
Lead a Team of 8 Engineers and 25 Technicians chartered to improve factory test, assembly processes and repair center, support six-sigma initiative (several green belt projects) and maintain ISO standards in our group.
Selected accomplishments include:
· Achieved $.5M annual cost reduction overall
· Streamlined test requirements and improved fault coverage, efficiency pre-ship
· Improved service turn-around time from 30 days to 5 days
· Achieved 15% cost reduction in hand-insert and final assembly lines
· Decreased Field returns from 3% to 0.5% on new products.
6/04-1/07 DECATUR ELECTRONICS – Decatur, IL
Trailer & Signs Engineering Manager & Manufacturing Engineering Manager for this leading manufacturer ($20M sales) of speed radars for law enforcement. Responsible for all departmental activities including 1 engineer, 2 technicians.
Selected accomplishments include:
· Developed Improvement plan for the manufacturing of existing products (20% cost reduction)
· Designed several new models which:
~ more than doubled Trailer & Signs portfolio
~ grew trailer business from 10% to 35% of the overall company business
· Streamlined factory assembly processes
· Reduced delivery cycle for trailers from 6 weeks to 2 weeks lead time
Corporate Consultant in Process Improvement for the sheet metal plant
· Reduced setup time by 50% implementing DNC software for press brakes
· Reduced powder scrap by more than 30% saving over $20000 per month
· Reformatted production schedule - Improved shop floor tracking and production scheduling
· Prepared a plan to reduce turret punch setup and scrap using dynamic nesting
3/88–10/03 Manufacturing Technology and Web Applications Manager in Raleigh, NC for what is now Alcatel-Lucent, one of the largest Telecommunication Equipment Manufacturer from cable to fiber optics to wireless.
Managing a Capital Budget of up to $2 million, without overruns or delays, lead a team of 6 Engineers and 5 Technicians to support Manufacturing Operations improvements, creating a Component Change Review Board (CCRB) to decrease number of parts and suppliers used in new designs. Led the effort to achieve ISO 9001 certification in 1993, then TL 9000 certification in 2000 during a period of accelerated growth (tenfold) of factory output to over $1.1 billion, contracting out production overload and minimizing support staff increase.
Instrumental in: Raleigh plant was ISO 9000 certified in 93, won the Shingo Prize in 95, was listed in the Top Ten Best Plants by Industry Week magazine in 98, was nominated to the NCQLA (North Carolina Quality Leadership Award based on the Malcolm Baldridge Award.
Selected accomplishments include:
· Reduced new product costs by more than $20 million
· Reduced New Product Introduction cycle time of SMT assemblies from 5 to 2 weeks
· Developed high-volume SMT capability (From Prototype lab to 5 SMT lines running 24/7)
· Developing CAD / CAM interface software, DFM / DFA guidelines to R&D (Electronic Assembly and Enclosures) and new process procedures.
· Halved prototype build cycle time - developed tracking system & automated data transfer method
· Increased overall SMT assembly productivity from 56% to 85%.
· 20% increase in productivity of Manufacturing Support Engineering & NPI processes with no increase in personnel
· Reduced computer usage costs by 40% or an average of $150k per year
· Created numerous Web applications encompassing all areas of Raleigh operations from the tool crib to the repair center to the Component database to the Quality system saving 1000’s of hours transaction time per year
01/86–03/88 Repair Center and Customer Support Manager - Herndon, VA
Efficiently managed a multi-million dollar Repair Center and Customer Support staff during introduction of new High-Speed Digital Transmission Systems (Cable and Optical fiber) into the North American market.
· Reduced repair costs by 40%, saving $200k per year, inventory by 25% ($500k) and Mean Time To Repair by 50% from four to two weeks
9/72–01/86 Test Engineer then Foreign Contracts Support Engineer - Orleans, France
Started as Test Engineer, then moved to the Export division where I supervised commissioning, training and acceptance test of telecom systems on overseas contracts, including Germany, Greece, India, Jordan, Malta, Norway, Peru, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, UK, and Yemen.
SKILLS SUMMARY
Industrial Engineering Skills Skill Level Last Used
Manufacturing, Test & Industrial Engineering Advanced Current
Factory Layout Advanced Current
ISO 9000 Advanced Current
TL9000 Internal Auditor Intermediate 2003
Just In Time (JIT) Intermediate Current
5S, Kaizen Intermediate Current
Point Of Use / Kanban Intermediate Current
Feeder / Line Dedication Advanced 2003
Six Sigma Intermediate Current
DFM/DFA/DFT Advanced Current
Gain Seeker (Hertzler) Advanced Current
Minitab (V14 & 15) Advanced Current
Software Applications Skills Skill Level Last Used
SAP Intermediate Current
Oracle Manufacturing Intermediate 2002
Macola Intermediate 2007
AutoCAD, SolidWorks Intermediate Current
PRO-E Beginner 2004
PROTEL Advanced Current
Gerber tools (Valor, CAM350, GerbTools, CAMTASTIC) Intermediate Current
Exaline (User and programmer) Advanced 2002
Unicam, Fujicam Advanced 2002
MS Office Pro (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) Advanced Current
MS Project Advanced Current
MS Visio Technical Intermediate Current
Exceed (X Windows Client for windows) Advanced 2003
Programming Skills Skill Level Last Used
MS Windows Advanced Current
HPUX, Ultrix Intermediate 1996
SUN-OS, Solaris Advanced 2002
Linux, Shell scripting (C, Bourne and Korn shells) Intermediate Current
Basic (Various Flavors like VB, Hpbasic) Advanced 1995
VBA for Excel and Word Advanced Current
C Intermediate Current
Pascal, Delphi Advanced Current
Java (using Oracle JDevelopper) Intermediate 2003
SAS Base Programming Beginner 2003
Web Programming Skills Skill Level Last Used
Perl Advanced Current
PHP and XML Intermediate Current
HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS Advanced Current
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