STRUCTURAL AND PACKAGE DESIGN PROFESSIONAL with over 20 years experience in a variety of industries. I now seek an opportunity to utilize my design/packaging skills, along with my experience with high speed equipment and associated subsystems, supervision, project management, and IT background to leverage another company’s assets in enhancing their bottom-line and most of all, design appealing, sustainable, intuitive and runnable packaging that creates sales and adds value.
SKILL SET
• Artios Cad (advanced user training)
• TOPS and CAPE Pallet optimization
• Score Cad
• AutoCad
• SolidWorks Cad
• Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Deep knowledge of paper – corrugated and solid fiber
• Experienced Project management
• Package testing ASTM/ISTA
• Kongsberg Samplemaker
• Supplier/material sourcing/ development
• Good overall knowledge of printing methods
• Holistic troubleshooting of production lines
• Former Electrical Field Engineer
• Good awareness of runnability
• Managed design department on a daily basis
• Supervised electricians during install of high speed equipment.
• Directed graphic artists remotely.
• Approved first articles for production
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
• The fastest wine bottling line in North America was losing 7% to 8% of effectiveness due to skewing of our cases. The problem mired production lines, and several redesigns didn’t help. I discovered the problem by an inspection of the warehouse cases. The corner protectors were flimsy and the impacts deflected all the corner cases out of square. I replaced the corrugated corner boards with stout laminated protectors and a reuse program was instituted. Production immediately increased by 8%.
• Designed 12 pack beer carrier that can be used by a 24 bottle case filler.
• Designed a patented 24 bottle wine case that could be easily split into 2-12 packs with all sides printable.
• Our company lost sales due to an inability of salesmen in the field to access program to recommend a cost effective paper combination. Nor could they access the information by phone, resulting in lost sales due to ambiguous answers. I designed a spreadsheet employing an algorithm based on the company’s actual paper qualities as manufactured. Sales reps and designers could access the data. I certified the results with 2 experts in predicting paper performance at the mill. This allowed sales reps to offer immediate data to customers, increased sales, and the predictive compression is now based on the paper mill’s product.
Samples of My Work
May be found at the following locations:
http://www.divshare.com/folder/833780-1d2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43517520@N04/
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Heritage Paper , Livermore, CA 2011 – 2012
Packaging Engineer/Manager Completely responsible for day to day operation of Design Department. Designed retail displays and other types of Point-of-Purchase packaging such as dump bins, Shelf Ready shippers/trays, gift boxes for wine and other commodities. Designed structures that were used for digital print and promotions. House expert on agricultural common footprint packaging. Introduced more accurate method of measuring corrugated paper, resulting in lower costs and better material specs.
Siemens Industries – Mobility Division, Sacramento, CA 2009 – 2010
Packaging Engineer/Consultant - (Contractor) Evaluated, designed and implemented kitting materials and techniques to build light rail and high-speed rail systems. Designed custom totes for use in stock carts. Designed, coded and implemented shipping data base. Worked to modify WMS to build correct assembly sequence into totes and carts.
Proactive Northern Container, Stockton, CA 2008 – 2009
Packaging Engineer Engineered packaging for a wide variety of foods and wines and agriculture. Routed the job throughout the shop floor in the most cost effective manner for the company and the customer. Responsible for ordering all cutting dies, and ensuring they not only produces the correct structure but that would run on our machinery.
Longview Fibre Company, Oakland, CA 2003 – 2008
Packaging Engineer Designed packaging for a wide variety of foods and wines for automated filling lines and ...
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