Summary Of Key Strengths/ Qualifications
• “Whatever it takes to get it done.”
• Versatile. Accomplished leader and collaborator; first-rate engineer; knowledgeable, energetic, productive, resourceful; require little supervision. Superior project planning, organizing, tracking skills. Insightful, fast, proactive, continuous learner.
• Noted for technical creativity/ innovation, initiative, passionate customer focus (Communication, Cost, Schedule Adherence, and Customer-Driven Technical Requirements), an uncommon mix of skills: business sense plus fundamental engineering abilities; analytical plus hands-on, problem solving, critical thinking, attention to critical details, and focus on quality and safety.
• Organized. Excellent writing skills. Good communications and co-operative relationships across all levels and areas: management, professional, technical, union & non-union, suppliers.
• Outstanding equipment design abilities: spec.-out, design, monitor machine fabrication, installation and validation. Recognized as Troubleshooting Expert/ analytical thinker. Excellent mechanical aptitude. Five patents.
• Versed in cGMP, FDA, ISO compliance, validation IQ/OQ/PQ; Design of Experiments (DoE); Lean Six Sigma Certified Process Excellence Greenbelt.
Career Summary
Progressive responsibilities in various engineering and leadership roles in several industries. Equipment & Process Engineering and Cross-Functional Project Leadership, Engineering Section Leadership: leading change, investigating/ designing/ redesigning and optimizing processes and reliability, introducing new technologies, and supplier negotiations, managing multiple tasks, responsibilities and priorities for significant cost savings and quality improvements.
Professional Experience
1986-2005 Staff Engineer, Section Leader Ethicon, Inc. div. Johnson & Johnson, Cornelia GA. Successive responsibilities from Engineer, Sr. Engineer, Section Leader, to Staff Positions in Projects Engineering, Technical Services, Plant Engineering, Process Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Leadership Groups - support for manufacturing operations of Class III disposable and permanent implantable medical devices.
• Project leadership & engineering - consistently exceed goals on process, cost, quality, and capacity improvements, including problem solving and debugging.
Section Leader – includes recruiting, hiring, training and development, performance management and coaching, budgets, business system redesign, etc.
• Project responsibilities include all aspects – CAPA, proposal, planning, specification, design/ drafting, capital budgeting and appropriations, procurement including custom equipment & process conceptual & detail design, RFP/RFQ, negotiation, capital & expense purchasing, supplier and contractor management, installation, troubleshooting, startup, spares and maintenance setup and training; process engineering and development and/or transfer from R&D, validation IQ/OQ/PQ, and documentation including procedure and specification writing. Regular interface with operators, supervisors, QA, finance, other support services, and management.
• Six Sigma/ Lean manufacturing implementation experience.
• Achieved significant operational and capital savings via innovative equipment and process development, troubleshooting, and process capability improvements.
• Development and startup of several revolutionary new processes for major improvements.
Technical support for monomer, polymerization, vacuum, chemical processes, drying, plastic polymer fiber extrusion/ spin draw, spin finish, winding/ unwinding, tension control, braiding, scouring, skeining, leasing, dying, drying stretching, heat treat, coating, inspection, tipping, finishing, cutting, inert gas, vacuum canning, sealing, clean room.
• Writing of specifications, procedures, protocols, reports, contracts, training materials.
• Diversity Action Team member.
1981-1986 Project Engineer Dunlop Sports, Westminster SC. Engineering Dept.
• Designed, developed and implemented a wide variety of custom automation equipment and processes; various capital projects including invention of custom-yet-modular automated golf ball material handling system deployed throughout the operation, numerous process optimization, capacity expansion, and process layout projects in both the golf and tennis ball manufacturing facilities achieved significant efficiencies, cost and scrap reductions and improved environmental performance. Consumer Products; rubber & plastic mixing, extrusion, winding, molding, coating, finishing, pad printing, buffing, painting, drying, hot stamping, inspection, material handling, pressure canning, packaging, in hazardous and non-hazardous areas.
1981 Design Engineer Teledyne Gurley, Troy NY. Engineering Dept. Product design: precision opto-mechanical sensor instruments.
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