Experienced professional with a proven record of leading successful projects from conception to completion. Skilled in coordinating design teams, managing budgets, and ensuring compliance with regulations and standards. Proficient in fostering collaboration among stakeholders to achieve project objectives.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manufacturing Engineering Manager
GCM
Addison
10.2023 - Current
Managed engineering department and assigned workloads to optimize team efficiency.
Implemented process improvements to enhance operational productivity.
Supported production floor and quality control initiatives to ensure standards compliance.
Oversaw disposition of non-conforming materials to maintain quality assurance.
Communicated with customers regarding ongoing and future projects to align expectations.
Developed vendor relationships for outsourcing requirements, ensuring reliable partnerships.
Created tooling and gauges as necessary to meet production specifications.
Recommended and implemented new equipment to modernize operations.
CNC Manufacturing Engineer
Schultes Precision Manufacturing
Buffalo Grove
07.2022 - 10.2023
Processed jobs daily to maintain workflow efficiency.
Developed tooling and gages as required for project specifications.
Created in-process drawings to support production needs.
Communicated with customers regarding new projects to ensure alignment.
Programming Manager: Milling Department
ERA Industries Inc.
Elk Grove Village
03.2019 - 07.2022
Manage 36 FTE, 6 Programmers and 56 milling centers
Schedule/ assign work for departments
Capital purchases: justified 2 horizontal machining centers that improved productivity and job flow
Integrated the use of Excel spreadsheets for scheduling machines, jobs, and operators/machinist
Working on network integration to the CNC’S, and pre-setters. This allows the tools to be measured externally to the CNC machine.
Tooling cost savings
Tool Crib integration
Set up reductions
5S initiatives throughout the departments
Manufacturing engineering/Shop Manager
M&R Precision Machining, Inc
Elk Grove Village
04.2013 - 03.2019
Building and developing engineering and production teams
Recommendation and implementation of capital equipment
Responsible for total cost for machine maintenance
Maintaining engineering, shop tooling and maintenance budgets
Responsible for maintaining of weekly measurable: EST vs. ACT on each employee, machine up/down time, total cost for machine maintenance, CNC programming and processing performance
Implementing the latest technologies in manufacturing
Locating and developing vendors for outside processes
Construction of models and sketches using SOLID WORKS
Designing internal tooling and fixtures
Job routing using JOBB BOSS
Ensuring customer satisfaction (both internal and external) through open communication in respect to orders placed and issues identified
Responsible for scheduling the shop workload going through the shop, controlling hours for all employees
Implementing a proactive approach for the tool crib, setting up all the tooling according to the schedule
Working hand in hand with quality, to ensure timely inspection of parts going through the shop
Responsible for schedule of yearly machine maintenance and quarterly PM’s