Experience

MDT Sporting Goods Ltd.

• Canada
• Sporting Goods Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Design Engineer

  • May 2021 - Present



PAKFAB

• Canada
• Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mechanical Design Engineer

  • Mar 2020 - May 2021

  - Design custom steel racks to automotive OEM's standards and specifications, including Toyota, Honda, Nissan - Design foam dunnage and sewn fabric totes for delicate parts - Reverse-engineer racks for fabrication or retrofitting - Design custom steel racks to automotive OEM's standards and specifications, including Toyota, Honda, Nissan - Design foam dunnage and sewn fabric totes for delicate parts - Reverse-engineer racks for fabrication or retrofitting



Wallenstein Equipment Inc

• Ontario, Canada

• Mechanical Design Engineer

  • Mar 2019 - Nov 2019

  - Designed forestry equipment in SolidWorks, and evaluated using FEA simulation and prototype testing - Collaborated knowledge from Weld, Paint and Assembly shops with field testing to improve existing designs - Designed forestry equipment in SolidWorks, and evaluated using FEA simulation and prototype testing - Collaborated knowledge from Weld, Paint and Assembly shops with field testing to improve existing designs



Vuteq Canada Inc

• Canada
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Maintenance Engineering

  • Sep 2017 - Mar 2019

  - Designed, project managed and performed runoff on both internal and externally sourced custom assembly equipment for the 2019 Toyota Rav4 launch - Designed and modelled ergonomic fixtures, hand tools and gauges to be manufactured using 3D printer, mill, lathe and weldments - Worked with Production, Quality, and Process Engineering departments to identify and resolve issues impacting mass production volumes exceeding 1800 vehicles per day - Prepared RFQ packages detailing technical… Show more - Designed, project managed and performed runoff on both internal and externally sourced custom assembly equipment for the 2019 Toyota Rav4 launch - Designed and modelled ergonomic fixtures, hand tools and gauges to be manufactured using 3D printer, mill, lathe and weldments - Worked with Production, Quality, and Process Engineering departments to identify and resolve issues impacting mass production volumes exceeding 1800 vehicles per day - Prepared RFQ packages detailing technical specifications for assembly equipment, tools and fixtures considering budget and time limitations - Continued development of the 2D vinyl flat pattern for armrests on the 2018 Chevrolet Equinox, resulting in manpower reductions, as well as 20%+ reductions in material usage - Developed new vendor relationships with fabricators of secondary equipment for processes new to the company

• Process Engineer

  • Sep 2016 - Sep 2017

  - Presented Kaizen results in Japan at Toyota City Learning Center to staff and executives from 18 different international Vuteq and Toyota facilities describing the Cost Reduction and Capacity Increase project strategies - Led destructive testing activities researching the factors affecting Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) of sonically welded bosses in the door panels of the 2018 Chevrolet Equinox - Designed fixtures, processes and documentation for destructive testing - Design… Show more - Presented Kaizen results in Japan at Toyota City Learning Center to staff and executives from 18 different international Vuteq and Toyota facilities describing the Cost Reduction and Capacity Increase project strategies - Led destructive testing activities researching the factors affecting Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) of sonically welded bosses in the door panels of the 2018 Chevrolet Equinox - Designed fixtures, processes and documentation for destructive testing - Design engineer for the prototyping and development of the 2D die cut pattern, and both manual and automated assembly processes for 2018 Chevrolet Equinox armrests - Rewarded with an extended tour to several of Vuteq and Toyota’s facilities in Japan for the leading process improvement project performed on an Injection Molding assembly cell - Decreased material usage by over 20% as lead engineer of die cutting department for annual savings exceeding $1.2M, by modification of the die cut pattern - Completed VA/VE and Kaizen cost reduction activities implementing strategies from the Toyota Production System (TPS) - Designed, modelled, and created engineering drawings for equipment and fixtures to be manufactured by 3D printer, mill, lathe and weldments

• Co-op Engineer/CAD Technician

  • May 2014 - Sep 2016

  - Initiated, maintained and standardized the complete layout of 3 facilities totalling over 1.3M sq ft using AutoCAD - Capitalized on the newly-created CAD to overhaul the layouts and processes in 9 assembly cells running 32 different assembly processes in the injection department