Experience

Kasai North America, Inc

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Design Engineer

  • Feb 2015 - Present

  Tier 1 Supplier of Interior trim piecues for the Automotive industry Tier 1 Supplier of Interior trim piecues for the Automotive industry



Innovative Hearth Products

• Nashville TN

• Senior Design Engineer III

  • Jun 2010 - Feb 2015

  Senior Design Engineer III/lead R & D designer, from clean sheet of paper thru full product release. Managed design reviews, prototype fabrication, production fabrication and documentation release. Rhapsody fireplace won 2012 Vespa award for “Best in Show”. Received US Patent numbers D639,926 (in 2011)and 8,800,546 (this year) for barrier screen designs and fabrication. Current project include creating a common chassis for all 3 manufacturing sites and integrating components, design practices and documentation. Additional Responsibilities include: Currently developing new design standards and modeling techniques to best utilizes our combined business units. Started Lennox Tennessee user group meetings which grew to into our “united” user group meetings. This group included senior representation from all design and manufacturing facilities where we would addresses issues that imped productivity. In addition I am the PDM administrator for all sites and coordinated the re-host of data from Lennox international server to our new server. Show less



Barrett Firearms

• Christiana, TN

• Project Manager

  • Dec 2008 - Jun 2010

  Project manager for new and existing .50 caliber rifle projects. Such projects include a new “Target” rifle, several design enhancements and rectifying everyday production issues. Responsibilities include: revising prototype parts/assemblies and making them producible and repeatable. Made and executed test plan for pre-production build validations. Additional responsibilities include: Sourcing new vendors and technology to improve production/quality Conducted several design-of-experiments to improve established designs and validate new ideas. Show less



Toshiba

• Japan
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mechanical Design Engineer/Project Manager

  • Apr 2002 - Dec 2008

  Mechanical Engineer\Project Manager serving as one of three engineers retained by Toshiba to develop new products, such as LCD and DLP televisions (produced at a rate of 800 per day). Served as the Project Manager for more than 20 models including all final approval testing and product certification (using Pro-E, Wildfire). Designed and managed over 50 plastic and metal components into production, including DLP bezels (TV picture frames), light engine bases, AV board mounts, decorative trim pieces and speaker grills. Also served as Project Manager on three major releases responsible from conception to product introduction---worked on tooling, engineering changes, pre-production and inital production. Managed a $1.6M cost reduction for the LCD product in Mexico, managed RoHOS testing and certification of more than 100 components. Cost reduction for the project was a result from certifying a local (US) vendor who utilized JIT is manufacturing and volume pricing. Managed all design aspects from concept to production including tooling and molding issues. These actions included tool construction, tool improvements (via trial) and ECN’s. In addition I was heavily involved in sourcing new vendors and developing vendor relationships. Additional responsibilities include: Sourcing, designing and approving machinery (heat-stake machine, Pad print fixtures, Paint mask fixtures….etc). Supervising alternative cosmetic finishes (Metal Vacuumization, Powder coating, and HydroGraphics) Sourcing, identifying and approving paint color, and gloss levels. Used ShapeGrabber scanner/software to prove prototype accuracy, and validate production parts. Used SLA’s to prove designs and identify high risk design areas. Show less



Carrier Coproration (United Technologies)

• Syracuse, NY/ McMinnville TN

• Mechanical Deisgn Engineer

  • Feb 1996 - Apr 2002

  Mechanical Design Engineer using Pro-E software to design large, commercial HVAC units for a 1000-employee plant producing 13 HVAC units per day. Worked with System Engineers on component driven cost reductions. Designed “Super” series Air-Foil fan models and also worked on a design team that created Conquest Series package HVAC units. Managed special order HVAC models including all documentation. Developed a program using Pro-E that created standard coils and automatically charted them on drawings in addition to making the coils easy to interchange. In addition to designing several components, I was instrumental in fabricating functional prototypes used to prove designs before releasing to full production. Additional responsibilities include: Created several designs using Pro/Piping. These piping designs were fabricated using bend chart tables. Created several sheet-metal designs using Pro/Sheet Metal. Flat-Patterns were made and sent to fabrication where functional prototypes were made. Show less



MS Kennedy

• Cicero, NY

• Electro Mechanical Designer

  • Feb 1996 - Apr 2002

  Mechanical Design Engineer working on a design team responsible for creating LS100 and LS200 examination lights. Involved in creating new product development including and retrofitting value added features to existing designs. Used Pro-E software to create components used on Opthalmoscope and Video Otoscope. Also created all associated drawings and specifications. Additional responsibilities include: Involved with injection mold construction and tooling ECN changes With Marketing collaboration, made several prototypes utilizing SLA’s, Thermo-formed and hand formed parts displayed at tradeshows. Show less