Matthew Klun

Lead Tool Designer at Victory Tool Inc.
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(386) 825-5501
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, US
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Credentials

  • Solidworks CSWPA-SU
    Solidworks
    Oct, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Solidworks CSWP
    Soildworks
    Aug, 2019
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Victory Tool Inc.
    • United States
    • Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Lead Tool Designer
      • Mar 2011 - Present

      • Oversee and review projects starting with strip layouts progressing through the design• Establish die design standards, procedures, and checklists for both internal and external use• Reviewing and communicating part print GD&T, notes, or part material that may affect processing or tooling costs during the quoting/design stage• Utilizing Autoform simulation software for complex part formability and process/design validation• Follow up with customers on concerns found in part formability, simulation, or design stages through WebEx meetings, conference calls, or onsite meetings• Troubleshooting and using problem solving skills when issues should arise in design or during press tryout • Managing design templates and component libraries, including adding manufacturing colors to features automating; tolerances on drawings, programming for CNC machining, and making critical/non critical features visual on 3D model• Encouraging better ideas and processes provided by internal/external customers that make our designs more efficient and robust• Consistently design tooling within the quoted timeline while supervising other designers Show less

    • Tool Designer
      • Mar 2010 - Mar 2011

      • Designing 3D metal stamping tooling in Solidworks for the automotive, recreational, lawn and garden , appliance, and construction industries• Multitasking various projects while remaining detail orientated • Adhering to die design standards provided by customer• Conduct die review meetings with customers prior to build • Quoting die components through outside contractors/vendors• Creating inspection methods for parts requiring developed trim lines or other features that are not finalized until press tryout• Introduce die steel color scheme in designs for better visualization and customer communication• Create design templates and component libraries to maximize efficiency and accuracy• Implemented hole coding system to automated CNC programming.• Researched, justified, and implemented FormatWorks software Show less

    • Tool Maker/Tool Designer
      • Mar 2008 - Mar 2010

      • Learning the proper skills and manufacturing practices necessary to build compound, stage, and progressive dies working with and alongside Journeymen Tool Makers• Built first tool design including troubleshooting/problem solving during press tryout, and inspected parts to print per customer requirements• Providing estimators strip layouts/flattened parts to increase quote productivity and accuracy, while learning essential design procedures• Establishing server customer quote folder for incoming files, die standards, and press specifications. Show less

  • Greatbatch Medical
    • United States
    • Medical Equipment Manufacturing
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Tool Designer
      • Mar 2005 - Mar 2008

      • Designing draw, deep draw, and secondary stage tooling for the medical shield, capacitor and battery case industry• Medical device part materials ranging from titanium, stainless, and aluminum• Provide FEA simulations for optimum draw sequences, communicating any concerns to customers regarding manufacturability or formability of parts and solutions to those concerns• Listening to production staff as well as new tooling department to continue improving designs• Organized the server file structure simplifying each departments storage needs and security• Simplified designs and created templates for draw, shimmy trim, pierce, cam piercing/notching, expander, and weld ring tooling• Managed an inventory of “on the shelf” standard components improving the timeline for sample parts to customers and replacement/duplicate tooling in production• Researched, justified, and implemented SolidWorks, Dynaform, and BlankWorks programs Show less

    • CAD Drafter
      • Jun 2003 - Mar 2005

      • Creating basic layouts and detailing under the direction/supervision of a Tool Designer • Learning the various tooling and processes required to produce tight tolerance medical parts

  • Computer Cut EDM Inc
    • United States
    • Industrial Automation
    • Tool Designer
      • Jan 2004 - Aug 2006

      • Providing assistance part time 3D modeling on stamping and form tooling • Detailing specified components on quick turnaround designs • Modeling revisions to existing form tool components • Providing assistance part time 3D modeling on stamping and form tooling • Detailing specified components on quick turnaround designs • Modeling revisions to existing form tool components

Education

  • Dunwoody College of Technology
    AAS, Machining Technology
    2006 - 2008
  • Dunwoody College of Technology
    AAS, Engineering Drafting and Design Technology
    2001 - 2003

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