Experience

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  Joyson Safety Systems

  • Sterling Heights

  • Senior Designer

    • Oct 1990 - Present
    • Sterling Heights

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  Key Safety Systems

  • Sterling Heights

  • Senior Designer

    • 1990 - Present
    • Sterling Heights

    Present position Catia Application Design Team Supervisor, Designer Responsibilities include:• Resident designer stationed at FORD PDC supporting design engineering activities• Coordination and distribution of workload.• CATIA mentoring for design team.• Check drawings prior to release for production• Check CATIA model integrity prior to release for production.• Conduct design reviews with customer, vendors, and internal Customer teams.• Performance reviews for design team Special Assignments• Assigned to the GMT350/I190 DAB Program to be an on-sight Design Liaison in Japan (1999)• Assigned to the ISUZU 116 DAB Program to be an on-sight Design Liaison in Japan (2000)• Assigned to support PSA/VW/FIAT CAB activities in BREED Raunhiem office (2001)• Assigned to support Key Safety at Ford Koln Focus world car(2007) Position from October 1990 to November 1996 - Senior Designer/Checker Responsibilities included:• Assigned to various airbag seat belt systems, and their components.• Checker Assigned to various airbag , and seat belt systems, and their components.• Creation of production level assembly and detail drawings using CATIA

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  Modern Engineering

  • CAD Designer

    • Sep 1977 - Oct 1990

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  Pine Design and Engineering

  • Troy, Michigan

  • Detailer/Layout (Manual)

    • Sep 1972 - Mar 1977
    • Troy, Michigan

    Responsible for a variety manual drafting projects including: progressive dies, draw dies, special machines, foam seat tooling.