Experience

Enplas Life Tech, Inc.

• United States
• Plastics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Injection Mold Designer and Development Engineer

  • Nov 2012 - Present

  Accomplished thermoplastics design and development engineer with over 25 years of experience with all aspects of injection molding, including 14 years in the biotech and medical components industry. Experienced managing projects from design definition through product validation. Skilled at interfacing with customers, engineers, tooling, and quality personnel to troubleshoot any issue and get the job done. Adept at all manufacturing and process development activities such as Scientific Injection Molding, Design of Experiments, and Process Validations. Strong CAD/CAM skills include SolidWorks, Pro-Engineer, Moldflow, and others.



The Davinci Associates, LLC

• Partner / Product Design Manager

  • 2010 - 2012

  - DaVinci Associates specialized in providing product development services for inventors and entrepreneurs in the fields of biotech and medical devices.- Designed and developed an Immersive Video Goggle system for clinical testing by an anesthesiologist at Carolina Medical Center, Charlotte NC. - Designed and developed a Therapeutic Pulmonary Device for clinical testing by a pulmonologist at Carolina Medical Center, Charlotte NC.- Did market research and product feasibility studies, designed product components, designed original prototypes, provided patent drawings, established manufacturing methods, procedures and established key business partnerships to facilitate product development.



Next Safety Inc

• United States

• Senior Product Engineer

  • Mar 2007 - May 2009

  - Lead product design and development for Next Safety’s line of inhalation products.- Designed and developed proprietary respirator product line.- Designed and developed COPD drug delivery product.- Designed injection mold tooling, wrote specifications for tooling and components; selected vendors, ascertained quotes and purchased tooling. - Lead product design and development for Next Safety’s line of inhalation products.- Designed and developed proprietary respirator product line.- Designed and developed COPD drug delivery product.- Designed injection mold tooling, wrote specifications for tooling and components; selected vendors, ascertained quotes and purchased tooling.



Leviton

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• CNC Department Manager

  • Jan 1995 - Dec 2006

  - Responsible for all new mold tooling production for Southern Devices Division of Leviton Mfg.- Staffed, trained and supervised six nc programmers/engineers and 25 machine operators.- Served as Project Manager, scheduling projects and assigning work to team members; coordinated upstream with corporate engineering and downstream with production facilities; ordered tooling and raw materials; tracked all projects through completion.- Slashed 25% from the cost of molds by pioneering the use of High Speed Milling techniques for manufacturing mold components.- Applied Six Sigma/Lean Manufacturing principles to realize a 30% reduction in operating expenses for fiscal year 2006.- Championed a department cost avoidance of $2-$4 million per year for ten consecutive years.