RAYMOND R POIRIER, PMP
22417 Cherrylawn Drive Brownstown Twp, 48134
PH 734-516-2251
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WWW.LEANSIXSIGMAEXPERT.COM RPOIRIER@COMCAST.NET WWW.LINKEDIN.COM/IN/POIRIER
Seasoned 20+ year professional with multiple vertical industry domain experience including extensive
Manufacturing and Information Technology deployment successes in Automotive, Government, Defense, Aerospace,
Retail, Telecommunications, Building Materials, Heavy Equipment, Utility, Employment Service, Healthcare
Insurance and Banking/Financial Industries.
Responsible and managed over (250) types of new physical product designs, developments and launches
with internal manufacturing entities and supply chain management partners with over 200 APQP/PPAP product
submittal approvals.
Global Program Manager and Leader for numerous ERP application and Infrastructure System Deployments
and Enhancements for a wide variety of SAP and Oracle modules and non ERP applications serving and managing
multiple concurrent sub project simultaneously within a PMO or as a standalone Project Management organization.
ERP Modules deployed, managed or enhanced include SAP ECC 6.0 core modules with numerous sub modules
for PTP, OTC,DTS,CTP,APO,QM,FTM,GTS,MDM,BW/BO,PLM,SCN,HCM business processes. Oracle modules
include 11i, HCM, FI, Purchasing, I Supplier, Sourcing, I Procurement, WM, MES and Agile PLM. QAD Modules
include Mfg Pro 9.0 with it various integrated sub modules. Working functional and process flow knowledge of these
solutions, not application configuration and application customization capabilities.
Functional knowledge, not application configuration knowledge of various PDM and PLM applications such Windchill PTC, Siemens Team Center, SAP PLM, Autodesk PLM 360,Oracle Agile PLM, Enovia and Arena PLM
solutions and their associated 3D Cad Modeling packages including Autodesk Inventor, CATIA V 4-5, Pro-E, Solid
works, UG 3D Modeling tools and there attribute integration with these PLM and product change management
solutions
Expert capabilities in creation and evaluation of mechanical, electrical and structural engineered, buildings, product
designs and there associative EBOM/MBOM/IBOM,PBOM, for various products or complex systems including
complex electrical mechanical and software integrated products.
Professional Certifications Including but not limited to: Certified Project Management Professional (PMP),
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB), Certified Supply Chain
Professional (CSCP),Certified Lean Expert (CLE) , Certified Information Security Professional (CIAPT), Certified
Requirements Analysis Professional, Oracle 11g, Certified Database Administrator Professional (OCP)/(SQL), Cisco
Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and over (30) additional professional certifications in Product Development,
Lean Manufacturing, Configuration Management, System Engineering, Environmental, Health and Safety and
Logistics Disciplines.
Experienced in various program management and SDLC methodologies including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall,,
DMAIC, IBM Rational Unified Process, SAP-ASAP, Oracle-AIM, and XP Programming.
Business process analyst and process consultant to understand and define business requirements, develop
process maps, requirements traceability matrixes and use to provide innovated manual and automated solution
upgrades and process improvements for various business processes and applications.
Experienced using Infrastructure and Application Solution Design Architecture using IT enterprise
infrastructure architectural design frameworks such as DODAF, TOGAF, POLDAT or ZACHMAN
for full life cycle projects and the creation of project artifacts such as: enterprise application and enterprise
infrastructure architectural diagrams, business benefit analysis, ROI analysis, high and detailed level project
estimates, project kick-off and charter documents, RACI Matrix’s, project schedules, technical and functional blue
printing documents, interface requirements, GUI form creation requirements, legacy data migration documents,
project risk assessments, product or process specifications, realization documents such as FRD/TRD, project
communication plans, training plans, cut over plans, code review plans, quality assurance application test plans,
system integration test plans, data migration validation plans, project closure and lesson learned documents and
RFP /SOW/SLA creation activities
Managed team of 50 Onsite and Off Shore Application Programmers, Database Developers and Network
Infrastructure personnel. ERP application enhancement and configuration activities included using tools such as
SAP Business Process Manager, HP-PPM tools and a wide variety of SDLC tracking tools for both SAP and Non
SAP Applications and Web Service Applications.
Experienced in managing software development programmers in various SDLC development models such as
Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, System Engineering, etc. and reporting of programming performance metrics for
programmers using ABAP, RFC, BAPI, for ERP systems and other Object Oriented .NET based languages Java
EE,, C-Sharp, C++, VB.NET, ASP.NET Python/Perl, PHP, SQL application programming.
Extensive experience in management and deployment of EDI Mapping, EDI translation services, customer and
supplier Web Portals and ERP Service Support Transition and Maintenance activities using internal and third party
suppliers for over 20 unique customer product delivery requirements needs including but not limited to JIT, JIS, VMI,
Virtual, mixed container and mixed pallet, serialized product identification and labeling from numerous different types
of product manufacturing environments.
Coordinated the development of software application testing using tools such as HP Quality Center Testing and
defect management for application quality assurance activities such as script development and testing of functional
and nonfunctional application impacts, system integration impacts, application and infrastructure unit and
performance stress test, regression test and user acceptance test.
Managed project budgets for new applications, application enhancements, new or enhanced Infrastructure
projects, software licensing and service support contracts has high as $20 million USD
Served on teams to define requirements and develop data migration and data integration strategies using
Middleware Software and Integration partner’s providers for ETL and Data-mart projects for BI/BO/BW reporting
functions of key organizational KPI data. Products managed include IBM Cast Iron, IBM Web-sphere and Informatica
products.
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Establish an and managed a expert team of third party application and data integrators to generate integration
data interface links between ERP solutions such as SAP ECC 6.0, Oracle 11g and Autodesk PLM 360 to legacy
applications and customized web developed applications using Web Integration technologies such as XML, SOAP,
WSDL and UDDI. Helped in defining and deployment of ETL technologies to Enterprise Data Warehouses, Data
Marts and in defining and coordinating the reporting analytics and needed reports from the BI/BO/BW instances.
Responsible to manage customer relationships to define and communicate overall program requirements,
change request, and to manage the demand management process and deliverables for new and legacy change
request for application/infrastructure enhancements. Responsible for the delivery l success of the numerous >200
hour change enhancements releases to production.
Launched numerous new large enterprise application and enterprise application/infrastructure projects for
production release for SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 6.0, Oracle 11g, QAD 9.0, QAD 10.0 ERP Open Edge and supporting
Progress Database Environments.
Experienced in managing network infrastructure projects of all sizes including coordinating network
engineers to coordinate and configure various networking solutions with multiple DNS, IP addresses, MAC
Addresses, Subnet Addresses and Communication protocol, E-Gateways and LDAP access management. Interface
technology experiences included, but not limited to SNMP, ICMP, TCP, Telnet, SSH, UDP,FDDI, LDAP, etc. to bring
legacy system into integrated network based SOA Environment.
Experiences with coordinating Web Integration Technologies such as XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI Web Service
based data technology solutions
Managed infrastructure teams to configure numerous operating system infrastructure project for various
physical and virtual hosting locations and client server platforms including MS Windows2003, Chrystal Reports
Server 2005, SQL Server 2005-2008 and Share-point Server 2008, MS Windows 2008 R2, MS Active Directory
Servers, Oracle Database 11g Servers, DB2 and Progress 10.0 Servers that were based on Unix, Linux and
Windows operating systems insuring these server were designed and deployed for proper sizing, capacity, clustering
and to support defined DR plans
Database knowledge includes Oracle 11g DBA management and configuration role for the DBA. Management of
DBA of numerous RBDMS Rational Based Database Management Systems. Skills in Database Modeling, Table
Creation, Entity Creation, Data Attribute Modeling, Master Data Modeling Practices, Database Primary Key and
Table Relationship definition/integration, and SQL Programming and Report Query generation
Experience in supporting the deployment of numerous IT business Governances models that have included
organizations to follow ITIL 3.0-4.0 processes, ISO 27001, CMMi L1-L5, COBIT 4.1 IT Auditing Governance
frameworks
EDUCATION/TEACHING /COMPUTER EXPEREINCE
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MBA, Technology Management, University of Phoenix, 12/03
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BS, Electro-Mechanical Robotic Technologies, Siena Heights University,09/90
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Adjunct Professor for Davenport University and ITT Technical Institute for Various Information Technology, Networking,
Application Software Development, Database and Program Management Related Courses
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Expert level skills in MS Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, MS ,Access, MS Project, MS Visio, Mind Manager, etc
EXPERIENCE
Incoma, LLC/Johnson Controls Inc
1/2014- Present
Sr. Program Manager/Business Analyst/Special Projects
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Sr. Program Manager leading the planning and execution of Johnson Controls Automotive PLM/PDM Engineering
system and application divestures that supported over 1.4Billion dollars of annual sales revenues businesses for Johnson
Controls Automotive Electronics business to Visteon Automotive and Headliner/ Visor business to Atlas Corporation.
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Over 500 applications are involved in the divesture including an array of 3D CAD/CAE applications, Enova and Team
Center 3D Model PLM/PDM applications, various product validation and testing applications, automated interfaces via
Web-Sphere solutions to both SAP and QAD ERP environments for over 30 plants positioned throughout the globe.
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Engineering solutions being transition include solutions for Engineering Data Management Applications, Engineering
Process Management Applications, Product Costing Applications, CAD Authoring Applications, CAD Data Transfer
Applications, OEM 3D CAD Collaboration Solutions, IMDS-Materials Compliance, Engineering Analysis Applications,
Process/Product Simulation Applications, Lighting and Optic Design Applications, Program and Product Financial
Management Applications such as Metrix and Clarity, Validation /Testing Applications Surface Development Applications,
Fabric Pattern Cutting Applications, CNC Machining/Prototype CAM Applications, Benchmarking Applications and
Siemens Team Center Visualization applications.
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Team member deploying the PDM/CAD File Management and Engineering Change Module of Siemens Team Center
10.0 across (3) division’s and 140 plants.
Genoa Employment Services/BCBS of Michigan/Lean Transformations LLC
08/2013 – 11/2013
Sr. Program and Deployment Manager for All Product Pricing and Quoting Infrastructure and Application Enhancement
Projects
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Sr. Program Manager to develop requirements and deploy numerous Applications and supporting Infrastructure Projects
for the Largest Program at BCBS of Michigan. Brought in as a Senior Level trouble shooter to deploy various Product,
Pricing and Quoting system enhancements to support various National Health Care Reform government mandates being
applied across the Enterprises Applications and Supporting Infrastructure. Projects scopes included modification of
Insurance Products, Pricing, Quoting and Contract Issuance systems for Individual, Small and Large Groups Insurance
Products. Applications and Infrastructure for Improving Supporting Agents systems, Web Based Consumer Interfaces/GUI
functionality , Providers Reporting and coverage validation, NASCO Interfaces,ICD-10 standards and 3rd Party
Resources/organizations where outsourcing had occurred and BCBS was having difficulty getting these dependent
projects completed and deployed to support the Oct 1, 2013 Government Mandated Insurance Exchange
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Task required the development of requirements, infrastructure architectural diagrams, estimating processes and tools for
Technology areas in Shared Service organization such as Unified Customer Service Solutions, Customer Support –CRMIVR Operations, Data Center Services, Infrastructure and Support Services, System Integration, Solution Service,
Application architecture, EDDI and Edi Systems, Network and Voice services, Testing and Operations Support, Technical
Engineering Services, BI, Enterprise Data Warehouse , Computing Engineering, Web Engineering, Integration
Architecture and Security assessments
Project Scopes initiatives included improving product speed to market, building 2014 product functionality, load and
testing 2013 products, modification of applications and infrastructure to support Health Care Reform Readiness, Agent
Tool Kits, Improved Customer Experience Capabilities, Seamless Enrollment, Maintenance and Renewals, Plan Year
Coverage changes, Product Closure and Reconstruction, Develop and Establish Actuary and UW Reporting and Analytics
Infrastructure and Business Process Outsourcing. Projects also included expansion of Web Based Common Services and
Enterprise Data Warehouse content, data availability, data storage capacity improvements needed to support the Health
Care Reform Mandates.
Consultant to BCBSM to simply there Infrastructure data collection and integration requirements along with improving
resource availability, resource capacity planning, SME resource involvement in a wide arrangement of Health Care
Reform Programs and Sub Project Work streams. Process improvement included tools and templates to collect technical
data for basic requirements more effectively to increase the number of projects and the speed in which projects could be
deployed. Used both Web Based MS Project for Hour assignment and Check Point for resource capacity and allocations
Bartech/Delphi/Global Information Technology Learning/Lean Transformations LLC
04/2013 – 08/2013
Sr. Program Manager for QAD, SAP and NON-SAP Application, Infrastructure and Database and Service Partner Transition
Projects
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Sr. Program Manager to develop requirements and plan for transition of global service provider for QAD 9.0 Mfg. Pro
ERP applications/sub modules, EDI Interfaces, Batch Management activities, Web Based Portal Applications, Progress
Databases and Supporting Network and Application Infrastructure for 20 plants world-wide for Delphi to a new application,
database and Infrastructure service provider.
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Sr. Program Manager to complete the launch of a Microsoft Outlook Exchange environment serving all 175,000 Delphi
employees with MS FOPE and McAfee DLP Security Applications and supporting infrastructure for approximately 200
Delphi facilities worldwide.
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Consultant to Delphi to deploy process improvement to technical data collected from suppliers in the ITIL/PMO project
management processes to use with suppliers providing services to capture critical technical information from Delphi
service providers for all company ERP applications, Database, and Network LAN/WAN infrastructure to Improve
Knowledge Management of Help Desk and to support the future transition of QAD 9.0, SAP 3.1 and 4.6 ERP Environment
to SAP ECC 6.0 common platform. Purpose was to improve PMO and Program Manager ITIL processes and procedures
for ITIL 4.0 Governance..
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Project Manager to work and coordinate with Cap Gemini and Deloitte Consulting to develop Current State and Future
State road maps to transition all current Delphi ERP Environments to convert over 165 World Wide Delphi Manufacturing
Plants from existing SAP 3.1/SAP 4.6 and QAD 9.0 Mfg. Pro environments to SAP ECC 6.0 solution with a complete suite
of SAP Modules to manage various PTP, OTC,DTS,CTP,GTS,APO, FTM,SNC,MDM,PI,BO-BW,PLM sub-modules and
associated business processes. Project including scoping and reuse/cloning of over 100 home grown applications used
for MES activities, Mobile Data Exchange, Engineering Bill of Material Database Interfaces, that were part of legacy
environment.
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Developed and delivered all course training material to prepare individuals for passing PMI-PMP certification test for
Global Information Technology Learning. Developed and delivered course material and content for Pearson Publishing On
line Six Sigma and Lean Training certification training products.
HCL/Consumers Energy/ Net-Com Learning/Lean Transformations LLC
03/2012 – 02/2013
Sr. Program Manager for SAP and Non Sap Application Portfolio Management
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Sr. Program Manager to Consumers Powers for managing all SAPECC 6.0 core and sub module enhancement pack
and business partner needed application performance upgrades and for all SAP and Non SAP application and network
infrastructure enhancements. Managed software development lifecycles and project artifacts for SAP FICO,FICA,DM,
CRM,BI/BO MM HR,SCM,HCM,QM,PM,SD,PPM,WM,CRM and an assortment of over 150 other Non-SAP ERP
applications such as Genesis IVR, CMR, Hyperion
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Deployed ITIL service framework and HPSM ticking system at consumers to more efficiently handle change request
through a demand management approach, to assigned, tracked and close production incident/problem tickets, put in
place a standardized release and CCB and test validation process and established a standard SDLC/PM technical
deliverable set of requirements for all projects and change projects being supported. Achieved over 100% improvement
in change and incident ticket closure SLA performance.
Managed team of 50 on site and off shore application developer, application configuration personal for SAP ECC
6.0 and Non SAP Applications, delivering about 30 enhancements monthly to over 23 different business partners.
Coordinated major application project deployments and data migration effort for deployment of DM Smart-Grid
Technologies
Use of various program management and SDLC methodologies including coordination of facilitation of JAD events
for Agile, Scrum, Waterfall,, DMAIC, IBM Rational Unified Process, SAP-ASAP, Oracle-AIM, XP Programming, System
Engineering, PM BOK, or organizational hybrids of these methodologies for managing these .
Sr. Program Manager for Ulta Beauty Retail Stores for launching SAP POS application upgrades to nearly 600 POS
locations and to help establish a PMO in this organization.
Developed course training material and delivered course content to prepare individuals for passing PMI-PMP
certification test for Net-Com Learning
Autodesk Incorporated
11/2011– 03/2012
Sr. Project Manager – BA
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Internal consultant to JAVA based software development team to define requirements for the development of new
Autodesk 360 PDM-PLM Solution for multi industry use for advanced 3D Cad Model, BOM, Configuration Management
and associated Product Data Management activities
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Developed specifications and requirement documents for java web based PLM 360 application to manage Program,
Portfolio and Project Management activities, Vendor compliance management system activities such as APQP, Quality
Management System activities such as ISO-9001, ISO 14001activities and Supplier Management activities.
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Developed requirements for software development included the application to be CMII complaint for Change
Management tools and processes, Quality reporting and tracking processes such as CAPA, RMG, Warranty
Management, Warehouse Management International Environmental Compliance directives, ROHS, REACH,WEEE and
Export Control Regulations such as ITAR, EAR for Intellectual Property Protection
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Served on team to define requirements of for third party Middleware Software providers such as the IBM Cast Iron, IBM
Web-sphere and Informatics products utilizing an expert team of third party application integrators to generate integration
data links between ERP solutions such as SAP, Oracle, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics, with the Autodesk PLM 360 platform.
Kelly Services/Lean Transformation LLC/Bombardier Aerospace
9/2010– 11/2011
Sr. Project Manager – BA and Process Improvement
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Coach and Mentor to Bombardier staff and their suppliers by performing organizational cross functional workshops
for teaching these organizations how to deploy Advanced Product Quality Planning, APQP supply chain management
practices
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Served as Business Analyst to develop the requirements for the development of In House designed .NET
framework PLM application to manage all of Yazaki worldwide Product Engineering BOM, change management and
component data for their wiring harness systems and connectors.
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Business Process Analyst and Process Consultant for Kelly Services to define, process map innovated IT automated
and manual business process solutions and process improvements to launch their Enterprise Wide 2012 Annual Price
Increase process across their HQ and 2000 Branch Offices that improved their organizational Net Profit Margins by 3%.
Jacobs Technology/Booz Allen Hamilton
05/2006 – 9/2010
Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement and Program Manager
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Worked as a Program Manager with a Technical Architect to design, deploy and implement a $20M DODAFTOGAF-Zachman compliant PLM infrastructure and Application Solution that would tied key master product data
from 35 legacy applications into SAP ECC 6.0 Core and sub modules such as PLM, MM,WM,QM,PP,PPM ,BI/BO etc via
the management of product data using three different PLM solutions including Siemens Team Center, SAP PLM , Oracle
Agile and Windchill PTC solutions for the US Army.
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Developed the requirements and project artifacts for development of a In House Web based Java based PLM
solution for the US Army that was being considered as an alternative to use of COTS PLM applications.
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Served as enterprise MRAP-MATV FOV Configuration and Program Data MDM Manager for Product Data to be used
across the legacy and PLM application deployments
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Served as a PM/BA to define the requirements for infrastructure and application development of an In house MES
solution for deployment in all US Army Depot manufacturing operations.
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Supported the deployment of numerous IT business Governances models that have included DODAF ISO 27001,
CMMi L1-L5, ITIL 3.0 and 4.0. COBIT 4.1 Governance frameworks
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Program Manager for development of Full Lifecycle ERP system requirements and deployment strategy that included
system wide, requirement specification generation, release for quotation packages, and assessment of SAP-Oracle
technical proposals and purchase for the deployment of SAP ECC 6.0 Core Modules and over 20 sub modules and
Oracle 11i based ERP Business Enterprise Solutions with over 20 core/sub modules for Saudi Telecom Company in
Saudi Arabia.
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Enterprise product data and configuration/data management coordination responsibilities include control and
management of various Military data packages, software data packages, contractor DID CDRL data deliverables and
contract surveillance compliance for five (5) major DOD contractors
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Responsibilities included the writing and development of Contractual (SOW) Statement of Work Language and
CDRL/DID development to obtain proper 3D Cad Model and BOM product data from defense contractors and to ensure
all data deliverables and usage was in compliance with Government and industry.
Development of ETL and Data-mart requirements for BI/BO/BW tool to report various BOM and product data for the US
Army
Lean Transformations LLC/Visteon/Daimler Chrysler/IR/HBPO/MMTC/General Motors
04/2003 – 04/2006
Business Process Improvement Consultant and Project Engineer
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ERP WM Consultant to Ingersoll Rand-Bobcat to resolve operational part shortage and internal fabricated parts
over/under stock issues due to a problem implementation of enterprise wide Oracle 11i ERP MM and WM Modules.
Improvements included new use of plant floor hand held POS part tracking and labeling devices in the physical operation
as well as establishment of pre-defined In-bound material receiving windows, warehouse inventory staging practices, new
part storage identification methods and reduced inbound product inspections.
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Deployed SAP ERP Core and Sub modules instances and Infrastructure in (3) new first time deployments of North
American HBPO plants in Mexico, Canada and the US for management of these JIT/JIS manufacturing operations.
Project budget of 2M USD.
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Develop and Managed Customer Relationships and responsible for creation of Project Artifacts for the SAP
deployment including maintaining and management of program scope, timing plan through daily program follow up and
program reviews as well as maintaining open issues deck through daily program follow up and program reviews as well
as maintain program book(s) through pre-production and post-launch, base line statement of work (SOW) and bill of
materials (BOM) and Engineering Change activities.
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Lean Six Sigma Consultant to various small and medium size businesses to deploy Lean Six Sigma in numerous
manufacturing industries to identify and deploy business process improvement for the Michigan Manufacturing
Technology Center
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Project Engineer for General Motors Power Train Division to set up manufacturing and material management processes
for the launch of a highly manually assembled, low volume, turbo charged engine assembly manufacturing line to build
Cadillac CTS LS-7 V8 engine and Corvette LC-3 500 HP turbo charged engines.
Owens Corning Automotive
06/2001 – 04/2003
Program Manager
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Program Manager responsible to define project scopes, work estimates, plans and resource allocations for the
establishment of new facilities, business operating systems, manufacturing /logistical support processes and SAP 3.0
ERP infrastructures and instances to launch new composite product development center in Novi, Michigan.
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Trained employees in Lean Six Sigma principles, practices and productivity improvement tools such as Value Stream
Mapping, Visual Management, Error Proofing, SMED, Standard Operations, One-Piece Flow, Kanban Systems, Total
Productive Maintenance, and Lean Metrics to establish new facility business practices
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Developed various business cases and product design innovations to show automotive OEM the cost effectiveness of
various composite parts manufacturing technologies to replace existing metal product solutions with single part composite
product solutions.
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Launch TS-16949,ISO-9001, ISO 14001 and OSHA 18001 Organizational Management Systems
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Product Cost Estimating and Business Case development for the conversion of various steel, aluminum, casted
automotive products from their current materials to a innovated Single Piece Construction Composite Material solution.
MSX International
07/2000 – 05/2001
Product Development Engineer
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Served as Design Release Engineer “DRE” for Thyssen-Krupp Automotive at Ford Motor Company for the design, 3D
Modeling and Simulation, prototype and production build of a stamped steel front and rear chassis module system.
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Project Coordinator-Program Manager for the deployment of (FPS) Ford Lean Production System deployment efforts that
included the coordination and involvement of over 21 functional support organizations in the Ford Motor Company
business enterprise for deployment of LSS and Supply chain management throughout the Rouge complex
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Project Coordinator for the dissemination of program information and assignment/delegation of tasks to complete what
has been requested and reporting to Director and C Level executives for program status.
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Developed, maintained and managed the program timing plan through daily program follow up and program reviews
as well as maintaining open issues deck through daily program follow up and program reviews as well as maintain
program book(s) through pre-production and post-launch, base line statement of work (SOW) and bill of materials (BOM)
and Engineering Change activities.
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Responsible to deliver all preproduction prototype build events and coordinate all the APQP, PPAP’s, run at rates,
PSO’s activity with the customer and internal support groups
ITT Industries-Valeo/RDS
06/1998 – 06/2000
Senior Engineer/Project Manager
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Special Consulting/Contract Engineer responsible for the establishment and development of new “Off shore” joint
venture and supply chain manufacturing partner in Thailand for making complete vehicle wiper systems assemblies and
sub assemblies. Spent extensive time in South East Asia developing JV partners for establishment of South East Asia
supply chain for component manufacturing including deep drawn stamped steel parts, die cast parts and CNC machining,
insert plastic injection molded parts, heat treated parts, blow mold parts and small part assembly operations and
completing these products APQP and PAPP requirements.
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Specified, built and implemented Electronic Surface Mount circuit board manufacturing facility in Dallas/Fort Worth
area
Responsible to deliver all preproduction prototype build events and coordinate all the APQP, PPAP’s, run at rates,
PSO’s activity with the customer and internal support groups for over 50 different products including complete wiper
systems, fractional horsepower motors for door window regulators, power antennas, ABS braking systems, etc
Axxis Corporation
02/1998 – 06/1998
Operations and Plant Manager
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Responsible for specification, building and launch of new 30,000 sq./ft. manufacturing facility that included the
implementation of 15 new and used 200 Ton injection molding machines, raw material compounding equipment, new
small part assembly lines, new material flow systems and new part packaging systems
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Responsibilities included the transfer, modification and maintenance for over 60 injection molds and 12-200 ton
presses to run in newly launched injection equipment and processes.
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Responsible for implementing product configuration and product change management systems to interface with Japan,
headquarter product engineering activities.
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Managed staff of over 80 technical and hourly personnel
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Project included site selection, employee recruiting, facility and manufacturing equipment specification, purchase
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and installation of facility IT infrastructure and all manufacturing capital equipment.
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Received extensive training in Toyota City Japan, on Toyota Production System techniques for optimal facility design
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Responsible for all Logistical and Material flow and manufacturing process designs.
WA Systems/Staff Resources /American Axle
04/1997 – 01/1998
Manager Cost Estimating
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Responsible to concept, perform cost estimating pricing of various highly automated handling systems for high tolerance
machined component using standard components such as meters, shot pins, hitch lifts, Ferris wheel elevators, flight
elevators, gravity storage units, pick and place units, lift and carry devices, pusher/pullers, using AutoCAD Windows V13.
Task included calculating job material budgets, job labor budgets, job gross profit margins based on conceptual layout
solution developed for company client base
Magna Versa Trim/United Technologies Automotive/Textron
02/1995 – 03/1997
Industrial Engineer-Operations Manager
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Plant Floor Operators Manager for 300 person UAW plant production and maintenance staff for automotive Interior
Trim headliner manufacturing operation for Textron Interiors.
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Consultant to develop and implement short term productivity improvement plan for H-Body interior door trim panels and
instrument panel manufacturing process for Magna Versa-trim Howell Operations that achieved 10% scrap reduction and
six piece hour /interior trim productivity improvement.
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Responsible for the development of the product development enhancements and manufacturing process, equipment and
tooling for GMX-130 1999 interior trim door panel program for Delphi transfer of business to Peregrine Inc. Manufacturing
and part flow improvements resulting in headcount reductions of (6) people in N-Body Kiefel vacuum forming and door
panel assembly area.
Johnson Controls Automotive
05/1993 – 03/1995
Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Manager
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Responsibilities included business case, specification, budget generation, budget management, and purchase/installation
and Program management of new 50,000 sq. /ft. addition to Johnson Controls Corporate headquarters in Plymouth
Michigan.
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Task included defining scope of work, budgets, resource requirements and IT infrastructure integration connectivity for the
implementation of $4.5 million of capital equipment, tooling and the integration of the facility into legacy IT systems for
launch of prototype product development plan
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Managed staff of (8) Engineers, (4) technicians and 10 hourly personal.
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Responsibilities included specification and development of new product development processes, prototype manufacturing
processes and product testing solutions and IT hardware and software infrastructures.
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Implementation of new facility included engineering offices, office support staff cubicles, Product Testing Development
laboratories and IT Hardware/software infrastructure to support new operation.
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Responsibilities included management of nonunion engineering staff of 20 people i.e. process engineers, test engineers
and maintenance technician’s for the facilities automotive seating soft foam, metal seat frame and interior cloth plant.
Ford Motor Company/RST/CIMSPEC/IAA
06/1988 – 05/1993
Project Engineer
Special Contract employee for the following assignments:
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Project Engineer for the Former Utica Trim Plant for the development of business case/ plan, manufacturing process
development, equipment and tooling specifications and procurement for $10 million capital equipment and $4 million
tooling budget for energy absorbing foam program that added 85 UAW jobs to the plant.
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Development of automated method of de-flashing reaction injection molded products using cryogenics methods that Ford
Motor Company applied for US Patent on for manufacturing process innovation.
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Implementation of numerous paint shop modifications for industry first,PN-96 pick-up truck RIM exterior body quarter
panel product to be produced in the plant
Chrysler Corporation
08/1984 – 06/1988
Project Engineer/Robotics and Automation Specialist
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Served as core launch team member of the Dodge City 200,000 sq./ft paint shop addition to Chrysler Warren Truck
Plant including some of the corporations first implementations of unprimed automated painting systems, robotized sealer
deck/automation, unprimed dry sand booths, robotic and feather duster based vehicle paint booths, top coat drying ovens,
and robotically applied underbody coating protection systems
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Managed project budgets over $15Million for capital equipment expenditures.
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Responsible for the process development, specification, launch and implementation electrical-mechanical and PLC
controls trouble shooting of corporations first cross member robotic mig welding system and first robot based resistance
welding applications for vehicle door panels, quarter panels, hoods and deck lids.
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Responsible to install, launched and trouble shoot over 300 robots in various body and paint shop applications.