- CAD Designer
- Material Handling equipment for the automotive industry
- Provided machine design services.
- Designed, and build their engineering library using AutoCad
- Created shop floor drawings for internal use
- Created assembly drawings for customers
- Product Design of construction products
- Created detailed drawings using AutoCad
- “Stay-in-place” Insulated Concrete Forms were designed to replace wood forms for basement construction
- Created detailed customer instruction manuals and product information documents
Developed course material and delivered as follows:
Department: Corporate Training
Department: Corporate Training
- “Managing Projects“ 10 week night course
- Topics included the management of: Procurement, Risk, Integration, Time, Cost, Scope, Quality, Human Resources, Communications
- Project Management course presented to Canadian Forces Base Borden
- Project Management course presented to Honda, Alliston
- Statistical Process Control course presented to Honda, Alliston
- “Managing Projects“ 10 week night course
- Jig & Fixture Design, AutoCAD, Industrial Design
- Initiated and completed a competitive analysis of automotive seating systems
- Visited factories and sourced suppliers to determine capabilities and costs
- Reported on the status of automotive seating for three North American and three European seating systems
- Reviewed seat recliner designs in USA Product Development head office
- Prepared a report on the status of each design identifying limitations and advantages
- Conceptualized and created drawings for a “ linear recliner mechanism” for cars that was developed in Europe
- Initiated a product development program
Project Manager for Design | build | Commissioning of welding and hemming assembly lines for automotive applications. This involved in-house machining of assembly tooling and the purchase of automation equipment and integration. Projects include:
- Ford Freestar stow-in-floor
- Honda Odyssey and Acura MDX Sport Utility windshield sizing unit
- Honda Odyssey roof assembly line
- Daimler Chrysler PG44 roof, hood, liftgate, doors and fenders,
- Dodge Stratus underbody “front rails”
- Venue; Canadian Forces Base Borden
- Delivered a highly intensive three day training course in “Managing Projects”
- Participants were military officers (12) who conduct training on the base
- Delivered through Georgian College Barrie Campus
- Participants learned a systematic approach to running projects.
- This was achieved through a combination of classroom lectures, group work sessions, and take home work
- This hands-on course was designed to integrate many lifetimes of experience with the international standard for practice the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®)
- This course gave them the techniques and tools to manage each stage of the project life cycle, work within organizational and cost constraints, and set goals tied directly to stakeholder needs
- Provided expertise to contract manufacturing companies in China on how to improve quality
- Travelled to major destinations, Shanghai, ChongQing, and Guangzhou evaluating processes
- Guided the &P China Quality Engineers and Project Engineers through the Advanced Product Quality Planning [APQP] process
- Trained Chinese engineers to create Control Plans, PFMEAs, and Process Flow diagrams
- Signed off on Production Part Approval Process [PPAP] documents
- Maintained the ISO 9000:2000 system in the Barrie warehouse
- Represented P&P China Automotive in an ISO 9000:2000 audit by BSI
- Attended quality meetings with customers in Canada, United States, and Mexico
- Met company obligations in a crisis situation by creating and executing a plan to prototype transmission gears that were used in Chrysler vehicle test trials
- Reviewed and approved RFQs for “firm-fixed-price” quotations, and awarded contracts Arranged the quality testing and verification process in the labs at Linamar
- Developed customer loyalty by building product to specification and to target price
- Prepared Linamar´s business case to be submitted to Chrysler
- Client facing and involved relationships with academia, government and industry
- Met with business leaders to establish product and manufacturing research requirements
- Met with university researchers to evaluate commercial potential of discoveries and opportunities for collaborative research with industry partner(s)
- Advised university startups on how to position their technology in the marketplace
- Represented OCE in meetings with the Ministry of Transport & NRCan to identify opportunities and processes for collaborative research as it applies to Plug-in Electric Vehicles, Hybrids, the “smart grid” and infrastructure
- Supported Ontario’s manufacturing base by being a “ referee” for the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade’s “SMART Program”
- Judge for University Research Posters at the 2009 APMA/Auto21 annual conference
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