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My product, process, organization leadership experience:
 
Products:  Consumer, Electronic, Fasteners, Raw Material (see "Product Experience" tab for illustrations)

Low to High volume product manufacturing (electrical and mechanical)
Projectors
Parts fabrication and assembly - 100's of mechanical, electrical parts per unit, hundreds to thousands of units per year, multiple product lines, labor-intensive;
Cameras
Reloadable film based products -80 to 100 precision mechanical and electrical parts, fabricated and assembled to rigorous quality standards, with complex imaging systems, volumes of 1 to 3M per year, modest labor-intensity;
Recyclable,  Single-use products - Six-sigma designed components and systems, rugged and robust for rigors of virtually any application, best-in-class imaging systems, tens of millions of units per year, multiple lines, multiple global factories, mix of high-volume automation and hand assembly.
 
Electrical systems manufacturing
Circuit boards
Complex, multi-layer large PWB's consisting of 100's of components with mix of automated and hand assembly, to double-sided small, high volume automated assembly boards
Harnesses, Cabling
Complex manually-intensive very low-volume electrical systems for large business machines to small, high-volume wiring assemblies.
 
Fasteners
Zippers
Plastic injected, metal, and coil teeth on a variety of fabrics, dimensions, and colors (more than 6,000) for a multitude of applications from personal goods to safety applications to spacesuits - high volume, machine intensive, batch and continuous flow processes...output in the 100's of millions per year.
Sliders
Brass and zinc die-cast, 100's of SKU's, output in the billions of units per year
 
Raw Materials
Brass wire
Vertically integrated manufacturing producing 1000's of tons of special wire for in-house consumption, and export; melting, casting, drawing, annealing,  forming, and spooling finished product
 
 
Processes: Automated, Manual, Batch, Continuous Flow (see the "Process Experience" tab for illustrations of my process experience)
  • Manual and automated assembly - mechanical
  • Manual and automated assembly - electronics
  • Sheet metal component fabrication
  • Plastic injection molding
  • Packaging, including vacuum forming
  • Wire manufacture
  • Weaving (textiles)
  • Dyeing
  • Metal stamping
Organizational leadership/functions: Local, International, Plant Management, Lean, Quality, Director, VP
  • Plant Manager (including start-ups)
  • Product Manager
  • Manufacturing Launch leader
  • Quality and Lean - factory teams, global teams
  • Journeyman-level Instrument Makers
  • Engineering Manager
  • Product Development (Tech Center)
  • Supply Chain Leader (planning, purchasing, distribution, warehouse)
  • Director,  and VP - Manufacturing
  • International (as ex-pat and as worldwide team leader)