I am deeply interested in strengthening Businesses here in the United States. I have been blessed to have acquired a rich and varied assortment of Industrial Engineering skills and Lean techniques through the years. These skills are applicable to any process from the factory floor to Health Care labs to the paperwork processes in the office that we all take for granted. I feel confident that I can help your operation to meet and exceed you productivity objectives.

I look forward to the opportunity to meet and speak with you about how I can serve you.

Relevant Work Experience

ACRO CORP Delphi Experience Contract Industrial Engineer

11/05 10/08Acro Corp Back at Delphi as Contract Sr. Industrial Engineer
relocated/consolidated 2 Modular Reservoir Assembly lines, rebalanced 4 assembly lines, maintained change management process (GES), maintained /updated routings (SAP) input new standard hour labor routings approx 1200, maintained construction task team list and coordinated work, relocated /consolidated offices for Spark Plug shut down and later MRA fab (approx 75 people), assembly & stock room relocation for site consolidation, member of site lean consolidation team to relocate & consolidate 75,000 sq ft of manufacturing and stock rooms, Indirect material crib consolidation, develop and implement new line and balance for MRA assembly, assist in equipment relocation and transportation to Mexico. Reduced 3 out of 8 janitors in adjacent plant. Manager - Cathleen.hale[at]delphi.com, 810-257-5721

LIDE INDUSTRIES Independent Consultant

1/082 week independent Consulting Job at Lide, Industries Steel storage tank manufacturing - Mexia,Texas Bobby Lide 254-562-0233
Identified 10+ minutes per tank potential savings opportunities in fabrication, material handling. Other opportunities were identified in labor measurement, workplace org & visual control, trailer assignment & scheduling and roller table fab & assembly concepts. Customer expectation was at least 1 minute per tank savings. Some ideas were partially implemented when I left.


TPT Total Productivity Team Experience Contract Consultant

9/05 11/05Worked for TPT Total Productivity Team LLC in Detroit as part of a large team of IEs sent to 13 Visteon plants to analyze Indirect activities and recommend improvements. I was part of the identification phase which lasted 8 weeks. I personally worked in 3 different plants. I performed a budget study to determine the cause of losses in the service portion of the headlight business at the Visteon Sandusky operation. I also directed other IEs at 2 other locations studying truck drivers and skilled trades. For more info see website productivityteam.com - accepted a position at Delphi through ACRO Corp. before Phase II began.

AC Spark Plug/Delphi Experience:

6/88-8/99Supervisor/Planner/Lean Leader Industrial Engineering
Supervised and Trained Industrial & Plant Engineers and designers, Conducted over 20 Theory of Constraints Workshops, Co-Facilitated w/UAW over 30 Lean Manufacturing Workshops in direct, indirect and maintenance areas, Lead Lean Implementation, Implemented cell manufacturing, Assisted Arthur Anderson in Benchmarking activities in Flint and Southampton England sites, Yearly model change planning and Lean implementation of new processes, Yearly project budgeting, planning, scheduling and implementation of major equipment and workplace alterations/installations. Maintained labor routings, Introduced cart pull system material handling to eliminate truck drivers, Continued Floor Space Planning Responsibilities, constructed 40,000 of office environment for Air Meter assembly, transformed sheet metal facilities into plastic molding facility, Removed over 80 sheet metal presses and installed twelve (12) 700 ton and ten (10) 1000 ton injection -molding machines with overhead feed systems for three different plastic code materials. We shipped plastic air cleaner assemblies that were literally still warm from the molding process!, Developed yearly headcount with management for manufacturing, indirect, maintenance, and tool rooms. Developed material handling and dock plans, warehousing layouts and planning, buffer sizes, dunnage systems, supermarket planning, delivery routes and headcount, assisted site conversion from zone to central and back to zone/plant combo maintenance over 10 year period (now on MANIS), janitor manpower plans, Olimpic System Indirect Material Implementation Team.
Product Lines air cleaners, air meters, oxygen sensors. Various visits to suppliers, machine builders, and car/truck assembly plants.

8/99-12/03 Sr. Cost Estimator
Provided Material, Labor, and Investment costs, to Finance & Marketing for Sales in response to Customer Requests. Worked with Product Engineers to understand and fine tune designs, Process Engineering to understand and fine tune process plans and assembly sequencing, Industrial Engineers to understand and fine tune labor requirements, Purchasing for costs and timing of purchased components, Finance to develop and populate cost/profit spreadsheets, and Marketing to assist in presentation development, timing and volume data. Participated on Cost Estimation process improvement team
Product Lines - air cleaners, air meters & cruise control.

Education
BSIE Purdue University
MBA University of Michigan, Flint

Additional Training Jonah Course Eli Goldratt Institute, December 1988, Value Analysis & Value
Engineering, Numerous Lean & Synchronous Mfg Workshops 1988-1998, Advanced Statistical Process Control, Value Stream Mapping, SAP-Labor Routings & Production Versions, SAP-Cost Estimating, ABC Costing, Excel, Word, AutoCAD Beginning & Intermediate (97), Material Hdlg., Supermarket, Receiving, Shipping, Line Balancing programs

Chronological Work Experience Summary

6/69-12/73Co-operative Education at Pontiac Motor Division, GMC, engine plant, car assembly (A, B & G bodies), front end sheet metal stamping. Sr. Project: Training responsibility for 750 Engine Plant employees for the 1973 Model Change.

1/74-12/2003Delphi - Formerly AC Spark Plug Division, Div GMC

1/04 9/05 Early Retirement and more Education

9/05 11/05 TPT Total Productivity Team Experience IE Consulting

11/05-8/08 Acro Corp on Contract to Delphi as Industrial Engineer

1/082 week Consulting experience at Lide Industries Storage Tank Manufacturing

7/08Decided to pursue permanent full time employment.

Other AC Spark Plug/Delphi Work Experience Detail

1/74-6/77Production Supervisor Misc. Speedometer and Instrument Cluster lines and Service packaging 1st and 2nd shifts

6/77-3/83Industrial Engineer Area Engineering responsibilities
Time Studies, Work Sampling, Downtime Studies, Assembly Line Development in the Methods Laboratory, Co-developed Training Plan for new IEs
Product Lines mech. & elec. fuel pumps, instrument clusters, oil filters.
Major Processes Soldering, heat treat, metal stamping, magneform, rubber diaphragm curing, automatic screw machining, tube bending, crimping, light assembly processes, degaussing calibration, powder painting, infra-red curing ovens.
Start-up Liaison for Arlington Car Assembly plant

3/83-6/88Manufacturing Planning Administrator
Responsible for 450,000 sq ft of floorspace planning, coordinating and implementing Plant Layouts. Planned the transformation of a sheet metal air cleaner transition to plastic design and followed through to implementation. Planned ramp up of air meter production into the same plant.
Product Lines oil, air & fuel filters, air cleaners, and air meters.
Major Processes 10 to 700 ton stamping presses, overhead power-&-free material hdlg, acid dip & wash, Electro-cote painting, welding, circuit board assembly, laser trim calibration, 100 to 1000 ton injection mold machines, assembly robots, light assembly processes, material handling and receiving/shipping dock processes.
Various visits to suppliers, machine builders, and car/truck assembly plants.

Early Retirement & More Education

1/04 10/05Accepted an early retirement offer. Decided to go back to school to get my teaching certification and teach Jr. High math and science. Attended classes full time at Mott Community College and Eastern Michigan University. I attended evening classes through Dec 06.
71 cr. hrs. completed toward Math and Integrated Science (DI) certification at Eastern Michigan U & Mott Community College 3.97GPA at EMU, 4.0 GPA at Mott. 2004-7

9/04 12/04Volunteered every Friday at Civic Park Elementary located in Flint, Michigan. I spent 3 hours in a 5th & 6th grade math classroom and 3 hours in a 5th & 6th grade science classroom. Answered questions, assisted students with their work, graded papers and helped the teachers in any way I could. Taught a lesson and facilitated an assessment as part of my Eastern Michigan responsibility.

1/05 6/05Substitute Teacher in Fenton and Flint Area schools while attending evening classes at EMU.

6/05 12/06Attended summer classes and continued evening classes at EMU & Mott Community College through 12/06.