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Enthusiastic, hardworking and goal oriented individual looking to use my passion for the outdoors along with my engineering background to find a career in the outdoor industry.

Responsible for managing all watersports product development globally including bill of material management, technical literature development, product specification development and product testing.
 
Work with the Product Management team to determine what new products will be developed.  Work with the vendors to understand the manufacturing processes to optimize product design for manufacturing.  Create and maintain bill of materials in SAP, create technical literature and create product specifications for all products so the vendors can manufacture the product with ease.  Help develop our engineering team based in China to ensure they understand the manufacturing process, engineering documentation as well as the Product Management team’s goals.

•	Working to rebuild our watersport brand in the European market.  We have conducted technical brainstorms along with consumer focus groups to determine which direction the brand needs to move in to attract and gain more customers.
•	Responsible for bringing a 10 model stand up paddle board line up to market on an accelerated time line.  A few months later additional models were added globally in the UK, Germany, Japan and Korea.
•	Headed an R&D project looking to use laminated materials to develop inflatable kayaks.  Had manufacturing problems which required trouble shooting trips to the vendor in China to determine the root cause.
•	Have worked through many personnel changes that have required me to work more closely with the sourcing team, sales team and the industrial design team.  This has helped me understand the whole product development process from paper to store shelves.
•	Attended Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show in 2013 and 2014 both as an attendee and an exhibitor.

Responsible for continually improving the assembly process for all cabs and engines built at the facility through work instruction updates, bill of material fixes, and rebalances.
 
Work with the production floor assemblers, operations managers and design engineers to continually improve the assembly process at the facility.  Update work instructions to assist the operators in assembling the cabs and engines.  Work with operations managers to meet production goals whether with manning reductions or line rebalances.

•	Responsible for reallocating manning within the assembly floor to help save the company over $500,000 dollars.
•	Responsible for rebalancing the engine production line.  Took the production line from one shift to two shifts allowing the engine line to better serve the main production of trucks.  Reduced the manning overall to help save the company $140,000.  Also reduced the amount of work in progress (WIP) helping save the company more money.
•	Involved in a corporate wide initiative to improve the documentation provided to the assembler on the line.  Instead of a 2D image or a photograph, there will be a 3D model, taken directly from the design file, from which the work instructions will be created.  This will help decrease the amount of time assemblers are taking to find important assembly information by having all important information right at the assembler’s fingertips.

Industrial Engineer

Was responsible for all Engineering Change Orders (ECO’s), new part specifications, and mechanical design work including new and updated designs and drawings.
 
Worked with Electrical Design Engineers, Production and Purchasing to ensure the units we designed were manufacturable.  Found replacements for obsolete parts and assured short lead times for new and old parts.  Was responsible for all ECO’s involving Bill of Material updates, electrical schematic updates, and mechanical CAD drawing updates.  Assisted in redesigning old mechanical parts due to poor original designs.

•	Was responsible for the design of a brand new product.  Redesigned all mechanical pieces in the company’s most recently designed product.  Was involved in vibration testing to verify the mechanical design.  The product also had a sister product that was larger and needed all mechanical parts modified to fit the larger box.
•	Was responsible for rebranding all overlays and labels the company used.

Manufacturing Engineer

Manage events including coffee and donut calls to 400 person weddings.

Reviewed contracts, including menu and customer requests, and set up, managed, and cleaned up events according to customer specifications.  Served guests and helped them with any needed assistance.  Upon completion of event, necessary paper work, including service records and event reports, were completed.  Hired, trained and scheduled the student worker staff.

Senior Catering Student Manager

Assist in design of new and repeat automated assembly machines including producing testing prototypes, assembly upgrades as well as new assembly design to meet and exceed customer expectations.

Teamed with Mechanical Design engineers to develop an assembly for a new product as well as an upgrade for a currently implemented product.  Assisted with design documentation including engineering specifications, two- and three-dimensional part files, Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing part drawings, and assure Bill of Materials accuracy.  

Assisted in the design of a new blower assembly for automated industrial water filter machine.  Built prototype and tested to assure it would meet the customers' expectations.  Produced three-dimensional part files and drawing files meeting Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing standards.

Designed upgrade for cutter assembly for automated industrial water filter machine.  Implemented in eight of the customers production machines.  Produced two-dimensiona

Mechanical Design Engineer Co-op

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Cynthia Willey: Project Engineer in Superior, CO

Cynthia Willey

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Oshkosh Corporation - Defense

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University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Aspect Automation (formerly Remmele Engineering Automation Div

University of Wisconsin-Platteville