• Integrated manufacturing into the design process and allowed for quick change-over magnetic platens and roller system. This helped get reduced mold-changes from 30 minutes to as little as 5 minutes.
• Helped incorporate a print review system that allowed engineers and designers to report on progress of programs. Incorporated and designed input and output for initiating and launching programs, resulting in teams decreasing development lead times to as little as six weeks on complex assemblies.
• Rescued Toyota, Subaru, and Lear accounts by incorporating customer focused program managers that exceeded customer expectations through cost, quality and delivery.
• Established a standard quoting system with Toyota resulting in decreased quoting lead times to 72 hours for complex assemblies.

• Initiated and capitalized on first offshore tooling program consisting of 40 tools for Mercedes. Coor-dinated efforts among a team of project, tooling, and gauge engineers; German and domestic customers; designers; toolshops; Canadian texture shops; and production facility in Mexico. Effort increased profit margins approximately 30% over the life of the program and produced the largest profit margins in history of company.
• Developed a system to help staff appropriate personnel for program milestones that took into account history of past development, and applied that to current programs. Also allowed for predictions of staffing needed for future programs based on program lead times, number of complex assemblies, tools, and cus-tomers.
• Launched first two-shot tambered door resulting in a decrease of tooling by $70000 and piece price re-duction of 30%.
• Developed monthly evaluation method to give employees constant feedback and increase moral as well as being customer focused to allow us to exceed customer expectations.

• Helped conceive a standards system that recorded the best practices of design and manufacturing for au-tomotive air registers. Standards were implemented into the print review system to allow reviews for com-pliance on new programs.
• Launched first two-shot component in register assembly to increase air shut-off capabilities and at the same time decreasing tooling costs by $50000.
• Pioneered and implemented two million dollars of cost saving ideas to achieve a profit margin of twenty percent, from an original five percent, over life of Saturn 2000 program.
• Reestablished Delphi account by showing multiple prompt deliveries and improved quality. Resulted in being awarded next larger program as well.