Technical Supervisor/Mechanical Engineer

Posted on: 2006-11-14

Tristen M. Dannemiller 3316 Cabo Court La Costa, CA 92009 Email: [email protected] Messages: 760-436-4574 Home: 760-944-3998 PROJECT MANAGER/MECHANICAL ENGINEER/MARKETING/CAD DRAFTER Capital Equipment/Business Expansion Proven background at assessing corporate needs, planning for the future, and providing critical and on-going input towards organizational growth. Strong motivator, with excellent analytical and evaluation skills, and quick to absorb, adapt and act upon new concepts, strategies and business ideas. A thorough, well-organized planner and dependable problem solver who is innovative and communicates effectively in cross-cultural, cross-functional environments. Provides creativity and energy to build the best products and services for today's fast-paced competitive environments. KEY BUSINESS EXPERIENCE * New Product Development * Design Engineering * Microsoft Project * Microsoft Office * Materials Management * New Account Sales * Budgets/Planning * Production Planning * Direct Sales * Project Management * Total Quality Management * Territory Development * Market Research/Analysis * Six Sigma * Major Account Maintenance * Strategic Alliances * Lean Manufacturing * Sales Promotion * Process Development * Sales Assistance * Product Re-engineering * Customer Relations * New Equipment Design CAREER HIGHLIGHTS * Designed, patented, built, and sold a market-oriented kayak accessory device and built a company around the product. * Converted, on time and within budget, over 50 Japanese customer specials which saved millions a month in scrap costs. * Designed the accepted effective robot shipping fixture with a 500% materials savings from the other fixture and added $.25 cost to each $l million machine. * Faced with a $20 million production halt due to a defective part, successfully found the root cause of the problem. * Voted one of the best landscape designers in San Diego County and increased annual revenue by 300%. * Created the #1 women's fitness Spa in San Diego county and increased monthly revenue by 168%. EDUCATION BS Degree, Mechanical Engineering University of California - Berkeley, CA Project Management Certificate (May 2006) University of California - San Diego, CA Marketing Certificate (May 2006) University of California - San Diego, CA Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME) Member of the National Society for the Self Employed (NASE) Certified Children's Literature Writer 1994 Certified Nutritionist for APEX Company 2003 Certified and Practicing Catholic School of Religion Catechist Camp Fire Kids of America Leader Encinitas Educational Foundation President Toastmaster EMPLOYMENT/BACKGROUND Entrepreneur ToteGear – Carlsbad, CA 2006 Market researches, designs, patents, markets, sells, builds, and distributes kayak accessory gear. Created a start up partnership to market, patent, sell, build, and distribute a new kayaking device called RoRows to be used in the marine environment and help the paddler paddle more easily with fewer repetitive stress injuries and with more powerful strokes. Entrepreneur Elite Fitness Spas for Women - Carlsbad, CA 2002 - 2004 Provides group and individual fitness, personal training, pilates, yoga, Nia, body pump, kick boxing and bag training, cycling, massage, APEX nutrition, spa, sportswear, steam room, and babysitting services. Directly supervised and advised 4 managers about interacting with people and new business strategies, helped develop a competitive Pilates Studio and program, expanded group fitness capabilities of the facilities by creating a larger sound-proof precision bicycling room, and a second group fitness room for yoga and smaller classes, supplied funding from loans, helped make a commercial, kept in constant contact with clients needs and wants. Expansion budget was $350,000. Grew membership from 1100 to 1800 members in 2 years. Entrepreneur Allure Landscape Design - La Costa, CA 1998 - Present A business that provides landscape design and landscape contractor referrals. Responsible for the development, marketing and designing unique landscapes for over 60 clients. Voted one of the "Best Landscape Designer of San Diego" in 2002. Engineering Consultant AG Associates, Inc. - San Jose, CA 1995 - 1996 Semiconductor capital equipment manufacturing company. Reviewed the new gas delivery system designs to make sure that they suggested superior workmanship, maintained ultra clean delivery, and cost the least amount of money to manufacture. Solved an Intel safety issue with some pneumatic valves in the gas delivery system. Mechanical Design Engineer III Technical Supervisor Mechanical Design Engineer II Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer I & II Applied Materials, Inc. - Santa Clara, CA 1986 - 1993 Semiconductor capital equipment manufacturing company which grew from $140 Million to $2 billion during my employment there. The best quality, cutting edge technology, largest, most competitive company of its type. Supervised 7 temporary engineers, CAD designers, and 2 Japanese national engineers; and completed project on time and within the $1 Million budget. The purpose of this project was to convert our Japanese subsidiary's customer specials that were installed in Japan into standard options that were installed in Santa Clara. This reduced scrap costs in Japan by the millions. It also was an international relations campaign, since at that time American engineering was thought much inferior to Japanese engineering---the Japanese thought that we couldn't do it and were in disbelief that it was done on time, within budget, with superior quality, and by a woman! Also the Applied Materials Quality Gold Award recipient that year. Medical Assistant Medical Accountant Dr. Ralph B. Billerbeck - Carmichael, CA 1980 - 1986 Private medical practice of general medicine and surgery. KEY WORDS FOR SCANNING strategic planning, business planning, contract negotiation, critical issue prioritization, international/cross-cultural environments, budget planning and control, cost reduction, department direction, department communication, employee assessment, employee development, employee management, client relations, risk management, productivity increase, operational restructuring, cost control, cost reduction, inventory/vendor control, production/capacity scheduling, increase sales, corporate visibility, promotion, advertising, direct sales, solicitations, long range marketing strategies, contract negotiations, customer services, self starter, self motivated, self reliant, highly analytical, logical thinker, adaptable, resourceful, work well under pressure, creative, good communicator, organized, detailed, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow specialist, financial analysis, cash accounting, P&L responsibility,