Douglas Robert Kitchen

5537 Park Avenue, Hudsonville, Mi 49426

PRODUCT ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL

CAD Design/ Product Development/ Project management/ Creative Design

A dynamic, team spirited and performance driven engineering professional with an extraordinary blend of CAD skills and manufacturing industry knowledge. Recognized for keen ability to be creative, improve component designs and decrease the need for re-engineering. Ability to communicate with team members to enhance strategic goals and objectives. Creative problem solving and troubleshooting skills complemented by creative detail to drawings and specifications.

Core Competencies

Product Improvements Creative Problem Solving Efficiency Improvements

Multi-Project Coordination Assessment/ Design/ Implementation Database Management

Highlights of Employment

Mammoth Inc – Holland, MI Contract 2/2009 to 7/2009

Product Designer

► HVAC designer for new product line family.

► Create new sheetmetal parts, copper parts and assemblies.

► Modify existing parts and assemblies per manufacturing.

► Hands on experience working with manufacturing

Bold Companies – Springlake, MI Layoff 11/2007 to 2/2009

Product Engineer

► Designed custom commercial units for various vendors – Mercedes Benz dealership reception desks,

woodwork for numerous schools, custom kitchen island.

► Transfer parts and assemblies from Pro-Engineering to Inventor.

► Assist with the creation of Bold Engineering Standards.

► Engineering Change Request’s as needed.

► LEAN Manufacturing – 5S training

Windquest – Holland, MI 11/2005 to 11/2007

Product Engineer

► Designed custom residential units for kitchen, office, pantry, closets.

► CNC programming using Weekes Woodwop software.

► Transfer Autocad drawing’s to Solidworks.

► Design and build prototypes of special units.

► Load testing for shelf units.

► Solidworks training for co-workers.

► Cosmos analysis of special designs.

► Created animated AVI files for installation purposes.

Hart and Cooley – Holland, MI 9/2004 to 11/2005

Associate Product Engineer

► Lead 3D designer on sheet metal vent products for commercial use.

► Lead CNC laser programmer for all sheet metal components.

► Assist with quotes and design layout for customers using Autocad.

► Create 3D standards of sheet metal parts using Inventor.

ODL – Zeeland,MI 11/2000 to 9/2004

Product Designer

► Lead designer of decorative insulated glass for residential housing.

► Lead designer of ODL’s Breakthrough Resistant Decorative glass units.

► Served as department liaison communicating with suppliers and vendors in China.

► Provided design and CAD support to Engineers for product development.

► Designer of new injection molded door frame.

► Performed tolerance stack up’s, design calculations and quality check’s on new products.

► Prototype development.

► Developed and enhanced Decorative Glass Engineering standards and procedures.

Education

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

Bachelor of Industrial Science – Computer Aided Design

Computer Proficiencies:

● Inventor ● Solidworks ● AutoCAD ● COSMOS Express

● Word ● Excel ● Powerpoint ● Oracle