Don Smith

• The Global Sr. Tooling Manager provides direction to Injection Molding Tooling personnel, with specific focus on preventative and timely corrective maintenance, injection molds, tooling, tooling repair. Additional responsibilities include Project leadership on New Product Development collaboration with facilities in North America. • Establish and maintain strong working relationships with internal departments (Manufacturing, Field Service, Finance, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Human Resources, Planning, Product Development), and outside suppliers. • Actively participate in Capital planning and implementation, along with, New Process Development scale-up efforts. • Support the introduction of new technology. • Provide consistent and timely support to “sister facilities” to maximize the global benefit to corporate objectives.

• Increase management's effectiveness by recruiting, selecting, coaching, counseling, and disciplining managers; communicating values, strategies, and objectives; assigning accountabilities; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; developing incentives; developing a climate for offering information and opinions; providing educational opportunities. • Develop strategic plan by studying technological and financial opportunities; presenting assumptions; recommending objectives. • Accomplish objectives by establishing plans, budgets, and results measurements; allocating resources; reviewing progress; making mid-course corrections. • Coordinates efforts by establishing procurement, production, marketing, field, and technical services policies and practices; coordinating actions with staff. • Builds company image by collaborating with customers, government, community organizations, and employees; enforcing ethical business practices. • Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards. • Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies. • Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

• Senior Management responsibilities. Executive Steering committee member. Create Work Flow procedures with LEAN tools. • Project Management: Quoting, Directing and Reviewing all costs and activities in every program that include Engineering. • Create and monitor ALL Key Performance Indicators that relate to ALL aspects of this business model. • Coordinate SALES activities with Tooling Engineers • Coordinate QUOTING activities with Sales, Tooling Engineers and Engineering Staff.

• Consultation with clients on Tooling issues. • Quoting new project costs, Scheduling work flow throughout the plant, along with creating a budget, timeline, and progress reports for each tooling program. • Supervise and give direction to the Engineering staff, Programming and CNC departments.

Owner of a part-time, sole proprietary design business that supplied mold designs and the geometry of machine mold components to contract mold-makers. Consulted with product designers to insure the plastic parts could be produced efficiently and economically. (DFM)

 Advanced Moldmaking Course #302 (1985-1995): This two-semester course met two nights per week and took the third year mold apprentice into the Age of Automation and Electronics in the manufacture of molds and molding machines.  Mold Design Course (1996-2001): Authored and instructed this completely original course for TMA’s School of Design which is a CAD-based, two-year, four-semester program. Students utilize AutoCAD, CADKEY, and Mastercam software to design tooling in the classroom.

Lead Moldmaker/Mold Designer/Programmer 1975-1992 Richard O. Schulz Company – Elmwood Park, Illinois Manufactured plastic injection molds for industries such as medical and automotive.

Recruited by the Tooling and Manufacturing Association to create the Mold Design curriculum for their School of Design. Enlisted to sit on the Review Board of the National Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS) to set national standards in the mold-making industry. LEAN Black Belt