Christopher B. Knaus

Objective

To obtain a Project Management position that utilizes my diverse technical, organizational, managerial, and communication skills as well as challenges my abilities, bringing credentials and strengths in the areas of Project Management (Conceptual to Implementation), Product Designs, Budget Management, Procedural Documentation Development, and Proposal Review.

Experience

2000 - 2005 OTSCON, Incorporated Columbia, MO

Industrial Engineering Project Manager

New Model Research and Development for HONDA and TOYOTA programs. Manage full life cycle development from Discovery through Delivery, including writing specifications, project oversight, milestone reporting, and resource allocation. Managed concurrent projects while ensuring they were delivered on time. Projects ranged from 1 to 11 at the same time, depending upon size and scope with budgets from $500,000 to $2.5 million.

Advanced Product Quality Planning And Control (APQP) for New Program Model Development & Implementation.

Gathered supplier and customer design requirements, reliability and quality requirements, preliminary marker layouts, and process flow charts. Develop specifications including change implementation; determine new equipment, tooling, facility, gauge, and testing equipment requirements.

Documenting tooling requirements, manufacturing and equipment costs, provide cost analysis of customer and supplier quotations, negotiation of customer and supplier component and tooling costs.

Managed production trial runs, measurement systems evaluations, product part approval (PPAP), product validation testing (PV), packaging trials, and product control plans (PQCT).
Complete, maintain and improve design records, change documents and give approval for acceptance, use and control of design records and child parts.

Complete, maintain and improve design failure mode effects analysis (DFMEA), process flow diagrams, process failure mode effects analysis (PFMEA), equipment check sheets, and job instruction sheets.

Manage development, approval, maintenance and updating of control plans and appearance approval reports.
Manage and facilitate the implementation of design changes as a team leader of Kaizen Activities.

1999 - 2000 OTSCON, Incorporated Columbia, MO

Quality Assurance Engineer

Consulted with suppliers on manufacturing process issues
Safety committee team member
Root Cause Analysis, 5D, 8Y
Problem Solving Summit Nissan
SQC audits


Education

1995 - 1999 Central Methodist College Fayette, MO
B.S., Biological Sciences
Minor, Chemistry
GPA 3.4

Certifications

CMM & FARO Certified, 2000-Present
AutoCAD R14-2004 certified, 2000-Present
Internal Auditor QS 9000 & ISO 9001, 2002-Present

Skills Inventory

Project Management, New Product Design/Production, Testing, Training, Documentation, Requirements Gathering.

Technical Inventory

Windows 95/98/2000/XP, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD and MS Internet Explorer.
Basic HTML. CMM.

Professional References: Available upon request

chrisknaus@hotmail.com
1508 Sylvan Lane #511 Columbia, missouri 65202
Phone 573.356.8485