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