Gary V. Canova
Industrial Engineer/Consultant
500 El Camino Real #107
Burlingame, CA 94010-5147
(650) 347-0886
Dear Hiring Manager:
Please accept this letter and my enclose resume as my application for an Industrial Engineer Position. I am also available to establish engineered time standards and to perform other industrial engineering functions on a consulting basis.
My successful work measurement oriented industrial engineering experience is focused primarily in the following areas: establishing engineered labor standards using Methods-Time-Measurement (MTM-1, MTM-2, MTM-3, MTM-UAS) and time study; production line balancing, use of MTM to establish and improve work station efficiency, cost reduction, methods improvement, evaluation and justification of capital equipment purchases, productivity analysis and tracking, work flow analysis, capacity analysis and manufacturing and facilities support.
At the former G.E. Calma, Milpitas, I presented an accepted creative plan of methods improvements whereby throughput hours for one of Calma’s primary family of products could be reduced at the ratio of 3.9 hours to 1.
I am a certified and updated practitioner (Blue Card holder) in Methods-Time-Measurement (MTM-1, MTM-2, MTM-3, MTM-UAS).
My references are excellent and contain the names of five Registered Professional Industrial Engineers (P.E.’s)
I would appreciate an interview opportunity and employment consideration.
Sincerely,
Gary V. Canova
Gary V. Canova
Industrial Engineer/Consultant
500 El Camino Real #107
Burlingame, CA 94010-5147
(650) 347-0886
OBJECTIVE:
To obtain an industrial engineering position where I may assist management to improve profits and reduce operating costs by establishing engineering performance standards and improving production methods.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:
* Certified and updated practitioner (Blue Card holder) in Methods-Time-Measurement (MTM-1, MTM-2, MTM-3 & MTM-UAS).
* Certified practitioner in Modular Arrangement of Predetermined Time Standards (MODAPTS).
* Certified practitioner in UnivAtion, proprietary predetermined time standards system.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
Extensive work measurement oriented industrial engineering experience concentrated in establishing engineered assembly time standards using Methods-Time-Measurement (MTM) and time study, including extensive printed circuit board, cable harness, electromechanical and office work measurement applications. Additional concentrated experience has been focused in the following areas: methods improvement, cost reduction, cost analysis, evaluation and justification of proposed capital equipment purchases, capacity analysis, line balancing, productive analysis & tracking, workflow analysis, and manufacturing and facilities support.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
* Conceived and initiated methods improvements in Calma production line resulting in reduction of throughput hours at the ratio of 3.9 hours to 1.
* Established over 600 MTM and time study engineered assembly time standards for printed circuit board and electromechanical assembly at Diablo Systems Division of Xerox Corporation.
* Balanced Atari printed circuit board assembly line using MTM-1. Established engineered assembly time standards for essentially every product manufactured at Atari's Consumer Electronics Division during the time of my employment.
* Author of extensive MTM assembly time standard database for printed circuit board and electromechanical assembly. This data base, containing over 485 MTM standard data elements has been published, commercially marked and sold by the Royal J. Dossett Corporation, Excelsior, Minnesota.
* Established over 285 MTM-1 time standards for Army Language School (Monterey) Print Shop processing tools, including standards for eighteen operations in lithography (cameras, platemakers, and layout table), presses, and bindery (paper cutter, paper stitchers, drill, collators and folder). Represented Charles H. Olson, P.E., Owner of South Bay Area industrial engineering management consulting firm, furthermore, by establishing large MTM database.
* Established MTM assembly time standards during three management-consulting projects at H D C, Milpitas, a medical device manufacturing firm. Established time standards for 10 surgical devices, requiring a total of twenty separate standards submitted with methods improvement suggestions for each device.
* Participated in the systematic documentation of all production, research & development, and quality control tools by assisting in identification, photographing and numerical labeling of these tools during separate H D C management consulting project.
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* Established over 200 MTM-UAS engineered time standards for printed circuit board, cable harness, and other electromechanical assembly pursuant to the requirements of MIL-STD 1567A at the former Dalmo Victor Corporation, Belmont.
* Established system of MTM time standards for Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies Headquarters. Office for Policy typing and Policy Records Nationwide Departments. This project consisted of 360 individual standards for 120 separate lines of business. Conducted studies resulting in the selection of color-coded (tab Products) system for several office conversions. Potential savings of these project was estimated by management at $2,000,000.
* Represented Donald J. Knapp, P.E., and associates, Management Consultants, San Antonio, Texas, on numerous occasions: Conducted feasibility study in San Francisco Headquarters offices of Charles Schwab & Co., the stock brokerage firm, participated in implementation project in New York City offices of DHL, the express courier delivery company, and participated in Lockheed-Martin warehouse survey project.
* Established MTM pre-production assembly time standards for new products at the former Schlage Lock, San Francisco. Established MTM time standards and recommended methods improvements for fuse assembly line at Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park.
* Evaluated potential purchase of capital equipment for the former companies Crocker National Bank, Diablo Systems/Xerox, and Atari Corporation.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Self-Employed Industrial Engineer/Consultant, Burlingame, CA 7/1984 to present
Temporary Senior Industrial Engineer, Dalmo, Victor Belmont, CA 1/1989 to 9/1989
Industrial Engineer/Manufacturing Support, G.E. Calma Company, Milpitas, CA 5/1984 to 10/1984
Self Employed Industrial Engineer/Consultant, Burlingame, CA 1/1983 to 6/1984
Senior Industrial Engineer, Atari Incorporated, Sunnyvale, CA 2/1981 to 2/1983
Industrial Engineer, Diablo Systems Division of Xerox Corporation, Hayward, CA 6/1978 to 2/1981
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EDUCATION:
University of Oregon: Eugene, Oregon: Bachelor of Science Degree.
University of Washington Graduate School: Seattle, Washington: Graduate Student two years.
University of California Extension: San Francisco: Numerous seminars: Effective Leadership Styles, Creative Problem Solving, Job Enrichment, Work Simplification Through Creative Thinking, and Correspondence Writing Workshop.
Gary V. Canova
Industrial Engineer/Consultant
500 El Camino Real #107
Burlingame, CA 94010-5147
(650) 347-0886
ADDENDUM TO RESUME
Industrial Engineer/Consultant: HDC CORPORATION (A Medical Device Manufacturing Firm)
November 1998--January 2001.
At the conclusion of my first assignment with this company, the Chief
Operations Officer volunteered the use of him name as a professional reference.
Established engineered MTM assembly time (production) standards for single and double lumen catheters. On separate projects, established MTM assembly time standards for neuro-trace needles, 14 assembly time standards for 7 chemo-port assemblies.
Documented assembly drawing Part Description Blocks using Bills of Materials to add and/or correct part names and numbers. Used Material Bills to update and revise dash numbers, and add new parts to graphic portion of drawings, and assure accuracy of complete drawing as presented.
Participated in the systematic documentation of all production, R&D, and QC tools by assisting in the identification, photographing, numerical labeling, and listing of these tools.
Performed "first article inspections” for materials received from vendors to assure that a random sample of these materials had been manufactured within fabrication drawing specifications and tolerances. Tools used to
perform these measurements included microscope, calipers, calibrated scales, and Vermont Gages.
For each of the engineered assembly time standards projects numerous
feasible methods improvement, labor saving, and energy savings suggestions were submitted.
Some Uses of Predetermined Time Standards
Organizations interested in optimizing and reducing costs through better methods have found some important uses for predetermined time standards. Some of the uses of predetermined time standards are as follows:
* Standard product costing and cost estimates
* Productivity measurement
* Staffing requirements
* Equipment selection
* Methods improvement
* Development of effective methods in advance of production
* Operator training
Standard product costing and cost estimates
A significant portion of the cost of a product is the cost of the labor required to manufacture it. Predetermined time standards will provide an acturate measurement of the man hours required to manufacture a product. After applying the appropriate labor rates, overhead, and burden, management will be able to establish an accurate price for the product.
Productivity measurement
Time standards may be used to determine the productive effectiveness (or efficiency) of the operating personnel, either on an individual or group basis. In this instance, they may be used to determine an answer to the question: "Is management receiving a fair days work for a fair days pay?" This is the question which time standards are best in a position to answer bec8use time standards have the best position to define a package containing a fair days amount of work in the first place.
Staffing requirements
A full compliment of up to date time standards will enable a company to maintain optimum staffing levels. Optimum staffing for a given operation is obtained by multiplying the time standard for that task by the actual or anticipated volume, then dividing by the number of working minutes in a day. The number thus obtained is the optimum or "indicated" staff. A determination of "efficiency" or "productive effectiveness" can be obtained by dividing this number of people actually on staff doing this specific job.
Equipment selection
The selection of effective and economical equipment is a very important function of modern management. Predetermined time standards, and the ability to apply predetermined elemental times assist an engineer in arriving at the proper choice of equipment. Usual~, several different models and kinds of machines are available for choice, and some require more hand manipulation than others because of the particular location of leavers, buttons, dials and the like From the operators point-of-view, predetermined time standards data will enable the engineer to determine machine is the most economical and efficient to use.
Methods Improvement
The same kind of microscopic motion analysis which is employed when observing an
operation for establishing time standards, enables the engineer to readily identify methods improvement opportunities. Identifying methods improvements is part of the explicit training of a certified Methods-Time-Measurement (MTM) practitioner. These potential improvements may take the form of identifying a mis-sequence of operations, operations which would best be done off of the main assembly line, or operators who use manual motions during their work which either “retard” production or which "do not accomplish." When a methods project has been finalized, predetermined time standards may be used to quantify the savings, to explicitly dramatize the cost savings realized by implementing "Plan B" in place of "Plan A."
Develop Effective Methods in Advance of Beginning Production
Predetermined time standards may be used by management to determine which method
should be used to attain the least cost and the highest production per unit of time. With predetermined times established for the various motions required to perform a task, the comparing of one method with another becomes relatively easy, even before the job is placed in production. By visualizing the moments necessary to perform the operation, the industrial engineer can effectively determine the best workplace layout, determine the type and position of the tools, and develop an instruction sheet for training the operator in the best method.
Operator training
Job training documentation can be obtained directly from the elemental time standards motion sheet. While learning his job, the operator can become familiar .nth the most efficient manual motion pattern required to perform it.
Other
Predetermined time standards may also be used in line balancing, "make or buy” determinations, estimates, scheduling, and supervisor training.
The above are taken from Maynard, Industrial/Engineering Handbook
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