Ronald Simmons

Current

• Senior Production Group Leader, (Truck Paint) at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI)

Past

• Senior Paint Process Engineer at New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI)
• Production Group Leader (Passenger paint) at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI)
• Passenger Paint Process Engineer (contract) at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI)

• Manufacturing Development Engineer at Lam Research
• Manufacturing Engineer at Curtis Instruments
• Manufacturing Engineer at AG associates Inc.
• Manufacturing Engineer 2 at Lam Research
• Manufacturing Engineer at Silicon Valley Group
• Auto refinisher - hobbyist at Custom autobody and paint

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Education

• San Jose State University

Connections

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Industry

Automotive

Ronald Simmons’s Experience

• Senior Production Group Leader, (Truck Paint)

  New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI)

  (Privately Held; Automotive industry)

  September 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Responsible for offline paint repair (preassembly), cavity wax application, paint repair (finished vehicle) for the Toyota Tacoma truck.. Lead, motivate unionized work group to be efficient, and produce exceptional paint repair per Toyota top coat standards

• Senior Paint Process Engineer

  New United Motor Manufacturing (NUMMI)

  (Privately Held; Automotive industry)

  January 2006 — September 2009 (3 years 9 months)

  - Engineering support for NUMMI's truck paint shop line.
  - Responsible for introducing new ergonomic hood assist jig to production line to reduce safety concerns.
  - Implement new Ultrafiltration system in the ED phosphate line.
  - Implement new metal separation equipment to reduce ecoat DPU.
  - Implement new polishing system to reduce offline repair time and increase quality.

• Production Group Leader (Passenger paint)

  New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI)

  (Privately Held; Automotive industry)

  2004 — 2006 (2 years )

  Manage unionized Team members in Phosphate Ecoat process.
  Address system quality issues.
  Manage other areas of paint shop

• Passenger Paint Process Engineer (contract)

  New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI)

  (Privately Held; Automotive industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years )

  Responsible for Introduction of paint jigs into production. Engineering support to production floor.
  -Designed paint jig that addressed 4 known paint defects
  - Line support for various processes within paint shop

• Manufacturing Development Engineer

  Lam Research

  (Public Company; LRCX; Semiconductors industry)

  January 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 9 months)

  New product introduction of Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) equipment to Lean manufacturing lines.
  Update drawings and bill of materials through engineering change orders (ECO)
  Line support to manufacturing floor.

• Manufacturing Engineer

  Curtis Instruments

  (Privately Held; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  Manufacturing Engineer for sub assembly, final assembly and test for Speed controllers for the electric vehicle industry.
  Responsible for addressing PCBA issues with suppliers.
  Implement Demand Flow Technology (DFT) pull system

• Manufacturing Engineer

  AG associates Inc.

  (Semiconductors industry)

  1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

  Responsible for documentation of Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) wafer processing equipment.
  Generation of Engineering Change Order (ECOs)

• Manufacturing Engineer 2

  Lam Research

  (Public Company; LRCX; Semiconductors industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years )

  - Support all sub system assembly cells for Lam's semiconductor capital equipment.
  - Write and incorporate ECO's and BOM's
  - Provide training courses to improve quality and repeatability.
  -Create sequence of events (soe), and operational method sheets (OMS)

• Manufacturing Engineer

  Silicon Valley Group

  (Public Company; Semiconductors industry)

  1992 — 1995 (3 years )

  Implement Demand Flow Technology pull system to manufacturing floor.
  Document system builds of SVG's Track System 90S Wafer processing equipment

• Auto refinisher - hobbyist

  Custom autobody and paint

  (Alternative Medicine industry)

  1984 — 1995 (11 years )

  - perform custom topcoat paint on automobile, motorcycles, and surfboards.
  - knowledgeable in solvent and waterborne paints.Candy, mica, enamel, acrylic urethane, acrylic lacquer, and synthetic enamels.
  - mild body modifications.
  - body repair and paint on Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW, Lola, McLaren, Morgan, Lexas. Porsche,muscle cars.
  - shop tool experience- mig welding, all pneumatic and body tools.

Ronald Simmons’s Education

• San Jose State University

  BS , Industrial Technology , 1985 — 1991

  Activities and Societies:

  Society of Plastics engineers
  Division of Technology Student Association (DOTSA)
  Toyota Production System training
  Demand Flow Technology (DFT) training

Additional Information

Ronald Simmons’s Interests:

Surfing - longboard and shortboard Biking- road and mountain Swimming Triathlons

Ronald Simmons’s Groups:

•    TPS - Toyota Production System
•    Toyota Production System Network
•    Electric Vehicle
•    Manufacturing Effectiveness - Excellence is not a skill. It's an attitude.

Ronald Simmons’s Contact Settings

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• expertise requests
• business deals
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