1. Christopher L Fleece
2648 Stonington Ave
Grove City, OH 43123
Phone: 614.735.6882 email: chris.fleece@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE: Mechanical engineering professional looking to lead a team in design, research and
development. Value driven, detail oriented team player with a high level of determination to
succeed and utilize the strengths of the team to accomplish the goal. Will use experience from
building teams, design, stage-gate process, and conducting training to complete projects on time.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Customer Service Lean cont’d
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Analyzed fatigue failures to determine Established Standard Work for CAD
root cause for customers creation and file storage
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Conducted product training Implemented $125,000/yr savings
• consistently
Established Value Pricing for customers
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• Participated in Kaizen events
Handled over 10,000 technical calls
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• Question Why for Improvement-Why?
Provided on-site customer support and
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training Reduced setup time by 30min by
• implementing Quick Changeover.
Updated catalog & databases
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• Value Stream mapping involvement
Used Disney Standards of excellence in
customer treatment
Management
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Design CAD Champion for the division: includes
• training and installation of software
Created Technical Data Sheets
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• Idea manager for new products in
Designed tests and wrote reports
Winovation (Stage Gate Process)
• Developed fluid line able to account for
• Managed the co-op program (hired and
thermal expansion in a system
budgeted $0.25 million dollars)
• FMEA experience (Design and Process)
• Improved current product designs by
Software
reducing cost by 84%
• Accolade Stage Gate Software
• Launched 1st Fuel Cell product-line using
• Ansys (10-11, FEA)
Stage-Gate process in 2006
• Autodesk AutoCAD & Inventor (2009)
• Participated in Fuel Cell Conferences
• HTML (maintained internal intranet)
• Reduced prototyping expenses by 1/3 by
• Matrix One and IntraLink (file storage)
relying on 3D prototyping process for fit
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and function tests (tooling & components) Microsoft (Access, Excel, Office,
• Outlook, PowerPoint, Project and Visio)
Released a patent and another is pending
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• Photo rendering (Adobe Photoshop)
Used ANSI, ASME, DIN, ISO, and SAE
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standards and codes PTC ProEngineer (R15-Wildfire III)
• PTC Mechanica (FEA)
Lean
• Enforced 5S + Safety by conducting
audits. Increased score from 33% to 87%
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2. Christopher L Fleece
2648 Stonington Ave
Grove City, OH 43123
Phone: 614.735.6882 email: chris.fleece@gmail.com
JOB EXPERIENCE
PARKER HANNIFIN CORP. TUBE FITTINGS DIV. Columbus, Ohio
Product Engineer 1999-2009
Support Engineer 1999-1999
Drafter 1996-1998
SENSOTEC INC. Columbus, Ohio 1995
Assembly and Testing Technician
Duties included electronic gauge assembly and pressure testing at various temperatures.
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE. Columbus, Ohio 1993-1995
Loader and Sorter
Began as a parcel loader and advanced to an automated sorter.
CONTINUED EDUCATION
FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY Columbus, Ohio 1996-1999
Completed a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering
COLUMBUS STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Columbus, Ohio 1993-1995
AAS in Mechanical Engineering Technology
Participated in Sunrayce 95’ Solar race car team by helping design, build and race the vehicle.
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Columbus, Ohio 1991-1993
Completed mathematics and other fundamental courses.
ACTIVITIES and AWARDS
• Coached/coaching k, 4th, 5th and 6th grade basketball teams
• Earned Eagle Scout award through Boy Scouts of America
• Graduated Dale Carnegie and participated as an Assistant Trainer
• Husband and Father for family of 5
• Member of Pickerington Band Boosters to help with fundraising and support
• Volunteer for multiple church activities including:
o Helping improve communities
o Leading small group Bible Studies
o Teaching Sunday School for age groups 11 and below
