Ronald Jacques Plastics Experience Profile 2015

RONALD R. JACQUES
Johnston, RI 02919
Lean / Six Sigma, Operations, Engineering, Cell: 401-439-6939
Supply Chain Management and E-Mail: jacquesrt@cox.net
Value Creation/Profit Realization Professional http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronaldjacques
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Plastics/Polymers/Composites Personal Profile
Processing Experience: - Profile Extrusion (13 years), Piggy Back / Multiple Conductor Co-Extrusion and Laminating
(9 years), Injection Molding (15 years), Vacuum Molding / Thermoforming and Pressure Molding (8 years), Pre-Molding
(2 years), Insert Molding (2 years), Over Molding (2 years), Rotational Molding (2 years), Sheet Extrusion (8 years),
Rubber Processing (2 years)
Composite Experience: - Wet Lay-Up using fiberglass/resin, quartz, graphite and Kevlar®, along with matrices
such as polyester, epoxies and cyanate ester. Experience with core materials such as honeycomb and foams
(e.g., polyisocyanate and thermo-formable cores). “Prepreg” forming experience utilizing vacuum assist and/or
autoclaving while using highly developed composite materials (i.e., sophisticated cloth weaves, resins and
foams). Experience using hydrophobic laminates such as Tedlar (Dupont) to form complex geodesic, spherical &
doubly-curved polygonal panels.
Equipment Experience: - Injection Molding - Van Dorn / Demag (40 to 130 Tons), Cincinnati Milacron (70 to 330
Ton Electric and Hydraulic), TrueBlood (30 Ton), Sumitomo (35 ton), Multi-Plas (30 to 55 Ton), Autojector (20-35 Ton),
Mini-jector (7-10 Ton), Arburg (10-20 ton), T.T.Boy (10 to 30 Ton), Newbury (10 to 70 ton), Klockner Desma
Ferromatik (1,300 Ton) – Vacuum Forming - Brown 3 Station Rotary, Triple A 3 Station Rotary, Comet 3 Station
Rotary and 2 Station Shuttle - Plastic Extrusion - Davis Standard, Maillefer – Rubber Processing - Banbury and others.
Materials Processed: - Medical / Ophthalmic grade Polycarbonate (GE/SABIC Lexan & BAYER Makrolon),
Polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE, UHMWPE), Polypropylene (PP), Nylons (Polyamides / Polyimides), PVC, TPE, TPU,
TPR, FEP, PTFE, ePTFE, ABS, ABS-Polycarbonate, Silicones, Foamed, Filled and Cross-linked Engineered Polymers,
Butyls, Neoprenes and others.
Ancillary Equipment: - Plastic grinding/size reduction (Ball & Jewell, Cumberland), robotics (Yushin America),
Vision Systems (Cognex), Dust Collectors, Desiccant based Dryers, Thermal Controllers and a host of other
process/product specific equipment.
Special Environments:
• Medical Ophthalmic Molding within a Class 10,000 Clean Room Environment
Special Education/Training:
• Paulson Training for Injection Molding
Special Certifications:
• ISO 13485 (FDA-21-CFR-820)
• ISO 9001
• ISO 14001
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• TS 16949
• AS 9100
• MIL-SPEC
RONALD R. JACQUES
Johnston, RI 02919
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Relevant Plastics Employment:
American Insulated Wire Corporation
Industrial/Process Engineer – Plastic Extrusion
Staff Position
Annual Revenue - $150 MM
Responsibilities: Provide process engineering, manufacturing standards, tooling support, and cellular plant layouts to support over
1.5 Million Sq. Ft. of plant workspace within 3 separate and distinct manufacturing sites. Perform new equipment specification, IQ,
OQ and PQ for new capital equipment to support high speed profile extrusion of wire and cable products. Work with outside tooling
companies to alleviate problems with extrusion tooling and design/implement and maintain ISO related documentation of all extruded
products.
Samsonite - American Tourister
Plant Operations Manager / Components Manager – Molded & Plastic Products
Facilities and Manufacturing Engineering Manager
Employees Managed = 50 – 300 Depending on Season
Annual Sales = $140 MM
Responsibilities: Provide overall leadership to 20+ hourly/exempt associates in the daily operations of 5 three station rotary
vacuum forming machines, 1 continuous sheet extrusion operation, 3 profile extrusion lines and 4 injection molding machines to
support the assembly of over 1,500 units of luggage per day by more than 100-300 additional hourly associates. Vacuum forming
operations provided ABS based luggage shells with proprietary molded in corner reinforcement technology and industry first vacuum
formed undercut molded shells in quantities from 1 to 10 units per cycle. These vacuum formers utilized plastic sheet generated by an
in-house continuous extrusion process supplying laminated and color infused sheet in gauges from .050” to .250” and outside
dimensions up to 6 ft. x 15 ft. in length. Profile extrusion produced PVC, Polypropylene and Nylon based extrusions used as trim parts
on the associated luggage products. The injection molding department provided in-house demand based molding of luggage handles,
trim parts, structural elements and accessories used in the assembly process. These parts utilized many filled and reinforced plastics to
achieve their characteristics. In addition to this plastic specific management this position also provided leadership for all materials
management, warehousing, distribution, facilities maintenance and equipment maintenance to support this 150,000 sq. ft. molding and
production assembly facility.
Samsonite - American Tourister
Plant Manager – Carlton International, Plc. – London, England
Employees Managed = 50
Challenge: Personally selected by Senior VP of Operations to serve as liaison to industrial marketing partner and Plant
Manager for a new international mfg. facility start-up in London, England. This new plant start-up involved the commissioning
of a 1,300 Ton dual carriage Klochner Desma Ferromattik injection molding unit and its related robotic equipment that
supported and ultimately achieved a 30X increase in overall throughput and a 60X increase in overall productivity. All injection
molding related processes and assembly goals were accomplished in less than eight weeks and represented physical savings in
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excess of $1 MM dollars to the marketing partner through reduction of labor, scrap material, wasted utilities and a host of other
financial drains related to this plant being off-line. This turn-around also eliminated the potential loss of customer revenue by
Samsonite/American Tourister worth over $20 MM dollars that were tied to this operation coming on-line within a pre-specified
deadline.
RONALD R. JACQUES
Johnston, RI 02919
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Alexander Doll Company
Manufacturing Operations / Warehouse Manager
Responsibilities: Manage all in-house rotational molding to support the production of body parts related to the construction of
collectible baby dolls and out of house contract injection molding related to the assembly of 8” and larger shelf bound collectible
dolls. The rotationally molded parts were comprised mainly of vinyl based polymers while the out of house molded parts utilized vinyl
acetate based plastics.
General Cable Corporation
Business Unit Manager – Commercial Products
Responsibilities: Manage all aspects of daily 24/7 plastic extrusion, cabling, insulation and final test for a 600,000 Sq. Ft. wire
and cable manufacturing facility that produced commercial products associated with high voltage, communications, signal, power
transmission and government clientele. These plastic extrusion lines provided the initial insulation and final jacketing of complex
cable geometries along with the installation of secondary materials like zip cords, copper armoring, taping, cable fillers and a host of
other customer specific items in both a pressure extrusion as well as sleeved extrusion format.
Oracle Lens Manufacturing
Plant Operations Manager & Production Process Engineering Manager
Responsibilities: Provide daily 24/7 leadership for this 60,000 Sq. Ft. medical device injection molding operation. This operation
maintained 24 state of the art Cincinnati Milacron RoboShot 330 ton Electric Injection Molding machines that produced industry
leading cost and quality ophthalmic lenses within an ISO regulated clean room environment. These molding units supported hot
runner systems, totally robotic part handling, and real time data collection to assess molding productivity, quality and machine
performance. This position also worked closely with both the tooling department and facilities engineering department to execute new
tool construction, evaluation, trial runs and TPM. Additional responsibilities of this position also encompassed, production scheduling,
S&OP planning, inspection, warehousing, packaging, shipping, receiving and customer service.
Amphenol Alden Products
Plant Operations / Manufacturing Engineering Manager
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Responsibilities: Provide daily operational leadership for this 24/7 manufacturer which provided proprietary injection molded and
over-molded electronic interconnect devices (cables, connectors and plugs) used in, Class 3 Medical Devices (heart defibrillators from
Medtronics, Zoll and Philips Medical), commercial printing/copying machines (Xerox), custom plugs and interconnects
(Military/Defense applications) and AC/DC cordsets used with commercial electronics like GPS devices, portable medical equipment
and automotive applications. The injection molding at this facility comprised the molding of high accuracy plug components, inserts
and other devices used in the assembly and over-molding of final products. The over-molding operations provided injection molding
like encapsulations of plug components to both provide electrical insulation/isolation as well as mechanical properties for
disengagement and damage protection.
RONALD R. JACQUES
Johnston, RI 02919
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L3 Corporation – Wolf Coach/Essco Radomes
Operations/Supply Chain Manager
Small Business Development Officer
Employees Supervised = 25
Responsibilities: Lead the procurement, manufacturing and supply chain development efforts to support the
construction/conversion of military radomes and military specialty vehicles within an AS9100 regulated environment.
C & M Corporation
Sr. Manufacturing Process Engineer – Assembly (Contract)
Responsibilities: Provide engineering services ranging from specification of new processing and assembly equipment to daily
troubleshooting and sustaining engineering of legacy products. Main responsibilities involved close interaction with the New Product
Development Group in order to design/develop/specify proper production assembly tooling that would be required for both low
volume and high volume production and ultimately source such tools in a timely manner. Further responsibilities encompassed the
writing, review and sign-off of all product work instructions, cost validation of both materials/labor, and IQ, OQ and PQ validation of
all new materials introduced within the products released. Assembly also encompassed both horizontal injection molding of
component parts in addition to vertical injection molding, insert molding, pre-molding and over-molding of finished assemblies using
an extensive list of plastics, engineered polymers and rubber based materials. Further responsibilities involved the training and
certification of all assembly operators in the proper industry specific techniques required to assemble all classes of products.
LaserPerformance, LLC
Director of US Manufacturing
Responsibilities: Perform transformational leadership for an extremely financially troubled legacy marine equipment
manufacturer who built such legendary brands as SUNFISH, LASER, V15, C420, OPTIMIST, FLYING JUNIOR and other high
performance dinghy class sail craft for both institutional and recreational use. Primary responsibilities focused on transitioning these
composites based manufacturer from a domestic fabrication and assembly model to a foreign and domestically sub-contracted
sourcing model, thus eliminating all US owned manufacturing operations. 50% of all US manufactured product was off-shored and
sub-contracted within 6 months of start, with an additional 30% of product offerings discontinued due to low demand and/or non-
existent backlog. Formulated plans to eliminate the remaining 20% of operations within one year.
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Lapp Cable Works – Div. of Lapp Group, Gmbh
Plant Manager
Responsilities: Provide daily operational leadership for this 24/7 manufacturer which provides extruded primary and jacketed wire
and cable products globally. Typical clients served range from wind energy, robotics, automation and capital infrastructure to other
clients requiring extremely high tolerance, high quality and superlative quality wire and cable products for high value projects and
extreme environment use. Full P & L responsibility along with employee development, Lean Deployment, process engineering and
other financially successful project implementation.
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