Jose Garcia is seeking a position that utilizes his 15+ years of experience in tool and die maintenance and manufacturing. He has held roles such as Tool Room Manager and Tooling Engineering, where he supervised teams, designed and implemented engineering changes to dies, and ensured quality and on-time production. Garcia has strong skills in areas like troubleshooting, process improvement, budgeting, and bilingual communication. He holds certifications and a journeyman tool and die apprenticeship.

1. JOSE GARCIA
457 PROLONGACION MARIANO ZERTUCHE • SANBUENAVENTURACOAHUILAMX.
From USA ---Home:(01152) 869-6941199,Cel:(011521) 844-3003898
From Mexico ---Home (869)6941199 , Cel: 044-8443003898
Nacionalidad : Mexicana Recidencia :USA 42 yearold
JRYSAGA@MSN.COM,R.GARCIA@HYPLASA.COM
Objective
To obtain a position with your company where I can effectively maximize my
talent and skills to help ensure the success and growth of the company.
Seek the challenging and exciting position with a firm whose need for a
professional with huge knowledge, experience and drive to always strive to
improve the quality of workmanship and time taken to complete assigned work is
paramount
Summary of Qualifications
 More than fifteen years experience.
 Strong organizational skills.
 Strong integrity and honesty.
 Exceptional ability to effectively and appropriately present information
and respond to questions from various groups.
 Profound ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts as appropriate.
 Deep ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw
valid conclusions.
Personal Skills
 Team Building and Leadership
 Production Planning and Scheduling
 Administration
 Quality
 Process Improvement
 Product Development
 Cost Reduction and Budgeting
 Project Management
 Safety

2.  Troubleshooting
 Purchasing
 Process Design / Redesign
 Bilingual (spanish and ingles)
 Computer Proficient
 Preventative Maintenance
 Journeyman Tool and Die Maker
 Blueprint Analysis
 Machinist
 Jig and Fixture
 Fabrication
 Welding
Professional Experience
HYPLASA ESTAMPADOS, Saltillo Coahuila , Mexico
2015-present Tool Room Manager
 Supervision and administration of tool room
 buy off and try out on new dies with external tool shops
 Cost Reduction and Budgeting
 Successfully managed all operations and team members of the tool and die
maintenance department in troubleshooting, repairing, and maintenance of
all stamping dies on all three shifts to support production.
LEAR Corporation , Monclova Coahuila , Mexico
2007 – 2014 Tooling Engineering
 buy off and tryout on new dies with external tool shops
 Design and implement engineering changes to customers existing dies.
 Instruct and train new apprentice tool & die makers.
 Tool room lead person in stamping plant area.
 Performed P.M.’s, troubleshooting, and repairing of all progressive and
secondary stamping dies in production
 Communicate with tool room manager and tool room Area/Shift leaders,
and other plant personnel about tool room concerns, providing complete
action plans and status reports as and when required.

3.  Assist in the implementations and improvement of effective preventive
maintenance programs for all tooling equipment.
 Ensure all documentation is maintained, including associate documentation.
 Work with vendors and/or contractors, displaying company values of
honesty and integrity.
 Work with all shifts in design and development of improving methods and
equipment through continuous improvement.
 Help develop all tool room apprentices and give guidance where needed.
 Successfully maintained the departmental budget including the purchasing
of new equipment, new tooling, spare parts, supplies, and inventory
TAKATA seat belt stamping plant, San Antonio, TX
1998 – 2007 Tool & Die Maintenance Team Leader / Supervisor
 Successfully managed all operations and team members of the tool and die
maintenance department in troubleshooting, repairing, and maintenance of
all stamping dies on all three shifts to support production.
 working with medium to large, high volume, progressive dies,
 Strong troubleshooting skills
 ability to work with close tolerance and a familiarity with the metric system,
 experience with setup and operation of standard machine shop equipment,
 grinding flat and contoured surfaces
 Welding experience.
 Studied specifications, blueprints, sketches, and models.
 Assisted in planning and writing numerically controlled programs.
 Computed dimensions, sizes, and shapes based on descriptions.
 Designed parts and procedures to manufacture and assemble tools and dies.
 Measured, marked, and scribed metal or plastic stock to lay out machining
using instruments such as protractors, micrometers, scribes, and rulers.
 Set up and operated machine tools to machine parts such as lathes, milling
machines, shapers, and grinders.
 Lifted, positioned, and secured machined parts on surface plate or
worktable using hoists, vises, v-blocks, or angle plates.
 Smoothened and polished flat and contoured surfaces of parts or tools using
scrapers, abrasive stones, files, emery cloths, or power grinders.
 Verified dimensions, alignments, and clearances of finished parts using
measuring instruments such as calipers, gauge blocks, micrometers, and
dial indicators.
 Set pyrometer controls of heat-treating furnace and fed parts, tools, or
assemblies into furnace to harden.
 Repaired or modified tools and died.

4. Education
 Journeyman Tool & Die Apprenticeship with federal certificate on Texas
State
 University of Nuevo Leon Mexico (3 years)
 GDT Certification
 Leader training course (five diamonds)