Dan Danescu

1. Improve operations from profitability perspective
2. Leading machining and assembly shop floor
3. Transformation of internal processes - manufacturing, purchasing and warehouse management perspective
4. Improve traceability of products and reduce reaction time to non-conformities
5. Purchasing Manager
6. Warehouse Manager
7. SAP Implementation for QM; PP; SD; MM; PM
8. Trainer for Lean Six Sigma for all employees, on all levels
9. Calculate main KPI`s from production perspective, establishing method of calculation for OEE

Company: Hellenic Cables
Opportunity: Contacted by Agency
Duties: Reach the status of World Class Plant in a 5 years Transformation project
Projects:
1. Shop Floor Visual Management implementation from scratch
2. Reduce the scrap, material over-consumption and increase machines OEE
3. Asses operational and transactional processes from production perspective
4. Reduce time when machines are not working by increasing monitoring through PLC`s automation and reportimg
5. Transformation at a better quality of procedures and working instructions
6. Deliver expected savings at the end of each quarter for strategic projects
7. Maintain records and insure project management of all projects including savings and physical KPI`s
8. Improve traceability of products and reduce reaction time to non-conformities
9. Reduce the stocks of raw materials, semi-finished and finished materials
10. Improve accuracy of SAP master data and train employees from QM; PP; PM; MM and MES perspective
11. Trainer for Lean Six Sigma for all employees, on all levels

Manufacturing Engineer
August 2017 - April 2018
Opportunity: Contacted by Employer
Duties: Standardization of Manufacturing Department Processes
Projects:
1. Standardization of CNC fixtures by designing new modular ones
o Solving current issues regarding fixtures for new production line
o Hand on design of fixtures and advice others
o Cover all products with minimum machining set-up and document the set-up procedures
2. Standardize tooling selection processes
o Improve WinTool database
o Make information available in SAP
o Integrate WinTool with SAP

Opportunity: Proposed by Consultancy Company
Duties: PJM & ME Solution Architect
Projects: below projects are addressing different customers:
1. Implementation of SAP ME in electronics Industry.
o Solving current issues appeared after go live moment
o Propose opportunities for improving actual deployed solution
2. Time based traceability of components on a continuous production line - customized solution
o SAP ME time based traceability of components, based on web services between SAP ERP and SAP ME
o Floor stock customized integration between SAP ERP and SAP ME
3. Plant Information Catalogue for Energy Consumption
o Consider hierarchical relation for equipment`s and SAP PCo in simulation environment finalized with KPI reporting in Self Service Composition Environment

Opportunity: Promoted by the employer
Duties: Member of IT Transformation team
- Collect Business requirements for IT new applications
- Submit AFE, execute SOW
- Execute the functional specifications, interface and configuration specifications, application mock-up screens
- Execute test scripts, functional unit test, effective perform tests, run user acceptance tests
- Training all business users, go live with new applications and service.
Achievements:
- Worked closely with the business leaders to understand IT requirements
- Responsible for all transition deliverables e.g. Pricing, SOW, etc.
- Successfully analyzed, tested and deployed different Manufacturing Execution Systems as MES Wonderware, MII (Manufacturing Intelligence and Integration), SAP ME (SAP Manufacturing Execution).
- Hands on experienced in MES applications using SAP Manufacturing Execution modules such as System Configuration, POD, Genealogy, Non-Conformance Management, Data Collection, Shop Floor Execution and developed custom POD
- Full cycle MES implementation experienced using SAP ME across Discrete Manufacturing Environment.
- Tested and deployed Machine Tool Monitoring solutions like MTM from Freedom Elog.
- Successfully tested and implemented different Human machine interfaces
- Actively participated in generating IT solutions with special purposes, integrated with SAP in both ways: RFID technology integrated with SAP PM for managing time and number of cycles till maintenance order for sensitive tools.
- Hand on support for other Shop Floor Applications: EdgeCam, WinTool, CellTool
- Achieved significant experience in manufacturing environment utilizing SAP PP, MM, PM and QM
- Understand Standards - ISA 95, ISA 88, MIMOSA, SoA

Opportunity: Promoted by the employer
Duties: Continuous improvement using Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools.
Achievements:
- Success in using mathematical abilities necessary to work with Six Sigma statistical concepts
- Hands on within manufacturing methodologies and tools - Kanban, Poke Yoke, One piece Flow, Drum-Buffer-Rope, TOC (Theory of Constraints), TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), FMEA
- Knowledge of strategic analysis frameworks (Porter’s Five Forces, SWOT)
- Proven presentation skills and experience to train students and staff in a class room or shop floor environment
- Successfully finished and implemented different transactional and operational projects, like:
o Statistical approach for calculating ideal routing time using Manufacturing Execution System reports
o Value Stream Map projects for reducing minimizing all related 7 wastes, especially waiting between resources
o IT approach for improving communication between human resources who are participating in a chain of tasks
o Production leveling in machining and assembly area
o Local standardization for statistical reports using Six Sigma methodology
o DMADV; innovative approach regarding forging process; designed new forging dies for reducing variations.
o New and spectacular solution for storing sucker rods raw material inside of the area.

Programmer for milling machines with 4 axis:
- Effectively use of probing technology for determination of real origins of the items
- Achieved usage of parametrical sub-routines for each type of machining sub-operation
- Generated 2 original parametrical sub-routines for high speed milling of the deep holes
- Success in creating more than 1 new program every day

- Added important contributions and innovative responsible/designer for main fixtures used in Cameron; machining valves and wellhead in Romania, Veracruz, OCK.
- Generator of main technical ideas used for majority of standardized fixtures used in Cameron Romania from 2005 till present.

- Owner of technical part for physical transfer for some products and technology from Scotland to Romania : VALTACO Ball valves, BARONSHIRE valves.
- Developed documents shown in front of court in justice in debating industrial property for innovative solution regarding sealing technology.
- Design engineer for Valtaco Ball valves and other types of new valves which the Company made acquisitions for.

- Successfully covered a large area of mechanical designs: metallic expansion joints, metallic structures for buildings, transportation systems for minerals, valves for irrigations and other items with mechanical purposes.
- All Interom products were designed personal by me, made in Romania at different suppliers and delivered to France, Germany, Nederland and other European countries.

Successful owner for research and development for actuated oilfield equipment:
- Hydraulic Power Tongs. Two new hydraulic tongs achieving 800 daNxm at 110 bar and the other one achieving 450 daNxm at 120 bar. by developing innovative and original solutions.
- Hydraulic quick couples
- Actuators for big ball valves: 2 new actuators for 6 " & 8 " ball valves with goods results in tests and production

Supervised team formed by the best operators in the plant, who were designated to execute the new designs created by research and development designers.
Scope was the manufacture of prototypes designed by Development and Research during that time STEROM made only oilfield equipment and the prototypes had to cover the pumps, Christmas Trees, all the valves, API6D, API 600, API 6A, drilling tools, deep instrumentation tools, power tongs, etc.
Supervise the necessary documents for design proofing.

Supervised team of 40 people.
Scope was manufacturing in heat treatment and lathe machines area.