EUGENE CLYN MORRIS
Summerville,SC
Summary
Experienced mechanical engineer with a successful track record of supervising numerous projects in plant operations and product design. Proven leader with strong analytical and organizational skills, comfortable overseeing long and short-term projects from inception to completion. Effective in managing multiple contractors and conducting periodic meetings to ensure projects are completed on time and within established budgets. Offers a strong foundation in engineering principles and a commitment to continuous learning in a dynamic environment. Brings an aptitude for problem-solving and a solid grasp of technical concepts essential for this role. Ready to utilize and further develop analytical and project management skills in a Senior Project Engineer role.
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Project Engineer
BD (Becton Dickinson)
07.2007 - 04.2024
- Company Overview: BD is a leading global medical technology company
- Project Manager for various facility improvement projects
- Manager for the product tooling/rack repair department
- Installed over $3MM replacement and new HVAC units for facility
- Installed new Building Control Unit (BCU) for HVAC system to monitor units, trouble shoot alarms and diagnose issues
- Project Manager for new roof overlay for entire 125,000 sq ft building
- Project Manager for two new 2,000 sq ft
- Building additions (one for storing, dipping, and mixing hazardous flammable chemicals and one for coating catheters)
- Submitted and gained corporate approvals for capital requests for various projects including HVAC units, conveyor systems, industrial washers, chillers, and other equipment
- Worked with various mechanical and electrical contractors to install new equipment
- Completed validation of all new and replaced equipment including IQ/OQ/PQ documentation to validate equipment functionality and performance
- Completed change requests (CR's) and preventative maintenance (PM) documents related to equipment installations
- Coordinated replacement of Valve Insertion Tooling increasing tooling life from four days to two weeks
- Doubled output of catheter dipping line from 6.5K to 13K catheters per day by designing and installing new injection molded clip for holding twice the number of catheters
Senior Project Engineer
CIVCO Medical Solutions
06.2003 - 06.2007
- Company Overview: CIVCO is a medical device manufacturer specializing in ultrasound accessories
- Designed and developed new products for the ultrasound accessory business including covers, needle guides, brackets, brachytherapy equipment and positioning systems
- Developed over six new covers for ultrasound probes and imaging systems
- Worked with clean room associates to successfully bring a prostate positioning balloon inhouse and reduce the unit cost by 75%
Contract Engineer
Closure Medical
01.2003 - 06.2003
- Company Overview: Closure manufactures a skin adhesive to treat skin cuts
- Worked as a contract engineer to develop a new applicator delivery system for skin adhesive
Project Manager
Polyzen, Inc.
09.2000 - 12.2002
- Company Overview: Polyzen is an OEM manufacturer of various medical products
- Made prototypes for medical device companies using the following processes: RF Welding, Injection Molding, Dip Molding, Catheter Tipping, Balloon Assembly
- Oversaw finished device testing
- Performed product qualifications and process validations for devices put into production
- Improved seam strength of organ bag (>$1M in annual sales)
Senior Project Engineer
Johnson and Johnson Medical
07.1998 - 08.2000
- Company Overview: J&J is a leading global medical technology company
- Engineer on team for new I.V
- Safety Catheter Self-Blunting Device
- Prepared drawings and specifications for new device, led risk analysis team to develop FMECA
- Determined optimum
- - ring material and process conditions for automated feeding system
- Performed accelerated aging stability studies to determine product shelf life
- Developed design concepts and prototypes to improve locking mechanism of I.V
- Safety Catheter, performed bench top testing for I.V
- Catheters
Product Development Engineer
R&D Wilson-Cook Medical
06.1992 - 06.1998
- Company Overview: Wilson Cook manufactures gastrointestinal medical devices
- Focused on designing gastrointestinal medical devices, including catheters, forceps, guide wires, sphincterotomes, and retrieval devices, from conceptualization to finished product
- Project leader, developed a new triple lumen sphincterotome and a new reusable forceps line
- Created a new guide wire marking system
- Used PRO/E Cad to create product/tooling drawings
- Worked with QC to decide testing methods for various products
Product Development Engineer
Dayco Products, Inc.
06.1989 - 06.1992
- Company Overview: Dayco manufactures hose products for the automotive and vacuum cleaner industries
- Focused on in hose product design
- Designed mold cavities for injection molding of hose fittings, selected materials for plastic hoses
Education
Bachelor of Science, BS - Mechanical Engineering
N.C. State University
Raleigh, NCMachining Degree -
Haywood Community College
Waynesville, NCSkills
- CAD (ACAD, SolidWorks, PRO/E)
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- FMEA Training
- ISO 13485 Internal Auditor
- Tracer SC Software (HVAC Building Management System)
- JDE Enterprise Software
- Validation Training Certification
- ManuFirst (Manufacturing) Certification
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification
- OSHA Certified (10-hour General Industry Safety and Health)
- Project planning
- Site management
- Troubleshooting skills
- Project closeout
- Project planning and development
- Design review
- Project scheduling
- Product testing
- Engineering documentation
- Material selection
- Project tracking
- Strategic planning
- Testing procedures
- Analyzing information
- Customer relations
- Injection molding
- Staff management
- Innovation mindset
- Failure analysis
- Value engineering
- Six sigma methodologies
- Safety management
- HVAC systems
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Prototyping techniques
- Proposal development
- Engineering design development
- Mechanical engineering
- Lean principles
- Project scope
- CAD modeling
- Budget control
- Risk assessment
- Project management
- Engineering design
- Processes and procedures
- Cost estimation
- Documentation preparation
- Design optimization
- Engineering reviews
- Worksite management
- Engineering project design
- Innovation and creativity
- Productivity improvement
- Manufacturing processes
- Project deadlines management
- Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
- Technical support
- Design of experiments
- Prototype development
- Engineering change orders
- Engineering process design
- Controls monitoring
- Project forecasting
- Systems installation, configuration, and upgrading
- Equipment maintenance
- AutoDesk autocad
- Functional & business requirements
- Roofing
- Goal setting
- Deliverable tracking
- System engineering
- Document control
- Quality control
- Verbal and written communication
Accomplishments
- Project Manager for over twenty successful capital projects at Becton Dickinson.
- Projects included installing two new building additions, $3MM replacement and new HVAC systems, and a new roof.
- Installed and validated new facility equipment such as conveyor systems and tooling washers.
- Doubled throughput of catheter dipping line.
- Designed and developed new ultrasound accessories.
- Made prototypes for various OEM medical companies.
- Developed new reusable forceps product line.
- Used SolidWorks and AutoCad to design products, tooling, and fixtures.
Certification
- OSHA Certified 10 hour General Safety
- Six Sigma Certification Yellow Belt
- Manufacturing certification
Timeline
Senior Project Engineer
BD (Becton Dickinson)
07.2007 - 04.2024
Senior Project Engineer
CIVCO Medical Solutions
06.2003 - 06.2007
Contract Engineer
Closure Medical
01.2003 - 06.2003
Project Manager
Polyzen, Inc.
09.2000 - 12.2002
Senior Project Engineer
Johnson and Johnson Medical
07.1998 - 08.2000
Product Development Engineer
R&D Wilson-Cook Medical
06.1992 - 06.1998
Product Development Engineer
Dayco Products, Inc.
06.1989 - 06.1992
Machining Degree -
Haywood Community College
Bachelor of Science, BS - Mechanical Engineering
N.C. State University
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