Robert L. Linville
Berea
Summary
Dynamic real estate professional with proven success at Bluegrass Properties Group, excelling in property valuation and contract negotiation. Demonstrated expertise in market analysis and customer relationship management, achieving significant sales milestones. Adept at navigating legal compliance, driving results through strategic marketing and strong interpersonal skills.
Overview
52
52
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Real Estate Agent
Bluegrass Properties Group
Lexington
11.2021 - Current
- Worked as a Sellers and Buyers Agent – listing $4,000,000 and selling $1,600,000 property
Real Estate Agent
Keller Williams Greater Lexington
Lexington
08.2020 - 10.2021
- Worked as a Sellers and Buyers Agent, listing $3,000,000 and selling $2,000,000 property
Project Engineer
Middletown Metal Works
Berea
05.2017 - 09.2019
- Work part-time on special projects.
- Installed a new Powder Coating process in parallel with an existing Wet Paint process.
- Co-ordinate work with other manufacturing departments to complete manufacturing of customer orders.
- Purchase Spare Parts for Powder Coat and Wet Paint equipment.
- Purchase production steel blanks and finished components from sub-tier suppliers.
- Developed an organized method using excel and pdf software for shipping packing list and customer invoices. This reduced the amount of search time by 85% that had been required for staff members to find such documents related to customer shipment issues.
Production Engineering
Hitachi Automotive, USA
Harrodsburg
03.2012 - 01.2017
- Production Engineer responsibilities include Powder Coating Process for copper coil wire, Control Plans, PFEMA and SASG documentation.
- Training new Team Members on Powder Coating Process including the production process and preventive maintenance.
- Production Engineering responsibilities include installing new electronic card assembly equipment such as Sanyo, and Hitachi component placement equipment, Omron automated optical inspection equipment, DEK solder paste, solder paste reflow, SEHO and Pillarhouse Selective Solder machine, Nordson Asymtek conformal coating machine, and ASYS PCB router machine.
- Setup Central Stores System for production equipment spare parts. This included the quotation, purchase, and receiving for $4.6 million dollars of equipment spare parts.
- Install new equipment for new Production Assembly lines.
- Provide documentation to support purchase of new equipment.
- Work in a Team Environment to improve production processes.
- Retired
Quality Engineer
McKechine Vehicle Components
Nicholasville
03.2011 - 03.2012
- Quality Engineer for new product releases for automotive products including: setup and validation of the chrome on plastic plating process; compiling and submitting seven PPAP books.
- Develop PPAP documentation for three new customers that included five new projects.
- Develop GP-12 Inspection documentation, Inspection Process and provide operator training and support for new customer product lines.
- Provide leadership to resolve customer product quality issues through corrective actions and the 8D documentation process.
- Provide support for resolving process quality issues between the molding, chrome plating, assembly and inspection departments.
- 5S Coordinator for the entire facility.
Program Development and Account Manager
Mid South Electronics/Precision Solutions, LLC
Annville
11.2004 - 02.2011
- Managed the quotation of new customer products with production engineering, quality engineering, purchasing, production and upper management.
- Managed the release of new customer products into the manufacturing process.
- Resolve production issues, such as increased requirements, shorter lead-time requirements, line fallout, and failure analysis by communicating between customers and company.
- Improve manufacturing efficiency by working with continuous improvement team.
- Improve design and reduce material costs by working with customer.
- Managed the rebuilding of five different product assembly lines after a major fire at the manufacturing facility.
Manufacturing and Engineering Manager
JCRI, Inc
Annville
03.2000 - 11.2004
- Managed new customer quotations. This included establishing engineering standards for labor, identifying new material suppliers and verifying quotation accuracy.
- Managed new product release, including design review for manufacturability and identifying plastic injection mold manufactures.
- Managed the move of a new customer project that was in actual production from another state to Annville facility. This involved development of new assembly fixtures, installation of new hand tools, and development of a new assembly process and material flow for product assembly.
- Managed assembly process improvements by direct involvement in the assembly of products, assembly line layouts and material flow.
- Managed process improvement implementation by hands-on work, motion/time- study, assembly line layouts, new assembly fixtures and material flow charts.
- Grew business from one customer with $2.1 million in sales to seven customers with a projected $10 million sales in 2005.
- Increased efficiency of production line and utilization of equipment capacity by 20 percent by improved material flow and production planning and the use of people management skills.
- Managed four new customer product releases to manufacturing in five months.
- Upgraded Electronic Card Assembly process with new equipment. Also installed a clean room environment.
- Initiated the process for installing a QS9000 system.
Production Engineer for the Brake Caliper Assembly Process
Tokico (USA), Inc.
Berea
10.1998 - 11.1999
- Led all operations in the assembly of brake calipers.
- Improved the assembly process by replacing and or upgrading obsolete equipment.
- Reduced the scrap by 10% and increased the production output by 15% of the Brake Caliper assembly process by replacing and/or upgrading obsolete robotic equipment and the use of KAIZAN methods.
- Accomplished release of two new brake caliper assemblies within 12 months.
- Maintained QS9000 Process Documentation.
Staff Assembly Engineer/Team Leader for Laser Printer Division
Lexmark International and IBM
Lexington
07.1982 - 10.1998
- Oversaw all operations involved in assembly of the laser printer.
- Managed engineering changes released to production.
- Re-engineered existing assembly fixtures and designed new assembly fixtures for current product line and future product releases to meet ISO 9002 requirements.
- Managed assembly fixture build program for U.S., South American, and European Laser Printer assembly organizations.
- Developed and implemented Employee Suggestion program.
- Team Leader for three Assembly Engineers and five Process Specialists.
- Managed quotation process for OEM customers.
- Managed OEM customer projects from concept to product. This included interfacing between the customer and Lexmark electronic design, test engineering, purchasing, procurement manufacturing, production control and manufacturing.
- As ISO 9002 Coordinator, conducted internal ISO 9002 audits for Electronic Card Assembly and Test Division. Perform ISO 9002 audits for other departments.
- Developed Employee Certification Training Program. Designed employee certification guidelines and a database to maintain records.
- Resident Product Engineer of the Electronic Card Assemblies for International Business Machine, Boca Raton, Fla.
- Associate Manufacturing/Assembly Engineer for suppliers of various Selectric Type Writer sub-assemblies.
Tool Design Engineer, Numerical Control Programmer and Computer Numerical Control Programmer
Rockwell International
Winchester
07.1979 - 07.1982
- Designed tooling for production improvements and new production machines.
- Revised Manufacturing Process Specification sheets related to the release of new manufacturing tools, new production machines and / or process changes.
Quality Control for the Electric Forklift Manufacturing Division
Hyster, Inc.
Berea
03.1974 - 09.1975
- Conducted production line inspections of assembly and welding processes to ensure manufacturing specifications.
- Conducted inspection of purchased components.
- Established and maintain the calibration lab for inspection equipment.
- Conducted inspection of welded sub-assembly products that were manufactured on new welding and assembly fixtures via a X,Y,Z digital inspection (Portage) table similar to CMM equipment.
Education
B.S. - Industrial Technology
Eastern Kentucky University
01.1979
Skills
- Property valuation
- Real estate marketing
- Customer relationship management
- Contract negotiation
- Legal compliance
- Market analysis
Certification
- 3D SolidWorks
- PLC Training
- APT CNC Programming
- Kennametal Carboloy
- ISO9002 Internal Auditor
- ISO9002 Lead Auditor
- 7 Habits
- Hazmat HM-126F
- Motion & Time Study I
- Motion & Time Study II
- Ford Global 8D
- Understanding Statistics
- Statistical Process Control
- Nissan Process Improvement
References
Available upon request.
Professional Highlights
- 17 years experience with Program Development and Program Account Management.
- 11 years experience as Production Engineer and Assembly Engineer.
- 6 years experience as Quality Engineer and ISO Lead Auditor.
- Managed the release of 26 new products from design concept to the production process.
- 5 years Real Estate Agent.
Timeline
Real Estate Agent
Bluegrass Properties Group
11.2021 - Current
Real Estate Agent
Keller Williams Greater Lexington
08.2020 - 10.2021
Project Engineer
Middletown Metal Works
05.2017 - 09.2019
Production Engineering
Hitachi Automotive, USA
03.2012 - 01.2017
Quality Engineer
McKechine Vehicle Components
03.2011 - 03.2012
Program Development and Account Manager
Mid South Electronics/Precision Solutions, LLC
11.2004 - 02.2011
Manufacturing and Engineering Manager
JCRI, Inc
03.2000 - 11.2004
Production Engineer for the Brake Caliper Assembly Process
Tokico (USA), Inc.
10.1998 - 11.1999
Staff Assembly Engineer/Team Leader for Laser Printer Division
Lexmark International and IBM
07.1982 - 10.1998
Tool Design Engineer, Numerical Control Programmer and Computer Numerical Control Programmer
Rockwell International
07.1979 - 07.1982
Quality Control for the Electric Forklift Manufacturing Division
Hyster, Inc.
03.1974 - 09.1975
B.S. - Industrial Technology
Eastern Kentucky University