Sample Resume

JOHN H. DOE
Street Address
Your Town, ST Zip Code
(xxx) 555-5555 H
(xxx) 555-5554 W
youremail@yourisp.com

SUMMARY: (Tailor this summary to the job description and make it easy for a potential employer to quickly understand how your experience and skills fit their need)

Experienced Project Manager with proven ability to work with customers, designers, vendors and manufacturing in all phases of new product development from concept to delivery.  Exceptional ability to coordinate product and tooling design using DFM techniques; manage materials selection; quickly complete prototype development and testing; and manage tool build and validation processes.  Early experiences as a Process, and Tooling Engineer provided foundation and superior insight for creating efficient manufacturing systems.  Skills include:

• DOE…………….
• PFMEA, PPAP……………………
• Six Sigma, 5S, Kaizen, and related Lean Manufacturing Techniques
• List other skills and attributes.  (We recommend pulling key words from target company job description to include in this area of the resume)

EXPERIENCE:

Company One Inc.  20XX to Present

Project Manager

Manage a variety of new product development, manufacturing systems, and capital equipment projects for a Fortune 500 manufacturer of widgets.  Responsible for supervision of five Project Engineers and the review and coordination of their assignments. Projects range in value from $10,000 to $10 million. Duties include: 

• Working with customers to develop new product concepts.
• Directing the development of improvements to production automation and other manufacturing systems to utilize technology to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Preparing department budgets and estimate capital requirements for each year.
• Managing new product development projects from concept through prototyping, testing, and transfer to Manufacturing for full production.
• Directing the Selection, Training, Discipline and Evaluation of Project Engineers assigned to the Engineering Department.  

Accomplishments Include:

• Managed the development of five new product lines for a customer that produced annual revenues of $14 million and profit margins averaging 15%.
• Identified new technology that, when installed, resulted in efficiency increases in excess of 25% and improved net margin by more than 14%. Project payback was less than 90 days.

Company Two Inc.  19XX to 20XX 

Project Engineer

Responsible for capital equipment projects for a Fortune 500 manufacturer of left handed wrenches. Completed other projects using Six Sigma analytical procedures to identify manufacturing constraints and suggest improvements.  Projects included:

• Preparation of capital requests
• Selection of vendors, and equipment; and supervision of equipment installation, start-up, and debugging.
• Projects range in value from $10,000 to $2.5 million.  

Accomplishments Include:

• Developed a new process for manufacturing wrenches that saved $500,000 per year.
• Devised and implemented a method of evaluating vendors on performance, cost and other criteria that streamlined contract award system. Savings to the company exceeded $3 million in the first year.
• Completed a major project 60 days ahead of deadline and allowed company to beat competitors to market. Annual profits estimated to exceed $10 million.

Company Three Inc.  19XX to 19XX

Your Title

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Company Four Inc.  19XX to 19XX

Your Title

Follow the same outline as each of the above companies but provide progressively less information about jobs you may have had more than 10 to 15 years ago.

MILITARY:

US Army 19XX to 19XX

Rank at Discharge

Describe military experience only if it is relevant to your career.

EDUCATION:

MBA, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 19XX. GPA 3.1

B.S. XXX Engineering, University of XX, City, Illinois, 19XX. GPA 3.5

A.A. XXX Engineering, XX County Junior College, Small Town, IA, 19XX. GPA 2.8

TRAINING:

• AutoCAD
  
• SAP
  
• Six Sigma

REFERENCES: Available on request

NOTE: The information contained in this resume is completely fabricated and does not refer to any real person at any time past or present. Any similarity that may exist is completely unintentional.