Bill Brazier - Bio

Summary

A hands-on, innovative, and results-oriented manager with over 40 years experience in a variety of management and engineering assignments in automotive design, manufacturing, and stamping operations. Experience has been at all levels of Die engineering and stamping operations, Materials Engineering, Quality Control, Vehicle Export operations, Purchasing, Advanced Planning, and Manufacturing Engineering. Track record includes significant program and process innovations including the introduction of metal formability simulations, program timing reductions, cost reductions, and process innovation.

Professional Experience

Pinnacle Associates,                             1998 to present

• Benchmarking Consultant

Ford Motor Company,                                1978 to 1998

• Pre-Program Manager Advanced Manufacturing

•  Manager - Planning and Control

     - Stamping Engineering, Vehicle Operations

•  Director - Assembly and Operations Support 

      - Ford Hiroshima Operations, Ford of Japan

•  Manager - Advanced Technology and Materials Engineering

     - Stamping Engineering Activity, Body and Assembly Operations

•  Quality Control Supervisor 

    - Stamping Quality Control Department, Body and Assembly Operations 

• Senior Engineer 

    - Materials Engineering Department, Body and Chassis Engineering

Fisher Body Div,  GMC.                              1956 to 1978

• Senior Production Engineer, Plant Contact and Mechanical Handling Departments, Die Engineering Activity 

• Production Engineer, Advanced Development Department Die and Machine Plant

• Engineering Student, Die and Machine Plant

Education

MS, Mechanical Engineering

o   Wayne State University       

BS, Mechanical Engineering

o   General Motors Institute