Fractional Director of Sales

Fractional Director of Sales

Rick Wilson​

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PolyVisions Inc., Manchester PA: Sales Engineer Manager
1/2014 - 4/2025
  • Service existing customers and assist in new applications
  • Develop new customers to utilize PolyVisions compounding abilities.
  • Assist customers in applications development to utilize the DuraPET line of materials efficiently and properly.
  • Assist customers to ensure they were able to properly process PolyVisions supplied materials.

Berry Plastics Incorporated, Baltimore MD: Senior Plastics Engineer
3/2012 - 2/2013
  • Develop processes to ensure high level of efficiency and quality.
  • Evaluate tooling and make recommendations for changes to improve overall output and efficiency.
  • Evaluate part design and make recommendations for change to improve overall function and quality of products.
  • Develop and implement training to ensure that employees are able to perform at their highest level.

Integrity Plastics Incorporated, Denver PA: General Manager
11/2002 - 12/2011
  • Primary responsibility of the company operations that include injection molding, secondary operations and tooling manufacturing including budgets and P/L..
  • Responsible for the hire of employees.
  • Implemented a training program to ensure that employees were continually achieving company goals.
  • Implemented GSPC as one of four injection molders in PA to pilot program.
  • Instrumental in the increase of sales and production from $4.5MM to $10MM within the first 3 years.
  • Increased profitability from 6% to 14% in the first 4 years and continual profit through 2010.
  • Increased automation by 50% and reduced costs by 10%.
  • Implemented manufacturing principles based on scientific molding and GMP.
  • Designed and implemented a manufacturing area for the increased sales to include material handling and mechanicals.
  • Achieved ISO 9000-2008 certification;
  • Achieved ISO 13485 Compliancy.
  • Designed and implemented certified ISO 8 clean room manufacturing.
  • Developed bar code label system for increased traceability of product.
  • Developed and Implemented SolarSoft mVP ERP system to enable better process flow and inventory control.

True Precision Plastics, Lancaster PA: Operations Manager
1/2002 - 8/2002
  • Responsible for molding and assembly manufacturing.
  • Managed all supervisors.
  • Responsible for operational budget.
  • Direct involvement in ISO 9000 certification.

Tyco Electronics (AMP Incorporated), Harrisburg PA: Plastics Manufacturing Engineering Manager, US Manufacturing
1995 - 2001
  • Supervised Manufacturing Engineering team that included Plastic Engineers, Mold Design Engineers, and Senior Toolmakers.
  • Responsible for all technical aspects of molding facility.
  • Responsible for all new job quoting.
  • Responsibility for new tool designs of highly complex and closely tolerance tooling in the electronics field.
  • Responsible for expanding facility from a 32 machine operation into a 70 machine operation, while reducing manpower from over 300 associates to 215.
  • Responsible for specifying and implementing new materials. These material changes had a result of $250M in annual savings.
  • Implemented manufacturing changes to increase productivity and lower manufacturing costs.
  • Manufacturing costs were lowered from $39.00/ hour to $21.00/hour. Shrewsbury had lowest cost manufacturing in US.
  • Responsible for productivity of $60MM of sales annually.

Tyco Electronics (AMP Incorporated), Harrisburg PA: Senior Plastics Manufacturing Engineer, Shrewsbury Molding
1995 - 2001
  • Responsible for the implementation of new product and processes in the Shrewsbury Injection molding facility.
  • Developed Hot Runner ability and expanded their use. This allowed a reduction in cycle time by an average of 20%.
  • Monitored daily production rates and implemented changes to increase these rates. Some rates where increased by as much as 50% by the implementation of new technologies such as pulse cooling.
  • Overall outputs where increased by 25-35% through use of good processing techniques.

Pennsylvania State University, York PA: Instructor, PSU York Campus
1999 - 2002
  • The developer and primary instructor for PSU plastics programs. This program is a two-year associates program and includes classes and labs in all processes in the plastics industry. Program currently has over 60 students.

The West Company, Montgomery PA: Senior Technical Director, Plastics Division
1985 - 1995
  • Supervisory responsibility for all associates involved with the technical aspects of the business.
  • Manufacturing processes included Injection-Molding and Blow Molding.
  • Managed all technical aspects of $43MM custom molding business.
  • Responsible for implementing Prohelp 1000 process monitoring and Statistical Process Control techniques.
  • Redesigned swing plate molding machine and remanufactured existing machine from this design. Achieved savings of $200M per machine for 12 machines.
  • Redesigned unscrewing extractors to eliminate mold damage. This redesign resulted in a 20% increase in productivity and a manufacturing cost reduction of $5MM.
  • Took business from an 11% profit to a 27% profit through the implementation of proper skilled associates and specifying correct equipment necessary for high productivity.

The West Company, Montgomery PA: Process/Product Development Engineer, Plastics Division
1985 - 1995
  • Responsible for the development of a product or a group of products from conception to prototype through to production.
  • Worked with customers to commercialize their ideas.
  • Managed the finances of these projects.
  • Managed multiple projects at the same time with emphasis on cost and process implementation.

The West Company, Montgomery PA: Process Engineer Supervisor, Medical Plastics Division
1985 - 1995
  • Developed Process-Engineering group. Group was put together to clearly define processes and implement them into production.
  • Worked with existing Processes and new processes.
  • Supervised Process Engineers and Process Technicians.
  • Supervised associates in materials testing lab.

The West Company, Montgomery PA: Process Engineer, Medical Plastics Division
1985 - 1995
  • Responsible for trouble shooting of existing processes and implementing process solutions.
  • Used empirical and scientific methods to evolve processes and the process window.
  • Used tool coatings to improve tool life and reduce necessary lubricants. Increased productivity by 25%

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Plastics Engineering
  • University of Lowell, Lowell MA (1985)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Plastic Materials
  • Knowledge of commodity and engineering materials from a properties and processing aspect.
  • Experience in materials development
  • Experience in Reactive Extrusion and compounding
  • Testing lab supervisory experience.
Tooling
  • Tool room supervisory experience.
  • Extensive knowledge of tool making and tool design. Have been involved with the design of close tolerance molds in the electrical/electronics and the medical fields.
  • Experience in the design of injection blow-mold tooling and extrusion blow- molding tooling.
  • Experience with Mold Flow analysis.
  • Extensive hot runner knowledge.

ACTIVITIES
Society of Plastics Engineers
  • 1989-1992, Board of Directors.
  • 1992-1993, Section President Elect.
  • 1993-1994, Section President.
  • 1999-2004, National Councilor.
  • 2000-2004, Treasurer Susquehanna section
  • 2001-2004 Chair of the Committee of the Whole, International SPE
  • 2004-2007 Executive Vice President, SPE International
  • 2007- 2020 Board of Directors Susquehanna SPE

South Central PA Plastics Education Consortium
1998 - 2004
  • One of the founders of this organization.
  • Served as chairman of several committees.
  • Made several recommendations to help support plastic education both, k-12 and secondary, in the South Central Pa. Area.