Tom Philbrook

Experience

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  IBM Corporation

  Jan 1990 - Apr 2005

  Procurement Engineer

  Manufacturing engineering support of mechanical hardware including plastics, metal, castings and finishing. Provided recommendations for material selection, tooling and part design manufacturability, and cost savings.Coordinated supplier tooling and part activities - quotation and sourcing, design and build, engineering change management, production process qualification, capacity management, and process / quality problem resolution. Supported procurement in successful supplier negotiations using part cost analysis estimating tools.Worked with manufacturing and suppler teams in U.S., Mexico, Japan, Belgium, and China to establish worldwide sourcing strategies, tooling introduction, and capital planning of mechanical commodities for notebook productsEstablished new molding and painting supplier sourcing in Mexico to support IBM Guadalajara facility.Successfully managed new materials and process introductions for the IBM ThinkPad 701c “Butterfly” notebook including highly filled composite molding, phenolic thermoset moldings and other critical to design parts. . . Show less

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  联想

  Jan 2005 - now

  Procurement Engineer

  Support all aspects of mechanical hardware production methodologies. Plastics, metal, casting and finishing. Support design review, cost and tooling analysis, tool design, capacity planning, source review, source qualification, tool and part qualification and production support.Products supported include notebook computers and peripherals.