Ron Taranto

Personal Information

623 Snowmass

Rochester Hills, MI 48309

Education

10/78-05/82 Fachhochschule Karlsruhe, Germany

o BSME with major in (Maschinenbau) Manufacturing Engineering graduated 05/82.

o Internship at IBM.

 

09/72-02/76 Gottlieb-Daimler, Techniker Schule, Germany

o Apprenticeship program completed 11/75.

o Received Diploma with State certification as Tool and Die Maker.

Experience

Project Manager and Release Engineer @ Kontec/Getrag; MI; 03/08-10/09 In charge of the Front- and Rear Differential designs and conversion from Cast Iron to aluminum Casting for the military ECVII, JLTV, Cobra and MRAP projects for AM General, as well as testing and Customer liaison.

 

Project Manager and Senior Design Engineer @ Kontec/MFC Netform, Shelby Twp., MI; 04/05-02/08 Startup Company Image improved at GM-DAT, GM and Ford through virtual Product Validation.

Exposure increase by prototyping new Transmission Pinion Carrier and Clutch Drums for the OEM.

Development cycle reduced and errors eliminated by introduction of equation driven design.

Established complete Process-flow and –parameters including Flowforming, Stamping and CNC-machining for Prototypes and consequent Launch issue reduction.

 

Design Engineer with Purem @ Kontec/Detroit Diesel, MI; 10/04-04/05 Design/Engineering of medium Duty Truck Exhaust systems. Configurations where DOC and DPF combinations. Established working multi-level BOM for all combinations.

 

Engineering Manager @ WPT, LLC, Clinton Twp., MI; 07/02-08/04

Sales increase by acquiring new Customers like Valeo, Trico and Jideco for new Injection-molded Parts.

Major cost-savings and product improvement by redesign Aluminum Wiper-arm for molded Plastic.

Competitive costing, reduction of Quote preparation time and improvement of accuracy by automation.

 

R&D Director, North America @ Valeo, Security Systems, Auburn Hills, MI; 12/99-07/02 Build the Startup Division for North America.

Established Project Teams and connected with other Divisions for Resource sharing.

Acquired new GM Latch business for an excess of $4M and 3 Car-lines.

Steered Competency Center to a highly improved Sector-gear Actuator for an Asian OEM.

Major cost savings and Talent retention by redirecting Project Team with In-sourcing.