1. Christopher Ken Kelley
22174 Clover Lane, Novi, MI 48375 ● 248.504.8127 ● ckkelley@umich.edu
Objective Seeking full time job as a mechanical engineer.
Experience Yazaki North America; Application Engineer 03/2014- Present
 Made wire harness drawings for OEM customers (primarily Chrysler and GM) to meet specifications of
different carlines. Drawings are used for production, prototypes and contract bidding purposes.
 Worked with design release engineers to understand customer needs. Relayed information back and forth
to resolve potential issues to fulfill all customer requirements.
 Created specifications for wire harness components so that the customer could understand components
that are going into the wire harness.
StarPak Group; Sales Engineer 06/2013 to 12/2013
 Start-up company of only 3 full time employees. Made crucial decisions for the company direction,
delegation of duties, and fulfilled numerous roles according to need.
 Company started off as an energy auditing firm, but decided to focus only on LED lighting.
 Filled numerous roles including administration work, purchasing, marketing, sales engineering, installation
work, etc. Primary role ended up being sales engineer.
 Did 10-20 cold visits per day to potential customers, conducted energy audits, created contracts, and
negotiated with customers for potential lighting deals.
 Won and completed a $100,000+ contract with Kalahari Water Park to do LED lighting for the majority
of their resort. Won a $20,000 contract from The Henry hotel.
 Worked on R&D at StarPak and conducted experiments with renewable energy to test design ideas.
Toyota Mississippi Corolla Plant; Assembly Production Engineer Co-op 05/2012 to 08/2012
 Primary job responsibility was to make line workers jobs more ergonomically friendly.
 Lead multiple challenging projects, managed time for 5 or more projects simultaneously, worked with
several engineering and non-engineering teams, worked with contractors, sent out formal bid
specifications to receive quotes and installed projects in the plant.
 Led a $15,000 project to build a tool assist for a heavy electric gun used by line workers. Designed using
AutoCaD, prototyped design, and created a comprehensive part and build specification to enable Toyota
to make this in-house. Cost savings from this design expected to be $30,000/year.
 Presented reports to senior management, including the president, to get budgetary approval for projects
over $10,000.
 Completed daily tasks that involved gathering, arranging and analyzing data to allow upper management
to better understand the information.
Yazaki North America; Intern for Engineering Profitability Improvement Team 01/2011 to 08/2011
 Worked on projects that would help to save Yazaki money with strategies that included common part
consolidation, in-house manufacturing and replacement with cheaper parts that met specifications.
 Worked on clip consolidation project to replace convolutes with tie straps whenever possible.
 In charge of a coax cable project that reduced Yazaki’s supplier dependence by forming a strategy to
create parts in-house.
Projects Smart Optical Monitoring System (Senior Design) 09/2012 to 12/2012
 Smart Optical Monitoring System (SOMS) is used to detect weld defects during additive manufacturing.
It utilizes a laser and spectrometer so that the user can analyze the wavelength and understand the
material composition.
 Conducted a design of experiment to relate different wavelengths to different material compositions, and
understand how changing the SOMS’s laser parameters can change the material composition.
 Used Matlab’s “Support Vector Machine” (SVM) function to output the current material composition,
and the laser parameter adjustments needed to achieve the desired material composition.
Education University of Michigan, College of Engineering; Ann Arbor, MI
B.S. Mechanical Engineering; April 2013
Additional Skills Japanese (Fluent)
Software (Mentor Graphics, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, MatLab, and MS Office Programs)