Doug Hunter
I've begun an independent consulting and contract Engineering business to enable me to apply my God-given skills to help a greater number of people and businesses. I hope you’ll allow me to use my 37 years of experience in product design, development, innovation, launch and leadership to assist you in your business ventures.
Please see my credentials below.
▪ Education
▪ BSME Carnegie-Mellon University
▪ Employment experience
▪ 2 years experience at Nichols Portland
▪ designing and developing powder-metal Gerotor gearsets
▪ ½ year experience at Southworth Products
▪ designing scissor-leg lift tables
▪ 33 years experience at Coltec / Holley / BorgWarner / SLPT
▪ designing and developing automotive powertrain pumps
▪ innovating new pump technologies
▪ 25 years of technical leadership/supervisory experience
▪ 30+ patents globally
▪ International business experience
▪ NA: Canada, Mexico
▪ EU: England, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Spain
▪ Asia: Korea, China, Japan
▪ Experience working with these companies
▪ Ford, GM, Chrysler, Stellantis
▪ BMW, Porsche, Daimler, Opel, Audi, VW, Fiat, Peugeot
▪ Toyota, Honda, Nissan, SAIC, Chery
▪ Dozens of suppliers around the world
▪ Material forming process experience
▪ powder metal, die casting, sand casting
▪ transfer-line, CNC and screw machining
▪ stamping and fineblanking, injection molding, and cold forming
▪ Extensive cross-functional experience
▪ throughout a manufacturing business
▪ Passions
▪ achieving positive results
▪ finding win-win solutions
▪ helping others
▪ Examples of past successes
▪ As a young Lead Engineer on a new project, my innovative and high-performing oil pump design led directly to our company winning it's first-ever production business with a premier German OEM.
▪ With our company facing a daunting deadline on another project for a premier German OEM, I led a Product Development team in creating an all-new design, fabricating and testing a prototype for a new oil pump system with a tandem vacuum pump in only 8 weeks. Our prototype won the design competition with superior performance and efficiency. Innovations were generated and patented that led to winning other programs globally.
▪ Successfully led our company simultaneously into all-new product lines of variable-displacement vane pumps and electro-hydraulic control systems for those pumps.
Proverbs 16:3 - Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.