Drew has been a part of his family’s business since its inception in 1989 starting on the shop floor through the Henderson County High School’s co-op program and CAD classes from Ivy Tech college in Evansville, IN. After serving a four-year apprenticeship, he was certified as a Mold Maker. He has spent several years training in different departments, including three years in the design and engineering department as well as training in the CNC department, running CNC Wire EDM’s and machining centers. He was also involved in the fact-finding phase of implementing ISO9000.
Drew has been in the sales department of Sunrise Tool & Sunron International, LLC for three years and is excited to come to work each day to assist in managing molds built domestically and overseas. He is trained to assist his customers throughout the mold building process to make sure that they are satisfied with the finished product.
Drew enjoys building relationships with all of our customers and would like to have the opportunity to make new contacts and share our unique opportunity with other potential customers.
Jarrod has been in the tool & die industry since 1984, starting as an apprentice in high school. After serving a 4-year apprenticeship, he received a Journeyman Tool & Die Makers certificate.
In 1989, he was hired by Sunrise Tool & Die, Inc. as a Tool & Die maker, where he built and repaired plastic injection molds. He held several key positions there, including running the wire EDM and CNC wire EDM department. In 1996, he was promoted to the position of shop foreman, where he coordinated the flow of work through the shop by directing and overseeing employees. During this time Sunrise began to explore and later committed to becoming ISO 9000 certified. Jarrod served as a fact finding team member and later was instrumental in developing policies and procedures that resulted in Sunrise becoming certified in 1998.
In 1999, Jarrod began a new position as a Sales Engineer for the company. This position involved being in constant contact with existing customers during the production of tools. It involved using his tool & die making skills to assist the customer in building the mold that will serve their needs, beginning with the design of the mold all the way through the process to inspecting the parts that the mold produces.
Jarrod joined SunRon International, LLC at its inception in November 2006 as a member of the sales staff. His knowledge and background give our customers a level of support that they do not find anywhere else.
Randy began designing molds right out of college in 1981. He rejoins the Sunron team bringing 28+ years of injection molding/product & tool design experience. As Sales Engineer and ISO representative during his previous position at Sunrise, he was involved in developing, implementing, and obtaining our ISO certification in 1998. He also obtained “ISO Lead Auditor” certification at that time.
Randy’s background also includes experience as Engineering Manager in the Injection Molding arena. In addition to his mold design capabilities, he also brings the “Injection Molder’s” perspectives of
Multi-tool program management in the markets of Automotive, Major Appliances, Consumer Products, Lawn & Garden, Medical, Proprietary Products, Six Sigma/Black Belt training, PPAP & FPA requirements, Product design and development, GD & T, APQP and FMEA’s, Materials & processing.
His journeys have also provided him the opportunities to build/manage tooling programs domestically, and in Asia & Europe.
Lorna Littrell
Lorna, and her husband, Darrell, founded Sunrise Tool & Die in 1989. Prior to that time, Lorna had worked in banking, finance and several other capacities, including managing a commercial loan department. During her involvement with Sunrise, she has established and helped to maintain the accounting systems used, the Human Resource issues that are required, as well as being familiar with all government entities that are a part of manufacturing, including OSHA. She is a support system to Drew and Darrell, as needed, and is instrumental in creating community partnerships to deal with labor and education improvement and cost.