TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Software Development
• Automation and Process Control
• PLC/HMI Programming
• Industrial Networking
• Instrumentation
• Variable Frequency Drives
• Servo Drives
• Motion Control
• Equipment Debug/Troubleshoot/Retrofit
• Schematics/P&ID/Panel Layouts/UL508a
• Vision System Development
• RFID Tag Programming/Reading
• Confidential RSLogix500 & RSLogix5000
• Confidential FactoryTalk View
• Confidential PowerFlex Drives
• Confidential Kinetix Servos
• Confidential Ethernet/IP
• ABB robots
• Oriental Motors Stepper Drives and Motors
• SICK vision systems
• AutoCAD, AutoCAD Electrical
• Solidworks
• Microsoft.NET, C++, C#
• Unity 3D

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Automation Engineer

Confidential - Oakdale, MN

Responsibilities:

• Providing Mechanical, Electrical and Controls Engineering for foam headphone tip manufacturing.
• Designed foam/silicone assembly dial. Specified Confidential MicroLogix controller, Oriental Motors stepper motors and controllers, and pneumatic valves. Developed schematic package. Sized electrical components and circuit protection.
• Managed all phases of updates on foam cutting saw. Made updates from as-built to as-needed, improving usability by reworking PLC code and HMI screens for Confidential CompactLogix processor, PanelView ME HMI, Confidential Kinetix servo drives, and Confidential PowerFlex VFDs.

Contract Electrical/Controls Engineer

Confidential - New Richmond, WI

Responsibilities:

• Designed dredge control systems using IFM mobile machine controllers as well as flow and density meters. Responsible for electrical design, parts specification, component sizing, circuit protection, panel layouts.
• Designed controls for remote operated submersible dredge. Responsible for electrical designs, including 3000V power circuits, variable frequency drives, operator controls, and electrical enclosures. Programmed Unity3D based software for control and display of two SONAR heads, one dual-axis scanner and one profiling scanner. Created schematics, sized components and confirmed circuit protection schemes.

Electrical/Controls Engineer

Confidential - Saint Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Prepared electrical hardware, generated bills of materials, sized electrical enclosures, confirmed circuit protection for a standard line of machine controls for continuous conveyor weigh scales.
• Configured remote machine control using HMS Netbiter Argos and proprietary weigh scale controller.
• Programmed Horner microcontroller to communicate with and control up to 16 proprietary weigh scale controllers. System required multiplexing 16 RS232 signals.

Electrical/Controls Engineer

Confidential - Plymouth, MN

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and implemented proprietary software for control of large-scale flour mill.
• Participated in controls installation and commissioning at customer site.

Mechanical/Electrical Engineer/Co-Owner

Confidential - Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed custom library materials sorting and conveying systems
• Went from concept to working system in under 3 years. Company was profitable in 4 years and had $2.5 million in yearly sales when I sold my share in 2015.
• System mechanicals were designed using Solidworks. System electricals included Confidential PLCs, a PC, various distributed RFID readers, sensors and buttons.

Contract Electrical/Controls Engineer

Confidential - MN and WI

Responsibilities:

• Stent polishing machine with Confidential PLC, PC HMI using VB.NET, custom database communications, RFID tag readers, and networked Confidential Kinetix servo drives and motors.
• Heavy equipment air filter assembly machine incorporating Confidential ControlLogix PLC, Confidential Kinetix servo drives and motors, Confidential PanelView HMI, pneumatic actuators, and gear driven fluid pumps.
• Medical fluid testing pack filler using Confidential CompactLogix PLC, Confidential PanelView HMI, and pneumatic valves.
• Servo-driven three-axis high-explosives mixing robot, incorporating Confidential CompactLogix PLC, Automation Direct C-More HMI, Confidential Kinetix servo drives and motors, and a serial weigh scale.
• Consumer sanding sponge cutting and packaging machine using Confidential ControlLogix PLC, Confidential PanelView HMI, and Kinetix servo drives and motors utilizing the Confidential Motion Coordinate System.
• Reprogrammed motions for an ABB robotic catheter packaging machine.
• Updated Confidential HMI and PLC programs to improve cycle time for a door screen installation machine, learning original programming technique, modifying it, and testing.

Senior Controls Engineer

Confidential - Maple Grove, MN

Responsibilities:

• Provided Electrical and Controls Engineering for in-house manufacturing equipment.
• Provided documentation for operator manuals, validation, code comments, SOPs, schematics, etc.
• Wrote PLC and HMI code using Confidential ControlLogix and MS Visual Basic 6.0.

Director of Engineering

Confidential - White Bear Lake, MN

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Engineering department operations.
• Hired and supervised Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, and Programmers.
• Provided direction for design and manufacture of automated book and media handling systems for public libraries.
• Led development of fully customizable, web-based patron and media services software.
• Led development of PLC-based material handling systems to improve reliability and reduce cost

Mechanical Engineer

Confidential - St. Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for special equipment design and manufacturing.
• Responsible for mechanical design, purchasing and manufacture of equipment used to package aluminum photo-plates.
• Developed and implemented programs for large ABB gantry robots.
• Developed and implemented controls using Confidential PLC’s.
• Responsible for mechanical design, purchasing and manufacture of equipment used to form and assemble oil filters.
• Responsible for all mechanical design, purchasing and manufacturing of equipment used to detect leaks in stainless steel gas lines.
• Developed and implemented Microsoft Visual Basic OCX for use with multiple serial communications links. Developed controls for equipment using Intellution Paradygm and Wizdom software packages

R&D Engineer

Confidential - Eden Prairie, MN

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development and manufacture of cutting-edge reverse-engineering/inspection technology.
• Developed mechanical systems and controls/software for original line of reverse-engineering/inspection equipment.
• Project manager from concept to public showing and sales. Lead project from concept to operational product.
• Responsible for continued development and maintenance of technology. Developed mechanical systems and controls/software for additional line of equipment.
• Software development packages used: Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, Microsoft Visual C++, and Microsoft Visual Basic.
• Hardware developed using AutoCAD 12, 13, 14, and 2000i.

Plant Engineer - Mechanical

Confidential - Davenport, IA

Responsibilities:

• Acted as technical liaison between company management and service vendors, construction and installation crews, and plant personnel.
• Provided project management for equipment installation and upgrades including $10MM aluminum rolling line.
• Created work and financial schedules for all mechanical projects and managed all aspects of project development.
• Projects included installing an aluminum annealing furnace, upgrading an aluminum slitting/leveling line and repairing a fume incineration unit.

Associate Design Engineer

Confidential - Madison, WI

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of equipment for use in the corrugated industry.
• Responsible for development of new equipment from conception to final testing, including design of a corrugated shear for use in limited space and design of a paperboard shear for use in two high-speed sheeter lines.
• Responsible for redesign of a high-volume corrugated stacker and development of an improved standard corrugated shear.