Objectives: Manager of Operations, Engineering, or Project Mgr. Mechanical Engineer/Designer

Education: Business Administration Studies, Oakland City, IN.
Machine Design.
AutoCad Mechanical 2D & GD&T – used ten (10) years
Inventor – used seven (7) years
Solidworks –COSMOS FEA used four (4) years & PDM (Product Data Mgt.)
Waubonsee Community College – Solidworks Solid Modeling (review) 2008
Pro E – Wildfire – one year experience.
Experience:
12-13-10 to 2-10-12 Confidential,
Willowbrook, IL: Confidential,
Led the design and development of an automated drink dispensing machine for McDonalds Corporation, for world-wide use in their stores. The machine utilizes six stepper motor driven actuators. The “Y” and “Z” actuators, with vacuum cups, pulls six different size cups from dispense tubes, positioned from front to back on the left side of the machine. The cups are delivered to an “X” actuator pocket and placed under the ice and soda.
Filled cups are then placed on three staging walking beams and moved to the front for the operator. Up-to three customer orders and nine cups are available to the operator.
When a cup is removed from the staging lanes, it will be replaced with another if the demand is there.
Soda production is increased by 20% over the previous design and only requires one operator.

5-24-10 to 9-24-10: Confidential,
IL: Designed large heavy duty automation equipment for the manufacturer of roofing shingles, with Auto Cad
Mechanical Desk Top R-2010. (Project was completed.)

1-10-09 to 5-21-10: Confidential,
St. Charles, IL (Consulting)
Solving product design & manufacturing problems for clients and designed automation assembly stations for volume manufacturing. Designed injection molded parts, automation stations and fixtures for sonic welding, thermoforming and pick & place arms. Cad system used was Solidworks R 2008 and Inventor R 2007.

8-15-08 to 1-05-09: Confidential,
Chicago, IL (Laid-off)
Senior Mechanical Engineer; Designed product and tooling for folding stages and choral risers. Using sheet metal, plywood, composite board, tubing injection molded plastic, cast aluminum and steel parts. Tested new designs assuring industry specifications were maintained. Cad system used was Solidworks R 2008.

8-22-07 to 6-13-08: Confidential,
Lombard, IL (Laid-off)
Principal Mechanical Engineer; Directed the design and mechanical development of a coal-fired plant, producing methane gas, located in Somerset, MA on Brayton Point. Managed a group of five (5) engineers. The mechanical engineering part of the plant exceeded 10 million dollars. Designed and researched equipment suppliers and process equipment, wrote specifications. Directed the design, development and procurement of coal handling, activator slurry mixing and conveying, specified tanks, vessels and cyclones. Computed and checked calculations to ASME code. Managed mechanical engineering schedule. Created PFs and P&IDs for the process. The project contained a 200 ft. high Gassification Reactor Tower including furnaces
located on the Reactor. Received on line SPED training 2008. Cad system used was Inventor 3D, AutoCad 2D and Micro Station.

8-15-2000 to 7-27-2007: Confidential,
Bloomingdale. IL (Company Buyout)
Senior Mechanical Engineer; Cad system used was AutoCad 2D and Inventor 3D. Communication Equip.; designed, engineered, developed, tested and built antennas, such as Omni, Sector, Wi-Fi, Wimax Panels and Parabolic Dishes for indoor and outdoor applications. Designed component parts of sheet metal, injection molded plastic, castings and machined aluminum. Designed mechanical and electrical production assembly and test fixtures, setup work cells, and directed lean manufacturing procedures. Managed machine shop where prototypes and tooling work was done.
Out sourced various parts and subassemblies to China. Maintained compliance with customer and industry specifications. Application of ISO-9000 functions.

5-10-1980 to 7-15-2000: Confidential,
St. Charles, IL Cad Systems used was AutoCad 2D and Solidworks.
President – Owner of consulting firm – Consumer Product and Equipment Design.
Designed and developed a major part of an I-V bag machine for Abbott Lab., three machines was developed along with capping and preparing them for filling. Sheets of CR-3 plastic were heat sealed and cut apart producing the bags in various sizes, in a continuous operation. Provided the mechanical design for a line of blood analyzers. Designed original gas pump credit card acceptance station. Designed Turnstiles and Fare collection systems for fare collection company. Designer Gas fired fireplaces for residential interior use. Obtained UL, AGA, CGA certification on the products as industry standards required. Maintained RoHS compliant issues.
Plant Layout – Material Flow and Work Cell Planning with Robots; Capital Equipment Purchases as used in conveying, stamping, machining, measuring and testing.
Injection Molded Parts and Tools: Small and large, from a few ounces to several pounds.
Automated Machines; Designed and developed high speed Packaging Equipment, product sealing, collating, carton loading, carton numbering, and labeling. Hydraulics and pneumatics and PLC controls, also PLC/PC controls. Designed and developed
the hydraulic and pneumatics required for stamping, sealing and loading of the product.

Conveyers; Conveyers for handling food, pharmaceutical, coal and paper products.
ISO-9000, 9001 and 9002; Application in $60 million operation.
PLC Controls; Program G & M code, Fanuc Series O-T, FADAL MP-32 and Gibbs Cam.

6-20-1975 to 3-15-1980: Confidential,
Div. Sperry & Hutchinson, Wayland, NY

VP OF Manufacturing; (Company Buyout) Managed four plants in three states, New York, Texas and California. Approximately 500 employees and over 100 million in sales.
Turn company around from a negative bottom line to a 17% profit after taxes. Reorganized product and industrial engineering, installed an IBM Production Control/Material Requirements Planning, Cost Management System.

Mgr. Engineering Experience:

• Lean Manufacturing, Single Piece Flow, Kaizen, and Kanban experience
• Planning and scheduling – MS Project – Pert Charts – Critical Path Bar Charts.
• Analyzing Designs - DFMEA, b. COSMOS FEA, c. determine product life cycle.
• Selecting the best PC/PLC controller and system structure for the machine goals.
• Maintain project pricing objectives, engineering, machining, build, test, labor and material cost.
• Maintain deliverables - schedule target to meet the company’s profitable objective.
• Review engineer’s abilities and place them where they will most effectively support the project tasks.
• Hire and train qualified engineering personnel and mentor existing engineers.
• Review documentation standards, BOMs, Routings, ECRs and ECNs. Make sure they meet the company’s objectives, ISO, QA and RoHS standards for acceptance in international markets.
• Create a happy working environment that enables each person to be successful at his or her task.

Hobbies: Interests; Gardening, carpentry, computers, Indycar racing and doing projects in my shop.

References supplied upon request.

KEY WORDS, V. P. of Operations, Manager, Mechanical Engineer, Project Manager, Mechanical Designer, Electro-Mechanical, Machine Designer, Product Development, Investment Castings, Die Castings, Cast Iron, Aluminum Castings, Rotational Castings,