SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
An innovative, hands-on team player and leader who leverages a valuable blend of interpersonal and technical skills to drive engineering efficiency and productivity. Experience includes management, engineering, financial, and supervisory duties, as well as hands on design.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT, including feasibility studies, cost estimates, cost-benefit analyses, (including payback and ROI), specification writing, project preparation, competitive bidding, OEM selection, supervision, and coordination, design approval, timeline management, scope management, quality management, resource management, and cost management, risk control, machine runoff, installation, debugging, operator and maintenance training, and billing verification.
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, encompassing the coaching, mentoring, development, training and supervision of engineers and skilled tradesmen within a union shop plant as well as direct supervision, employee and team motivation, candidate evaluation, hiring recommendation, performance review, conflict resolution, and union grievance resolution.
CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN, including hardware design, material requisition, software programming, build supervision, installation, startup, and debugging.
ARCHITECTUAL/FACILITIES, including power, lighting, fire protection, communications networks, energy management systems, and HVAC.
TESTING AND VALIDATION, including infotainment systems and diesel locomotive engine control.
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
MANAGEMENT
• Directed the efforts of 6 engineers, 14 electricians, and 2 millwrights in a union shop environment at Ford Motor Company.
• Established plant electrical standards and collaborated with plant safety and corporate standards groups at Ford Motor Company to ensure the quality of controls systems used on new tools, machinery, and systems.
• Managed the installation of a conveyor system commissioned at GM Janesville two months ahead of schedule and $80,000 under budget while achieving zero personnel injuries, safety infractions, or work slowdowns. Successfully managed projects up to $5.5M.
• Performed a feasibility study for GM Metal Fabricating Division and determined that a machine vision system could not replace an expensive, trouble-prone part-positioning system, saving the company from spending $20,000 on a system incapable of functioning in the production environment.
ENGINEERING
• Developed a simple control system for an automatic tool changer for Valeo that incorporated energy-saving design and extensive diagnostics, including cycle-time totalizers, which provided user-screen prompting when periodic and preventive maintenance was required.
• Devised a simplified control scheme for a particular filtration system that allowed it to be implemented in an SLC-5-04 PLC rather than the more expensive PLC-5-20 previously used.
• Rewrote programs in Microsoft Basic to make several gauging stations at two Allied Signal plants Y2K compliant, eliminating the need for a company to spend $20,000 to replace the stations.
• Provided in-plant support of 1 large material handling system, one class A and one class G paint finishing system, 63 injection-molding machines, and 16 large blow molding machines.
• Did the last large substation/bus duct upgrade at a Ford parts plant entirely in-house without the aid of outside consultants. Project consisted of a medium-voltage substation, two 5,200-volt substations, several 5,200-volt motor controllers and several 480-volt substations and over 2000 feet of bus duct. Project was completed on time and within budget.
• Added a safety pendant to several existing milling machines at Ford Batavia for automatic transmission valve bodies, allowing setup personnel to enter the machine’s work area to make adjustments without risk of injury.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
-General Motors, Warren, MI 11/2011-9/2013
INFOTAINMENT ENGINEER
Debugged Infotainment systems networks including MOST, LIN and CAN. Including Cadillac Cue, Chevy MyLink. Validated vendor software using Optolyser Suite and Intrepid Vehicle Spy. Tracked customer problems and validated solutions in the ESIMS database.
Filtra Systems, Farmington Hills, MII 7/2011-9/2011
CONTROLS ENGINEER
Did hardware and software design of control systems for filtration of industrial coolants using Siemens Step 7 with WinCC Flex and Telmecanique Unity Pro PLCs and AutoCAD for hardware design
GE Transportation Division, Erie PA 5/2010-7/2011
TEST ENGINEER,
Did regression testing of hardware and software controlling diesel locomotive engines up to 4500 horsepower. Wrote purchase specifications. Did concept visualization for test panel that reduced test time by 22%, created design, and had fabricated. Did some programming with Matlab and Simulink.
Indicon Corporation, Sterling Heights, MI 8/2009-3/2010
PROCESS CONTROLS ENGINEER,
Hardware (AutoCAD) and software design, control system for T. I. Simon Power Plant at Michigan State University, including controls building, substation equipment, and control system using Allen Bradley GuardLogix PLC with safety I/O, Ethernet interfaces to auxiliary equipment and FactoryTalk based HMI
Ben-Tech Division of Curtiss-Wright,, Rochester Hills, MI 9/2008-12/2008
CONTROLS ENGINEER,
Wrote software (PLC and HMI) debugged, and started up complex conveyor/material handling system for Diesel Engines for Cummins using Telmecanique Unity Pro PLC and Vijeo HMI system and AutoCAD.
Ambitech Engineering, Downers Grove, IL 4/2008-9/2008
SENIOR ENGINEER,
Created and checked P&ID and loop drawings and cable schedules to upgrade a Beckman MVCU system to an Emerson DeltaV system at a CITGO refinery. Checked P&ID, loop drawings, and device specifications for a Unilever Food Processing plant and an HSC Semiconductor solar cell manufacturing plant.
Outbound Technologies, Novi, MI 11/2007-3/2008
CONTROLS ENGINEER,
Debugged automated AGV/Assembly operation at Detroit Diesel using Step 7 with Transline for motor assembly. Programmed a robotic weld station w/gauging for a small machine shop using RSLogix, and a paint system air house/heater/humidity control system for GM Spring Hill Tennessee and a Mexican location using a ControlLogix PLC with a Siemens WinCC Flex HMI.
ThyssenKruppKruase, Janesville, WI 8/2007-11/2007
CONTROLS ENGINEER,
Debugged automated automatic transmission assembly line for GM Toledo using Siemens Step 7 with Graph and WinCC Flex HMI system with ProAgent Diagnostic software at ThyssenKrupp’s Janesville, WI shop.
Independent Contract Work (1099,) Various 9/2006-8/2007
CONTROLS ENGINEER,
Converted steel mill blast fur...
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