David Bryant Knox

d.o.b. **/**/****

*** ***** ****** • Raleigh, NC 27606

919-***-**** • acc3b2@r.postjobfree.com

MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Multi-faceted professional with thirty years of hands-on engineering experience. Talent for

conceptualizing, designing and delivering innovative equipment for complex processes in construction

and production fields. Track record of successful customer interfaces, from concept to equipment

implementation. Demonstrated abilities to work with representatives of governmental agencies in order

to achieve grant compliance and accountability.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Multi-Project Management Process Analysis & Improvement

Federal/State Grant Compliance ISO & Safety Compliance

Equipment Design, Sales & Service Field Team & Customer Interface

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum (ARMM) – Altoona, PA 1/2011 – 12/2013

Clerk of the Works

Certified and approved Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) inspection agent.

Oversee construction of The Harry Bennett Memorial Roundhouse. Liaise between PennDOT, ARMM,

and construction contractor J. C. Orr. Responsible for documentation of every phase of construction,

grant administration and compliance, and approval of all monies spent for materials and labor. Interface

daily with contractors to insure quality and execution of all design requirements for the successful

completion of the project.

Organize and schedule contractors and subcontractors

Interface with city and state inspectors to insure code compliance

Produce daily field inspection diaries

Process Solutions, LLC – Lillington, NC 2006 – 2010

Principal

Engineering consultant for plant upgrades and layouts, offering turn-key design, installation and

supervision of all phases of contractor oversight in structural, refrigeration, services, chilled water and

computer controlled monitors, and water calibration processes.

Equipment design, manufacture and installation

Sales, training and service

Backus USA, Inc./Freshtec International LLC – Dubois, PA & Lillington, NC 1994 – 2004

VP of Engineering/Sales

Oversee sales force, engineering group, manufacturing, and plant installation of Fresh-cut vegetable

processing equipment and services. Provide customer support in plant design, service and installation.

Oversee implementation of electrical, water, cold room refrigeration, waste disposal and waste water

disposal and recovery. Provide turn-key operations of plant, site and equipment for new and existing

facilities.

Designed stand-alone high speed assembly and processing machinery

Plant layout and construction oversight

Customer relations from initial concept to implementation

Sales, service and training

One-off design to meet customer requirements

Raychem Corporation, Fuquay-Varina, NC 1991 - 1994

Senior Design Engineer

R&D support for design of Electron Beam Accelerator in-line process cells. Design Engineer of team

responsible for extrusion and cross-link of polymer process, working mainly with magnetic fields,

radiation contamination, high-voltage power supply design, super-chilled water processes and waste

water recovery.

Designed equipment to specifications of lead scientist

Worked with team of physicists in development of specialized applications

Developed gamma-ray containment strategies

Lord Corporation, Cary, NC 1988 - 1991

Design Engineer

Design robotic end-of-arm odd form assembly. R&D design of state-of-art tactile sensors for robotics.

Managed set-up for technical trade shows

Tested material and process applications

Corning Glass, Raleigh, NC 1984 – 1988

Design Engineer

Plant expansion and equipment design for production lines of ceramic capacitors. Design ceramic layer

printing and cook-out procedure equipment.

Tipper Tie, Apex, NC 1981 – 1984

Design Draftsman

R&D draftsman for food packaging machinery. Field test and implement new equipment.

Smith-Sinnett Architecture, Raleigh, NC 1974 – 1980

Draftsman

Detail draftsman of commercial and residential architecture. Performed field inspections and

documentation.

EDUCATION

North Carolina State University 1980 – 1982

Mechanical Engineering Program

Wake Technical College 1978 – 1980

Associates degree in Design Drafting

References upon request

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