EUGENE E. BACHMAN

**** ******* ** * Columbus, MI 48063 * acfhbr@r.postjobfree.com * 586-***-****

Senior Design Engineer

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Skilled, creative, self directed, resilient and critically thinking senior design engineer with contributing experiences in

diverse roles culminating in complex machine / vehicle development experiences that include all areas of project design /

build from beginning to end, incorporating leadership, scheduling, and customer interface.

At the center of my career and life for over 20 years has been designing, building, and debugging machines and their

custom tailored enhancements plus never forgetting to get customers what they want and need.

SKILLS

•

• 3D Modeling, Detailed Drawings Assemblies • Continual process improvement

and FEA Simulation • Design for Manufacture

• SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCad, & Catia V5 • Over 15 years experience in Microsoft office

• Customer Focused Engineering Practices applications

• Complex Problem Solving • Design / Engineering Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Evolver Columbus, MI 2007 to Present

Product Development Engineer, Designer, Project Manager, Owner, and Founder

Developed sound, creative, design concept for machines / vehicles to solve problems and make improvements customers

wanted and needed. Responsible for:

• Management and / or execution of technical details of a project form beginning to end including: project design,

schedules, and customer interface, customer needs, release of models and detail drawings through machining,

fabrication, welding, assembly, debug, troubleshooting, problem solving, and installation.

• Use of engineering theory, principles, and disciplines to craft new machine / vehicle systems based on customer

captured needs and requirements, existing styles, cost, and performance.

• Designed, engineered, built, and coordinated prototype builds; and tested vehicle / systems and collected data

according to including: Vehicle components and systems: Body Panels and Supports; Seating support, motion and

control systems; battery support & containment systems; fender Systems; power transmission systems;

floorboards; frame and chassis brackets, straps and components especially as related to suspension, power

transmission, air intake, exhaust, battery; axles, bearing mounts and fasteners.

• Processes engineered, specified and / or built: Tool and die; machining (manual and CNC), casting, forging,

sheet metal stamping, plastics wet lay-up, injection molding, and assembly.

• Materials used in Engineering, Design and Build: Mild and Alloy Steel, Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Thermal

Plastics and Two Part Polymers; Composite Materials such as carbon fiber, fiberglass, Kevlar, and polyester resin.

• Trained and experienced in the use of: CNC and manual mill, lathe, virtually all types of hand held shop tools; tig,

gas and stick welding. Skilled in use of precision measuring instruments.

• Strategic Planning, Product Planning, Marketing R & D, Business Canvas, Lean Processes, Project Planning and

continuous improvement processes

• Vehicle designs to fit customer captured needs for improved: driver ergonomics;, center of gravity (center of

mass); maneuverability; drivability; comfort, light unsprung weight, and (sport)handling vehicle suspension

systems; and reduced costs.

• 3D modeling, detailed drawings (including tolerances and GD&T), large assemblies and simulations on

SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCad, & Catia V5 for components, jigs and fixtures, assembly design of almost all of

the above mentioned engineered components. Used FEA (finite element analysis) in the design process.

• Drawings and models for parts engineering, visualization, simulation, design validation, design failure analysis,

costing, quoting, prototype, manufacture process, presentation, and patent purposes

• Design validation with Finite Element Analysis, Simulation, and specific customer and physical tests

• Consulted with, presented to, and discovered the need of numerous, distributors, customers, engineers, vendors,

and investors

Created a fixed tension chain or belt drive system that eliminate varying drive tension on long travel rear

suspension systems

Created a unique adjustable and / or suspended seating system. Seat system designed to keep shoulders of

ride / driver the same distance from the steering control device as the seat moves up and down. Patent in

process

Business to Business Sales Consultant for over 10 years 1990 to 2007

IKON Office Solutions Port Huron, MI

Macomb Duplicating Company Roseville, MI

Gilson Ayres Inc Troy, MI

Kerr-Albert Office Equipment Port Huron, MI

• Communicated and interacted with thousands of customers; helped them analyzed their needs using finely honed

communications skills; captured their requirements, desires and needs; and designed an eloquent and cost

effective engineered solution.

• Followed up to ensure solution validation and customer satisfaction.

• Continuous improvement processes. Learned to: ask forgiveness and not permission,

Consistently performed in top 10% of sales consultants in assigned office.

5 Years Management and Team Building Experience 1998 to 2003

Managed a team of leaders, led team meetings to improve processes and controls by promoting my ideas and allowing the

input of other ideas, taught leaders to perform their functions by influencing them without manipulating them, motivated

and corrected leaders, held and managed special events and trained leaders to manage events

Professional Overview: “From 8 years old to Evolver”

From my early years I have been designing and building machines with custom tailored enhancements to form an

eloquent and cost effective engineered solution for my customers’ needs. Probably my first was a 4 wheel peddle vehicle

I “customized” for my 4 sisters at the age of 8. Designed and built a gocart at age 12 based upon available manufacturing

capability and the customer’s perceived need.

After go carts I never stopped designing and customizing (even temporarily) machines. Spent over 7 years maintaining,

troubleshooting, problem solving and repairing mechanical, electric, and electronic machines. My goal was to get the

customer’s machine operating on the first call and keep them operating with minimum interruption. I developed critical

thinking skills to create countless temporary solutions on the first call, good enough to keep customer satisfied until the

parts came in. To create uninterrupted operation I implemented custom maintenance programs some created by my

employer and many I designed myself.

Marketed and used one of the most effective self motivation and goal setting systems in the world. Learned to have a can-

do attitude, look at the glass as half-full, never quit, influence people without manipulate them, role with the punches, a

hunger for self improvement, process, a heart and mind for details, decisiveness, enthusiasm, integrity, confidence and

many other life skills.

Spent over 10 years in sales of electric and electronic machines and systems to businesses. Worked with the customers to

find their real pain and their real need. Designed the most sound solution, helped them acquire it, then implemented the

solutions and confirmed customer satisfaction. Sometimes I had to work hard to make sure other departments completed

the project to customer’s expectations. Often I designed customized solutions.

Began design of my first road-able aircraft over 20 year ago and continued that project for over 10 years. I put that

project on the back burner in 2006 to design 4 wheeled vehicles, systems and machines. Designed, built and presented to

investors my first adjustable car desk over 10 years ago. When organizing records for over 1000 customers and prospect

on the road, it greatly simplified the process.

EDUCATION

BSME Equivalency; Experience and Education:

Over 10 years Mechanical and electronic; Design, Engineering, Prototyping and Manufacturing experience. Plus 6 years

education in Manufacturing Technologies, Engineering Graphics(CAD), and Electronics Engineering Technology.

St Clair County Community College 2011 Port Huron, MI

Associate of Applied Arts and Science: Engineering Graphics Technology

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Included: SolidWorks, Catia, AutoCad, Advanced Solid modeling, GD&T, Tool & Design, Progressive and Transfer

metal stamping processes, Stamping extrusions, Jig and fixture design, mold design, statistical process control,

descriptive geometry, fluid power and control, manufacturing automation, advanced math, English, and physics. Also

included: Advanced Trigonometry, Algebra, and Pre-Calculus, machine automation projects, material-handling systems,

physical calculations, analytics related to fluid pressure, force, torque and thermal management.

St Clair County Community College 2011 Port Huron, MI

Associate of Applied Arts and Science: CNC Programmer / Machinist / Manufacturing

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Included: Advanced CNC milling and programming, lathe, machine tool use and design, Blueprint reading, fitting and

fabrication, Robotics and Automation, PLC Programming, also hydraulic and pneumatic control, cylinders, motors,

electric / pneumatic / hydraulic motion control, fluid and pressure calculations, High and low voltage electric, design of

motion control, plus most types of hand tools.

National Education Center 1987 East Pointe, MI

Graduated Honors and 4.0 GPA

2 Year Certificate: Electronic Engineering Technology & Industrial Electronics

Included: Design of electrical equipment, Discrete Analog, op amps, digital circuits, hardware, software,

interfacing of a microprocessor, drafting, technical writing, and applied mathematics. Industrial Electronics with:

motor, proximity and temperature controls, numerically controlled machines, programmable controllers, industrial

systems, transducers, capacitors, power supplies, capacitors, high and low voltage systems.

Notes: Willing to and comfortable with travel. Excited to learn and grow with the business & customers I will serve.

Contact this candidate