Michael E. Danielson

**** ****** *** * ***********, Mn 55431 Home: (612) 226 -0 827 Messages: 612-***-**** acn41h@r.postjobfree.com

Career Objective

To be employed with a well established firm as a technician working in a challenging atmosphere with computer hardware, electro mechanical or solid state devices. Preferably in an R&D; or production environment.I have a high degree of mechanical aptitude and problem solving ability and a very good understanding of electronics and all associated testing equipment. I also have an extensive background, and an excellent understanding, of a wide variety of production, fabrication, manufacturing and testing processes.I have also had advanced training and experience in SPC,GDT,R&R Gage and in Design Of Experiments.

Experience

In addition to positions listed below I have also worked a number of short term contract and part time positions. In the past year and in between past contract positions I have worked primarily with JD Interiors/Exteriors, Bloominghton Mn. part time or as needed, I have also recently worked short term contracts as an electronic/engineering technician at Thermo King Corp/Ingersoll Rand in Bloomington, Mn. and at Cummins Power Generation in Fridley, Mn. Additional details and information on these and other positions available upon request.

Tenant Co September 2013 to December 2013 R & D Test Technician Golden Valley,MN

● Performing tests supporting new and and existing products at their Innovation Center located at their headquarters in Golden Valley, Mn.

● Apply Strain Gauges, Pressure Transducers, Thermocouples, Flow Sensors,Load Cells and other instrumentation.

● Assembly and repair of new and existing test fixtures. Maintained accurate test records in order to maintain and improve current test processes and test quality.

Goodrich Corp. - Aeronautics September 2011 to April 2012 Engineering Technician Burnsville, MN

● Wind Tunnel testing and calibration on sensing devices manufactured here, for both domestic carriers and defense contractors.(Boeing 787’s, Airbus A 380’s and Lockheed Martin F 22 Raptor’s)

● Products under test were primarily ICD Sensors and Angle of Attack Pitots.

● Set up, monitoring, and testing products using wind tunnels at various airspeeds, angles and temperature \ precipitation conditions, then calibrating devices after running data collected thru specific software calibration programs.

Benchmark Electronics September 2010 to February 2011 Engineering/Electronic Technician Rochester, MN

● Failure Analysis on medical devices manufactured in the US.

● Electronic Troubleshooting with an emphasis on failure confirmation and data collection.

● Heavily regulated industry for FDA, ISO and insurance purposes.

Hutchinson Technology Inc. May 2005 June 2008 Engineering Technician Hutchinson, MN

● Run, monitor, troubleshoot and adjust the manufacturing process, interpreting control charts and data analysis to determine a course of action on tooling, equipment and process issues during the process development cycle.

● Duties include set up and running of production builds, performing engineering tests, analyzing results and implementing solutions.

● Relied on to train manufacturing personnel during product transfers and create, update and maintain documentation including work instructions, daily logs, etc.

● Qualify and debug tooling, equipment and new processes in our Development Center and provide feedback to toolmakers, engineers, designers and manufacturing.

Donaldson Co. August 2003 February 2004 Engineering Technician Bloomington, MN

● Primary duties included testing and fabrication of recently developed, and under development air filtration devices in the Air Filtration Research & Development Division.

● Testing consisted of primarily air flow restriction (using a manometer) and measurement of particulate contaminates, and documentation of all results and ambient conditions.

Mentor Corp. September 2002 February 2003 Engineering Technician Minneapolis, MN

● Responsible for running physical properties tests and documentation of test results on an assortment of the medical products manufactured.

● Setting up new production equipment for FDA approval. Primarily running tensile strength tests using an Instron.

● Documented and monitored test results using software program StatGraphics.

Medtronic February 2002 July 2002 Engineering Technician Fridley, MN

● Responsible for the testing, and the documentation of test results, of a prototype medical device (a drug delivery pump) under development.

● This involved a variety of tests under different temperatures and physical conditions primarily monitoring the infusion accuracy of the pump, working under the design engineers involved in developing project.

Honeywell January 2001 February 2002 Engineering Technician Golden Valley, MN

● Provided mechanical/electrical engineering support to product development projects of HVAC products including motorized actuators,valves and controls.

● Working with development engineers in the creation of concepts, testing concepts, building qualification models, testing qualification models and writing test reports.

● Testing included functional testing, life testing under loads, severe environments such as static discharge, surge and lightning, thermal shock, thermal cycling, drop testing and others.

ADC Telecommunications February 1999 November 2000 Electronic Technician Minnetonka, MN

● Performing diagnostics and troubleshooting of the broadband telecommunications devices manufactured; primarily HDSL remotes, office, and repeater applications.

● These devices were primarily RF based with both digital and analog characteristics and included some fiber optics.

Digital Biometrics (Now Identix) November 1996 September 1998 Electronic Technician Minnetonka, MN

● Responsible for production, set up, and testing of their main product (Digital Optical Fingerprint Scanners, for law enforcement identification)

● This included assembly and testing of the hardware in sub assemblies, configuration of sub assemblies and final testing of the completed units.

● Accountable for the set up and modification of the laser printers used in these applications, setting up menu configurations, installing memory and modifications for their software applications, and the mechanical fabrication of modified drives for the different size cards used in this application.

Mystic Lake Casino November 1991 November 1995 Blackjack Dealer/Pit Supervisor Prior Lake, MN

Employed as a Blackjack Dealer for first year and then advancing to a salaried position of Pit Supervisor thereafter.Responsible for the direct supervision of dealers,keeping a running count of the game,ensuring integrity of the game,and maintaining a high level of customer service.

VTC Inc. (Now Polar Semiconductor) September 1989 August 1991 Electronic Technican Bloomington, MN

Employed as an Electronic Technician responsible for the lay out and construction of the DUT Boards,Probe Cards,and test fixtures used in the testing of the semiconductors and integrated circuits manufactured here.I also performed CAD work doing the layout transfer of undocumented(prototype)boards and test fixtures.(Contract position thru Flatley Technical)

Education

Tulsa Junior College, Tulsa,OK. Engineering and Business courses. Minneapolis Community College,Minneapolis,MN. Engineering and Business courses . Haskell Indian Nations College Lawrence,Ks. A.A.S. in Electronics, GPA of 3.47

Skills

I have a very high degree of problem solving ability and mechanical aptitude with an excellent understanding of electronics and related troubleshooting techniques.I have worked extensively with Microsoft software and am very familiar with virtually all their applications including many task specific applications.I also have a good working knowledge of Apple and other operating systems.I have also worked a number of short term contract technical positions in both production and testing capacities (descriptions upon request ) in which I've picked up a large variety of experience and skills. I have also had advanced training and experience in SPC,GDT,R&R Gage and in Design Of Experiments.

References

Brian Matheis, Dr. Manager of Aeronautical Design and Development, Goodrich Corp. Kevin Guenther,Project Engineer,Benchmark Electronics Don (Chip) Neubarth, Manager Devlopmental Engineering Support,HTI Corp. Gregg Ledine,Project Manufacturing Engineer,Mentor Co Ron Mezera, Project Engineer, Medtronic John Espander, Head Design Engineer (BCD Division), Honeywell Davit Kruy, Shift Manager, ADC Communications Paul Skrip, Production Engineer, Digital Biometrics (now Identix) Joe Ayarbe, Director of Gaming, Mystic Lake Casino John Fuller, Head Engineer, M&P; Lab, Sperry Univac

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