Cover letter:

In **** l dropped out of high school, and quit my nighttime minimum wage job ($1.65 an hr) to take advantage of what appeared to be a once in a lifetime opportunity. I was offered a daytime job as an apprentice machinist for $5.00 an hour. That was three times the minimum wage!

Since that time, in addition to earning my GED, I have worked for many different shops. I have manufactured parts less than .1 in length as well as parts bigger than a Volkswagen. I have worked within tolerances as small as .00005. I have used all types of milling and turning machines, surface grinders, hones, thread grinders, and auto screw machines. The majority of my experience is on manual machines, but I have used CNC lathes, turning centers and mills made by Hardinge, South Bend, Mori-Seiki, Mazak, Chiron, Okuma, and Matsuura, using Siemens, Fanuc, South Bend, and Mazatron HAAS, and Seicos controllers.

Objective:

Spent the last six years at home, caring for my wife, who was battling leukemia. When her leukemia was listed officially as being in full remission, I decided it was time to go back to work. My wife and I relocated to Arizona, and I found immediate employment at Continental Precision Inc. After only one short month there, my employment was cut short when, in a cruel twist of fate, a hit and run driver ran me over while I was riding my bike home from work. It took 6 hrs of surgery and 2 titanium plates to repair my badly broken left forearm, and 3 hrs of surgery to repair the damage done when my upper thigh was impaled by the handlebar. That was back in Sept 2014. I could write a book about everything I've been through since then. I am now completely healed up, and ready to give it another try.

Professional Summary:

I am a journeyman machinist who has devoted over half of the last 40 years to the machining trade. Whether in a job shop or production shop environment, using my ability to think outside the box has allowed me to improve the efficiency of many established in-process procedures, while maintaining the highest quality standards.

Work Experience:

Continental Precision Inc.

Encanto Blvd., Phoenix, AZ.

Position: Machinist. 08/14/2014 - 09/10/2014

Wages: $20.00 an hr.

Working Detail:

Setup and run a variety of CNC lathes, and CNC mills. We manufactured mostly aerospace parts. Using the following equipment:

Mori-Seiki twin turret CNC lathe.

Matsuura CNC Mini Mat mill.

Mazak CNC mill.

High Grade Expandable Machine Cell.

Seiki HITEC-TURN 20SII

Hitachi Seiki turning center

Using the following controllers:

HAAS

Seicos

Fanuc

Mazatron

Reason for leaving: Hit and run left me hospitalized and unable to work.

Bakersfield Machine.

N. Chester Extension

Bakersfield, California.

Position: Journeyman Machinist 6/12/2008 - 09/15/2008

Wages: $20.00 an hr.

Working Detail:

Manufactured parts primarily for the oilfield drilling industries.

Setup and ran a variety of manual lathes, both vertical and horizontal.

Became familiar with the machining characteristics of several rare, and exotic metals types.

Extensive use of forklifts.

Reason for leaving: Voluntary quit, after 2 week notice, to stay home and take care of my wife, who had been diagnosed with leukemia.

Conglas.

Bakersfield, California

Position: Journeyman machinist

11/01/2001 - 06/10/2008

Wages: $16.50 an hr.

Working Detail:

I ran a one-man job shop, supporting the manufacturing capabilities of 3 separate plants. Each plant manufactures fiberglass products different from the others, aerospace insulation, nautical insulation, and roofing products.

Due to the nature of the operations, which included extreme high temperatures and equally abrasive materials, equipment breakdown was commonplace. Any breakdown in the fast paced sequential production line would stop the entire process until repairs were completed.

Using the following equipment:

One large manual turret lathe.

One small manual turret lathe.

One manual surface grinder.

One manual bridgport millI.

I fulfilled the following duties:

Manufacture replacement equipment well in advance of its anticipated failure.

Maintain a stock of replacement equipment.

Track equipment failure rates in determining necessary restock numbers.

Work from prints that were sometimes scribbled on the backs of napkins.

Manufacture prototype equipment necessary for proposed additions to the product line.

Reason for leaving: voluntary quit for higher paying job

Custom Thread Grinding

Sierra Way, Kernville, CA.

Position: Machinist / thread grinder

01/05/1998 - 09/09/2001

Wages: $12.00 an hour

Working Detail:

Set up and ran both internal and external thread grinding machines. Since the parts that we made were almost exclusively molds for plastic injection, the materials that we used were much too hard for traditional machining, all threading had to be done by means of grinding or EDM. Theading procedures using the following:

The use of mathmatical formulas to reflect shrink factor of plastics in determining custom lead screws.

Extensive use of optical comparators to check every aspect of thread profile.

Blueprint reading and interpretation.

Hand fashioning all threading dementions on grinding wheels.

Reason for leaving: 80% workforce layoff.

Riteway Precison Machine.

Minneapolis, MN.

Position: Machinist Supervisor

Wages: $16.00 an hr.

09/01/1995 - 09/12/1997

Working Detail:

Rehired as the day shift supervisor for both, the IBM and the 3M production lines. I worked a 12 hr shift, 7 days a week.

As supervisor for the 10-man 3M production line I was responsible for the following:

Maintaining the smooth and efficient production operations.

Blueprint reading and interpretation.

All machining, honing, and inspection.

Staffing and training for each stage of production.

Inventory of all required materials and tooling.

Troubleshooting any machine problems.

Ensuring strict adherance to tolerances for size and finish.

Ensuring all orders were either met or exceeded within any given timeframe.

Ensuring all safety guidelines were strictly followed.

My duties for the 35-man IBM production line were much the same as for the 3M line, with the addition supervision of:

Utilizing the full-tilt production capabilities of four separate CHNC2's operating virtually non-stop, 24-7.

Tumbling.

Annealing.

Surface grinding.

Vibration deburring.

A 6-person assembly line.

Reason for leaving: Moved back to California to be closer to parents. Father had cancer

Tool Products.

5100 Boone Ave. N., New Hope, MN.

Position: Machinist. 08/15/1994 - 08/30/1995

Wages: $15.25 an hr.

Working Detail:

Set up and ran the following equipment:

Chiron twin work station CNC mills.

Matsuura twin spindle CNC mills.

Okuma twin turret CNC lathes.

Mazak CNC turning center.

Using the following controllers:

Fanuc.

Mazatron

Reason for leaving: Accepted an offer for a higher paying supervisory position for previous employer.

Riteway Precision Machine.

Minneapolis, MN.

Position: Machinist.

05/10/1992- 08/12/1994

Wages: $12.50 an hr.

Working Detail:

Set up and ran the following equipment:

Sunnen hones.

Auto screw machines.

Clausing turret lathes.

Bridgeport mills.

Tapmatic tap machines.

Surface grinders.

Hardinge CHNC lathe, using Siemens controller.

Out of necessity, operated stand-up electric pallet jacks, and stand-up forklifts in extremely tight spaces.

Reason for leaving: After giving 2 weeks notice, I voluntarily quit to take a higher paying job.

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