William Hughes

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Woodbury, MN 55125

(612) 810 – 1033

actkcu@r.postjobfree.com

Education:

Marquette University -Milwaukee, WI.

B.S Biomedical Engineering - January 2013

Valued Work Experience

Up North Plastics Cottage Grove, MN

Maintenance Electrician/Mechanic April 2014 – present

Functions as technician, electrician, and mechanic in capacities including :

oSubmitting reports to management, on:

Equipment malfunctions, daily equipment use for production and, emergency work order requests made by production.

oTroubleshoots and upgrades: industrial equipment in the plant for both electrical and mechanical issues.

oContinuous improvement of maintenance procedures. Using failure analysis to write up new instructions and preventative maintenance procedures for use of the maintenance and production departments.

oMaintains communication between day and night shifts for new procedures and project objectives.

oResponsible for, writing, processing, and closing all work orders for the downstream group.

oMulti-tasks with team members to resolve many problems occurring simultaneously with production equipment while it is online.

oExperience in industrial manufacturing setting, working with automated equipment, and applied engineering ideas.

oOn call 7 days a week: to assist night shifts with any problems they are unable to solve independently.

Senior Design Project:

Overall project was to design an inexpensive single use device to decrease surgery time by allowing for a faster polymerization time of bone cement during a total or partial knee replacement surgery.

I worked in a small group through the design process from idea conception to a working prototype.

Collaborated with medical and engineering professionals to finance, produce, and approve our design.

Skills/Software/Standards

LabVIEW

SolidWorks

GD&T

ISO standards including ISO 9001: 2008 and ISO 13485: 2003

Matlab

Additional educational courses of note:

Biomaterials - Covering the many different materials and their properties used in the medical device industry today.

Biomedical Instrumentation - Covering methods of analysis and processing for biological signals, and creating their respective transducers

Patent law - Covering the basics behind patent law and its relation to the work environment

Physiology- covering all major organ systems in the human body.

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