Maintenance Technician Equipment
Resume:
Thomas Kodat
Equipment Maintenance Technician
Dependable, hard-working technician with methodical troubleshooting skills and over 30 years of experience. Good at devising and implementing long-term solutions for mechanical and electrical problems.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Electronic Technician Precision Machine Tool Maintenance March 2019 – March 2023
BOEING COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES (BCA)-Auburn, WA
Performed preventative maintenance as well as troubleshooting and repairing electrical problems on computer controlled hydraulic and electric benders; laser and mechanical metal-cutting machines; induction-heat welders; Lincoln and Miller tig welders and various types of positioning machines for the materials being welded; heat-treating chambers and paint-curing ovens; labelers and part-marking inkjets and lasers; Mazak CNC machines and Allen-Bradley robots.
CNC Machine Maintenance Technician 31 July 2017 – Feb 2019
INGERSOLL RAND-Mocksville, NC
Performed preventative maintenance as well as troubleshooting and repairing mechanical and electrical problems on Kapp, Holroyd, Landis, Mitsui, Okuma, Makino and Mazak CNC machines.
Equipment Maintenance Technician 17 July 2017 – 28 July 2017
TEXWIPE-Kernersville, NC
Performed troubleshooting and repairs of mechanical and electrical problems on ultrasonic cutting and bonding equipment and heat-sealing packaging equipment in a clean room environment.
Self-Employed 2016 – July 2017
Tree Cutting Service (with my own bucket truck)-Clemmons, NC
Performed tree removal, cutting and trimming, external home and solar water heater repairs and carpentry.
Maintained International bucket truck with Altec lift and hydraulic outriggers, tractor, numerous Stihl chain and pole saws
Millwright and later as Electronics Technician 2007 – 2016
LORILLARD TOBACCO COMPANY/ITG BRANDS-Greensboro, NC
Responsible for maintaining everything from the front gate to the back gate including the electric gates and the generators on the roof.
Performed scale calibrations (Thayer and Carlton scales)
Completed welding training course
Worked 17042 hours in Primary Electrical Experience (towards North Carolina Electrical License)
Equipment Maintenance Mechanic 1989 – 2005
DURACELL BATTERIES-Lexington, NC.
Completed Adept Technology, Inc. training course in Cincinnati, Ohio, on V+ operating system and AIM interface for Adept robots.
Devised and fabricated a micrometer adjustable bracket for sensors on the Hauni lithium battery sleeving machine.
Devised a stop on the cell conveyor in the Adept cell packaging robot to allow sideways cells to pass by the pick-up head eliminating approximately 75% of the stoppages.
Devised and fabricated a tool to replace broken die springs in the die sets without disassembly. Reduced broken spring replacement time from 45 minutes to 5 minutes.
Devised and built circuitry for a non-contact, permanent digital tachometer on a cell conveyor where speed was critical to label alignment.
Participated in 7 Lean (Kaizen) Events between 2001-2005.
Completed Autonomous Maintenance Training.
CONTACT
1551 Central Road. Clemmons, NC 27012
ad5vct@r.postjobfree.com
SKILLS
Familiar with Maximo and Microsoft programs including Access
Familiar with AB & Siemens PLC’s
Experienced driving fork lifts, scissors and boom lifts
Experienced threading and bending pipe and conduit, pulling in wire and terminating connections
Experienced with thermal imaging equipment to find overheated mechanical and electrical components.
Experienced with 3D modeling with MAYA and 3D printing.
Experienced designing and assembling my own discrete and SMD type printed circuit boards
Can write programs with C, C++ and Visual Basic and work with National Instruments LabVIEW
Familiar with Fanuc controls
Worked with 480-volt AC equipment every day
EDUCATION
Coal City High School, Coal City, IL
High School diploma
Electricity/Electronics (2 years vocational training)
Typing
Davidson County Community College, Lexington, NC
Associate Degree Electronics Engineering
Electronics Engineering General Technician
Dean’s List
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Duracell Maintenance Apprenticeship Program
Equipment Master Mechanic
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Patents
US Patent Number 9588496, Device for assisting user in consumption of a substance at a correct time interval
US Patent Numbers 9217279 and 8464663, System and method for controlling animal’s egress from a secure enclosure
Books and Copyrights
PREINCARNATION (ISBN Number 148*******)
Best Chance Lottery Software (copyright filed on 12/20/22)
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