DUANE E. PALMER (Sonny)

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Fort Collins, CO 80526

Home: 970-***-****

Cell: 970-***-****

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE:

A challenging position utilizing my well rounded and diversified background

Preferably in the design engineering support field.

FIELDS OF EXPERIENCE

• Medical Instrumentation design

• Electronic computed scales

• BaaN MRP System, qualified vendors, BOMS

• Piping design

• Geological engineering support

• PC Design layout – PADS, PCAD, Altium Designer, Orcad

• Flex circuit design

• Architectural

• Machine design

• Sheet metal design

• Plastics design

• Injection molding

• Tooling design

• Casting design

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Contract work at home

Electro-Mechanical Designer 1/93-10/2011

CVI Melles Griot 760-***-**** Carlsbad, CA

Duties included R&D, ISO9002, RoHS compliance of parts and assemblies, PC design layout, flex circuit

design, panel overlays, creating work instructions for manufacturing. BaaN MRP system (entering boms,

routings, parts, qualified vendors, sale orders, purchasing. Prototype builds (ordering parts), sheet metal

design, machine design, tooling design, packaging design.

Using software packages: Solid Edge V20, Auto-cad 14, PCAD 2000 and Altium Designer.

Senior Designer 9/86-11/92

Fisher Imaging Corporation Denver, CO

Duties included schematic, PC design layout, panel overlays, panel design and sheet metal design.

Using software packages: Auto-cad 12, PADS and Orcad.

Electro-Mechanical Designer 10/81-7/86

Medtronic/IMC Englewood, CO

Duties included design and packaging variety of micro-processor based cardiovascular diagnostic

instrumentation, treadmill designs, Holter cassette recorders, product aesthetics, design parameters,

prototype and production vendors and PC design layout using Tango software.

Mechanical /PC Designer 11/78-7/81

Hathaway Instruments Englewood, CO

Duties included sheet metal design for seismograph instruments for recording earthquake faults.

Schematic creation and PC design layout using software package Tango and hand taping layout.

Mechanical/PC Designer 10/76-9/78

National Controls Boulder, CO

Duties included PC design (hand taping artwork), panel and mechanical design for electronic scales.

Mechanical Draftsman 9/75-8/76

Vacuum Technology Boulder, CO

Duties included for functional drawings to support a variety of design efforts from R&D resources to final

drawing package release.

Piping Draftsman 7/74-8/75

Mid Continent Engineering Broomfield, CO

Duties included detailing piping systems for golf courses. Creating exploded isometric drawings with ink

on mylar and Leroy lettering.

Architectural Draftsman 8/72-6/74

A&E Graphics Boulder, CO

Duties included complete set of house plans from a sketch determined by customer, This included floor,

foundation, electrical, elevation views, rendering (isometric), fireplace detail, wall sections and plot plans.

Education:

• Fairview High School (graduated) 1969-1972

• Vocational School 1971-1972

• Engineering Design School 1975-1976

• PADS PCB Training 1988

• Orcad PCB Training 1988

• Auto-cad Training 1989

• Tango PCB Training 1993

• Sheet Metal Design course (CA) 1995

• Microsoft word and Excel Training 1999

• PC Design surface mount Training (CA) 2000

• BaaN MRP System Training 2000

• Solid Edge Training 2000

• PC Design SMT Training 2004

• Optics (SPIE) Class 2009

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