Charles Lawrence Badino

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Experience has been Engineering Management in small companies or small divisions of larger companies.

• Worked in multi-disciplined design environments as both team leader individual contributor

• Set-up, supervision and administration of Engineering departments operating in both product and project modes.

• Design of automated design and drafting system using VB driven API programs within Solidworks. Supervised multi-disciplined engineering staffs and R & D programs, budgetary responsibility for total departmental operations, coordinating the efforts of scientists, engineers, designers and drafting personnel, providing the design interface between mechanical, electrical/electronic controls and process requirements

• Written and established engineering and drafting standards (ANSI, ISO and MIL-STD) and procedures for a variety of manufacturing environments including MRP, JIT and CAD/CAM operations.

• Functioned as "Owner's Rep." and construction liaison on projects ranging from plant construction to fabrication of specialty equipment

• Prepared appropriation and funding requests for both projects and development programs including manpower projections, cost estimates, schedules, R.O.I. and Payback Period, tracking progress using PERT, Gantt and CPM.

• Prepared project plans using Stage-Gate and Six-Sigma philosophies

• Designed, conducted experiments to evaluate designs and production processes in accordance Six-Sigma and preformed the required statically analysis.

• Prepared Design Control, Engineered Equipment and Construction specifications as well as prepared proposal and bid evaluations

• Prepared project and test documentation in accordance with ISO9001, AS9100B, FDA and Boeing Quality Control Standards.

• Preparing test protocols and validation procedures for introductions and changes to Medical equipment and devices

• Design, analysis, manufacture and specification of machine components, machinery and mechanical systems includes: power transmission systems, journal and roller element bearing types, of both metallic and elastomeric construction, gear drive systems, cam drives for positioning as well as for power transmission, mechanical linkages, servo/stepper and D.C. variable speed drives; electro-mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic actuators, clutches and brakes, sensor for feedback and control circuits.

• Design of injection molded plastic parts from a variety of engineering resins, having been granted patents on several designs including living hinge designs.

• Plastic parts designs have been applied to industrial, commercial, consumer and medical products.

• Designs requirements include cost reduction, presentation update, patent circumvention, and disposable part design.

• Design of die-cast and investment cast part in zinc and aluminum for the same industries and requirements as Plastic parts.

• Design of Injection Molds and Die Cast Molds tooling for small to medium production runs. Designed prototype tooling for very short run production and have dealt with Stereo-Lithography prototype parts.

• Kinematic and kinetic analysis of mechanisms in both two and three dimensions using computer techniques as well as classical methods.

• Static and dynamic stress/strain analysis and design of pressure and vacuum vessels, per Section VIII and structural steel per AISC standards.

• Evaluated heat exchanger designs in addition to radiant and conduction heat transfer problems.

• Selection and application of materials including metals, graphite, ceramics, plastics and composites for applications in extreme environments of temperature, vacuum, corrosion and stress. Human factor engineering and ergonomics in the design of machine controls and operator interfaces. Knowledge of PLC and embedded controller programming capabilities and requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Solidworks, CosmosWorks, EPDM & PDMWorks, Microsoft Office Products: Visio, Powerpoint & Project, MiniTab, Visual Basic, Fortran IV, C++, CadKey, AutoCAD, ProEngineer, MasterCam, UniGraphics-NX-8.0, Cimatron

I have run Solidworks since early in 1996, owning one of the first seats in St. Louis. I have talk Solidworks to adults at the junior college level.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Livingston Tool & Manufacturing September 2010-Present

O’Fallon, Missouri

Senior Engineer

• Managed fabrication and welding shop, improving throughput by 20% by designing fixtures, adding material handling equipment and forming work cell techniques.

• Designed and implemented a PDM system for control of engineering drawings.

• This system controlled client supplied electronic and hardcopy data as well as in-house generated designs.

• These procedures were in accordance with ISO9001, AS9100B and Boeing standards for data management.

• Rework various client designs for manufacturability.

• I have designed material handling equipment for MEMC, and automated packaging equipment for Rickitt-Benckiser while managing the fabrication and manufacture of the same. Redesigns and retrofits of existing equipment were also done to increase productivity.

• Designed and constructed plastic injection, investment wax and die-casting molds.

Monsanto-Automation Engineering September 2008-September 2010

Saint Louis, Missouri

Senior Robotics Engineer

• Design and Development of equipment for corn, cotton and soy seed research and processing. Responsible for developing automated solutions to enhance the effectiveness of the Crop Analytics Team and associated breeding programs.

• This involves design of equipment to automate methods, increase throughput, and reduce repetitive human tasks, and can take the form of equipment that is not available to purchase, or modifying purchased equipment to better suit the needs of the user.

• Responsible for supporting both original and off the shelf equipment to ensure it keeps meeting the needs of the user.

• Three patent disclosures have been submitted based on designs presented.

• The equipment required for seed research is basically high speed packaging equipment that handles seed kennels.

Bausch & Lomb December 2004-September 2008

Saint Louis, Missouri

Manufacture Engineer Consultant

• Design, documentation and implementation of product and process changes to reduce costs and improve quality of existing products as well as New Product Introductions.

• Responsible for manufacturing input to design engineering, design of manufacturing methods processes and equipment and the documentation of new designs, changes to existing design and methods including test protocols and validation procedures for medical products. Redesigned operator interface mounting enclosure and other parts for a cost savings of 8.5%. Participated in revising Engineering Change Procedures to streamline process while maintain FDA compliance.

• Redesigned Tray Arm for Anterior Surgery Unit.

• Redesigned peristaltic pump and drawer loading system for AF Module to bring module out of recalled staus.

Single Iteration/Watlow Electric November 2004-September 2005

Fenton, Missouri

Design Consultant

• Design of plastic and stamped components used in new Dialysis Support equipment.

• Provided design, modeling, analysis and manufacturing advice and services from concept through prototyping to production design.

Fall Protection Systems February 2004-November 2004

Madison, Illinois

Design and Development Consultant

• FPS manufactures systems to protect workers from falling by providing a structure to support a self-retracting lanyards attached to a man harness.

• I was contracted to make a complete set of manufacturing drawings, in Solidworks, setup a computer program for automation of their quoting system and generate installation and sales literature based of Solidworks models.

Conveyors Direct USA June 2003-February 2004

O’Fallon, Missouri

Mechanical Design Consultant

• Conveyor Direct is a supplier of engineered conveyor systems.

• Designed and supervised installation of an overhead basket conveyor system at Rickitt-Benckiser in St. Peters, Mo. Rickitt-Benckiser fills and packages consumer cleaning products. The overhead conveyor system was installed to remove fork trucks from the bottling floor by conveying empty bottle from the receiving area to the bottling floor.

True Fitness Technologies July 2002-May 2003

O’Fallon, Missouri

Product Manager-Treadmills

• Oversaw the importation of a low end product from Taiwan, and it’s certification to UL and CE standards.

• Transitioned from fabricated steel control consoles to injection molded plastic on the residential products while upgrading the electronic display to dot matrix graphics.

DynaQuip Controls February 1998-July 2002

St. Clair, Missouri

Product Design and Development Engineer

• DynaQuip Controls is manufacturer of Ball and Butterfly Valves.

• Designed a line of premium electric actuators to broaden their product offering.

• The actuator employs laser cut ellipicyclic gearing housed in a die-casted aluminum enclosure with on board electronic to control positioning and torque.

• The major features of the unit are small size to output ratio, lower cost, and wide variation of application with minimum design and manufacturing change.

• Managed the design, proto-typing, testing and set-up manufacturing suppliers for the project.

Engineered Machinery Specialists March 1994-September 1999

Chesterfield, Missouri

Design Engineer;

• Clients included SEI, MEMC, Carter Automotive, Ford Motor Co. Livingston Tool, L.E. Sauer and Southern Die Casting.

• Projects included design and construction of material handling equipment, self propelled equipment, special cleanroom devices, design of prototype Saturn fuel pump module, diecast fuel pump parts, injection mold and diecast tooling, laser cutting fixtures and automated drilling and tapping and sawing machinery.

• Molded parts required complex surface generation for CNC cutting.

• Reverse engineering of can making parts and assemblies for AB equipment.

MEMC Electronic Materials Company June 1992-March 1994

Saint Peters, Missouri

Project Design Engineer

• Shifting priorities of MEMC required my transfer to the Project Engineering Group.

• Handled the design, fabrication, by outside vendors, installation and start-up of several projects. These projects included, Low Field Cusp Magnet installation to seven

• existing Crystal Puller Furnaces, Crystal removal and handling equipment for new Crystal Furnace line, raw material handling equipment for Lite-Poly Feeders, High Purity Graphite storage, installation and handling equipment for new furnaces, and Rod handling equipment for new Wafering Saws.

• All of this projects used some type of operator assisted manipulators or automated handling devices. Computer aided ergonomic analysis was preformed on all tasks to insure operator safety and compliance with OSHA. Designed upgrade to robotic wafer cleaning station to increase throughput and decrease downtime.

• Designed high efficiency vacuum system for Research Crystal Puller, including pump instrumentation and cleanout system.

MEMC Electronic Materials Company January 1990-June 1992

Saint Peters, Missouri

Research & Development Engineer;

• Manufacturer of silicon wafers for the electronics industry.

• Assisted the scientists in running experiments by providing specialty designed equipment and modifications to existing equipment as required.

• The crystal technology group of R&D does experimentation on growing single crystals of silicon in high temperature vacuum furnaces.

• Much of the work in this area concerned material selection and heat transfer analysis within the high temperature furnace.

• In addition work was done on feeding raw material into the vacuum furnace and since being able to seal the high vacuum and maintain it integrity.

Monsanto Chemical Company October 1989-January 1990

Saint Louis, Missouri

Research & Development Engineer;

• The Thin Films Group had developed the technology for a solid state ph sensor which Monsanto wished to set pilot plant manufacturing for.

• Developed manufacturing methods and equipment to produce pilot quantities which could be easily expanded into full scale production.

• Required a redesign of for sensor probe including new materials of construction and new production methods.

• With these changes, existing laboratory plasma sputtering equipment was able to be utilized rather than purchasing new production equipment at a cost savings of 1.2 million dollars.

• Design work on this project included modification to high vacuum sputtering equipment, fixturing and design of automated assembly equipment, selection and design of extreme environment elastomer seals and design of metal-ceramic seals and methods of manufacture.

Draf-Cad December 1988-October 1989

Mexico, Missouri

Design Engineering Consultant

• Operated as an independent design consultant within the central Missouri area.

• Provided a variety of services to my clients including the design of consumer plastic products, food containers, quality control testing fixtures, automated assembly equipment, high speed packaging equipment for folded paper packaging, web fed paper converting equipment and conversions and computer interfaced data acquisition system for plastic injection molding equipment.

• Clients included; Square D Co., Quality Plastics, Toastmaster, 3M Co., Wilson Manufacturing and Semco.

Mark-Andy Inc September 1985-December 1988

Chesterfield, Missouri

Mechanical Design Consultant

• Manufacturer of narrow web feed printing presses.

• Reported to the manager of Research & Development, responsible for the design of modular specialty units to fit into existing printing presses.

• Modules involved the design of high sensitivity pneumatic brakes and feed back circuit to control web tension in addition to stepper motor controlled differential main drive system.

• Worked with marketing and the electronic engineering staff to develop a total control system for a new generation of presses with the impetus on functionality, ergonomic design of operator interfaces and human factors considerations.

• Worked on cost reductions for the new line of equipment including jigs, fixtures and quality problems and part redesign for efficient manufacture.

Mexico Plastic Company September 1980-September 1985

Mexico, Missouri

Chief Engineer

• Manufactures sideweld plastic bags, film, injection molded products and sewn cloth products for the newspaper distribution industry.

• The position entailed the supervision of both maintenance activities and personnel and as required, engineers, designer and draftsmen to design, detail, purchase/contract the construction and/or fabrication of new plant facilities and equipment including proprietary processing equipment.

• Projects included: installation of blown film extrusion lines and injection molding equipment, design of injection molding tooling, design of HVAC, process heating and cooling systems and piping, design of application equipment for plastic parts and the redesign of bag making equipment, reducing maintenance.

Eaton Corporation January 1980-September 1980

Riverton, Wyoming

Senior Development Engineer

• The Printer Products Division of Eaton manufactures small dot matrix printers for installation into OEM cash registers, terminals and other types of equipment requiring a 40 column print out.

• Responsible for conceptual, detail design and value engineering of existing products and manufacturing methods relating to dot matrix printers.

Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company December 1976-January 1980

Mexico, Missouri

Senior Project Engineer

• The Refractories Division of Kaiser Aluminum manufactures a complete line of clay-alumina products.

• Responsibilities included the administration of all phases of design engineering and construction management planning.

• Directed the efforts Project Engineers, designers and draftsmen in the development of project funding requests, conceptual designs, engineering cost estimates, scheduling and detail and engineering of the projects.

• Position also required the preparation, evaluation and recommendation of bid package awards for engineering services, engineered equipment and construction work.

• Major projects included Mono-Aluminum Phosphate Facility and Specialties Building Dust Abatement projects.

Joy Manufacturing Co. DECO Division December 1974-December 1976

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Product Group Leader

• Denver Equipment is a manufacturer of mineral processing and mining equipment.

• Directed and supervised engineers, designers and draftsmen to process customer orders, value engineer and modify existing products per customer requirements, and design, develop and test new products.

• Duties of this position included: preparation of production packages (drawings, Bills of Materials, procurement and material specifications), participation in sales presentations and preparation of the technical portion of sales proposals and production liaison with manufacturing.

EDUCATION Management Courses:

University of Missouri-Rolla Six Sigma Quality Systems for Design

Rolla, Missouri Project Management for Engineers

Bachelors of Science Mechanical Engineering Managing the Technical Professional

1970-1974 Managing Engineering Design

MRP Implementation

CAD/CAM Integration

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