Gabriel Díaz-Amador

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Austin, Texas, 78729

Phone: 520-***-****

E-mail: uomxbo@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Graduated Electro-Mechanical Engineer with ample experience in process engineering, project management, operations and training.

Professional experience in heavy metal and large machine-shop operation and management, precision mechanical assemblies, process custom machine design and automation, high temperature metal deformation mechanics including authorship of hot-rolling process modeling and roll design software.

Vast experience in hot steel mills management and operation, long product pass designs, steel mills engineering design, installation & commissioning.

Ample engineering expertise in very high volume cold metal forming, in-line stamping and high-frequency welding of tubular and non-tubular sections. Expertise in Engineer & Operator training.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

• College of Business Administration. British Steel Corporation, United Kingdom. 1974

Certificate in Business Administration

• MS-Demag AG, SMS Group, Dusseldorf Germany. 1970

• Course on product engineering and mill design.

• College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Universidad Iberoamericana. Mexico City 1964-1968

Electromechanical Engineer Degree.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb. 2012-Jun. 2012

Consulting Engineer Austin, Texas

Company: Confidential by client request, full disclosure including references to be

released to prospective employer at personal interview.

Jan. 2009-Oct. 2011

Self-Employed Rio Rico, Arizona

Design Engineer

• Research solar concentrators including parabolic mirrors, horizontal mirror arrays, drive and tracking devices, heat collecting pipes for water and oil heating, deflection of mirrors and mirror supports under thermal and wind loading, cleaning of mirrors, mirror maintenance and replacement etc.

• Design of a horizontal mirror field solar concentrator Using SolidWorks and AutoCad.

• Conceived, calculated and developed from scratch a solar concentrator embodying several technical and cost advantages.

1999- October 26, 2008

CHAMBERLAIN GROUP INC. Nogales, Sonora, México

Senior Manufacturing Engineer IV

• Designed, supervised the construction, installation, debugging, start-up and certification of six wire coiling and strapping automatic machines with a combined capacity of 54,000 pieces per day. (18 personnel positions eliminated and a 400% reduction of wire scrap).

• Revamped an obsolete roll-forming line with pre-punching stations and high-frequency welding to a final rated capacity of 30,000 garage-door opener tubular steel rail segments per day. The revamp included hydraulic presses, dies, high-speed feeders, transmissions, stands, straighteners, H.F. welder, tooling and flying cutoff. (40 personnel positions eliminated and design tolerances achieved.)

• 100% responsible for the bidding, selection, layout, construction, commissioning and certification of 2 custom-made large roll-forming lines with in-line high-speed hydraulic pre-punching presses and H.F. welding, having a combined capacity of 60,000 tubular and open garage-door opener steel rail segments per day, each line is capable of processing 2 rail models in several lengths. (Costs of these projects > $3 Million)

• Successfully reduced raw material costs (> $1 Million) for garage-door opener roll-formed rails by specifying hot-rolled instead of cold-rolled steel along with significant modifications to the steel properties.

• Selected, installed, started-up and validated a new 400 MT capacity large-bed (2 x 3 meters) Komatsu press.

• Successfully headed a project for the high-volume punching of holes without deformation in hollow, thin-walled aluminum extruded garage-door opener rails.

• Responsible for the conceptual creation, construction, installation, debugging and certification of an unique semi-automatic tubular steel rail multiple cutoff machine instead of an additional rail-forming line. ($1.5 Million capital avoidance achieved)

• Started and certified the roll-forming of 3 new steel rail sections with very tight tolerances (C-rail, C-rail splices and Screw-drive rails.)

• Designed and installed a flying coolant-drying system to prevent spotting of galvanized steel rails.

1998-1999

INTEGRATED STEEL PRODUCTS INC. Brownsville, Texas

Project Manager

• Engineering Consultant for a green-field welded pipe mill (20”-84” diameters) project in Brownsville, Texas.

• Responsible for the contacting, bidding and bid evaluation processes concerning all civil, mechanical, services and utilities for the project.

• Responsible for all activities concerning the issue of construction permits, exceptions and licenses.

• Responsible for the conceptual design and engineering of a rolling crimping press, a large pipe closer press and manipulators for interior pipe circumferential welders.

1984-1998

SELF EMPLOYED Brownsville, Texas

Rolling Mill Consulting Engineer

• Consultant to several steel companies on conceptual engineering and design specifications for plant layout, revamps, expansions and new projects; interfacing with equipment suppliers for equipment bidding, selection and technical discussions.

• Hot rolling mills commissioning and troubleshooting, machine design, furnace design & revamps, auxiliary tackle and new products design for approximately 10 steel companies.

• Achieved significant increased production (> 15%) and quality in approximately 10 steel mills rolling carbon and low-alloy steels through the optimization of roll designs & rolling schedules.

• Developed and implemented managerial process control and information systems for mills operations, maintenance, and product scheduling and tracking.

• Developed and implemented process and roll machine shop Standard Operational Procedures in several large steel companies.

• Developed and installed special software for process simulation and product design for several mills, coded in FORTRAN, MS-PDS and early MS-Visual Basic.

• Discovered new algorithms for the accurate prediction of material deformation by tension between rolling stands with constant relative speeds.

• Solely responsible for various major process engineering projects in several steel companies.

• Development and implementation of 30-day technical training programs for plant operators and mill engineers.

1980-1984

W. SILVER ROLLING MILLS INC. Vinton, Texas

Chief Engineer

• In charge of production and expansion projects, start-ups, new product designs, quality control etc.

• Fully designed, supervised in-house and outsourced manufacture, installation, commissioning and operation of machinery for a hot rolling mill such as rolling stands, loop control effectors, flying shears, hot beds, etc. including mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic and control subsystems.

• Designed and installed material transfer equipment for billet and bar handling such as transfer tables and mechanisms, cold-shears, traveling gages, conveyors, manipulators, etc.

1976-1980

IRON & STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEXICO (IMIS) Saltillo, Coahuila, México

Head Research Engineer, hot rolling processes.

• Process troubleshooting in Medium Section, Bar and Wire Rod steel mills and their Roll and Guide shops for the majority of integrated and semi-integrated Mexican steel companies.

• Design and development of mill and shops personnel training programs.

• Evaluation on the effects of different emulsions on shattering of Altos Hornos de México (Monclova) cold mill.

• Roll Redesign for flatness and camber improvement for 1 mill of the Mexican Mint (Casa de Moneda).

1972-1976

SICARTSA (Siderúrgica Lázaro Cárdenas Las Truchas S.A.) Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, México

Chief Rolling Mill Engineer, Roll & Guide Shop Superintendent

• Bid elaboration, evaluation, selection, start-up and commissioning of a Bar and Medium Section Mill and a 4-strand Wire & Rod Mill with a combined nominal capacity of 300 MT/hour.

• Solely responsible for roll & guide machine shop layout and equipment selection for above mills.

• Selection and training of mill and machine shop supervisors, foremen, process operators and machine shop personnel.

• Successfully managed roll & guide machine shop employing 150 union personnel plus 12 supervisors, programmers and 3 assistant engineers.

• Created and implemented SOP for operations and machine shop processes.

• Developed FORTRAN-encoded rolling process simulation software for IBM mainframes.

• Designed and implemented new products.

1968-1972

HYLSA S.A. de C.V. (Now TERNIUM-HYLSA S.A. de C.V.) Xoxtla, Puebla, México

Product Design Engineer

• Start-up of the first worldwide (German-made prototype) high-speed rod finishing blocks with my own pass design, developed using a calculation method I developed for inter-stand tension calculation.

• Successfully designed and implemented new calibration, guides etc. for above blocks.

• Designed and implemented a new mandrel-carbide composite roll mount, including mounting and dismounting jigs. This design was later adopted by Sandvik (Sweden).

• Designed and implemented process setup and Operations Procedures.

• Designed and implemented new hot-rolled products (rods and bars).

LANGUAGES

Spanish: Fluent. English: Fluent. French: Intermediate. Italian: Intermediate. Portuguese: Intermediate

Ample expertise in technical and technical-forensic translations: English-Spanish and vice versa.

COMPUTERS

• 100% proficient in DOS and Windows environments, including MS-Windows.

• 100% programming expertise in Microsoft PDS (DOS Basic) and FORTRAN.

• 100% proficient in AutoCAD 2002-2006 up to AutoCAD LT 2007

• 90% proficient in SolidWorks 2008-SP05 including COSMO Express (FEA).

• 100% proficient in MS Project, MS Office –including macro programming-, MiniTab.

• 100% proficient in internet communications.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

• INSTITUTE OF ROLL DESIGN

1994 Spring Meeting

Kitchener, Ontario

“A State of the Art Roll Pass Computer Process Simulation and Design System”

• BEIJING UNIVERSITY STEEL INSTITUTE AND THE CHINESE MINISTRY OF METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY.

Beijing, China

“A New Rolling Process Analytical Tool for Non-Flat Rolling Mills”

• LECTURES SPONSORED BY METALFORM S.A. (LUXEMBOURG)

• Cherry Hill, N.J.; Hamilton, Ontario and Chicago, Illinois.

• “A Computer Simulator of the Rolling Process”

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