Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing, Export, Facility Development.

WILLIAM (Bill) RODRIGUEZ - Metals Hot-forming Specialist

Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Development

e-mail: ************@*****.***

Residence: Israel

phone: 972 (0-54-629-****

Now exploring areas to use my experience and expertise in specialized operations.

Relevant Skills: Export market start-up and development.

International air and ocean freight. Technical writing and copywriting.

Trade shows and manufacturing capability presentations to prospects.

English 100%, Spanish 100%; some Hebrew, Italian, French.

CAD drawing/design, MS Office, EXCEL, Outlook.

Experienced Team-building in Production Management, Tool and Die,

Design and Estimating, Plant development and Maintenance. Skilled in

procurement, refurbishing and commissioning of plant equipment: Press,

hammer, furnace, saw, machining, materials testing.

Start-to-finish forging, tooling and process design. Cost-estimating and

feasibility for customer proposals. Production development and problem-

solving with multiple departments, suppliers and customers; specialized in

adapting new products to existing capability. Extensive experience with

forging lubricants, die materials/overlays and workpiece preparation/coating.

Products include Extrusions and Closed-die forgings of Titanium, Nickel-base

and Steel alloys, Aluminum, Copper-Nickel, Copper.

Work History:

JUN.2012 to present: Volta Belting Technology, Power Transmission Sales

Manager. Reactivating markets for a V-belt making system, franchised by an

Israel-based international food-conveyor belt producer. Responsible

for v-belts, components and system machines business world-wide.

JUN.1994 to 2011: PETROMETAL, Owner-Operator. Houston-based supplier of

forgings,

barstock, components and plant equipment for South American manufacturers

of Wellhead and Refinery equipment. Fully-integrated technical sales and

freight, trading US$ 75k to 600k/month.

JAN.1992 to MAY.1994: Ellwood Texas Forge, Product Development Developed

forward extruded seamless pipes, including dies and processes, for 11,000

ton press. First large titanium forging (Tomahawk casing), 2-in-1 breech-

block multiple, etc. Started exports to South America.

JAN.1988 to DEC.1990: Plant Manager - Forjas de Santa Clara, 1500 ton/mo.

closed-die forge.

Lead restructuring and renewal of 12 year-old hammer operation to quintuple

production and sales within two years at Venezuela's largest forging

company, during an export replacement era.

JUN.1981 to DEC.1987: Cameron Iron Works (now PCC/Wyman-Gordon) Houston, Texas.

Closed-die Forging Engineer, Titanium and Nickel-based aircraft turbine

disks on 23000 ton press. Extrusion engineer for shaped extrusions and

heavy-wall pipe. Development and testing: Forging lubricants, Aluminum

extrusion, Discalloy and Cu-Ni hollows,"hot-dies", closed-die "flash"

rings.

Training: International trade and freight. SPC - Statistical Process Control.

Quality Improvement Process. Cost Management and Planning.

Other relevant experience: Forging consultant: Smith International, Forjacentro.(1991)

On-site repair and installation of Oilfield and Merchant Marine equipment, before college.

Mech. construction superintendent - Retrofit hospital potable water/fire system.(1991)

Product qualification and testing - Flanges and Butt-weld fittings. ASTM, API, ANSI.

Education: University of Oklahoma BS in Mechanical Engineering 3.2/4 Grade Point.

Memberships: Engineering Dean's list every semester.

Pi Tau Sigma - Mechanical Engineering honors society.

Tau Beta Pi - Engineering honors society.

Built fracture-mechanics testing apparatus, under OXY Grant.

High-school studies in USA and Venezuela, in English and Spanish.

Personal Information: Healthy non-smoker, no handicaps.

Citizenships: Israel, U.S.A. and Venezuela.

Family-man, currently raising the last 4 of many children.

Enjoys raising farm animals and trying to be a good neighbor.

Current interests include encouraging other enterpreneurs.

Example projects: Wind-powered irrigation and well-pumping.

Lightweight tracked-vehicle. Integrated farming technology.

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