Engineer Project

Curriculum Vitae

Keith Ward

Address: **** ******* ** **,

Corydon

Indiana

47112

USA

Tel: 812 - 225 - 1589

E-Mail: *****@***.***

Summary:

I started work at BAe. as an apprentice airframe fitter, where my main job

was working on Concorde. After the initial training, I was the only first

year apprentice to be allowed to work directly on the aircraft! In 1976 I

moved to Bourne, Lincolnshire, with my family. Here I first worked for

Horrell Engineering; I worked on a large range of jobs covering Plant,

Machinery and Construction. Skills Used; Hydraulics, Pneumatics,

Electrical (Controls) and Fabrication of Machinery. I left Horrell

Engineering to work for CBS who were offering more interesting work. Here I

made components for Bridge structures, Anglia Water (Plant) and for various

Port Authorities. One of my projects was for the Harwich Harbor Authority;

here I made a ship fender system, which we then had to install onto the

quay. This project took me to Harwich and took four months to complete and

when I had finished this project, I took a job offered to me by Stour &

Orwell Engineering of Harwich. Here I mainly worked on Ships and Dredgers,

but also included work for British rail and Trinity House (Government

organization providing the Coastal Pilot Service, Light House's, Light

Ships and Buoy systems) working on Electrical, Hydraulic and Pneumatic

systems, Engines and Gearboxes, Winches, Plant and also Ships Hull and

Superstructure repairs.

Whilst I was at Stour and Orwell Engineering, I studied for my Engineering

Degree, graduating in 1985. Stour and Orwell Engineering closed down in

1984 as a result of the recession. After obtaining my Degree there was

still very little work available, but as I had been offered several short

term self employed projects, I decided to go self employed.

As there was a fair amount of welding work around at this point, I decided

to obtain a coding and obtained an ASME IX 6G certification for pipe

welding. I worked self employed for an American company "Bestobell

Mowbry", making parts and systems for oil rigs and oil refineries, for over

two years. The money enabled me to start my own boat building business,

which did very well up until the British Government decided to align the

British pound with the other European currencies (Unification). Interest

rates went through the roof and people stopped buying boats Britain

failed in its attempt at Unification!

Whilst self employed, I have helped to restore a sunken 80 foot Trawler. I

renovated the Engines, Winches, Hydraulics, Electrics and repairs to the

Hull & Superstructure. I have done repairs and conversions to dozens of

Trawlers, Work Boats and Tugs. I have worked at sea on many of the ocean

going suction dredgers, repairing pumps, pipes, etc., at sea while the

vessels were at work. I have also carried out repairs to an Ocean Survey

Ship, repairing their sensing drones. I have designed and built many

Inshore Boats, including Traditional (English) Narrow and Broad Beam Boats,

Cruisers and some Hire Boats.

I am a very "inventive" person; I have produced numerous patentable

equipment and devices for other companies in addition to my own

technologies. My own inventions include the "AgStar", "V-Ring Consolidating

Disc System", A new very low draft Coulter System, A new Planting System

and "Power Stacker", a fully automatic large bale stacking system. This

machine won first prize in the Farmers Weekly/Barclays Bank National

Inventors Competition in 1996 and a patent was later awarded in 1998. I

have also designed and built an "Add On" Hydraulic Power Pack for smaller

tractors to supplement their own Hydraulic systems for "Large Demand

Equipment". I have also designed and built a small high output hydraulic

portable Power Pack, for use with Dowedeswell's small bale wrapper systems.

I have also designed and built a prototype large square bale wrapper for

Dowdeswell, which included the Hydraulic and Electronic control systems.

I have done a lot of trouble shooting for different companies (British),

the better known being Railtrack, Dowedeswell Eng, Pearsons, Moore Uni-

drill and Norsales. I have sorted machines like metal band cutters, track

leveling machinery, industrial baling machinery, conveyor systems,

Potato/Bulb harvesters (Pearsons), general plant, bale wrappers and seed

drill control systems.

In 1998 I was invited to join Simba international Ltd as Projects Engineer

for the Aqueel project. The Aqueel was an innovative idea to control soil

erosion, but didn't work properly. My brief was "make it work", to which, I

did. I was later given the opportunity to go to the USA to head the

project on its launch there. A new company was formed for this purpose,

Sustainable Agricultural Technologies and my work Visa was secured. In

this position, I was responsible for product development, research and even

marketing. We worked all over the US, Canada and Mexico, however, the

Aqueel was turning into a niche product, so Simba decided to recall the

Aqueel back to the UK.

After Simba's recall, I decided to design and develop my own systems to

overcome the short comings of Aqueel. These systems became very effective

and are being developed today by a company I started with a partner, I have

since resigned from this company after a hostile take-over..

After leaving my company in January 2008, I started working for DAE

Industries whose primary business is making Aircraft Support Equipment and

Tooling for the military and for most of the major airlines, they also make

products for Boeing under license. I started at DAE as a fabricator and

within two weeks I was made lead fabricator charged with making all the one-

off's and prototypes, such as equipment for the F22 Raptor. During this

time, we were awarded a multimillion dollar contract to provide ground

support equipment for re-furbishing the B-52 Bombers at Tinker AFB. I was

put in charge of building all the difficult and complex parts of the

project. After completion of this project, about 4 months, I was asked if

I would take over the management of the Corydon facility, which handled all

the larger projects. I agreed and became Plant Manager. Under my

management, we did 4 more of these contracts, which were all completed on

time and to budget, and the overall quality at the Corydon facility was

also greatly improved! After these contracts were completed, the company

closed the Corydon facility and moved operations to their new larger

premises in Louisville. I was re-assigned to Concept and Design because of

my engineering background, here I designed several new products and

redesigned some products we were having problems with. During this period,

DAE had started to encounter a lot of quality problems and on top of this,

Boeing had given us a contract to supply licensed product for them, subject

to becoming ISO approved. I was now made Director of Quality and made

responsible for correcting our quality issues and getting ISO approved. I

personally prepared and created all the documentation, records, etc. to

make us ISO compliant and enable us to become ISO approved. In this

position, I have ensured that quality of the products has been improved

considerably and any issues that we were still getting, were caught before

leaving the premises.

However, the previous quality problems and the poor economy took its toll

on DAE, and over recent months (April 2011 - June 2011) they laid off

around 30 plus people in an attempt to cut costs. I was recently added to

this list in the second wave and also laid off.

I am currently employed by EMP (Engineered Machined Products), which is an

automotive Tier I & II supply Company; I started work there in September

2011. I was hired as a Process Engineer for the Greenfield, Indiana

facility and my responsibilities were as follows: Work with the Design

Engineers to create the engineering process documentation, work with the

Quality Engineers to create the control documents, PPAP's, etc. I also

wrote the work instructions for operators and was also responsible for

operator training. In August 2012 I was promoted to Foreman, in addition

to the normal foreman's duties of work scheduling, etc., I am responsible

for the first article quality checks, part/layer checks and final audits to

approve product for shipping, I am also responsible for ensuring all

quality documents, training/work instruction document are up to date and

show the current revision levels.

Key Strengths:

. Good communication and leadership skills.

. Inventive, Versatile, Intuitive, Resourceful, Imaginative, Attention

to detail and self motivated.

. Good Design skills.

. Good Fabrication skills.

. Good Welding skills.

. Ability to Trouble Shoot effectively.

. Able to Commission Multi Discipline systems.

. Understanding of Machinery and of its control systems.

. Ability to come up with workable solutions to problems.

. Computer skills include; AutoCAD 2D, Solidworks 2010, MS Office, Adobe

Suite, inc; Illustrator, Photoshop, Premier Pro, Encore DVD, etc..

Education:

September 1966 to June 1972 ~ Ridings High School, Winterbourne,

Nr. Bristol, UK.

Qualifications:

GCE English

GCE Technical Drawing

GCE Geography

GCE Metalwork

Further Education:

BSc. Degree in Engineering

City & Guilds AutoCAD 2D

SolidWorks 2010 3D Modeling Software (In-house trained)

ASME IX 6G Pipe & Plate Welding (27 Certificates) (NO LONGER

CURRENT)

Mitsubishi PLC Programming Course

Work History:

. September 2011 to Current Foreman of production, previous

positions in the company,

Process

Engineer

. January 2008 to June 2011 Director of Quality, previous

positions in the company, Plant

Manager & Concept

& Design Engineer.

I was Laid-off

due to the companies economic problems.

. March 2006 to January 2008 Design and Projects Engineer - Agstar

LLC., Liberty, Missouri.

Company set

up to market three of my designs.

. June 2003 to March 2006 Projects Engineer - Sustainable

Agricultural Technologies,

Corydon,

Indiana.

Project

withdrawn from USA by Simba International

. December 1998 to June 2003 Projects Engineer - Simba

International Ltd., Sleaford,

Lincs., UK

Left the UK

to work on the same project (Aqueel) in the USA

. June 1985 to December 1998 Self Employed Design & Development

Engineer.

I did a lot

of coded welding and had my own boat building

business in

this period.

. October 1984 to June 1985 Unemployed.

Used time

to finish studying for Degree.

. March 1980 to October 1984 Marine Engineer - Stour & Orwell

Engineering,

Harwich,

Essex. UK.

Company

closed down as a result of the Recession.

. May 1979 to March 1980 Fitter/Welder - CBS Welders,

Stamford, Lincolnshire.

UK. I

left this Company to take the job offered to me by

Stour &

Orwell Engineering.

. October 1976 to April 1979 Fitter/Welder - Horrell

Engineering, Helpringham,

Sleaford,

Lincolnshire, UK.

. July 1972 to September 1976 Apprentice - BAe, Filton, Bristol, UK.

I left to

move to Lincolnshire with my Family.

Hobbies:

Motor Cycle Racing (Use to compete and was a race instructor)

Building Motorcycles (Track Bikes and Cafe Racers- I

rebuild/tune engines, frame

modifications, suspension and painting)

Track-day riding

Motorcycling/Touring

Model Aircraft

Photography and Video

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