Resume Thomas R Pevlor
Scottsburg, Indiana
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Objective: Seeking a fulltime, overtime, position as a Toolmaker Machinist, Calibration Technician or
Machinist
Experience: Sunshine Holler Enterprises Scottsburg, Indiana
Owner 8/2008 to Present
Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia
Mechanical Engineering Technician, Optical Instrument 6/1996 to 7/2008
Repairer, Industrial Engineering Technician
Beginning duties were in the mechanical calibration lab. Calibrated all manor of mechanical and physical
measuring devices and instruments such as, but not limited to, micrometers, calipers, thermometers, dead
weight testers, torque wrenches, etc. Moved into optics shop. Removed, overhauled, calibrated, and
reinstalled optical instruments from Marine Corps heavy equipment. Promoted into management as an
Industrial Engineering Technician. Managed the program which overhauled the Light Armored Vehicle.
Naval Surface Warfare Center Louisville Kentucky
Machinist, Tool and Die maker, Mechanical 6/1980 to 06/1996
Engineering Technician (Mechanical/Physical
Calibration)
Hired in at machinist level into turret lathe section, small machining department. Promoted eight months
later to Tool and Diemaker 3/1987. Duties of Toolmaker consisted of bench work, machining of
components for tools, jigs, dies, and fixtures using various machine shop machines such as, but not limited
to, mills, lathes, grinders, shapers, boring mills, jig borers, etc. Promoted to Mechanical Engineering
Technician into the Mechanical Calibration Lab. Calibrated all manor of complex measuring devices and
instruments such as, but not limited to, micrometers, calipers, thermometers, dead weight testers,
pressure devices, torque wrenches, load cells, etc.
American Standard Louisville Kentucky
Tool and Die maker 1/1978 to 6/1980
Machined carbide tipped cutting tools for use in automatic screw machines beginning with bar stock. Cut
flutes and carbide insert beds into flutes, silver soldered carbide into beds and delivered to grind section
for sharpening. Worked with vertical shapers, milling machines, lathes. Made replacement parts for plant
machinery as required.
Repaired and refurbished plant equipment.
Precision Automation, Co. (now called PACO) Clarksville, Indiana
Machinist 5/1976 to 1/1978
Job shop machinist. Machined parts for production machinery and devices using milling machines, lathes,
grinders, drill presses, etc.
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Education and Training:
North Harrison School Corp, Ramsey Indiana; High School Diploma 1965
General Electric Co Tool and Diemaker Apprentice Program Fort Wayne Indiana 1970 to1974
Trained 6800 shop hours on machine shop equipment such as band saws, lathes, turret lathes, horizontal
mills, vertical mills, surface grinders, hydraulic presses, etc. 2496 hours classroom instruction concerning
shop theory, shop planning, machining practice, safety, metals, heat treating, plating, attitude, speeds and
feeds, chip control, cutting fluids, carbide cutter use, etc. Farmed out to Tool and Die shop and also to
Hermetic Motor shop and Heat Treat shop.
Department of Defense 6/1980 to 7/2008
Mechanical Calibration Course, Oxygen Calibration course plus 18 varied training courses with additional
total of 444 credit hours.
Darton Community College Albany, Georgia
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2000 to 2002
Performance, Special Duty, and Beneficial Suggestion Awards:
Suggestion Cash award May 1984
Performance Award May 1988
Performance Award Feb 1990
Performance Award
Special Act or Service Award Oct 1990
Performance Award Mar 1991
Performance Award Apr 1992
Performance Award May 1993
Performance Award May 1994
Performance Award April 1995
Performance Award April 1996
Performance Award May 1998
Special Act or Service Award Sept 2000 (Commendation for Outstanding Duty)
Time Off Award September 2000
Individual Cash Award May 2001
Individual Cash Award Nov 2004
Individual Cash Award May 2005
Beneficial Suggestion Award $4004 Oct 2002 which saved $840,000 for the Marine Corps in its
first year in place
Beneficial Suggestion Award $10,000 Aug 2005 saved the Air Force $1.3 million the first year
in place
References:
James P Williams, Supervisor, Optics shop, Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, GA 229-***-****
William G Schreiner, Supervisor Test Lab, Marine corps Logistics Base, Albany, GA 229-***-****
Steve Prewett, Electrical Engineering Technician, Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, GA 229 639-
5301(Ask for Steve’s new number)