Engineer Manager

Alvin Augustin

Home: 908-***-****

(preferred) Cell: 860-***-****

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Objective:

To make significant contributions in a technical environment

pertaining to Mechanical or Process Engineering at a senior level.

Education: (Dual Degree)

* Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

* Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy & Material Science Engineering

The University of Connecticut Storrs, CT

5/01

Professional Experience:

Pintsch Bubenzer USA

Application Engineer / Inside Sales Flemington, NJ

01/08 - present

Responsible for providing technical support and submitting quotations

for heavy duty industrial braking systems used on movable bridges,

container handling cranes, mining applications, steel mills, and wind

turbine power systems; Responsible for occasional travel to domestic &

international customer sites for field service issues and technical

clearance pertaining to retrofitting our braking systems; Responsible

for generating a documented report of my case study in the field to

the Director of Sales and Operations Manager; Involved in quarterly

Kaizen meetings with the General Manager, Operations Manager, and

Director of Sales; Responsible for submitting approval blueprint

designs to the customer utilizing the SolidWorks software; Currently

the distribution headquarter and certified repair facility for North

America, Mexico, Panama, and the Caribbean with future goals of

becoming a manufacturing facility; World renowned company based in

Germany, our products are routinely specified by various licensed

engineering consulting firms for government bridge projects.

Projects Inc.

PMA Project / Design Engineer Glastonbury, CT

06/06 - 01/08

Responsible for creating blueprint designs and submitting

airworthiness documentation to the Federal Aviation Administration

(FAA) for thermocouples and various resistance temperature detection

(RTD) sensors as part of the Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA)

process; Responsible for the entire reverse-engineering process;

Responsible for creating and maintaining a fabrication inspection

system (FIS) as required by Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

21 Subpart K; Responsible for implementing a FIS to meet the

additional requirements for the reporting of failures, malfunctions,

and defects under Title 14 CFR 21.3 and the provisions for

identifying the product as called for by Title 14 CFR 45.15;

Responsible for Lean Manufacturing and Kaizen programs; Blueprints and

3-D models generated utilizing SolidWorks software.

Alcoa -- Howmet Castings

Product Engineer Dover, NJ

6/05 - 4/06

Responsible for the dimensional integrity of aerospace parts

manufactured utilizing the investment casting process; Knowledge of

the Directional Solidified (DS) single crystal process; Responsible

for project management and minimizing production defects; Responsible

for interacting with customers to resolve technical issues;

Responsible for troubleshooting manufacturing problems & root cause

analysis; Responsible for Lean Manufacturing & cost reduction via

process improvements; Responsible for tool wax die design &

construction; Responsible for reading blueprints; Responsible for

yield improvements & new product implementation; Knowledge of the

Alcoa Business System (ABS) & Six Sigma.

Varian Semiconductor Equipment & Associates (VSEA)

Gloucester, MA 2/05 - 6/05

Contract Position: Field Service Engineer responsible for the service

and repair of Varian VIISta high current single wafer ion implanters;

Responsible for final test & assembly of the control & positioning

systems for this complex electro-mechanical semiconductor equipment.

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft East Hartford, CT

3/04 - 7/04

Contract Position: Materials Engineering Technician for the Hollow Fan

Blade department; Responsible for preparing and evaluating turbine

blades in the Materials Control Laboratory (MCL); Responsible for

determining noncompliance in titanium and nickel fan blades for

military and commercial airplanes

ASML (Formerly Silicon Valley Group Lithography)

Process Engineer Wilton, CT

6/01 - 7/03

Responsible for final test and assembly of microscan semiconductor

machines in a semi-clean environment at INTEL and various customer

sites; Travel approximately 50%; Knowledge of interferometers,

PLC/servo controlled feedback systems, linear actuators, and stepper

motors; Knowledge of frictionless air bearing motion platform stages;

Knowledge of X-Y Gantry stage positioning systems; Knowledge of Delta

Tau board level controllers and utility software; Responsible for

electrical, optical, and mechanical alignments and calibrations to

engineering specifications; Responsible for obtaining synchronized

metrology by fine-tuning module throughput and reticle-to-wafer image

overlay parameters on a nanometer scale; Responsible for

troubleshooting servo data; Knowledge of the photolithographic

manufacturing process of integrated circuits; Responsible for

maintaining daily log status on site; Responsible for releasing safety

and installation procedures per module; Certified training in wafer &

reticle handler robot systems; Certified training in laser and beam

delivery systems; Designed filler panels, lifting fixtures, and

spanner wrenches using Pro/Engineer

Academic/Industrial Experience:

Independent Study / Research in Metallurgy and Material Science

Engineering

Supervised by Dr. Leon Shaw: The University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT 1/01 - 6/01

Laser densification of dental porcelains due to sintering; dental

restoration by porcelain fused to metal (PFM) process; sintering

conducted by a 25W- CO2 laser under prescribed conditions; sintering

parameters focused upon were laser output power, scanning rate, and

scanning spacing; microstructures of the sintered bodies were

examined; written report was submitted, this is an ongoing research to

manufacture fixed and permanent dental porcelains

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