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Engineer Design

Location:
Ocala, FL, 34471
Posted:
August 20, 2011

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John R. Nawrocki

Home Ph. 352-***-**** **** SW 26th Street Ocala, Florida. 34471

abgwqz@r.postjobfree.com

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Design Engineer with 30 years experience including 17 years emergency

vehicle cab design, 5 years new product design for home storage products, 4

years of pressure vessel & gas purification design, 1 year with Quick

Service Restaurant cabinetry, over 10 years developing inexperienced CAD

operators, designers & engineers. I welcome a fast paced and dynamic work

environment where multitasking projects to unique customer specifications

is commonplace.

SPECIFIC AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Solid modeling & surfacing within vaulted environments maintaining strict

adherence to engineering SOP's, multilevel BOM structures, design in

aluminum, extrusions, roll forming, castings, machining processes, steel

plate, sheet metal, wire formed components, pipe, tubing, molded plastics,

vacuum formed plastics & plywood cabinetry. Project experience includes:

customer order review, pre-build design & review, root cause and

resolution, quick service restaurant "QSR" & kiosk design, redesign of

industrial compressors to accommodate CE standards, generating new product

concepts & designs for home storage products, designs with fire truck cab

structures including their components of windscreens, window layouts, doors

and their related components, trim & latching mechanisms, cab interior &

ergonomic layout and design including seats & safety restraints,

environmental control & ducting, electric over hydraulic cab tilt and latch

systems, mechanisms & cabinetry.

Skills:

. Solid Edge

. SolidWorks With COSMOS

. UNIGRAPHICS

. CATIA V4

. AutoCAD 2004 & 2006

. Pro/ENGINEER R11-R19

. MEDUSA 2D & 3D

. Autodesk INVENTOR 11

. Product Stream

. Autodesk Vault

. MS Office / Excel

EDUCATION

Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida

Bachelor of Science, 2006 Business Administration, concentration in

Production Management

Central Florida Community College, Ocala Florida

Associate of Arts, 1996 Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ocala Aviation Services Inc. "Flight Instructor" CFII, MEI, SEL, MEL & ATP

2001 - Present

Part time occupation resulting from my hobby of flying. Duties include

basic VFR flight instruction, IFR, Commercial, Complex, High Performance,

G-1000, Avdyne TAA & Tail wheel transition training.

Load King Manufacturing Company, Inc. Jacksonville, FL. "Design Engineer"

2007- 2009

Coordinated, managed & checked project work for 5 remote designers to

complete design tasks. Designs include cabinet design, S/S & CORIAN tops

and various associated components, minor electrical & plumbing layouts

for food and beverage QSR's & Kiosk located in airports, malls &

department stores & product development to accommodate the food service

industry. Skilled with multiple 3-D CAD Solid Modeling programs in a

vault environment, Responsible for BOM's, resolving design issues with

shop floor, purchasing customers & suppliers to optimize value

engineering for successful, efficient & profitable installations.

Accomplishments:

. Lead Design 2009 food service components & Kiosk in TARGET department

stores

. Designed module components for various QSRs

. Designed conversion kit components to remodel existing kiosks by new

vendors

. Produced cost savings for fabricated components through vendor options to

purchasing department

MAKO CompAir LLC Ocala, FL "Mechanical Engineer" 2007

Team Lead & redesign of the global MAKO product line. Coordinated project

work for global MAKO product line with designers, shop floor & marketing

. Identified & coordinated new designs with new MAKO vendors..

Accomplishments:

. Redesigned and tested the Breathing Air Machine "BAM" product to be

compliant with CE & cT Vus

. Designed global Breathing Air Horizontal Machine "BAH" compressor product

line

. Designed & created modular BOM's for MAKO's BAM & BAH products to

accommodate a sales configurator

. Cost savings: Designed a safety device utilized on MAKO filter housings

to preventing inadvertent pressurizing of chambers not fitted with

cartridges to accommodate new industry standards

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ClosetMaid Ocala, FL "New Products Designer" 2001

-2006

Responsible for designs, documentation & product development within the

marketing department for new products in a vault environment & improve

existing products of wire, stampings & injection molded plastics for home

storage products based on consultant supplied concepts and self input.

Worked with prototype model shop & QA testing methods for new products

and utilized ECR / ECN procedures for new & existing products.

Accomplishments:

. 14 Design Patents awarded for new products I created

. Cost Savings: 2004 "HangTrack" Patented redesigned shape, a $604,000

annual cost savings

Blue Bird School Bus Fort Valley, GA "Designer"

1999-2000

. Designed cab to body transition components,trim, seating and

wheelchair restraints for the

Ford Micro Bird Bus project, utilized ECR / ECN procedures for new &

existing components.

. Testing & first run production & installation of Ford Micro Bird design

at Blue Bird Canada plant

Mark III Industries Ocala, FL "Chevrolet Sales Account Manager"

1999

. Nation wide phone sales to Chevrolet dealers for customized

Vans, Trucks & SUV's

Emergency One Ocala, FL "Sr. Designer" Custom Cab Dept.

1983-1999

Team Lead Designer of custom fire truck cabs while adhering to customer

specific requirements & maintaining compliance with NFPA. Coordinated,

trained & checked project work for designers, new engineers & CAD drafters

to complete design tasks & weekly custom cab production schedule, and to

utilized ECR / ECN procedures for new & existing products.. Additional

responsible included daily technical engineering support to sales,

fabricators & assemblers utilizing aluminum and extrusions, vacuum formed

ABS components including door trims, overhead consoles, headliners and dash

housing assemblies. Designed seating and safety restraint systems, all

safety glass components, heat & A/C, electric over hydraulic cab tilt

systems, and all miscellaneous cab components. Represented the engineering

department with customer design review meetings for order entry, worked

with inter-departments to spearheaded on time finished products,

responsible for interpretation of customer shop orders to create new

compliant products, BOM's, generating line sheets to cost & build from

utilizing an Oracle driven configurator, determination of root cause &

resolution on production floor.

Accomplishments:

. Designed a multitude of custom cabs ranging from one man drill rig cabs

to eleven man tilt cabs that accommodate cab over engine concepts with a

full height raised roof for on scene remote command operations within a

climate controlled environment

. Skilled in communicating with vendors and customers concerning designs to

achieve successful designs

. Generated cost savings through maximizing efficiency techniques with

interior trim Bills of Materials to be generic in scope, color and

texture specific at the single component level. Color & texture

information became a top level item as this process greatly reduced

material waste & time for a high volume of "JIT" custom products

Pall Pneumatic Products Ocala, FL "Draftsman" R&D Dept.

1979-1983

. Developed experience with 3-D design utilizing GRAFTECH wire form

CAD design modeling system

. Skilled with geometric dimensioning and tolerances "GD&T", machine

processes, welding standards, electrical schematics, flow & logic

drawings. Utilized ECR / ECN procedures for new & existing products.

. Created R&D fabrication, machine, detail & sales literature

drawings.

TRAINING

Jan 2007 AutoDesk Inventor 11 tutorials completed (on site)

Sep 2004 Solid Edge tutorials completed (on site)

Feb 2001 SolidWorks Volume I & II (CADD Centers of Fort Lauderdale, Fl.)

Oct 2000 Unigraphics tutorials completed (on site)

Dec 1999 CATIA V4 BASIC and SHEET METAL tutorials completed (on site)

Mar 1998 Pro/ENGINEER SHEET METAL DESIGN (on site by PTC instructor)

Feb 1998 Pro/ ENGINEER ADVANCED ASSEMBLY DESIGN (on site by PTC instructor)

Feb 1998 Pro/ ENGINEER ADVANCED PART DESIGN (on site by PTC instructor)

Nov 1993 Pro/ENGINEER BASIC (on site by PTC instructor)

May 1991 Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)

Nov 1985 Prime MEDUSA "DRAFTSMAN" & "DESIGNER" course (Boston

Massachusetts)

14 Design Patents Awarded:

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With 6 patents in production.



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