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