RESUME

Thomas W King

**** ********* *****

Dothan, Alabama 36303

334-***-****

abhhf0@r.postjobfree.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

**** - **** ******** **** ****. Greenville, S.C. & Dothan, Al

Initially employed by Michelin in Greenville, S.C. as a curing mold

designer working with tire engineers to develop curing molds for new tire

designs. Worked also as NC Programming supervisor and as Mold Design

supervisor.

Transferred to Michelin's Dothan, Alabama plant's engineering department as

a mechanical design engineer responsible for supporting the plants current

and future production needs; reducing costs; addressing ergonomic, safety

and environmental issues; addressing specific process problems and any

machine failures. Design work performed was for all areas of the plant that

included material processing equipment, tire building equipment, tire

curing equipment, inspection equipment, transport equipment, and plant

utilities.

Design projects involved modifying or redesigning tire building equipment

to speed up the process; to increase capacity; to adapt to a new process;

to address ergonomic, reliability, or quality issues. Each design project

involved a feasibility analysis of various design concepts; a cost analysis

of the design concept chosen; interaction with outside suppliers and

component fabricators; the final design installation and detail drawings

with material lists; project timeline and FMEA; the procurement of material

and parts; assembly and installation; commissioning and startup.

Examples of projects responsible for:

. Designed and installed new drive systems to control the

acceleration and deceleration of rotating equipment for precise

start/stops and decreased process time.

. Purchased and installed three elevated enclosed spray cooling baths

for cooling extruded rubber prior to windup. Designed and installed

maintenance safety platforms for access to the bath and an inline

weight monitoring system prior to product windup.

. Transferred a complete machine from production at another plant;

installed it on new foundation/support at our plant; designed and

procured necessary process modifications to components; designed

and procured material staging and product exit transport equipment;

designed and connected to existing utilities; assisted in the start

up and commissioning of the machine; and followed up after

production start.

. Redesigned conveyor system to incorporate auto sorting of product.

RESUME

Thomas W King

1992 - 2002 Wallace Community College Dothan, Alabama

Evening Drafting Instructor

Taught manual and AutoCAD drafting for mechanical, electrical, residential

& commercial architectural drafting. Introduced students to English and

metric units, first and third angle projection, descriptive geometry,

various measuring devices, implied and functional datum's, geometric

dimensioning and tolerancing, fits, dimensional tolerancing, and

elementary statistical studies.

1976 - 1980 Allis Chalmers Corp. Jackson, Mississippi

Product/Design Engineer

Started in engineering department learning the company's power circuit

breaker products and their design. Was given the responsibility of the

mechanical engineering for a specific oil breaker product line to assist

the sales department with estimates and documentation for special orders.

Worked with electrical engineer co-worker to redesign a 63KVA oil circuit

breaker to reduce its cost 25% and accommodate shorter more economical

power bushings. Designed a new concept mechanism for breaking the circuit

at the necessary break velocity, decelerating to a stop, and reconnecting

the circuit (closing) while re-energizing the breaker in case of another

line fault. Hands on assisted with the fabrication of a prototype

redesigned breaker, and successfully static and power tested the unit at

the Westinghouse test facility in Pittsburg, Pa. Implemented the new design

into production with two pre-production units built to develop process

changes necessary for production of the new design. Created new operators

documentation, including a spare parts list.

EDUCATION

1975 University of Alabama-Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama

B.S. Engineering Mechanical Design

SKILLS

Use of tools for continuous improvement (Cause & Effect, Control Charts,

Pareto Charts, Process Capability, Gantts, Root/Cause Analysis, Failure

Mode & Effects Analysis, Statistical Process Control, etc.)

Computer skills include AutoCAD, Project, Excel, Word, Power Point

Analytical skills applied from my formal education, my continuing employer

education programs and my engineering working experience

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