Quality Control Project

Christopher Rivard Addres *** Spaulding Phone: (**9)

s: Hills Circle SE 954-3401

Apt 102 E-Mail:

Ada, Michigan abilne@r.postjobfree.com

49301

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Education

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Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Bachelor of Science, May 2009

. Major: Mechanical Engineering

Honors:

. Dean's List, 2008

Engineering Software Experience:

Catia Microsoft Excel LABView Citrix Neighborhood Client

SolidWorks ANSYS Matlab Microsoft Sharepoint

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Engineering Experience

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Clover Technologies Group/CAU Incorporated, Ithaca, Michigan

Process Engineer - Research and Development Department, May 2009 -

Present

. Incorporate innovative Lean Manufacturing practices to continually

improve upon existing manufacturing procedures to insure maximum

efficiency and product yields are maintained or surpassed

. Personally responsible for developing and maintaining all

production manufacturing procedures throughout the facility,

including product preparation, filling procedures, testing and

quality control limit samples, and guidelines in accordance with ISO

9001:2008 certification standards and guidelines

. Effectively communicate with production managers and personnel to

insure maximum efficiency and yield rates are maintained without

sacrificing the quality of the products

. Extensively research, develop, and implement innovative

manufacturing procedures prior to releasing new products

. Carefully monitor all available manufacturing data and statistics

on a daily basis to identify potential problems that may arise,

allowing personnel the ability to side-step upcoming production

issues

. Effectively and efficiently troubleshoot numerous problems that

arise daily in the product preparation, filling, testing, and

quality control departments, insuring maximum product yields

consistently met

. Conduct equipment qualifications on all new production machinery

prior to releasing to production, e.g., pneumatic and peristaltic

ink filling, ink evacuation, and computer numerically controlled

drilling machinery

. Conduct quality control lab tests to insure products will meet and

surpass OEM and customer requirements prior to releasing to

production

. Supervise Engineering Technicians to properly conduct, analyze, and

interpret lab tests and results

. Experience with CNC drilling machines, as well as AC, DC, and PLC

driven pneumatic motors and filling machines that includes initial

setup, code writing, maintaining, and troubleshooting

City of Mount Pleasant Water Treatment Facility, Mount Pleasant,

Michigan

Work Study/Intern, January 2009 - May 2009

. Conducted failure prevention and predictive maintenance research

for the facility

. Properly conducted bi-hourly process control lab tests (hardness,

alkalinity, chlorine, fluoride) on facility treated water samples in

accordance with The State of Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act

. Read and recorded hourly Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition

(SCADA) in accordance with company guidelines

Christopher Rivard Addres 522 Spaulding Phone: (989)

s: Hills Circle SE 954-3401

Apt 102 E-Mail:

Ada, Michigan abilne@r.postjobfree.com

49301

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Senior Design Project, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant,

Michigan

Project Leader, August 2008 - May 2009

. Designed and fabricated a Mars rock-retrieving robot for an

ASME/Boeing joint competition

. Efficiently completed a real-world engineering project

. Effectively lead an engineering team to the timely completion of a

year-long engineering project that included concept designing,

schematics, bills of materials, budgets, and formal written reports

and presentations

Engineers Without Borders: Engineering Assessment Trip, Saint Luce,

Madagascar

Project Leader, Potable Water Project, July 2008 - August 2008

. Performed water analysis testing (Nitrite/Nitrate, Chloride, pH,

conductivity, TDS, and turbidity) on all known water sources used by

local inhabitants

. Properly collected and performed bacteriological field testing on

all known water sources using 3M Coliform Tests and improvised field

incubators

. Recorded and mapped the GPS coordinates of all known water sources

and village perimeters

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