Project Manager Electrical Engineer

DAVID FISCHHABER

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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

ALL SYSTEMS IN THIS RESUME (I.E., ROBOTS, MACHINES, ETC.) WERE PROGRAMMED

USING A COMBINATION OF THE

SOFTWARE LISTED UNDER TECHNICAL SKILLS.

Successfully created:

- Universal Converter Controller for processing paper, plastic, or film

into products like sandwich wrap.

- Automated a bulk material warehouse that use to have well over 300

manual routing combinations.

- Gantry class robot that does not use chains/sprockets,

cables/pulleys, rack/pinion, or linear motors.

- Controls for DALI based automatic lighting control system at a PETCO

store in California.

- Controls for non-destructive testing via X-Ray of Solid Rocket

Boosters for NASA's Space Shuttle

- Controls and software for 9 axis, AC servo, automatic, Plantation

Shutter painting robot.

- "Miniature" Robot controls on very high speed gantry robot for pick-

and-place apps & meat packaging.

- Motion and I/O controls for a system to X-Ray Hand-Grenade fuses

using Baldor AC servos.

- Controls for systems with ABB robots to X-Ray jet engine parts and

another for military aircraft wings.

- Controls for a system to X-Ray Delta II and Delta IV rocket engine

parts and fuel cells.

- Manipulator and controls to X-Ray jet engine fuel lines using Baldor

AC servo drives and motors.

- Manipulator and controls for several systems to X-Ray auto and truck

parts.

- Plastic Blow-Mold Controls on a machine that produced 50% more

product than others in its class.

- Control system for a high-speed garment sortation system - 25,000

garments per day using barcode.

- Welding robot with embedded controls for boiler tube and vessel

repair.

- 6 axis robot control system with Yaskawa drives/motors, Prolog PC,

Motion Engineering controller.

- 5 axis wall welding robot control system. Co-developed mechanical.

- Project Manager on four turnkey installations of 40 robots each with

installation valued at $25MM each

- Developed WELL over 200 new products. Nine (9) of them are

industrial robots

TECHNICAL SKILLS (A-B = Allen-Bradley)

Software TwinCAT, ModSoft, Concept, DSMpro, RSview, WebStudio,

CoDeSys, OpenPLC, DirectSoft32, IEC61131-3, Karel, C, VB,

VBscript, SQL, and many others

Applications AutoCAD 2010, Inventor 2010, SolidWorks 2007, most Microsoft

products, etc.

Networks Ethernet, EtherCAT, Ethernet-IP, DeviceNet, SERCOS, CAN,

Profibus, +18 others

PLCs/PACs Beckhoff, Modicon, A-B, Mitsubishi, GE, Square D, OMRON,

AutomationDirect, etc.

AC Drives A-B, Beckhoff, Yaskawa, Fanuc, Indramat, Emerson, Baldor,

SEW, Danaher, etc.

DC Drives A-B, Beckhoff, ELMO, Control Dynamics, etc.

Steppers Beckhoff, GMD/EuroCard, Oriental Motor, US Digital, etc.

VFDs Square D, A-B, Mitsubishi, Baldor, etc.

Motion Beckhoff, Motion Engineering, Galil, Baldor, etc.

Control

Industrial PC Beckhoff, Ziatech, EXOR, A-B, XYCOM, Nematron, Prolog,

Rabbit, Tern, etc.

Robots ABB, Devilbiss, Fanuc, Bosello, etc.

Paint App.'s Behr, Binks, Graco, Devilbiss, Sames, Kremlin

X-Ray Gulmay, Viscom, Hamamatsu, Bosello, Varian, Perkin-Elmer,

Envision, Tellus

Weld Lincoln, Square D, OTC, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CHIEF ENGINEER Mountain Automation, Inc. - Clermont, Ga February 2007

To December 2009

. Provided engineering/design support services to industrial,

commercial, and Inventor customers.

. Developed a series of engineered automation modules - six possible

modules to start with - that can be used individually or combined in a

multitude of configurations. One of those various combinations

provides a four-axis robot manipulator and another provides a Gantry

class robot. Our engineering also made it possible for our costs to

be considerably lower than our competitors - enough to achieve a gross

margin of about 80%.

. Developed a Universal Converter Controller, Bag Machine controls, and

automated head-ball machine for Cabbage Patch Dolls.

SE REGION SUPPORT/APP. ENGINEER Beckhoff Automation LLC, - Duluth, Ga

July 2005 - February 2007

. Southeast Region Application/Support Engineer for Beckhoff hardware,

software, and network products.

. Developed the controls hardware and software for the DALI automatic

lighting control system at a PETCO store in CA.

. Supported customer projects.

DESIGN MANAGER Creative Integration, Inc. - Clermont, Ga January 2005 -

July 2005

. Contracted with VJ Technologies out of New York to develop controls

for several industrial X-Ray systems including one for NASA to perform

non-destructive testing on their Shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters.

. Developed the controls for an automated bulk material warehouse with

blending operations to replace the over 300 manual routing

combinations.

. Provided engineering services for several process market customers

involving, mostly, electrical controls but also provided mechanical

engineering services, too.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER G & L Technologies, Inc., - Alpharetta, Ga July 2004

- January 2005

. Developed electrical engineering department and documentation

standards.

. Developed several new products including:

- Controls and software for 9 axis, Emerson AC servo, high speed,

automatic, Plantation Shutter painting robot.

- Controls and software for 3 axis, Baldor AC servo, high speed,

automatic, Plantation Shutter louver/tiltrod processing machine.

. Developed a Universal Power Enclosure, Universal Servo Drive Enclosure

(Baldor AC servos), and Universal HMI enclosure (EXOR display) that

are fully adaptable to any of the company's machines to reduce costs,

installation, training, assembly, etc.

CHIEF ELECTRICAL ENGINEER CAMotion, Inc., - Atlanta, Ga Sept. 2003 - July

2004

. Developed electrical engineering department and documentation

standards.

. Developed several new products including:

- AC Brushless Servo Drive at a cost of less than $300 which

includes TI DSP for motion control and Intel DSP for

Ethernet/CAN

- "Miniature" Robot controls for very high speed gantry robot as

is used in packaging and other pick-and-place applications.

- Controls for a 4 axis very high speed gantry robot used in food

packaging.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Advanced X-Ray, Inc., - Buford, Ga January 2001 -

August 2003

. Developed electrical engineering department and documentation

standards. Electrical circuit drawings utilized both traditional

ladder diagrams and wired parts graphic that contributed almost

entirely to the reduction of service calls to zero over two years.

. Reduced electrical engineering project/product development time from

as much as 6 weeks to less than 4 days - 87% reduction.

. Reduced electrical installation time from as much as 12 days to less

than 1 day - 92% reduction. One large project was

< 4 hrs.

. Reduced electrical materials project/product cost by as much as 30%

. Product quality - reliability, serviceability, durability, etc. -

doubled.

. Reduced electrical service calls from about 60 per year to zero!

. Overall electrical systems profits increased by better than 40%.

. Developed :

- Area Alarm for X-Ray personnel safety (used on virtually all X-

Ray projects).

- Several printed circuit boards to simplify system assembly &

troubleshooting while also reducing system costs.

- Motion and I/O controls for a system to X-Ray Hand-Grenade fuses

using Baldor AC servo drive and motor.

- Controls for 3 systems with ABB robots to X-Ray jet engine parts

plus another to X-Ray military aircraft wings.

- Controls for a system to X-Ray Delta II and Delta IV rocket

engine parts and fuel cells.

- Manipulator and controls to X-Ray jet engine fuel lines using

Baldor AC servo drives and motors.

- Manipulator and controls for several systems to X-Ray auto and

truck parts.

- Numerous other systems and products - all of them using the new

modular approach.

ENGINEERING MANAGER Southeast Automation Systems, Inc., - Clermont, Ga

1997 To 2001

. Developed:

- Vinyl Base Mold Forming machine and controls - process parts at

600/hour.

- Plastic Blow-Mold Controls on a machine that produced 50% more

product than others in its class.

- Plant engineering department and documentation standards.

Converted German documentation to English.

- Start-up assistance for new automation system as well as

training for maintenance.

- Control system for a high-speed garment sortation system -

25,000 garments per day using barcode.

- Welding robot with embedded controls for boiler tube and vessel

repair.

ENGINEER - ALL DISCIPLINES Norton Construction Products, - Flowery

Branch, Ga 1996 To 1997

. Designed a variety of in-plant machinery and equipment - mechanical

and electrical.

. Provided automation engineering services: mechanical, electrical,

software, machine design, industrial, manufacturing, etc.

. Provided operations analysis services. One analysis resulted in

development and implementation of a plan to reduce inventories by as

much as 70%, increase productivity by as much as 250%, reduce rework

and scrap by 20%, plus many other benefits.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Welding Services, Inc., - Norcross, Ga 1994 To 1996

Developed 6 axis robot control system with Yaskawa drives/motors, Prolog

PC, and Motion Engineering motion controller.

Developed several mechanical axis assemblies.

Developed straight tube MIG overlay weld control system.

Developed 5 axis wall welding robot control system. Co-developed

mechanical.

PROJECT MANAGER Creative Robotic Automation, Inc. - Norcross, Ga 1993

To 1994

Developed large scale assembly machines and controls for a home appliance

manufacturer.

SABBATICAL 1991 TO 1993

MANUFACTURING CONTROLS MANAGER The M.W. Kellogg Company - Houston, Tx

1986 To 1991

Project Manager on a South American Chlorine Container Handling System.

Co-developed structured methodologies, based on IDEF, for performing an

Operations Research Analysis of an entire enterprise.

Successfully completed several CIM projects for international companies.

Developed discrete software simulation on several plastic manufacturing and

oil packaging facilities

Developed the Modicon 984 PLC software for a material handling system for

iron ore.

Developed the software for a plastics compounding system using redundant

PLC's.

SRS DIVISION MANAGER GMFANUC Robotics Corp - Troy, Mi 1985 To 1986

Project Manager on four turnkey installations of 40 robots each plus

hardware/software systems with values of $25MM ea. Engineered/designed

world's first electric paint application robot and controls, the P-150; all

application related equipment for the installation of 162 P-150 robots; all

application software based on GMF developed Karel language; three pneumatic

control systems for color applications and one airless atomizer pneumatic

control system; an AC servo powered robot slide and robot peripheral

turntable; a maintenance robot slide; and over 50 other new application

products for the P-150.

ASSISTANT ENGINEERING MANAGER K-R Automation Corporation - Madison

Heights, Mi 1982 To 1985

Engineered/designed control systems for: automatic paint mix and

distribution system for Ford Assembly, Atlanta $4MM; automatic selection

and sonic welding of resistors to the keys of Corvettes $350k; automatic

weld/assembly system for a Ford car body; control systems for 21 types of

conveyors; automatic robotic paint application systems for GM Baltimore

$8MM; automatic rotary paint application systems for: Ford Lorraine, Ford

Wixom, Ford Wayne, and Nissan Smyna, TN $6MM ea.; "fixed" paint application

systems for GM Lake Orion, and GM Wentzville plants $6.5MM ea.. Developed

the General Motors Assembly Division GMAD standards and master

specification for stationary air atomized paint application systems.

Developed the General Motors Corporation standards and master specification

for pneumatic control panels used in paint application systems.

PROCESS ENGINEER Chevrolet Flint Truck Assembly - Flint, Mi 1976 To 1982

Responsible for maintenance and operation of all plant automation.

Automation includes: electrostatic paint application systems, high density

stackers (AS/RS), cab/box fixed weld system, misc. robot systems, tooling,

and others. Also served as Project Manager for the main paint mix room and

distribution system, final repair paint mix room and distribution system,

two robotic truck wheel paint application systems, a Suburban/Blazer floor-

pan weld/assembly system, a Suburban/Blazer side-panel weld/assembly

system, the Behr "fixed" electrostatic paint application systems.

Previously served as a Maintenance Supervisor responsible for up to 50

tradespersons with journeyman qualifications. Primary responsibility of

this group was general maintenance/repair of the facility as well as

emergency breakdown repair and preventive maintenance.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems. DeVry University .

December 2011

Associate of Electronics Engineering . Ohio Institute of Technology . March

1975

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