Dennis Parker

Phone: 334-***-**** E-mail: abljka@r.postjobfree.com Mobile: 334-***-****

*** ********* ****, **********, **, 36067, United States

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Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics at

Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tn.

Experience Summary

? Over 25 years manufacturing/design engineering and project management

experience including mechanical, tooling, product, controls, project and

facilities/plant engineering and engineering supervisor.

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Project management experience: Justification & purchase of capital

equipment: ($50,000 to $10,000,000): Machining centers; Presses:

mechanical & hydraulic, welding systems; paint lines; plant moves & start

up; cost reduction projects using 6 Sigma techniques: Kaizen events,

process flow, layouts & automation; Plant certification projects using

PFMEA for ISO 9000 and customer. ? Work in the following

industries: Automotive, sheet metal stamping, casting, rolling, & forming;

and oil industry controls: hydraulic, electrical, pneumatic and PLC + HMI

? Tooling

design experience with carbide, CNC, bar machines, drilling, jigs, and

stamping Industries served include automotive (friction, power steering,

pumps, front end components, frames, sheet metal panels), aircraft,

electric motor and sheet metal.

? Experience with daily operations, setup, tooling design & repair,

procurement of steel lamination presses, draw press, slitting steel &

aluminum, forging, bar machines, heat treat, carbide dies and tooling;

welding: tig, mig, spot, seam, inertia; spray painting: electro static,

turbo bells & discs; grinding, milling, vibratory, aluminum die casting,

polishing, cure press molding, roll forming, batch mixing.

? Control programming: air logic, hydraulics, electrical relay and power,

over 120 PLCs and HMI programs written, and some robot experience: pick &

place, 3axis, and 5 axis machines.

? Ten+ years of ISO9000 experience. Green Belt Lean 6 Sigma, Taguchi design

of experiments, PFMEA, SMED, Kaizen events/teams, process flow diagrams,

cell layout, JIT, lean projects, and annual facility operating budgets.

Control Projects: Two compression molding systems complete with PLC, HMI,

data collection network, linear pressure control, HPU: (4) mixers

converted from ladder logic to PLC control: designed controls for panel

builder with Omron PLC, HMI, and variable frequency drives: and numerous

others

Skills

? Cad experience: AutoCAD 2009 for 2 years, some Inventor, Solidworks for

four years, & Fastcad for 10 years

? Parker Hannifin hydraulics training,

? PLC programming: Allen Bradley PLC & HMIs; Direct Soft PLCs & HMIs; Omron

PLCs, HMIs, & drives: GE: Siemens PLCs & HMIs; Leeds & Northrop; ABB drives

:Yaskawa drives

? Microsoft Office software: Excel, Word, Powerpoint

? Taguchi's Design of

Experiments

? Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt[pic]

Experience:

Maintenance Instructor for Alabama Technology Network @ Alabama Southern

Community College Present:

Teaching in nine week sessions: lubrication, pneumatic, hydraulics,

bearing, safety, blue print reading, and other general machine practices

and machine theories to machine and maintenance personnel to problems as

they occur or prevent them.

Controls Engineer at Ideal Technical Staffing Solutions

Daphne, Alabama

(Contract Engineer to ODS International, Houston, TX) (Oil & Energy)

November 2008 - March 2010 (Contact Ended)

. Design and automation of hydraulic and electrical controls for

cranes, hydraulic power units, material handling, derrick operations,

drawworks, miscellaneous tooling and pipe handling (catwalks).

. Cad design and documentation. (AutoCAD 2009)

. Responsible for designing, writing specifications, documentation,

operating procedures and quotations to build electrical automation and

hydraulic controls for oil drilling rigs.

. Solicit quotes from vendors based on developed specifications, to

include pricing and delivery

. Projects:

Designed automatic land based oil drilling rig hydraulic and PLC

control system. It consisted of (3) networked PLC, (6) HMI, (3) 1100

HP variable frequency drives, (3) 300 HP soft start drives, HPU,

telephone, safety, hydraulic valves, pneumatics, 725 I/O and

interfaces/controls for third party systems. Design automatically

assembled or dis-assembled itself in 24 hours once on site. It

automatically supplied drill pipe to or from well head and tracked

overall pipe length in hole.

Design (9) hydraulic and electrical control systems for

off oil rig cranes & material handlers that handled 1,000,000 each

. Design Engineer; Self-Employed

March 2008 - November 2008

. Provided machine & tool designs in CAD and their installation.

. Developed project documentation, scope of project, cost estimates,

timelines, and detailed responsibilities for all parties involved.

. Worked with customers and contactors to review safety procedures.

. Responsible for oversight and review of work progress during project

life cycle.

. Project manager for dismantling and shipping 200+ machines across

country and overseas after plant closure, electrical and PLC

programming, building structural and utility modification drawings

Manufacturing Engineer at Halla Climate Systems Alabama

Automotive, >100 employees

August 2007 - March 2008 (Quit Language barrier English vs Korean)

. Strategically planned, coordinated and delegated workflow of 14

operators to maximize production performance.

. Purchased production tooling, equipment and general supplies. Worked

with vendors and plant maintenance to install and ensure new equipment

and processes were operational.

. Developed work standards, Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis

(PFMEA), operator training manuals, and process manuals.

. Responsible for daily quality analysis and development of

improvement processes. . Major project was installation,

startup, training of operators & maintenance, and documentation of new

radiator production line. The line achieved customer and ISO

certification on first review.

. Project Engineer at Keystone Engineering - Selma, Al

Industrial Automation, 0-10 employees

November 2006 - June 2007 (No work; contracts dried up)

. Designed and built tooling and electrical controls, Programmable

Logic Controller programming and mechanical projects for commercial

customers. . Wrote and

installed Omron PLC, drive, and HMI programs for 10 station kitchen

cabinet panel fabrication machine. It could automatically changed set

to any of 45 different panel.

. Solve PLC, electrical, and mechanical issues for 15

customers.

. Senior Manufacturing Engineer /Project Engineer at Haldex Brake

Products Corp. - Prattville, AL

Automotive, >300 employees

November 1988 - November 2006 (Plant downsized and closed)

. Plant ISO certification 1997 and re-certification

. Ford &

Chrysler vendor certification and Kaizen events

. Wrote and maintained PFMEA

for plant processes

. As Chief engineer, supervised an engineering

staff of 5 employees and a maintenance group of 12 employees for two

years.

. Developed budget for annual projects; provided justification for

purchase and installation of new machines, maintenance schedules and

cost for existing machines.

. Developed training plan for line operators and maintenance

personnel.

. Provided manufacturing and industrial engineering support to the

disc brake and block manufacturing operation, including daily support

(troubleshooting, programming)

.Projects: purchase, supervise plant expansion, equipment layout and

start up, operator training, documentation, & certification; designed

and purchased 65 molding presses, Designed and upgraded thirty

machines with new PLCs: Setup & installed SPC automatic collection

system, upgraded grinder electrical controls: upgrade oven controllers

.Tool and machine

design

.EPA certification and

monitoring for stack gases, VOC's, and waste water quality.

.Facility projects: layout and design of compressed air system, steam

system, lighting and electrical power; design & upgrade to central

hydraulic system: Boiler rebuild and second boiler: supervise and

approved upgrade of HVAC

.Cost reduction or avoidance projects: layout and flow

changes that increase through put by 15% and a head count reduction of

3. Another project that increase productivity by 200% was control

upgrade, flow through material handling, and layout changes. The

three shift operation was reduced from three to 1 shifts with one

less person per shift.

.Lean manufacturing projects: Dedicated set tool carts, plant lighting

changes, 10 cell identification and creation that resulted

productivity gain and reductions in operator fatigue; 25 quick change

tooling projects.

? New product

introduction: worked with customer finalized their design: designed

then worked with vendors, tool room, & maintenance to get the parts in

production, then work standards and trained operator.

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