Engineer Sales
Resume:
Resume
WILLIAM D. COHEE
Hemet, CA 92544
abng6p@r.postjobfree.com
Objective:
Seeking a job that draws from the experience derived from manufacturing of food and nutriceuticals, service maintenance chemical,
and electronic business sectors.
Employment History:
General Operations Manager (General and Operations Managers)
08/2006 - 04/2007 ND Branded Beef & Pack LLC., Harvey, ND
Management of facilities, staff and site of a USDA inspected meat processor for livestock was performed. Some duties and
responsibilities included supervision of policy, customer service, regulatory affairs, sanitation, human resources, facilities,
procurement, safety, plant security, and finance. Required documentation was revised, generated, monitored and maintained. USDA
HACCP training was completed. Providing responses to USDA Food Safety Inspection Service’s non compliance (NRs) findings
became compliant by corrective action selection, written document generation, and implemention which avoided plant shut down.
Sampling was supervised for pathogenic organisms. Presentations and negotiations were performed. New markets were identified.
Obtained certification from USDA for processing Canadian animals. Identified new account with Canadian livestock for processing.
USDA reconsidered small plant classification because of quanity processed in first months.
Laborer (Labor and Construction)
06/2006 - 08/2006 Streeter Ready Mix, Streeter, ND
Performed labor activities required for aggregate, sand, cement, and water that were loaded into trucks in this season job. Checked
trucks for service requirements. Built concrete forms and poured concrete for feed lots. Built and insulated steel buildings.
Operations Manager (General and Operations Managers)
07/1999 - 11/2004 Frey Associates, LLC, Hemet, CA
Start up activities were performed for electronics portion of company (relocation from Mexico). Other businesses were added over
time. Performed daily management activities for site, manufacturing lines, supervision of retail tool store sales, warehouse and
equipment storage. Leasing, maintenance, manufacturing, and delivery were responsibilities for programmable message board
construction signs. Responsibilities included customer and vendor interface, product testing, Safety Program, and Quality. Employee
training in manufacturing electronic and electro-mechanical processes were performed for non bilingual employees (partially bilingual
in Spanish). A machine shop was set up by me from available stored equipment and employee training performed to support
manufacturing. I successfully provided cost effective design and process improvement to provide quality products. I provided
corrective action design and taught manufacturing procedures where a lot (consisting of 60 items) passed customer specifications on a
part not successfully built in two years while the plant was in Mexico. I succussfully built and machined the first item of a high
voltage (100,000 Volt) part as a training demonstration that met specifications for the customer. I determined corrective action
required for solar charging of 12 V. battery pack defect for programmable signs.
Environmental and Utilities Supervisor (First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Production and Operating Workers)
10/1997 - 04/1998 Aviko, USA, Jamestown, ND
Waste treatment department employees were supervised and lab testing was monitored. Responsible for quality of one million gallons
of effluent each day and the recovery of products and waste products were managed. All equipment operations and anaerobic digesting
tanks involved in processing were responsibilities. Power and water consumption was tracked. There was trouble with a piece of new
equipment on the waste treatment floor which I successfully provided the corrective action to bring the plant back on line. Identified
cost effectiveness of putting lab results in data bank for viewing plant wide.
Process Engineering Department (Engineers, All Other)
08/1984 - 12/1993 Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA
Electronic Specialist (09/1992-12/1993)
Project Engineer, Sr. (09/1988-09/1992)
Process Engineer II (08/1984-09/1988)
Job titles at Hughes Aircraft Radar Systems Group were in the Process Engineering Department. Electronic Specialist duties were
assisting design, assembly, and implementation of vision guided, computer aided robotics workstation for manufacturing micro-
electronic parts. Statistical Process Control levels above 6 Sigma were attained by the workstation. Project Engineer, Sr. duties
required support of B-2 aircraft radar unit manufacturing; and heading the task to create, test and implement a computer aided
hazardous materials cradle to grave tracking system. Physical destructive testing was performed in the Materials and Process
Laboratory. Presentations concerning tasks and reports on status was performed. Process Engineer II duties were support of
manufacturing of harness, interconnect modules and assembly for radar used by F-14, F-15, and F-18 aircraft. Involved with test
engineer on FACT test evaluation, an automated computer program performing electrical analysis for function of circuit boards.
Provided process support of the Assembly Producibility Laboratory and introduced flowing solder pot for assembly of power supplies.
A radar unit had been in a test prototype assembly situation. I was tasked to devise a corrective action technique to succesfully salvage
the five million-dollar unit by successful removal of non-specification connectors. I demonstrated the developed equipment and a
reproducable, successful process. Successfully meeting production specifications was a five million dollar company windfall.
General Manager (General and Operations Managers)
08/1981 - 08/1983 Plant and Field Service Maintenance Corp., Santa Fe Springs, CA
Completed job on time and under budget. Comprehensive duties for manpower, safety, sites, support equipment and tools for a
maintenance and contracting company in the mining and geothermal industries were performed. Responsibilities included training in
safety and equipment operations for 250 skilled and unskilled craft employees. Monitored, negotiated and approved payroll for six
sites. Maintained, expanded customer base and interface. Set up and supervised a fuel dump, equipment leasing and equipment repair
site for company vehicles, and tools. Responsible for certified welding crew on two miles of eight inch low pressure pipeline in above
ground installation. I brought in my company part three months early on the major contract and developed a new mining account.
This resulted in the gold mine management contacting me late on a Friday night for help with diverting water. I provided leadership,
response, employees, materials and equipment that prevented flooding of main shaft for gold mining operation during flood conditions
which would had ended the mine.
Field Manager (Managers, All Other)
08/1979 - 08/1981 Bolsa Drainage, Brawley, CA
Responsibilities included the development of an industrial high-pressure water cleaning business. Training, equipment and
manpower scheduling, account development and performance tracking were conducted. Manufacturing and laser guided installation
of agricultural drainage pipe was the core company business. Directed rolling stock maintenance for cleaning portion of company.
Performed work in the manufacture and installation of corrugated agriculture drainage pipe. Developed and implemented a high
pressure traveling water nozzel that lasted 180% longer than that provided by vender.
Field Sales Representative (Sales Representatives, Agricultural)
01/1977 - 08/1979 Mallinckrodt Inc., St. Louis, MO
Maintained and developed a sales territory for eleven western states for turf and horticultural chemicals. Inventory for territory was
managed. Developed and maintained distributor interface for sales. Identified and targeted new markets, developed promotional
presentations, territorial planning, established budgets, and maintained inventories for territory. Sales goals were met and distributor
number was doubled.
Process Management and Sales (Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products)
09/1971 - 10/1976 Nutrilite Products Inc., Lakeview, CA
Product Manager 01/1976 - 10/1976
Technical Sales 01/1974 - 12/1975
Process Development Engineer 09/1971 - 12/1973
Product Manager duties included marketing and promotion for pharmaceutical coating and pesticide products. Regulatory
compliance was monitored for products. Customer service was performed and manufacturing departments were supported. Technical
Sales responsibilities were sales and distribution for national and international markets for biological pesticides. Company regulatory
functions were perform for local, state and federal label registration. Deep tank and semi-solid fermentation, pressing, solvent
extraction and distillation recovery were among production processes performed as Process Development Engineer. Laboratory
functions were also performed in the microbial and chemical laboratories during this time for product evaluation. Milling and
grinding of formulations and organoleptic testing of products was done. Cell cultures were isolated, screened, and propagated under
lab and pilot plant conditions and scaled to production size. Instrumentation Vitamin analysis was performed. Identified and proved
nonsterile condition occurrance in jacketed stainless steel fermentation tanks was occuring from microcracks permitting
contamination from cooling cycle water entry to inner tank.
Laboratory (Chemists)
03/1965 - 09/1971 Montrose Chemical Corp., Torrance, CA
Assistant Chief Control Chemist 03/1968 - 09/1971
Laboratory Technician 03/1965 - 03/1968
Duties included Quality Control Program and employee supervision as Assistant Chief Control Chemist. As a laboratory technician,
quality control of in process products was performed. Research and development on wet and dry compounding and powder
formulation, detergent, insecticides, and biological hydrocarbon degradation were performed. Instrumental analysis performed with
IR, GC, UV, and other analytical equipment. Research on in plant chemical processes was performed for product improvement using
production equipment. Milling and grinding for powders was done. Wet bench chemistry and analytical methods were performed
that included instrumentation. Microbial degradation research of chlorinated hydrocarbons was done. Provided optional chemical
digestion method reducing a two hour procedure to fifteen minutes. Developed lab equipment reducing another process method from
two hours to 10 minutes drying and mulitpling quantity processed by factor of six.
Education History:
02/1971, Bachelors of Science, Microbiology from California State University, Long Beach, CA.
Advance Technical Education Program of Hughes Aircraft Certificates: Design For Manufacturing Assembly (DFMA); Just in Time
(JIT); Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing; Cost Improvement; Supervision.
Advanced Bio-Organic Chemical Analysis with NMR and MASS Spectrometry Certificate (1972, CA State University, Pomona).
HACCP Completion Certificate, (University North Dakota, Fargo, 2006).
HAZMAT Responder Certificate.
Licensed Agricultural Pest Control Advisor, CA, AZ, WA, OR.
Navy Weapon Specification Electronic Manufacturing and Mil Spec Manufacturing Certificates.
Anaerobic Waste Treatment Processing Certificate (University Wisconsin, 1998).
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