Engineer Electrical

Resume

Ross MacIlravie

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New Prague, MN 56071

952-***-**** (h) 612-***-**** (m)

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Employment History

*/** – 9/09 Chart Industries – New Prague, MN

Manufacturer of cryogenic storage and distribution products

Electrical Engineer

-Design, management, implementation and support of electronic and electrical

controls systems for manufacturing. Responsible for support of wide range of

welding, plasma cutting and electronic measurement and testing systems. Developed

PC and PLC based test system and integrated VFD control of high pressure pumping

systems. Visual Basic programming, SQL data reporting and SCADA integration.

3/05 – 4/08 Exlar – Chanhassen, MN (contract)

Manufacturer of linear actuators.

Controls and Electro-Mechanical Support

-Development of embedded servo control for linear actuator product. Responsible for

component level debugging and testing of surface mount drive circuitry. Developed

test systems using Labview. Designed product sales demonstration circuits and

enclosures. Modbus HMI Integration. Customer field support.

-Manufacturing test bench design and assembly. Designed and built six six-station

final test fixtures, including power control, servo drives and mechanical fixtures.

3/04 – 2/05 Beckhoff Automation – Burnsville, MN

Manufacturer of Industrial controls, fieldbus interconnects, PC’s and software

Service and Applications Engineer

Customer technical support and training. Hardware and software application support.

Multiple fieldbus systems and industrial PC systems. Provided on site and telephone

technical application support and customer training.

2/03 – 2/04 Mereen-Johnson– Minneapolis, MN (contract)

Manufacturer of industrial woodworking equipment

Controls Engineer Responsible for installation, troubleshooting and technical

support for industrial woodworking equipment, material handling equipment,

machine vision systems and lumber defect scanning systems using laser and optical

cameras. Integration, maintenance and programming of Allen-Bradley PLC, AC and

DC servo systems. VB and Delphi PC programming

8/97 – 1/03 Emerson Control Techniques - Eden Prairie, MN

Servo drives, motors, motion control equipment manufacturer

Field Service Engineer III

Field Service and Technical Support of industrial control systems, primarily motion

controls. Integration and application of multi-axis servo controllers. Provided

application design assistance. On-site installation, troubleshooting and programming

in a wide variety of industries such as packaging, medical, manufacturing and

material transport. Presented informal and formal training classes at customer sites.

Responsible for maintaining product competence on wide variety of controllers,

drives, motors, operator interfaces and industrial automation equipment.

FSI International - Chaska, MN

3/96- 8/97

Semiconductor production equipment

Technical Training Coordinator

Responsible for providing classroom and hands-on training for customers and FSI

maintenance engineers on semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Duties include

becoming competent with existing and new products, designing training curriculum

and presenting formal training.

Education

AAS – Electronics Technology 1988

Brown Institute, Minneapolis, MN

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