Project Manager Quality Assurance

Richard Grebski

**** ****** ***, ****** *****, Il 60053

Phone: 847-***-**** E-Mail: abnm4l@r.postjobfree.com

S UMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

A Senior Model Studio Manager, highly skilled in a wide range of architectural and industrial models and

prototypes. Great team and project management skills support highly efficient technical expertise across a

variety of mediums and sophisticated computer technology. Areas of expertise are the following:

Management: • Project Management • Strategic Planning and Budgeting • Vendor and Client Relations • Process

Improvement • Team Leadership, Motivation and Training • Capital Equipment Acquisition • Materials Management •

Cross-Functional Team Coordination

Model-Making Expertise: • Molding/Casting/Painting • Multi-axis CNC Programming & Machining • Sheet Metal and

Plastic Fabrications • Thermal Forming • SLA and SLS experience • 3D print • RIM Machine • Equipment Maintenance

Software Skills: • AutoCad • Rhino • 3dMax • SurfCAM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Solomon Cordwell Buenz, 625N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 2 007 - P R E S E N T

SCB is a major world-wide architectural firm with extensive experience in the design of urban mixed-use and multi-family

residential, corporate office, higher education, laboratory and transportation facilities.

MODEL STUDIO DIRECTOR

Researched and acquired equipment and inventory to launch a new model shop. Planning, design and

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layout for launching a new model-making studio. Researched and ordered equipment and inventory.

Built network of suppliers.

Hand build the highest quality of to- scale realistic models of buildings, study models and rapid models.

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Developed techniques which imitated marble, brick, glass and steel. Installed lighting, landscape and

other effects to enhance projects.

Responsible for all phases from costs estimates and appraisals to final on-site or off-site installation. In

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close collaboration with designers, brought ideas from drawing boards into realistic representations.

Chose materials, colors, methods of construction and set up.

Trained and managed a team of professional model makers and a team of unskilled workers on as

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needed basis.

Able to develop, read and interpret 2D drawings, 3D Cad drawings, read blueprints, renderings and

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sketches. Operated sophisticated machinery (CNC, laser cutter) and software ( AutoCad, FastCad,

Rhino, SurfCam). Used variety of technologies available from both in house and contracted service

providers.

Presentation Studios Intl. LLC, 1435 W Fulton St, Chicago IL 2 004- 2007

PSI is the most highly recognized scale-model making studio in US and in the world. Completed work for clients such as:

Murph/Jahn Architects; Skidmore, Owings & Merill LLP; Optima Architects; Smith and Gill Architects; Tigerman MCCurry

Architects; Cesar Pelli Associates.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Developed scale architectural models for landmark buildings around the word including

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United States, Dubai, Qatar, China and European Union. (for example: Trump Tower; 630

Fairbanks, (Chicago) Burj Dubai Tower (Dubai); Ninjing Tower- (China); Sand’s Casino

(Philadelphia); Murrano Tower, (Philadelphia)

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Managed multiple aspects of projects including work distribution, scheduling and contact

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with clients and suppliers.

Hand build and finished core parts and elevations using sophisticated software and machinery.

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Wielgus Product Models, 1435 W Fulton St, Chicago IL 1 998- 2004

Independent maker of high-quality prototype models

SENIOR MODEL MAKER

Making appearance models, foam models, legal models, product prototypes and rapid prototypes.

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Making models of different objects, including: cellular phones, pagers, home and computer electronics,

kitchen appliances, miniature parts. Shaped multiple materials in intricate delicate shapes, sanding and

filling, polishing, sandblasting and bead blasting.

W orked with Plexiglas, ABS, ren-shape, wood, aluminum, SLA and SLS parts, urethane parts, silicone

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parts. Painted parts of all kinds, sizes and shapes, spray texturing of various levels, masking, dry

transfer, clear coating, priming. Mixed any type of colors (tri-coats, pearls, and tints). Used a variety of

paint application techniques.

Used metalworking, woodworking, plastic forming machines, lathes, vertical mills, versatile laser cutter,

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multi axis CNC centers; reaction injection molding machines (RIM), and hand tools such as: saws,

shapers, sanders and grinders.

Introduced a number of new model-making processes; searched and tested new innovative materials

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and paints. Serviced various model making tools and spray guns.

Fiat Auto, Tychy, Poland 1 990- 1997

W ell known Italian Auto Maker with manufacturing facility in Poland

QUALITY ASSURANCE PAINT TECHINCIAN

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office, Outlook, Java, C+, C++, Cobol, Visual Basic, HTML

Fast CAD, Auto CAD, Surf CAM, 3dMAX, Photoshop

EDUCATION

National Louis University, Chicago, IL

B A C H E L O R O F A R T S - C O M P L E T E D 1 20H O U R S T O W A R D S D E G R E E

EMPHASIS: COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND MANAGEMENT

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