LASZLO FERENCZI

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Irving, Texas 75062.

PH: 972-***-****

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

JULY 1989 to

PRESENT TRIUMPH AEROSTRUCTURES, DALLAS, TEXAS

(Previously Vought Aircraft Industries, Northrop Grumman and LTV Aerospace and Defense from present to past)

• Designed an automatic manufacturing line covering 12,000 square feet for the assembly of the Boeing 747-8 fuselage subassemblies with a budget of $4.5M. US patent is pending.

• Designed a Lift Machine to elevate these subassemblies along with their Tooling to the level of the Automatic riveters. This equipment is capable to elevate the 60’ long 20’ wide Assembly Tools weighing up to 43,000 lbs to a level of 12’.

• Semi-automatic Riveter (a $1.7M project) for our Nashville facility to for the assembly of the G-IV wing. My responsibilities involved the mechanical and hydraulic design, fabrication, installation and Machine Acceptance of this equipment in a time frame of 10 months.

• Have written the Specification along with Brotje engineers in Germany for the iGantry and iFrame machines. Participated in the coordination with the various Vought groups to bring this project to a successful completion. I was also responsible of the Acceptance and Boeing Certification of these machines.

• Designed a 5 axis part Positioner of a CNC Riveter for our Stuart, Florida facility (a $2.7 M project). It is capable to handle assembly Tools up to the size of 30’ by 12’.

• Designed a portable hydraulic Heavy Duty Squeezer for fastener installation that is capable to upset 3/8 diameter rivets with 23,000 lbs force.

• Designed a 4-axis NC controlled extrusion saw that cuts variable angles rotating around “B” and “C” axis and has an open loop servo system on “X” and “Y” axis.

• Designed an extensive modification (a $500,000 budget) of the

Company’s Rapid Ply Cutter that cuts different types of composite material

like fiberglass prepreg, woven graphite and kevlar.

• Designed several major components of the Company’s new Sheet Metal Cell.

This Cell is built on a $1.2M budget, consisting of a 4’x 12’ router, a 10 head

Drilling machine with an automatic screw inserter and material handling

equipment.

• Designed the retrofit of the clamping system of a 50-foot long tracer router with a $220,000 budget.

The Company filed for and received a patent for this design from the U.S.

Patent and Trade Office; patent #5282610.

• Designed two 5 axis CNC Part Positioners for the assembly of aircraft wings with a total budget of $1.7M each. (foreign and domestic patents pending)

• Designed a new Rivet Injector mechanism, US patent #6,196,414

• In addition to the above, designed several smaller shop aid equipments, hydraulic squeezers, tools, etc.

AUG.1988 TO

JULY 1989 GENERAL ELECTRODYNAMICS CORP. ARLINGTON, TEXAS

Senior Mechanical Engineer responsible for the design and development of a new line of portable heavy duty scales for the trucking and aircraft industries.

• In this process have successfully employed the ANSYS Finite Element Analysis to speed up the development phase of the product design.

• Designed aluminum castings, injection molded rubber parts and their toolings.

FEBR.1981 TO

AUG.1988 H&O RESEARCH, DALLAS, TEXAS

(a subdivision of the HAGGAR APPAREL COMPANY)

Design Engineer responsible for developing new concepts, methods to automate the different areas of the manufacturing process in the garment industry; designing original machinery; evaluating, re-designing existing machines.

• In addition to the overall project engineering responsibilities, have taken significant part of the actual design of the so called “Back Pocket System”, a group of machines automatically fabricating the back pocket bag for man’s slacks and automatically inserting those into location using fusing and bonding techniques exclusively. The creation of joints stronger and more durable than if they were done by sewing is achieved by employing a combination of reciprocating and indexing feed methods, using close registration of the work pieces throughout of the multi-station machinery.

• Have taken part active part in the development and the design of an

Automated Inventory Machine that takes count of the loaded coat hangers

at very high speed in the company’s jacket distribution center.

• Had sole responsibility for two of the company’s major undertakings in designing a modular medium pressure steam, vacuum and compressed air distribution system for the press lines enabling the use of the same basic prefabricated components for different plants with a wide variety of floor plans.

• The smaller projects also gave the opportunity to design fixtures, cams,

gauges, sensors and redesign sub-assemblies of existing machinery.

SEPT. 1980 TO

FEBR. 1981 AL’S MACHINE SHOP, IRVING, TEXAS

Machine operator working on lathes, milling and grinding machines and CNC machining centers for five months full time and for two additional years part time.

EDUCATION:

B.S. degree from the TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BUDAPEST, Hungary in May 1972. (major in machine engineering).

Working knowledge of ANSYS finite element analysis, design/drafting of CATIA V5, SOLIDWORKS, DESIGNSPACE and various Windows MS application software packages.

Have completed CATIA IV and IGRIP training courses.

Working knowledge of hydraulic (up to 3,000 psi) and pneumatic system design and troubleshooting.

MILITARY SERVICE:

Hungarian Air Force (1967/68 and in 1972) in jet engine and systems maintenance.

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