High School Maintenance

Carl Conrad

Email: ********@************.***

Address:

City: Harrison Twp

State: MI

Zip: 48045

Country: USA

Phone: 586-***-****

Skill Level: Any

Salary Range:

Primary Skills/Experience:

Meticulous instrumentation technician, excellent at juggling multiple tasks and working under pressure. Broad industry experience includes maintaining lab budgets, delegating work, and completing work in a timely fashion. Also finding ways to cut costs without compromising quality. Very safety conscious.

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from Osborn high school, Detroit MI 1/2001 to 5/1991 (General education,Drafting,Fabrication)

Job History / Details:

Summary

Meticulous instrumentation technician, excellent at juggling multiple tasks and working under pressure. Broad industry experience includes maintaining lab budgets, delegating work, and completing work in a timely fashion. Also finding ways to cut costs without compromising quality.

Very safety conscious.

Highlights

Horiba maintenance service trained 200,7500 series

Rosemount Analytical service trained

MST Adapt service trained

Building and designing sample handling systems

Building custom purging

systems for high soot and

moisture content

Lynx software

Horiba Adacs software trained at service level

PLC experience

Strong understanding of engineering needs

Windows XP,7

Strong understanding of EPA and CFR rules and guidelines

1065 trained repairs and calibrations

13 years experience in a lab and test cell setting

10 years of mig, tig, and, arc welding

Strong fabrication skills

A/C, D/C power control systems

ISO 14001 ISO 9001:2000 qualified

Vets experienced

Ecm noxcam senor training and calibration

Ecm cancam airfuel senor training and calibration.

strong hydraulic and pneumatic background

Accomplishments

2009 outstanding performance award.

Awarded by peers after being on the job for 1 year.

Reduced a Horiba service budget from $125 thousand per year to less then $13 thousand per year.

Found secondary venders for parts that are now obsolete.

Trained employees on basic maintenance troubleshooting skills

Trained calibration teams on more efficient trouble shooting methods on failed equipment.

Took over a $350 thousand dollar Horiba parts budget after only 8 months of employment, without exceeding that budget.

Management and engineering put me in charge of test room software upgrades.

I was put in charge to do software backups of all the analytical equipment.

Worked directly with venders and engineering to make project's costs more efficient.

Experience

January 2008 to January 2012

Jacobs Tech ( Ford ELD) Dearborn, Michigan

Ford Motor Company ELD Jacob's technologies

Responsible for daily repairs and talking with engineers about long term problems and projects.

Managed the lab budget, including Horiba parts and annual gas divider calibrations.

CFR1065 trained.

Trained the calibration team on basic repairs and trained them on more efficient ways to run calibrations without compromising quality.

Attended meetings with senior lab techs and engineers to resolve complicated problems.

Participated in safety classes on a monthly basis.

As of January 2012 I was no longer employed there. As to the reason why, it is of a sensitive nature, which I will explain as needed.

February 2006 to November 2008

C and S Landscaping Harrison Twp, Michigan

Owner/Operator

Owner/Operator, ran day to day operations.

Found customers, did accounting, and produced billing.

Performed maintenance on equipment as needed

October 2004 to March 2005

Ford's Scientific Research Lab (contract) Dearborn, Michigan

Emissions Lab

Repaired and troubleshooted Horiba benches on a daily basis.

Rebuilt Horiba benches as needed.

Maintained stock.

February 2004 to October 2004

FEV Auburn Hills, Michigan

Instrumentation tech/ Electronic tech

Worked the afternoon shift in the lab, where I performed maintenance and calibrations on Horiba equipment.

Calibrated dynos and pressure transducers.

Designed and constructed cables for engineering needs.

Worked on classified test projects, which are still under sealed contract.

November 1997 to March 2004

Waston Engineering/Johnson Matthey Testing Taylor, Michigan

Dyno tech/instrumentation lab

Ran trans shift test cells, cat aging cells, and euro test cells.

Setup analytical equipment and calibrated it for testing before each test.

Performed fabrication when needed and building maintenance.

Was promoted to afternoon Supervisor. I was Supervisor for 6 months. I then transferred to the day shift so I could be trained in the instrumentation lab. Handled complex compressed gas cylinder inventory. Installed and decommissioned analytical benches. I was then released from my job do to cut backs.

Education

1991 Osborn high school Detroit, Michigan

High School Diploma General education,Drafting,Fabrication

Learned hand forging, spot welding, cutting torches, lathe work, and bridge port. I began taking drafting classes, in which I excelled in and was then entered into a competition as a freshmen. The competition was meant for seniors only, but my teacher didn't tell me this. The competition was at Cass Tech. I placed 35th out of 500 students. I was later disqualified when they learned that I was only a freshman. My drafting teacher also received some sort of punishment (of course what was I was not told) for blatantly enrolling me in the competition despite my age.

References at request

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