Alonso Amado
Heat Treat Manager
**** *** **** ********. ********** (Qu bec) Canada J1L 2E3
******@*********.**
Tel: 819-***-****
Off: 819-***-**** ext: 249
Objective
Challenging and rewarding a position in a growth-oriented organization that
offers diverse job responsibilities in mechanical metallurgical engineering
and will fully utilize my management experience with closed die forgings,
heat treating and machining.
Professional experience
Forge Heat treat Manager
Trudo Inc. (34 Richmond, QC, Canada. J0B 2H0 PH: 819-***-**** EXT: 249. "
www.trudoinc.com")
Oct 99 - Present (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqaWcCIQCd0).
. Manage forgings and heat treat operations. Reduce cycle times and
overhead costs.
. Quote new products in agreement with customer requirements.
. Provide technical assistance to both internal and external customers.
. Develop induction quench recipes.
. Design induction coils and quench systems to heat treat parts per
engineering prints.
. Develop heat treating recipes and rack layouts for vacuum and gas
carburizing of spiral gears and tractor's drive shafts. For
customers like Axletech, Arvin Meritor, Kubota and John Deere
. Develop heat treat process set-up to quench press spiral ring gears.
. Develop heat treat process for tooling and dies.
. Root cause analysis to solve production problems.
. Production planning for forging and heat treating processes.
. Responsible for recruiting, orienting, training and supervising 20
staff.
. Ensure compliance with ISO 9001:2008 requirements.
. Contact and deal with subcontractors.
. Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance on hydraulic
presses, mechanical presses, induction heating units, gas and
electric ovens, vacuum furnaces, atmosphere carburizing furnaces, CNC
lathes and millings, EDM units and conventional machine tools
. Purchase raw materials for forgings, special alloys for dies and
tooling for machining, heat treating and forging shops, supplies and
spare parts for maintenance.
. Foresee new forging and heat treat processes and related machinery.
. Set up test procedures for forgings and heat treated parts.
. Meet specifications on forgings and heat treated parts.
. Directs laboratory personnel in preparing of samples for microscopic
and micro hardness testing.
. Calibration and temperature uniformity evaluation on heat treat
furnaces.
Projects and Sales Engineer,
Colombian technical metal mechanics. (Bucaramanga, Colombia)
1998 - 1999.
. Quote and design machinery for the feed manufacturing industry.
Elevators, conveyors, silos, ventilation systems, scales, mixers,
boilers, storage tanks, trailers.
. Supervise the construction of the machines.
. Coordinate the assembly on site.
Engineering Director,
Forgings Andes. (Bucaramanga, Colombia)
1990- 1997.
. Develop strategies to reduce production times and increase
productivity.
. Implementing CAD system for the design and manufacture of forging
dies and associated tooling.
. Selecting the most efficient forging process for new products.
. Design and develop dies for drop hammers, upsetters, and mechanical
presses.
. Design and develop clipping, piercing and setting tools.
. Design open die performs to manufacture crank shafts, ring gears,
wheels and billets.
. Design and develop jigs and fixtures for machining process.
. Quoting new forgings and machined parts.
. Supervise operations on die machining shop and forging shop.
. Implementing ISO Standards.
. Implementing tests for inspection of raw material and forgings.
. Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance for drop hammers
(20, 13, 8 Tons-mt), mechanical presses (1000 -500-350 Tons),
Horizontal Upsetters (450-250 tons), screw presses and rolling
machines.
. Manufactured parts: API body valves, bonnet valves, ANSI B16.5
steel and stainless steel flanges, crankshafts, connecting rods,
connecting rod caps, truck brake camshafts, camshafts, steering
knuckles, universal joints, yokes, rear axle tubes, linkage forks,
stub axles, track links, flanged shafts, axle journals, gear blanks.
Engineering Assistant,
Colombian Metallurgic Company S.A. (Bucaramanga, Colombia)
1986-1989
. Design and development of rubbish truck compactors, planetary gear
reducers units, petroleum pumping units, truck hydraulic systems and
grain processing equipment.
. Supervising the installation and maintenance of the equipment
designed.
Education
Industrial University of Santander, Colombia.
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1986
Computer skills
Microsoft office.
AutoCAD.
Solid works.
Strengths
Results oriented ability to plan, organize,
prioritize, work effectively as part of a team, produce work
independently and on deadline
Languages
Spanish, English, French