Toolmaker, Machinery Repair, Precision Machinist
Resume:
Frederic Windisch
*************@*******.***
Submitting to an array of employers, cover letter addresses some specifics, but more a letter of introduction. This applicant is prepared for direct responses. To accommodate websites without separate cover and resume uploads, these are combined, hopefully benefiting each party.
Personal dedication for Machine Trades began young. As sixth graders, a class assignment posed a written 'interview' with a notable or interesting person. Many people identify pivotal moments in their identity, goal setting, or significant hurdles in life. That was mine unequivocally, satisfying all three categories at once. I found an inventor, whose products while interesting, was not the fulcrum. That image, translating ideas and simple sketches into complex operating mechanisms was so intense, it never dimmed. I still laugh, thinking about adults asking children what do you want to be when you grow up?” Stereotypically, answers fell into doctor, policeman, lawyer, nurse, fireman, and so on. Imagine the surprise and frequent ‘huh’ at “Me?” “A Toolmaker”! Blank looks told me, they envisioned Santa’s elves. I came to realize and justify precision machine work, especially Toolmaking, as most critical of all occupations.
New employer search commenced 06 June 2017, after 4-5 weeks of insufficient work coming to current position, layoff is imminent. That’s not economically feasible for either party. While loyalty is there, the handwriting is on the wall.
I’m fully tooled; precision instruments, personal fixture tooling, calibration standards, safety gear, when appropriate. This includes mechanical tools beyond that needed to set-up machining. Not comfortable supplying cutters other than by exchange, as investment is difficult to recover. I’m equally comfortable with new projects, repairs, prototyping, individually or teamed.
I’d summarize in three paragraphs.
Please do not regard this applying only as tradesman. There are two elements. One is historical, as an employee. Elsewhere I pulled experience into the boundaries, beyond expectations of supervisors; 5S, 6Σ, Cause-Failure Analysis, STEM Education, and many more.
Resume clearly signals interfacing with designers, engineers, and buyers to achieve satisfaction with customers. Additionally, have functioned successfully as engineering specialist, administrative assistant, quality lead, supply and logistical coordinator. That I wasn’t awarded certain titles is rather meaningless, driven to contribute is tangible. Regard as interview topics, purely to corral my resume at brink of acceptable volume.
So, this cover and respective resume should be examined as concrete examples of personal dedication specifically to machine trades, and manufacturing of durable goods in general. Placing considerable value on a broad envelope of work, I see far more potential in latitude than an impressive description. A full-time permanent position is sought, certain other situations considered.
Sincerely,
Frederic Windisch
FREDERIC D. WINDISCH
PO Box 5446 Kansas City, MO 64131
Cell 562-***-****
*************@*******.***
Toolmaker/ Precision Machinist - Prototypes, R & D. Reverse Engineering, Mechanical Inspection, Industrial Repair. Engineering and Administrative Specialist.
As such, details related experience of Industries, Machine Tools, and Education, acquired in excess of forty consecutive years follow. That in mind, I declare the following:
QUALIFICATIONS Work Area, Work Habits, Education, Continuous Improvement, Safety.
Conception and delivery of a wide range of tooling including jigs, fixtures, dies and molds.
Prepare takeoffs, material bills, and prints for prototypes and short run production work.
Design and construction of tooling with consideration of commercial components, weight, and strength of materials, balancing, production methods, and final inspection.
Support production with in-process or department inspection of first article or random samplings.
Repair/calibration of metrological tools.
Abilities extend in microelectronics, precision mechanical inspection, machinery repair, millwright, logistics, data acquisition /preservation, and consulting.
Associates Degree, Professional Communications with 14 units of general college study.
Over 12 year’s Vocational training from start of career, amassing 190 units.
Veteran US Navy, retired after 26 years as Quartermaster.
Maintain records of equipment/ instruments and tooling from acquisition, usage, and subsequent disposal.
Create and maintain inventories on materials, hardware, ancillary process support items.
Instill and reinforce safety measures in accordance with standards, logic, or issue at hand. Safety, correctly placed foremost, is a continual active endeavor, not reactive.
Last, not least, I’ve maintained a consistent, perfect safety record.
QUALIFICATIONS Machine Tools, Equipment, Bench Work.
Milling, Drilling and Boring Machines of Vertical, Horizontal, Rotary Head, Jig and portable configurations. Utilizing Rotary Tables, Slotters, Indexers /Dividers, Cherrying Heads, Right Angle Heads, Tappers, and all manner of fixturing (Sine Plates, Knees, Sub Plates, et cetera.)
Lathes, of Engine, Turret or Boring form; Horizontal to 48”, Vertical to 144”, coupled to Taper, Radius, Bed Turrets, Threading, Tracers, Tool Post Grinders, and Milling Attachments.
Grinders, Axial or Perpendicular construction. Blanchard, Reciprocating, Tool and Cutter, Cylindrical, Punch and Form Jigs, Form Dressers.
Planers, Shapers, Surface and Internal Broaches.
Heat Treatment. By Direct, Enclosed or Induction on Ferrous, Non-Ferrous, and Non-Metallic materials.
Sheet Metal Equipment. Iron Workers 170 ton, Shears 1 x 72 inch, Brakes 400 ton, Rolls, Punch Presses 350 ton, Sawing Machines 36 inch.
Weld, Cut, Braze, and Solder. FCAW, SMAW, GMAW and SAW, OA, Propane, Plasma/ Metalizing. Electronic work at IPC/J-STD-001.
Cranes and lifts, many varieties to 40t. Includes duties tied to millwrights and rigging in general.
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QUALIFICATIONS Work History
MACHINIST INDUSTRIAL REPAIR. Disgraf Services. Oct 2016 - current employer.
Serves printing, paper and related industries. A great deal of equipment is manufactured offshore, aged, or custom made, and replacement parts are not common. Cost effective option rebuilds or reproduces as needed. Process include weld-up of journals, or sleeves to restore bearing fits of rollers / shafts, fabricate web feeders, repair carbon vane pumps, electric motors, guillotines, paper cutters, offset presses, and many variations of machinery. The few employees are spread over a wide customer base, both in equipment and geographically.
MECHANICAL INSPECTOR. Bennett Tool - Kansas City, KS. Feb 2015 - Sept 2016
Job shop generates products for several industries; airline catering, automotive performance, commercial kitchen equipment, dining room fixtures, food service, garage door hardware, harvesting, hydraulic power systems, light rail, petro-liquid transport, medical/ handicap vehicles, postal service, water reclamation. Position requires typical first, process, and final article verification to customer and/ or shop drawings; specifying dimensions, surface condition & finish, orientation. Most items, Y14.x or DIN, some MIL involve FA, PPAP, PPI and few other inspection levels. Conducted via analog and digital instruments, pre-sized gauges, comparators, reference tools, and other calibrated devices. Calculate tolerances, angles, bend allowance; convert incremental to absolute position, and occasional inaccessible features. Experience in those fields aids interpretation of design features; sought by customer yet impeded by their design. Those are relayed to sales department. Spot or 100% checks of inventory parts. Determine veracity of customer returns, or potential integration of parts mixed with those of other suppliers.
(Coincides with that below, emphasized)
TOOL DESIGNER and MACHINIST. Bennett Tool - Kansas City, KS. Feb 2015 - Sept 2016
In addition to that preceding, I conducted work enabled by my background and abilities, but not limited to,
Conceive/ design/ fabricate tooling for weldments, machine work, and assembly.
Digitize entire fixture inventory; searchable by part number, customer name, photograph, and standardized description, about 180 items.
Short run machine work; augmenting very small Tool Room crew.
Cause Analysis of process issues or rejects.
Rework, especially form adjustment and straightening.
Rebuilt shop tooling like sine plates, indexers, chucks and lathe tool posts.
Identified and recovered machine accessories ‘lost’ during a misguided 5S sweep.
Maintaining personal safety record of decades past, unmarred by any incident.
ADJUSTOR/ ASSEMBLER; SPECIAL PRECISION. Honeywell FM&T. Jan 08- Nov 14.
Production of test, research, and customer specified miniature/ micro-miniature electronic products in class 10K clean room environments. Specialized techniques involve preparation, cleaning, dispensing conductive adhesives, solder pre-forms and various secondary operations, typically under .75x to 10x stereo-microscope. As certified soldering technician, SMT, HMT and FP, occasional extra fine pitch soldering, adhered or exceeded IPC/J-STD-001 per customer contract in 100% of components. Nature of assemblies demands inspection to same level, guaranteeing spec compliance on completed work. Process included highly sophisticated records; by lot, serial, order of assembly etc., for traceability decades into future. I programmed method to sort all items for one order at a time, reducing dispersion of items recalled by vendors. Applied at bench, then part cabinet storage; intention was to drive it all the way into central stores. That may have occurred by now.
As plant prepared for relocation, certain areas interrupted production. Worked seventeen months as precision mechanical inspector, and fourteen directly involved with relocation team. No issues with safety or security.
MACHINIST. Fairbanks Morse Division of Pentair. Nov 07- Jan 08
Machining raw iron and brass castings, the pump bodies and impellers of large motor driven centrifugal units. 80 inch vertical turret lathes, or 10 foot boring mills to bore deep as 24 inches for thrust surfaces and other Pg. 4
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internal features. Tolerances on surfacing heights held to .031, bores to +/- .001, parallel .015 or less. Included
are set-ups; castings loaded by jib and bridge cranes, then indicating, clamping, selection of cutters, intermediate machine maintenance and marking of finished parts. Other than daily assignment, enabled to work without supervision. High lift weight of parts or while rotating were primary safety concerns, lack of events makes a good endorsement of work habits. Maintained perfect safety record.
MOLD TECHNICIAN Rehrig-Pacific Corporation. April 07- July 07
Maintenance of large plastic injection molds, for product lines in recyclable plastic pallets, municipal trash containers, and bottled water shipping containers. Mold weights up to 90 tons serviced in place, or pulled for work on hot-runner systems, gates, and venting. Involved normal machine work, but physically limited size equipment relegated most work to outside jobbers. Other task concerns were design and building of fixtures for robotic part handling that covered from extraction to stamping, and stacking. Stringent measures to insure safe conditions utmost, whether personnel between platens of a 3000 ton press, or molds suspended over a multi-million dollar machine.
MACHINIST. Wyandotte Machine Shop. June 06- April 07
Akin to marine propulsion, deck and cargo equipment, hydraulics, also serves food processing, packaging, and tanker trailers. Near smallest shop to be member of, we produced components utilizing manual machines holding tolerances to .0005 on bores and outside diameters, with key-ways and other blueprint features for bearings, O-rings, seals, and retaining rings. Considerable amount of work is handled by overhead bridge crane. Typical were small lot runs, rapid turnover and tolerances verified part by part against various micrometers, indicators and gauge blocks. Instruments are continually checked for calibration against standards. Potential harm would have stemmed in high feeds and speeds used lathe finishing parts at 16 RMS, yet maintained perfect safety record.
TOOLMAKER. AM Tool & Engineering. 1997-2005
In a few companies, been the sole toolmaker. Here both designed and produced tooling utilized on CNC, manual machines, and assembly fixtures. Also manufactured aircraft spares, often conducting precision second operations after CNC machines. The main ’mechanic’, I maintained and repaired all manual machinery; calibrated and repaired instruments. Designing and sharpening cutters, tool grinding, assembling aircraft hardware, sheaves and linkages were part of tool work. There is overlap between CAMBRO below and here.
CONSULTANT; EarthTech/ CKY/ Tyco 1999-1999 EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES REUSE
Instrumental member in dispersal to public 454 acres of Navy property and Navy equipment relegated to City of Long Beach. Client liaison to sales staff, resulted with excellent satisfaction and many return patrons. Position matched fulfilling their needs to items available, immense or minute. Basically an industrial engineering consultant, to whoever arrived, with knowledge and vocabulary to back it up. That aided advertising department too; in local demographics and spotlighted business owners. Accompanying customers through facility; physically guarding them of Industrial or Public Safety hazards, without any kind of occurrence. Occupied while employed at AM Tool above; averting layoff with reduced schedule.
TOOLMAKER & 2ND SHIFT LEADMAN. CAMBRO Manufacturing. 1993-1998
A captive shop supports high-volume production of catering equipment. Maintain and repair and injection, rotational and compression molds, related tooling. Built frameworks needed on new roto-molds with venting, date/time and fastener inserts. Designed and built second operation tooling - gate milling, assembly, hot stamping, life cycle or destructive/ non-destructive testing. Instruct operators in usage and safety of same. Assisted product engineers on design issues for new products. Soft and permanent records on tooling, instrumentation and work performed were recorded to commercial ERP program.
TOOLMAKER - CLASS A MACHINIST. Tech Aid Staffing. 1992-1993, assigned in three contracts.
#1) Via print or verbal prompt, made tooling sold as jobber, or internal use in varied manufacturing and precision assembly departments of Theim Ind. Specialists in heavy manufacturing of heat exchangers, general stamping, and machining, for aircraft, military, and commercial industries.
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#2) Odetics Mfg.; work performed in 10k clean-room housing sophisticated assembly areas. Essentially custom made, hand-fitted products; defense and space grade image and data recording equipment.
#3) Automation Dynamics, small employer fabricates new or repairs existing PC-controlled filament winding machines. Varied in size, all designed by owner, and built on constructed weldments. Each involved millwright / rigging, fit-to-suit machine work, welding, wiring, paint, programming and install work.
Maintained perfect safety record at all three.
TOOLMAKER Lockhart Industries. 1991-1992
Worked to print, or designed hard and soft tooling for manufacture of proprietary heat exchangers. Most were assembly fixtures for furnace brazing, plating and additional outsourced work.
Position also entailed precision assembly of compact electronic chassis utilizing torqued fasteners, rivets, epoxies, threaded inserts, nut-plates.
TOOLMAKER for Precise Machine and Tool. 1983-1986 and 1988-1991
Job shop equipped for tooling, contract manufacturing, and stampings. Sole Toolmaker, an incredible range of work was delivered to spec, profitably. Every step personally attended to, save the unloading of material. Consequently, job satisfaction was high point of the position.
TOOLMAKER & MACHINE BUILDER; DanKen Manufacturers. 1987-1988
Captive shop set onsite for high-volume production line furniture maker. I interchangeably and simultaneously built sawing, rabbeting, drilling, edge banding, gluing, and assembly equipment. All designed in house; collectively or single builder. Heavily dependent on pneumatics, not to save electricity, availed continual restaging of production lines. Company is gone; styles available seemingly everywhere that attest how much market penetration was achieved.
TOOLMAKER & PRECISION MACHINIST; Magna Tool Company. 1986-1987
Aerospace (Space Shuttle) job shop worked products for cargo bay, short run or one-off, often mission specific. Each machinist charged to ‘cells’ of 2-3 machines, work passed in or by accordingly. Meaning jobs were mixed or individual responsibility, in-process inspection regulated by process steps. Assigned to milling and grinding equipment; often needed special tool to make resulting item, with occasional precision turning. A lot of that turning was to relieve, O-ring, recess, fillet, or radius part features beyond CNC capability of the time.
TOOLMAKER; and PROTOTYPING; INDASCO Manufacturing. 1979-1983
Job shop fabricates insulators/ refractories and related product assembly. Ran milling machine, lathe, TIG weld aluminum or stainless, table saw, and an industrial sewing machine. They hadn’t initiated aluminum recycling, which I did. Unusual customer base; architectural, marine, aerospace, plating and painting, heat-treaters, power plants, breweries…and one hospital.
TOOLMAKER; Precision Mold Engineering Company. 1977-1979
Mold Makers of injection, compression, or transfer variety designs, and repairs to same. Molds are labor intensive, self-contained tools; my introduction to being paid for manual machine work. Institutional food service, transport and catering industry all require durable, sanitary containers and serveware. As such, CAMBRO (note 1992-97) commissioned many jobs.
Submitted respectfully,
Frederic Windisch
Cell 562-***-****
*************@*******.***
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