Sr Designer & Engineering Quality Assurance

CRAIG NEACE

QUALITY ASSURANCE CHECKER & SENIOR DESIGNER

*** * ***** **** ****, Galena, Illinois 61036 (Cell 319-***-****)

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

SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE

Thirty-three years’ experience in the Gas Turbine/Aerospace/Avionics industry including recent work in Agricultural, Construction, Semi-trailers, Lawn Care, All terrain vehicles & Railroad Maintenance industries as a Detailer, Designer and Quality Assurance Checker performing work in mechanical structures, core engine, externals, tooling, below the hook design, analysis and electronic communication systems.

EDUCATION

AS – Vincennes University, Vincennes Indiana, Industrial Drafting Technology

SKILLS

Unigraphics (v9 to NX8.5 – 24,000 hrs) Solid Modeling, Detailing, Sketching, Assemblies and Teamcenter

Pro/ENGINEER (r2000i – 5.0 Wildfire –6000 hrs) Sketching, Modeling, Drawings, Assemblies & Pro/PDM

SolidWorks (version 2003-2013 - 5000 hours) Sketching, Parts, Assemblies and Drawings

Solid Edge ST2, AutoCAD 2011, Inventor 2010, 2012, Canvas & HyperSnap–DX 5 screen capture tool

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Entegee Engineering Technical Group, Dubuque, Iowa 11/11 to Present

Quality Assurance: Responsible for checking models, designs and drawings to ensure accuracy and compliance with customer and industry standards. Extensive experience checking castings, machined parts, sheet metal brackets, tubes, assemblies & weldments to insure they are parametric, modifiable, sketches are fully constrained, mating conditions applied correctly, proper feature sequence, accuracy and completeness. Experience working closely with management to monitor and improve the quality of other employees work in addition to grading CAD tests for potential new hires and provide feedback to HR on hiring recommendations. Perform other client duties such as estimating new projects, task breakdown & schedule, working several client projects simultaneously, setting up registry files, project launches, FTP file transfers, VPN setup, travel, WebEx meetings and creating internal checklists for all clients in order to drive consistency. (Wildfire 2,3,4,5 & Creo 2.0, NX8.5, 9.0, 10, Inventor 2010-2014, Solidworks 2011-2103 – 11,500 hours)

Rockwell Collins/Butler, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 6/10 to 11/11

Senior Designer/Product Control Specialist – MCAD Support: Responsible for the design, packaging and checking of electro-mechanical parts such as cables, boxes, circuit card assemblies, printed wiring boards for avionics on commercial & military applications. These drawings consist of fabrications, assembly, installation, kit and PDD drawings including their related parts lists, BOM and any ECO’s while using all RC PDM programs drafting practices, GD&T and ASME Y14.5M-1994.

(UG NX6 – 2000 hrs, UG NX7.5 – 600 hrs)

Under contract to Hamilton Sundstrand, Windsor Locks, Connecticut 11/09 to 6/10

Designer/Checker: Responsible for designing, detailing actuator valves, piston rings and assemblies for the Air Management Systems & Propulsion Systems group (AMS) using HSC0001, Aerospace Drafting Manual (ADM), TS Specs, drafting practices, GD&T and ASME Y14.5M-1994.

(UG NX4 – 500 hrs, Teamcenter v9, v2007)

Under contract to Teledyne Turbine Engines, Toledo, Ohio 12/08 to 7/09

Checker: Responsible for checking gas turbine drawings on the new VAATE Engine Program for GD&T, fits and limits, stack-ups, drafting practices, ANSI Y14.5M-1982, ASME Y14.5M-1994 & mil-std-100.

(UG NX4 – 800 hrs, UG NX6 – 240 hrs)

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Under contract to Rolls Royce Energy Systems- Mt. Vernon, Ohio 9/07 to 12/08

Designer: Responsible for designing external tubing configurations for the RB211 and Trent engine programs for the Fuel, Lube & Start group.

(UG NX2, NX4 – 2500 hrs)

Under contract to Alstom Power Aerospace- Cincinnati, Ohio 1/06 to 9/07

Externals Designer: Responsible for designing external bracket and tubing configurations for the GEnx Boeing 787 engine program using ICDS software, Vismockup digital assembly software, iMan and GEAE standards and operating procedures.

(UG NX2 – 2500 hrs, UG NX4 - 900 hrs)

Northrop Grumman- Xetron- Cincinnati, Ohio 9/03 to 1/06

Xetron is a 50 million dollar subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation providing innovative cutting edge electronic solutions to technological challenges in Government communication systems.

Mechanical Designer: Responsible for designing electronic packaging systems, 3-D modeling of chassis and printed wiring assemblies, creating mechanical drawings and interfacing with vendors to meet mechanical requirements including application of MIL-STD-810.

(SolidWorks version 2003-2005 – 3000 hrs, ExpertCAD v7.4 – 1600 hrs)

TK Engineering- Cincinnati, Ohio 8/03 to 9/03

Designer: Responsible for designing external bracket and tubing configurations for GE’s JSF F136 engine program using ICDS software, Vismockup digital assembly software and GEAE standards and operating procedures.

(UG v18 – 200 hrs)

Belcan Engineering Group Inc.- Cincinnati, Ohio 4/01 to 7/03

Designer: Responsible for designing external bracket and tubing configurations for Pratt & Whitney's JSF F135 engine program. Also, responsible for designing and detailing external bracket and tubing configurations for the GE90-115B, CF34-10 & GP7200 engine programs using ICDS software, Vismockup digital assembly software and GEAE standards and operating procedures.

(UG v15 - 500 hrs, v16 – 1500 hrs, v18 – 800 hrs)

Under contract to Hamilton Sundstrand – Windsor Locks, Connecticut 10/00 to 4/01

Hamilton Sundstrand engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of a variety of proprietary, technology-based components and systems for diversified international aerospace and industrial markets such as the space shuttle, space station, space suits and submarines.

Checker: Responsible for performing extremely technical tolerance studies, checking engineering drawings & Pro/E cad files for the International Space Station using the Aerospace Drafting Manual, Technical standards, HS12000 & ANSI Y14.5M-1982 standards.

(Pro/E r2000i & Pro/PDM v3.5 – 1200 hrs)

Belcan Engineering Group Inc. - Cincinnati, Ohio 5/00 to 10/00

A multi-million dollar engineering firm for many well-known clients such as Pratt & Whitney & General Electric.

Designer: Responsible for designing and checking all external bracket and tubing configurations for Pratt & Whitney's commercial and military gas turbines.

(UG v15 & v16 – 1000 hrs)

Under contract to Teledyne Continental Motors, Toledo, Ohio 1/99 to 5/00

Checker: Responsible for checking gas turbine drawings on the Tactical Tomahawk cruise missile for GD&T, fits and limits, stack-ups, drafting practices, ANSI Y14.5M-1982, ASME Y14.5M-1994 & mil-std-100.

(UG v11 & v15 – 1200 hrs)

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Belcan Engineering Group Inc. - Cincinnati, Ohio 7/95 to 1/99

Designer: Responsible for designing and checking all external bracket and tubing configurations for Pratt & Whitney's commercial and military gas turbines. Received six “Wings of Success” awards for projects within the P&W group.

(UG v10, v11 & v13 – 7000 hrs)

Under contract to GE Aircraft Engines, Cincinnati, Ohio 4/95 to 7/95

Designer: Responsible for designing internal compressor parts such as rotors, stators, flow paths and layouts for GE Power Generations new "G" technology turbines in addition to directing assignments to detail draftsmen.

(UG v10 – 500 hrs)

Under contract to GE Power Generations, Greenville, South Carolina 7/94 to 4/95

Designer: Responsible for designing solid models of all external piping, tubing, valves, flanges and fittings required for all gas turbine models and writing bill of materials and alteration notices.

(UG v10 – 1600 hrs)

GE Aircraft Engines - Cincinnati, Ohio 8/85 to 7/94

A multi-billion dollar producer of gas turbine engines for the commercial, military and marine industries.

Detail Draftsman: Responsible for designing engine structures, preparing complex engineering drawings, parts lists, electronic data, stack-ups, 3D and design layouts in accordance to ANSI Y14.5M-1982, GEAE standards and operating procedures. (UG v9 – 700 hrs) (Calma & Computervision)

American Power & Equipment Co. - Harrison, Ohio 6/83 to 8/85

Manufacturer of industrial paint sprayers and chainsaws.

Design Draftsman: Prepared mechanical design layouts, stack-ups, and detail drawings.

Dimensional Inspector: Proficient with all surface plate inspection tools.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

DOD- Top Secret Clearance (11/2003)

SolidWorks 2004 Essentials Training Class (10/2003)

Unigraphics V16 CAD Training (8/2001)

VisMockup Digital Assembly Prototyping Software 3.0 (6/2001)

ICDS Interactive Configuration Design Systems Training (6/2001)

Pro/ENGINEER r20/2000i Training (3/2000)

Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing Class ASME Y14.5M-1994 (3/1999)

Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Seminar (1995)

Unigraphics Design, Drafting & Modeling v10.3 (1994)

Introduction to Unigraphics Pipemaster Software v1.4 (1994)

Introduction to UNIX (1994)

Unigraphics II Comp CAD & Dimensioning v9.1 (1994)

DOD- Secret Clearance (1990)

Computervision (1987) & Calma Interactive Graphics v8.0 (1986)

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