NEIL L. OTTO
Lake Saint Louis, MO 63367
E-mail: **********@*****.***
QUALIFICATIONS
Eighteen years of experience in project management, seven years of experience owning and managing a temperature controls contracting business, five years of experience in design Fire Stations and ten years inspections residential, commercial, Industrial. Highly successful in developing synergistic relationships to bring projects to completion on time, under budget with Strong leadership, organization and communication skills.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ENGINEERING EVALUATIONS INSPECTIONS INC. February 2004- August 2018 St. Louis, MO
Design and Construction Management February 2004- 2009 Electrical design of nine Fire Stations.
Construction Management of five of the nine Fire Stations. Engineering 2009- August 2018
Forensic engineering (determining cause of failure), Inspections of buildings (structural, roofing, electrical, mechanical, complete buildings), Leak detection, External Insulation Finish Systems inspections. AVTEC INC., Cahokia, IL April 2003- February 2004
Senior Engineer
Responsible for defining how the design and development of the electrical engineering is achieved. Set up the strategy for custom designs of existing products to provide a three week design to production schedule.
ENGINEERING EVALUATIONS INSPECTIONS INC. February 2003-March 2003 St. Louis, MO
Electrical Design Engineer (part time position)
Total electrical design of Antonia fire station.
KOKHALA, St. Louis, MO April 2002 -September 2002
Senior Engineer
Responsible for the design and development of electrical control panels and the process control of the mechanical equipment to convert solar energy and heat waste energy to electricity for electrical cost reduction. A prototype was built and installed.
CONTROL CONTRACTING COMPANY, INC., St. Louis, MO September 1994 - March 2002 President/Owner
Designed temperature control systems for industrial and commercial buildings. Responsible for project management, Designed control panels. Generated CAD drawings for projects. Installed electrical control systems as an Electrical Contractor. Provided Training to customers on the use of new systems. Provided troubleshooting of existing systems.
ELECTRONICS AND SPACE CORPORATION, St. Louis, MO February 1980- May 1994
(Formerly a division of Emerson Electric Company)
Senior Engineering Specialist (1985-1994)
Responsible for managing the total design activity from design approval, prototyping, testing and Building. Acted as technical liaison with customers. Generated cost estimates of projects. Developed Automatic Test Equipment for satellite tracking station. Developed an automatic circuit fault isolation probe set. Performed problem reporting and resolution of program developers from several companies for the DATSA test station on the B1B with the USAF. Enhanced the METS portable tester and developed test programs for factory final test for the C130 ground following radar for the USAF. Engineering Specialist (1983-1985)
Responsible for managing the total design activity from design approval, prototyping, testing and building. Acted as technical liaison with customers. Generated cost estimates of projects.
(Generated the largest, on schedule, cost estimate ever seen by Automatic Test Equipment Department.) Developed and installed retrofit kits for 22 TITE Automatic Test Systems already in the field for the F15. The upgrades were successfully tested in Bitburg, Germany. Provided technical engineering support to manufacturing, redesigning and upgrading of obsolete equipment for the fabrication of an additional 9 TITE Automatic Test Systems. Senior Engineer (1980-1983)
Designed hardware interfaces and software programs. Responsible for the generation of test program documentation and creation of drawings. Selected parts for vendors and was responsible for troubleshooting and resolved vendor problems.
Completed the design of Teampack microwave receivers test programs on Equate automatic test station for the United States Army. Responsible for training of other engineers on the use of the Equate. HUNTER ENGINEERING COMPANY, St. Louis, MO August 1979 - February 1980 Senior Design Engineer
Responsible for the design of hardware and software for computerized automobile front end alignment using Intel 8085 microprocessor. Generated drawings. Responsible for parts selection and vendor communications. Designed a system that allowed a microprocessor and video display to share memory in real-time on a noninterference basis. Hunter Engineering Company received a patent for this design. ARTRONIX, INC., Chesterfield, MO January 1979 - August 1979 Programmer
Responsible for writing, debugging software for low level radiation of body scanner and documented software. Provided customer guidance and direction to resolve problems. Solved scan errors between the x-ray table controlled by Motorola 6800 microprocessor and modulx microcomputer. BASLER ELECTRIC, Highland, IL July 1976 - January 1979 Design Engineer
Responsible for design of hardware and software for microprocessor driven systems. Generated schematics and selection of components. Built and debugged circuit designs. Designed and developed a high power three phase arc welder.
EDUCATION
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. External Design Institute(EDI) External Insulation Finish Systems (EIFS) & Moisture Inspections Qualified.
(CCI) Property & maintenance inspector Qualified.
TECHNCIAL SKILLS
Software Languages: Assemblers, MUMPS, ATLAS, PLM, BASIC. PC Software: Lotus 1-2-3, Microframe, Microsoft Works, Word Perfect, Quarto Pro, MS office products, Draft Choice (CAD), Protel (CAD), Windows (3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP), Netscape, Microsoft project, Word, Excell, Faststart project software.