Engineer Design
Resume:
David Bryant Knox
*** ***** ****** • Raleigh, NC 27606
919-***-**** • ******@*********.***
MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Multi-faceted professional with thirty years of hands-on engineering experience. Talent for
conceptualizing, designing and delivering innovative equipment for complex processes in construction
and production fields. Track record of successful customer interfaces, from concept to equipment
implementation. Demonstrated abilities to work with representatives of governmental agencies in order
to achieve grant compliance and accountability.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Multi-Project Management Process Analysis & Improvement
Federal/State Grant Compliance ISO & Safety Compliance
Equipment Design, Sales & Service Field Team & Customer Interface
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum (ARMM) – Altoona, PA 1/2011 – 12/2013
Clerk of the Works
Certified and approved Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) inspection agent.
Oversee construction of The Harry Bennett Memorial Roundhouse. Liaise between PennDOT, ARMM,
and construction contractor J. C. Orr. Responsible for documentation of every phase of construction,
grant administration and compliance, and approval of all monies spent for materials and labor. Interface
daily with contractors to insure quality and execution of all design requirements for the successful
completion of the project.
Organize and schedule contractors and subcontractors
Interface with city and state inspectors to insure code compliance
Produce daily field inspection diaries
Process Solutions, LLC – Lillington, NC 2006 – 2010
Principal
Engineering consultant for plant upgrades and layouts, offering turn-key design, installation and
supervision of all phases of contractor oversight in structural, refrigeration, services, chilled water and
computer controlled monitors, and water calibration processes.
Equipment design, manufacture and installation
Sales, training and service
Backus USA, Inc./Freshtec International LLC – Dubois, PA & Lillington, NC 1994 – 2004
VP of Engineering/Sales
Oversee sales force, engineering group, manufacturing, and plant installation of Fresh-cut vegetable
processing equipment and services. Provide customer support in plant design, service and installation.
Oversee implementation of electrical, water, cold room refrigeration, waste disposal and waste water
disposal and recovery. Provide turn-key operations of plant, site and equipment for new and existing
facilities.
Designed stand-alone high speed assembly and processing machinery
Plant layout and construction oversight
Customer relations from initial concept to implementation
Sales, service and training
One-off design to meet customer requirements
Raychem Corporation, Fuquay-Varina, NC 1991 - 1994
Senior Design Engineer
R&D support for design of Electron Beam Accelerator in-line process cells. Design Engineer of team
responsible for extrusion and cross-link of polymer process, working mainly with magnetic fields,
radiation contamination, high-voltage power supply design, super-chilled water processes and waste
water recovery.
Designed equipment to specifications of lead scientist
Worked with team of physicists in development of specialized applications
Developed gamma-ray containment strategies
Lord Corporation, Cary, NC 1988 - 1991
Design Engineer
Design robotic end-of-arm odd form assembly. R&D design of state-of-art tactile sensors for robotics.
Managed set-up for technical trade shows
Tested material and process applications
Corning Glass, Raleigh, NC 1984 – 1988
Design Engineer
Plant expansion and equipment design for production lines of ceramic capacitors. Design ceramic layer
printing and cook-out procedure equipment.
Tipper Tie, Apex, NC 1981 – 1984
Design Draftsman
R&D draftsman for food packaging machinery. Field test and implement new equipment.
Smith-Sinnett Architecture, Raleigh, NC 1974 – 1980
Draftsman
Detail draftsman of commercial and residential architecture. Performed field inspections and
documentation.
EDUCATION
North Carolina State University 1980 – 1982
Mechanical Engineering Program
Wake Technical College 1978 – 1980
Associates degree in Design Drafting
References upon request
Contact this candidate