GREG OLSON
St. Paul, MN *****
*************@*****.***
SKILLS
Operate Manual Mills & Lathes, Radial Drill, Multi-Spindle, Drill Press, Horizontal & Vertical Band Saws, Surface/ Tool/
Pedestal Grinders, Sheet Metal Breaks and Shears, Tube Benders, CNC Mills and Lathes, Table Saws, Skill Saws, Angle
Grinders, Chain Saws, Wood Lathes Wood Carving Knives, Spring Winder all sorts of other hand tools.
JOB HISTORY/DUTIES
Model Maker/ Artist
July2004-Present
Machinist
Main Tool & MFG. 1st Choice Employment Agency
Fridley, MN
July 2004- July2004
Operation of CNC lathe and Broaching machines. In process measurement of parts to make spline
couplings to specified tolerances.
Machinist/prototype model maker
Spot Weld Inc. Entegee Employment Agency
St. Paul, MN
May 2002- May 2002
Duties included operation of Manual Mill and Lathe to produce copper electrode parts for custom spot welder.
Machine Operator
Twin City Die Casting Co. 1st Choice Employment Agency
Mpls, Mn.
September 2001- December 2001
Job duties included operation of CNC machines such as Mills, Lathes and Multi-Spindle drilling machines on die cast
parts. I'd also perform quality control on engine blocks & cylinders for porosity defects, deburring & installing cylinder
studs on engine blocks, for Polaris Ind. among other OEM'S.
Rubber molds Tech.
Technical Methods Inc.
Lakeville,Mn
February 2000- June 2000
Duties included daily operations of pouring rubber into molds, and curing via vacuum chamber bell & 2nd operations of
rubber molded onto metal parts for stratasys corp. Also made a cheek/cope & drag for sand castings. Cleaning of CNC
mills.
Eng. Prototype Tech.
Ecowater Systems Inc
Woodbury,MN
December 1984- June 1999
Duties included production of prototype scale models of water purification and treatment systems, such as plastic
electric & gas water heaters/ softeners / iron filters / reverse osmosis / distilling systems. Reviewed engineering
information and audited specifications for the implementation of ISO standards on the production lines for accuracy.
Made jig and fixtures for product testing and measurement in the eng. labs and for production lines.
Production Machinist
GML Inc.
Roseville, MN
March 1984- December 1984
Duties included fabrication of parts for OEM,S like Sperry Univac, Control Data, NCR-Comten. Wrote/programmed
code for CNC Mill for keyboard manufacturing. I also produced jigs & fixtures for other departments like silk screening,
die cutting and nameplate production lines
Model shop machinist
Lakeside LTD. New Hope Mn
New Hope, MN
July 1981- February1982 May 1983- December 1983
Reviewed engineering drawings and information to determine methods and sequence of operations to build models /
jigs & fixtures for production lines of point of display beer lights and fixtures for companies such as Budweiser, Miller,
Hamm's and Schmidt's, Lowenbrau', pool table lamps, tapper handles and the like.
Design Model Tech.
Procon Inc.
Des Plaines / Chicago Ill.
February 1982- April 1984
Reviewed engineering, isometric/ piping/ industrial/civil drawings to produce scale models of Ashland oil refineries,
consisting of structural steel, pumps, vessel's and piping, I also worked on a solid waste recovery system design model
for Pinnellis Co. Fla./Tampa and a litigation model of a oil storage facility in Canada.
EDUCATION
CNC Mill Programming
St. Paul TVI St. Paul MN.
GPA: 4.0
Date Completed: 1997
Courses: CNC/ Dynapath / Milltronics/ Mills Programming
1&2
DEGREE: Associate Degree
Major: Architectural & Ind. Model Bldg.
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Green Bay, Wi
GPA: 2.8
Date Completed: 6 / 1981
Courses: Machine Tool Technology, Architectural drafting, Mechanical Drafting Process and Instrument Flow, and Civil
Drafting/ print reading, math, geometry, trigonometry, physics.
Major: Industrial Arts, Technical Illustration
Bemidji State Univ. Bemidji MN.
GPA: 3.0
1978- 1979/ Transferred to Green Bay Tech.
Courses: Technical Illustration, Industrial Arts, Drafting, Hot metals Tech. Cold metals Tech.
Major: Business Administration/ Finance
Bemidji State University, MN.
1975- 1976
Courses: General ed. Business admin./finance