Engineer Design

Robert J. Peters

**** ******** ****** *******

Summerville SC 29485

843-***-**** (H) or 843-***-**** (C)

**********@*****.***

Summary of Qualifications: Thirty years of successful goal-oriented technical

excellence. A great thirst to constantly improve the product and increase profit.

Work Experience:

October 2013 to August 2014: General Dynamics Land Systems – Force Protection.

Contract Design Engineer. Assembly, sheet metal and parts design in Creo with

Windchill. Difficult-to-document parts with GD&T.

December 2011 to August 2013: American LaFrance direct employee. Chief fire truck

body and trim designer. Surfacing-based and auxiliary heater design specialist.

Summerville, June 2011 to December 2011 – American LaFrance. Contract Design

Engineer. Responsible for truck cab design modifications using Oracle-based ERP

system and Catia V5-SmarTeam.

Summerville, May 2008 to June 2011 - Stay-at-home-dad. Learned new CAD software

while kept current on technical awareness and skills. Contributed meaningfully to

electro-static confinement fusion on-line forum simulation efforts and configuration

brainstorming. Raised two adoptive children and kept house.

North Charleston, July 2005 to May 2008 - Behr Heat Transfer Systems. Project

designer. Designed and specified radiator components for over-the-road trucks.

Managed testing programs for same components. Selected, on the basis of

demonstrated CAD skills, to assist another division’s introduction to Catia V5. Aided in

the culling of thousands of obsolete parts from the inventory control system.

Participated in customer contact and managed supplier relationships. ProE and GD&T

trained.

Ladson, January 2003 to July 2005 - American LaFrance Headquarters. Project

designer. Managed the creation of new specialty vehicles for the disabled and

homeland defense markets. Designed custom ambulances and rescue vehicles (using

AutoCad and Catia V5). Performed conceptual design for dozens of rescue vehicles.

Took incomplete and unformed customer ideas and translate them into buildable

concepts for detailed designers.

Core Competencies:

Catia V5: Mechanical modeling including sheet metal and surfacing of intricate parts

and drafting of same. Assembly modeling with drafting including installation drawings.

Creo I: Mechanical part and assembly modeling and drafting including installation

drawings.

MS Office: Word, Excel and PowerPoint are particular strengths.

Sanford, April 1999 to January 2003 - American LaFrance MedicMaster. Technical

writer and electrical designer (using AutoCad). Wrote exquisitely detailed work

instructions for the manufacture of the world's finest ambulances. These documents

are routinely cited as the finest work instructions of their kind.

Orlando and Sanford, FL, June 1996 to April 1999 - Florida Computer Company and

Adrian J. Laurencelle, Inc. Successfully built, tested, trouble-shot and repaired dozens

of computers. Provided network support to local small businesses. Managed five

technicians, supervised out-of-town trade shows.

Orlando, July 1992 to June 1996 - Princeton Review SAT, GRE and LSAT instructor.

Superbly taught test-taking strategies to paying students.

Orlando, February 1992 to March 1993 - InfoSource, Inc. Shipping and Returns Clerk.

Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Germany, July 1990 to January 1992 - Chief, Tactics

Branch of Measurements Intelligence Divison for Headquarters United States Air

Forces in Europe. Negotiated an unprecedented agreement between representatives

of North Atlantic Treaty Organization governments. This agreement governs the

exchange of information supporting improved pilot awareness of enemy air combat

tactics.

Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, May 1986 to July 1990 - Satellite Engineer for

Headquarters Air Force Space Command. Planned and briefed two deployments of

ballistic missile early warning satellites for the Commander-in-Chief North American Air

Defense command. Also planned operational use of space-based nuclear detonation

detection systems. Helped resolve on-orbit satellite problems.

Los Angeles Air Force Station, California, July 1982 to May 1986 - Satellite Production

Manager for Defense Support Program missile early warning satellites. Helped run a

100-man military and contractor team that successfully delivered satellites from factory

to launch pad. Supervised elements of pre-launch tests.

Satellite Development Engineer for Defense Support Program. Ran a $250 million

satellite development contract. Smoothly moved this satellite design from

development to production. Saved hundreds of thousands of dollars through careful

proposal evaluation.

Education: United States Air Force Squadron Officers School, 1989.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, BS in Aerospace and

Ocean Engineering, 1982.

Five semesters of credit for Elementary Education at the University of

Central Florida, 1994-1996.

Outside Interests: Science, education, music, small-craft boating and computers

Summary: Thirty years of continuously improving every situation through leadership,

technical proficiency and persistence.

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