Christopher T. Van Name
Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
Phone: 434-***-****
Email: **********@*****.***
Career Objective: To find a quality job that deals with up to
date technologies. Also, one that
Presents a challenge to me now and in
the future.
Education:
9/79 to 6/82 Park View Senior High School, South Hill, VA.
General Education, 3 Years of
Basic Electronics.
3/83 to 6/85 Southside Virginia Community College, Alberta, VA.
Associate in Applied Science
in Electronics Technology.
9/89 Robert Bosch Corp. CL100 PLC Training Course.
11/89 Robert Bosch Corp. Team Building Training Course.
11/89 Weldun International, Bosch SR- Series Robot Training
Course.
2/90 Kulicke and Soffa Industries. Model 1470 Wire Bonder.
Operations, Setup, and Maintenance Course.
3/90 Kepner Tregoe Analytic Trouble Shooting Program.
2/92 Robert Bosch Corp. Basic Pneumatics Training Course.
3/92 Robert Bosch Corp. CL100/CL300 PLC's Training Course.
2/93 Robert Bosch Corp. Team Leadership Skills Training Course.
3/93 Robert Bosch Corp. Motivation/Goal Setting Course.
8/93 National Technology Transfer Inc. Fluid Power Division.
Twenty Hours of Instruction in Industrial Hydraulics
Technology.
2/95 Robert Bosch Corp. Statistical Process Control Training
Course.
7/95 Robert Bosch Corp. Team Oriented Production Pilot Team
Training.
7/96 Advanced Automation, Inc. Machine Shop Certification.
Employment History:
01/15 to Present Enser Battery Corp. Pinellas Park, FL.
Maintenance Technician. Responsibilities include
Maintenance of Hydraulic Presses, Laser Welders and
Facilities.
01/14 to 11/14 Unilever, Clearwater, FL
Maintenance Technician. Responsibilities include
Maintenance of Ice Cream Manufacturing Equipment,
Packaging Equipment, and Conveyor systems. Within this
were the Electrical Controls and Drives of the Equipment,
Building Power Distribution and Facility Lighting.
05/10 to 11/13 Swedwood/Ikea. Danville, VA
Maintenance Technician. Responsibilities include
Maintenance of Engineered Wood Furniture Manufacturing
Equipment, Maintenance of Dust Collection Systems(Bag
Houses), a Boiler, and Various Product Movement Systems.
7/09 to 3/10 Prima Die Casting. Clearwater, FL
Maintenance Technician. Responsibilities include
Maintenance of Die Cast Presses and support machinery. Also
included is Maintenance of 2 gas fired Aluminum Melting
Furnaces, Secondary Machining of Cast Product, Vibratory
Tumblers for Deburring of Product. Also included was
monitoring of Waste Water Treatment. Installation and
repair of equipment within facilities and office area.
.
3/09 to 7/09 ReadyJet, Inc. Tampa International Airport,
Tampa, FL.
Aircraft Detailer. Responsibilities were Cleaning and
Detailing both Interior and Exterior of Commercial Jet
Aircraft. Position also required both FBI and TSA
Background Checks and Airport Security Clearance.
6/03 to 8/08 Phasetronics / Motortronics. Clearwater, FL
Test Technician. Responsibilities include Full Operational
Testing of Medium Voltage (2.3kV to 15kV) Motor Soft
Starters. Units are marketed under the names of ABB,
Siemens, Toshiba, General Electric, and Saftronics along
with the Motortronics name. Also, Operational Testing and
Calibration of Precision Lamp controls for the
Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry. In the event of a
non-conforming part, board level repair was performed.
8/00 to 11/02 Metal Industries / J. T. Walker Industries. Oldsmar,
FL
Maintenance Technician. Responsibilities included
maintenance of a 2500 ton SMS/Sutton Extrusion press and
product handling equipment. Both systems operated on Allen
Bradley PLCs. These pieces of equipment also incorporated
the use of Allen Bradley D.C. drives, Magnatek/Yaskawa GPD
515 VFDs, Barksdale pressure transducers, a Temposonics
positioning rod, various encoder style positioning systems,
Mannesmann/Rexroth hydraulic valves, Vickers hydraulic
valves, and Parker hydraulic and pneumatic valves and
cylinders. Also responsible for maintenance of an aluminum
anodizing process with waste water treatment facilities, an
aluminum casting operation consisting of a gas fired scrap
aluminum melting furnace, 6 ton dual lift gantry crane and
other support equipment and facilities.
11/98 to 8/00 Hughes Manufacturing / United Steel Products.
Largo, FL
Electrical Technician. Responsibilities included design,
assembly, programming, and repair of microprocessor based
control systems for punch presses. The presses ranged in
size from 30 tons up to and including 150 tons. The
Automation Direct DL205 series was the main PLC used.
There were also Omron and Allen Bradley PLCs in use within
the facility. Also responsible for the design and building
of electrical controls and electrical maintenance for steel
handling equipment, feed systems, decoilers, slitter line,
wire formers, spot welders. Also responsible for
electrical maintenance of facilities. Assisted mechanics
when required.
4/98 to 11/98 Surface Finishing Technologies, Inc. Clearwater,
FL
Electrician. Responsibilities included full assembly of
electrical cabinets for continuous feed electro-plating and
print circuit board etching machinery. These machines
where manufactured per customer requirements.
1/98 to 4/98 Security Engineers Systems, Inc. Oldsmar, FL
Installation Technician. Fire and security alarm systems
installation technician. The fire alarm systems were
installed according to NICET and NFPA code. All systems
were installed according to local and national code.
4/96 to 1/97 AIDE Inc. /Advanced Automation. Greenville, SC
Contract Mechanic. Responsibilities included mechanical
assembly of machinery as per drawings.
6/89 to 4/96 Robert Bosch Corp. Anderson, SC
Electro-mechanical Technician. Responsibilities included
repair and predictive/preventive maintenance of printed
circuit board and hybrid module assembly machines. The hybrid assembly was
from bare 2" x 2" ceramic substrate to finished
module. The printed circuit board assembly was from population of bare
board to finished unit in housing. Supervision of
approximately 25 to 30 members of production team during
routine daily operations until July, 1995. At this point the department
went to a team oriented production operation.
Repair of failed product.