Ron Dietz

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

Lake Forest, Ca

805-***-****

acvb78@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Engineer with several years experience with a Mechanical Engineering Degree from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a Master of Engineering degree from University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

Prior to becoming an engineer I was a welder, machinist, and a metal fabricator.

My well-rounded experience includes design work, project management, hands on precision sheet metal, T.I.G welding of various materials, metal forming, CNC machining and general machining.

Technical interests include: robotics, mechanisms, automated machinery, and precision manufacturing.

Great interpersonal and leadership skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

National Oilwell Varco-Orange, CA 92628 Oct 2014 to Present Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Management Duties: Leadership and management of 15 direct reports in the manufacturing engineering department: 8 ME’s, 1 Tooling Engineer, 2 drafters, 2 IE’s, and 2 CNC programmers. Dealing with all management issues: HR, time management, vacations, tasks-both daily and long term. Helped standardize the router process, CNC programming process, tool designs, and drafting standards. Helped develop performance metrics for direct reports. In charge of the red-line drawing process-and its performance metrics. Helped with the overall strategy of the department and the future goals for the department. Helped write procedures and work instructions for the various department functions. Led the DFM team and that part of the part workflow.

Project Duties: Helped in with insourcing, out-sourcing, and back-sourcing of all machined and welded components. Equipment layout and moves throughout the plant. Special tool projects that were needed. Large Fixture designs and project management of those fixture designs. Cost-benefit analysis, data analytics, and process flow of projects.

Engineering Duties: Creation, up keep, and management of process routers. Tool engineering, tooling analysis, and tool design detail drawings. CNC programming, post processor development, DNC implementation. Part reviews for manufacturability, tolerance stack-ups, GD & T analysis, and machinability. Process design, report creations, data analytics. Help with quality control, procedures, and work instructions.

Glidewell Dental Laboratories-Irvine, CA 92612 Oct 2011 to Oct 2014 Sr. Mechanical/Tooling Engineer

Engineering Duties: Design and analysis of tooling and equipment using Solidworks. Design and analysis of CNC milling machines for dental milling applications. Design of mill fixtures, lathe fixtures, and assembly fixtures. R & D of new equipment, processes, and technology. Detailed design, including production drawings for manufacture of the equipment. Programming new machinery with motion controller. Tuning servo motors and setting up stepper motors and servo/stepper drives. Electrical layout of new equipment- specifying power supplies, I/O, and other peripherals. Wiring of basic electrical systems and testing. Testing new equipment for performance.

Project Duties: Ordering of all outside bought components. Vendor coordination and technical meetings with vendors. Choosing components for testing, tracking costs, and taking care of document control-i.e. drawings log spreadsheets. Spreadsheets BOM control and guiding interns with the BOM. Doncasters GCE Inc.-Chula Vista, CA 91911 Mar 2008 to Oct 2011 Tooling Manager/Engineer

Engineering Duties: Design and analysis of tooling and equipment. Automated/semi automated lean equipment including: automated indexer for spot welding machine; braze ring polisher, and braze ring braze tape applicator, conceptual design of semi automated machines for special processes. Robot weld fixtures for combustion covers, venturis, impingement sleeves, and transition ducts. Several different types of mill fixtures, gages, water jet tank and fixtures for cutting flat parts. Forming tool designs, lathe fixtures, and other specialty weld fixtures. Tool design package is NX 6 (Unigraphics)

Manufacturing Engineer Duties: Mfg. engineering of Combustion Covers, Liners, Transitions, Impingement Sleeves, and Venturis for ground based gas turbines(Primary customer is GE): tooling concepts and designs for assemblies and detailed parts, co-ordination of CNC programming, welding, assembly for the combustion parts of the turbines, participate in weekly production meetings to determine areas of needed correction, PLC program editing and loading into equipment, print/specs/process interpretation, recommend and implement process improvement. CNC programming of the 4-axis water jet machine, 4 axis Vertical and Horizontal Mills, Okuma Lathes, 5-axis laser cutting, 5-axis mills, and CNC punch-CAD/CAM package is NX 6 (Unigraphics).

Program Management and New Product Duties: Program Management of all new products: customer contact, product definition, design for manufacture, first article qualification, and shipping of product. Several new product development programs. These included five new combustion liners; new cast transition, various machined parts, and new combustion covers. New equipment definition and installation, including plant layout concepts.

West Coast Accudyne – Bell Gardens, Ca 90201 Mar 2006 to Mar 2008 Mechanical Project Engineer

Engineering Duties: Mechanical Engineering and design of custom machinery, primarily hydraulic presses, machine frames, selection/sizing: bearings, couplings, gears, hydraulic cylinders, structural elements, etc., conceptual design, layouts, detailed design, design for stress/strength/deflections, etc. Proposal for new machinery: main projects were design of oil derrick linkage twisting and straightening machine, rubber processing equipment, and presses.

Project Duties: Repair of machinery, coordination and management, writing of work plans or “routers” for the machine shop, weld shop, and assembly area; material selection and procurement, vendor coordination, interaction with customers; essentially complete project management of machine from conception to out the door per customer specifications.

Other Duties: Supervising of shop workers during the building of equipment. Dealing with HR issues such as time cards, raises, reviews, vacation requests, and other HR functions. Analyzing employee performance during the building process.

EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL:

Master of Science in Engineering:

University of Wisconsin-Platteville-May 2010

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering:

California Polytechnic University, Pomona- Dec 2006 Courses taken include:

Dynamics of Machinery

Robotics

PLC Programming

CAD/CAM with Solidworks and CAMworks

CNC Programming

Finite Element Analysis

Digital control systems

Special Projects Include:

Autonomous Robot with Design of Mechanical Gripper

Six Bar Mechanism to tee a golf ball

Hydraulic Actuated Rose Float Parade Exhibit

Ammonia Gas Detection System

Heat Exchanger Design and Analysis

Plastic Part Mold Design and CAM machining of Mold

Laser cutting fixture

Robotic Weld Fixtures

CNC Machine Fixtures

Technical Software Include:

NX 6, 8.5, 10 (Unigraphics) CAD/CAM, Solidworks, Excel, Word and PowerPoint. I am familiar with CAMworks, Cosmos Works, Nastran, MS Project, Labview, MatLab, Algor, and AutoCAD. Certificate of completion for the Delta Tau Programmable Motion Axis Controller. ACTIVITIES:

Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

REFERENCES:

References and portfolio available upon request

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