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Valley Center, CA 92082 acxxuj@r.postjobfree.com

Skills

Designed plastic and LIM (rubber) products, testing, and failure analysis.

Programmed in Fortran, Quick C, and Hewlett Packard Basic Languages.

Designed and improved assembly line tooling.

Interpersonal skills

Bilingual (English and Spanish)

Personal Computing skills (12.5 years Pro-E, drawing, modeling, assembly, and Pro-E Mechanica, MS Word, and Excel).

Management Skills

Certificate

Solid Works Essentials 2014

License

Engineer-In-Training (EIT, License XE103851)

Employment History

10/08 – Present, Family Business, GTO Grove Service, Valley Center, CA (Part time and full time)

Help manage father’s avocado and citrus grove service business.

Maintain grove service for clients. Supervise employees and assign tasks that are needed in groves.

Estimate and communicate cost for clients on irrigation, fertilizing, picking, tree cutting, pruning, irrigation line repair, etc.

4/96 – 10/08, Manufacturing Engineer, Deutsch Electrical Connecting Devices (ECD), Hemet, CA

Laid off due to selling and downsizing of company

Products: Built electrical connectors for a variety of industries.

Designed for Manufacturability (DFM) plastic and liquid injection molding (LIM) tools, over molds (OM), prototype tooling, products, assembly line tooling, and gages.

Equipment: 20 Cincinnati injection molding presses ranging from 75 tons to 300 tons.

Troubleshoot and redesigned existing tools and products.

Created tooling machining procedures, detailed drawings for tools and products with Geometrical Tolerances.

Communicated with product engineers and venders on tooling design and repair.

Utilized continuous improvement and lean manufacturing techniques and procedures.

Designed tools to make the finished product without second operations.

Facility was ISO 9000 certified.

During tenure designed many plastic injection molding tools, liquid injection molding (LIM) tools, products, and assembly line tooling. Became very good at LIM (rubber) tools which made seals. The parts are very hard to eject or strip.

Designed tooling for the F22 bomber, Chevrolet transmissions, and Qualcomm. We built thousands of connectors

6/93 – 9/93 and 5/94 – 9/94, Summer Employment, Hewlett Packard (HP) Company, San Diego, CA

Fax machine functionality testing and failure analysis.

Tested, evaluated, and analyzed software failures using a B-tree automated test system scripting language.

Performed environmental test on fax machines.

Created reports on failures for engineers to redesign and repair.

Education

8/95, BS Mechanical Engineering, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA

1989 – 1991, Palomar Community College, San Marcos, CA, Technical: Designed plastic and Liquid injection molding (LIM) tools, over molds (OM), electrodes, cutting tools, and gages.

Course Work

Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science; Solid Mechanics; Intro. / Engineering Graphics and Design; Mechanical Behavior of Materials; Mechanics: Statics, Dynamics and Vibrations; Advanced Fortran Programming; Introduction to Mathematical Physics; Thermodynamics; Linear Circuits; Experimental Techniques; Introductory Fluid Mechanics; Mechanical Engineering Design; Computer-Aided Analysis and Design; Statistical Methods; Mechanical Engineering Laboratory; Heat Transfer; Computer Graphics for Engineers; Linear Control System Theory