Engineer Design
Resume:
Carl Larvenz
Moline, IL *****, United States
Home: 309-***-**** / Cell: 309-***-****
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Professional Experience
** ***** ** ********** ** Engineering: Design Engineer, Project Engineer and Sr Designer. ProE experience 15 years: Autocad R12 & R13 experience 3 years and 6 years of board time. Product development: Concept thru Manufacturing thru grave. Working on project budgets and timelines. R&D, Design, Testing, Specifications, Test Plans, Cost Reductions, Reverse Engineering, Technical Reports. Travel to multiple countries for months at a time. Resourceful, analytical and detail-driven individual with capabilities in completing multiple projects with competing deadlines. Aggressive in identifying and resolving inefficient operational processes. Strong team member, able to motivate crews to achieve optimal production rates while maintaining high safety methods and practices. Reliable follow-through skills, fulfilling all administrative requirements from field activities. Clear communicator, both oral and written. Interpersonal skills interface effectively with coworkers, management and customers. Excel in unpredictable and hectic environments. Proficient in 3D modeling of solid, plastic casting and 3d printer prototypes. Created drawing and detailed prints with GD&T for CNH, Cat, John Deere and others.
Employment Summary
Upgrading Skills: Attending Black Hawk Collage – Creo & AutoCad Certificates 01/2017 to Present
Released to return to work 06/2016
Medical Leave 01/2012 to 12/2015
Sears Seating, Davenport, IA 01/1999 to 01/2012
Sr Designer
As a Sr Designer my responsibilities included but not limited to the following: Current product support, evaluate current product, design improved part, test and validate part performance, implement new or revised part. I would work with customer to implement their needs into an existing product or design a new one. Producing detailed solid models of solid and surfaces to make foam cushions from sketches from an Industrial designer; powdered metal, plastic and sheet metal parts and dynamic assemblies. Moving dynamic models thru various constrains to evaluate complex interactions with other parts and finite stress analysis. Working with vendors on way to reduce cost and improve quality of products was on going. Worked in PDM then Windchill
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• Worked with Sears Europe to integrate hardware, seat components and commonize cad database thru Windchill. I also enlisted their needs to integrate into new designs in USA commonize seat and suspension components.
• Traveled to Wales to work with Sears Europe in engineering dept. for 7 weeks
• Traveled to Sears China joint venture to teach and workout assembly methods for Sears 5500 generation of 5000 series seat top for 1 week.
City Blue Technical, Moline, IL 10/1997 to 01/1999
Designer
I was assigned to John Deere Experimental Working as a designer. I work on various part designs and revisions per direction from a Project Engineer, modifying solid models and part drawing using ProE, GD&T and PDM per John Deere standards.
Morris Industries L.T.D., Coal Valley, IL 10/1995 to 06/1997
R&D Design Engineer
As a Design Engineer for Morris Industries working in Research and development. I performed the following functions:
• Management of facility: I went to Canada to train at Morris Industries R&D center for 2 months to learn their processes, equipment line. I was then put in charge of setting up the U.S. R&D division of Morris Industries L.T.D. I secured the property, office equipment, shop machinery and material handling equipment. My responsibilities included the day to day operations of the facility including budget, staffing, project timelines, and procurement of vendors, materials and test sites.
• Design: Using primarily Autocad R14 and then ProE 16 I designed parts for AG equipment. Many parts were designed to be used on air seeders being currently produced by Morris Industries LTD as well as new prototype parts for future development. Design criteria and design goals were based on many sources. These sources included requirements set forth from the Canadian R&D, our own observations, input from farmers and trade show discussions.
• Prototype fabrication: I fabricated and modified prototype parts built in our machine / weld shop using finished design drawings. The parts would be made using a variety of manual machines such as lathes, mills, drills, presses, welders, saws and hand tools.
• Testing of Prototypes: Testing and evaluation of prototype parts to ensure that all design goals were being met and fulfilled was a duty that I performed. I determined how the part could be tested to ensure repeatability and accuracy of the testing. The prototype was then tested and data acquisition was used to collect data for analysis in Excel to determine the performance of the machine and parts using data results from analysis modification made be made. If the parts fail Root Cause analysis would be performed to determine the cause. An update to the next prototype would then be devised to eliminate future failures.
Riverside Products Corporation, Moline, IL 12/1986 to 12/1992
Project Engineer
Design, Drafting of castings used in automobile shredders, Customer Service, Trouble Shooting, Field Service of shredder components, Worked with outsourced machining venders and In house machining new parts, reconditioning of used rotor parts, part inspection, Established Returned goods protocol and procedures, Failure Analysis and Safety Team Leader.
• Worked January 1992 - April 1995 as consultant
Education
Blackhawk College, Moline, IL 01/1993 to 05/1995
Associate of Science, Mechanical Tech.
GPA 3.73 on a 4.0 scale, Cumulative hours 92
Hobbies
• Computers, Remote Control: Planes, Drones, Cars, Motor Sports, Design and Building 2 cycle Motors
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