VICTOR BUENAVIDA
Montreal (Quebec) H3R-3L4
Residence: 514-***-**** / cell: 514-***-****
E-mail: **********@*****.***
Languages: English, French. Citizenship: Canadian
Qualification: Excellent skills in Problem Solving, Strong background in drafting and Mechanical Design. High standards achieved through years of experience working closely with industries that demand quality, cost efficiency and reliability, Organized, Creative and working well with others. Proven ability to mange groups and maintains productivity. Successful in negotiating favorable design and construction contracts,
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (29 YEARS)
~ System Installations Structural repairs & modifications Sheet metal & composite parts
~ System Installations as Hydraulics, HVAC, Pneumatics, piping, Electrical wiring
~ Interior design for different passenger rail-car as baggage Café, Diner, Sleeper, Coach
~ Tool Design: Fixtures, dies, drill-jigs, drifts, guides, Gauges, NC machine fixture,
Cutting tools, welding & assembly tooling, general tooling,
~ Mechanical Design: Handling Equipment. Test equipment, Material handling
Conveyors, Protective, Lifting Transportation,
~ Machine Design: special purpose machine packaging and machine tools, forging and
Casting, Panels, Boxes, Doors, Brackets, Clamps, Elector-Mechanical Mechanism,
Balancing Cradle, Vane Adapters, turning roll towers, bearing housing, drive shaft
~ Preliminary Designing & Detailing Assembly & Sub-Assembly bill of material using
System “ISO-9001”
~ Using Welding & Geometrical Tolerance System “ANSI Y14.SM”
Computer Skills use well Dos, Windows 7, Office 2007, Words, Excel,
Using Two & Three Dimensional Cad applications for the last 18 years ~
(Autocad release #2000 9000 hr.) (Catia release #4.2.2 12000 hr.)
(Cadam release #3.1 6500 hr.) (Catia release #5.22 3000 hr.)
(Cadkey release #99 9000 hr.) (pro/E release #2000i 500 hr.)
(Cadra release #5 4500 hr.) (Solid Work release # 2004 600 hr.)
(Unigraphics release NX5 13000 hr.) (Bentley M/S release # V8 XM 4000 hr.)
Positions Held
~ Mechanical Designer ~ Machine Designer
~ Tool Designer ~ Methods Planner
~ Checker ~ Tool & Die Maker
~ Q.A. Inspector ~ General Machinist
EDUCATION
1971 Graduated with Professional Certificates at “Technion” University (Institute of High Technology) in: Drafting, Mechanical Design & Planning Components
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE INC. 2011 – Dec 2016
(C-Series) Reporting to Section Chief manager Mr. Michael Palermo
Mechanical & tool Design Engineer II
Performs engineering work related to design of tools and equipment used to manufacture for aircraft ground support service group. Under minimal supervision, design with tolerance and GD&T, annotate tooling in 3D CAD & 2D drafting on Catia V5 & Enovia environment that will be using to Collaborate with engineering and present design concepts to a design review team, also Review and check Tool Designs. Methods, Write procedures, EDRN, Bill of Material, User Manuals.
For the new Tools as AFT & FWD Cargo Door Repair Dolly assy, Picketing tool assy Kit, Mid Bay Removal - Installation Tool, Fuel Inerting Pressure Leak testing tool kit, Fuel Lines Pressure and Obstruction Testing tool Kit, Pylon Removal tool Sling, Flaps board changer tool kit, AFT Fuse and Empennage drill tool kit, outer wing drill kit and AFT passenger door Repair Dolly Assy.
L-3 COMMUNICATIONS MAPPS INC. July 2008 – 2011
Reporting to manager Mr. Philip Brown
Custom design of simulators for marine/nuclear power plant
Electrical drafting / Mechanical Designer
Mechanical : Responsibilities design & detailing to manufacturing drawing monitoring and consol cabinets, structural base frame, sheet metal panels, doors, din-rail mounting panels, assemblies & installation dwg. Bill of material using (GD&T) and Catia V5.18.
Electrical: Creating G.A. electrical schematic diagram. Panels assemblies wiring diagrams, installing on din-rail (power supply, wago module, relays, circuit breaker, switches, RTU Connectors, backshells). electrical installation-kit, cables list & installation, cable interconnect installation to be fabricate and install on ship monitoring cabinets & consol system using to upgrade Canadian ships navy Halifax-class / upgrade Hydro-Quebec nuclear power plant using systems micro Station V8 xm Bentley & IFS creating parts & documents system.
PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA 2004 – July 2008
(P&W Canada Owns and Operates a fleet of aircraft used to flight test engine)
engineering Manger Mr. Fred Rothwell.
Electrical drafting / Mechanical Designer
Working in Airframe and System Design Dept, Using Catia V4.2.4 & V5.16
Electrical: creating of Avionics & Electrical Wiring diagram, testing system sloping panels, Harness integration. Review electrical schematics. Redraw wiring diagrams and harness requirements & back shells, Connectors, shield & Grounds, redesign rack gcu installation in aircraft cargo bay.
Mechanical: Responsibilities to produce details and installation drawings of frame structure, sheet metal. Skins. Installation of new Pylon & Nacelle, Cowling assemblies to be install on test bed aircrafts Boeing 720 C-EFTB & Boeing 747SP to flight test PW300, PW500, PW600 & PW800 Series Engine using geometrical tolerance system "Ansi Y14.5M" and welding symbols
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TURBOCOR Inc. 2001 – 2004
Reporting to R/D engineering manager Mr. Randolph Dietzel
Mechanical Designer
Manufacturing of twine-turbine compressor engine model-TT300 the revolutionary
First totally oil-free specifically designed for heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and
Refrigeration (HVACR) industry be using aircraft grade & applications
Design & Modeling 3-D and detailing to finish 2-D drawings, General assembly, bill
Of material of main-housing casting, end-cup casting, igv end cup castings, magnetic
Bearings, shaft & impellers assembly, plastic molding and covers using UG v.16, also design general tooling and automated ass’y mechanism for manufacturing. And quality control Using pro/E, Solid Edge, M/Desktop-4, Catia ver. 5.16
HEWITT ENERGY & MOTORS, (Montreal) 2000 - 2001
Reporting to engineering manager Mr. Mark Tricott
Mechanical Designer
System Installations Structural modifications Designed preliminary layout, G.A. assembly, Detailing drawings, Bill of materials & revision drawings for Generators Electrical System installation, Marine Engine, Industrial Engine using geometrical tolerance system Ansi Y14.5M and Cadra v5.
CONAIR METAPLAST 1998 – 2000
Reporting to engineering manager Mr. Daniel Hernandez
Mechanical Designer
Design and detailing to finish drawings Preliminary Structural Bases. Frames, Sheet-Metal Panels, doors, piping, elector-Mechanical Mechanism layout and General Assembly & Bill of material for custom downstream system machine as:
- Vacuum Tanks - Dump Table
-Calibration Table - Punch Press
-Pullers - MVSP Machine
-Servo Saw
To be used after plastic profile extrusion machine by helping accomplish final product for companies such as Comtrusion, Durasikid, Furon, Omega Flex, Perkasie, Bemis, Dayton, Fenplast, Chelsea, Teknion using Cadkey 7.5 and Autocad ver. 14,
KOMATSU MOTORS, (Montreal) 1997 – 1998
Reporting to engineering manager Mr. Daniel Provost
Mechanical Designer
System Installations Structural modifications Designed preliminary layout, G.A. assembly, Detailing drawings, Bill of materials & revision drawings for Wheel loader installation, for WA250, WA320 & WA380 using geometrical tolerance system Ansi Y14.5M and Cadam v5.
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FARNELL - THOMPSON Inc. 1995 – 1997
(Mining engineering consultants) Mechanical Designer
Reporting to engineering manager Mr. Doug Farnell
Design and detailing to finish drawings preliminary layout and general assembly also bill of material for several mechanism of machines as:
~ Gear guard Assembly (for 316 Dia. Gear)
~ Pinion Assembly
~ Trunnion Soleplate Assembly
~ Feed Chute Assembly
~ Shell Cans lifting lugs Assembly
~ Jacking Cradle Assembly
Also Design and detailing Lifting mechanism, forging casting parts, clamps, brackets, doors, panels, head & shell to be used in Sag Mills & Ball Mills for several projects as ‘Lone Tree’, ‘Twin Creeks’, ‘Collahuasi Copper Mining’, ‘Red Dog’, and ‘Crown Jewel’ using American Std. Welding symbols, Geometric tolerancing system on
Cadkey ver. 7.5
ELECTROVERT LIMITÉE, (La Prairie) 1992 - 1995
Reporting to engineering manager Mr. Stephen Thompson
Mechanical Designer
Assigned to metal dispensing division department. Working on project LME-2000 Liquid Metal Encapsulation and LMD-2000 Metal Core low temperature injection molding Machine, using Cadkey #6 to design machine wire frame and manufacturing drawing of preliminary layout, structural frames, assembly, details, Bill of material & review drawings, system installation as hydraulics, pneumatics electrical wiring. Electro-Mechanical Mechanism. Also designed brackets, clamps, doors, and panels, forging & casting parts, platens for tooling stations using geometrical tolerancing system.
FLAKT ROSS INC. (Montreal) 1989 - 1992
Reporting to engineering manager Mr. G. Shewchuk
Mechanical Designer Using Autocad #11
Design and detailing to finish drawings G.A. assembly, detailing, Bill of material & review drawings. Turning Roll & Pulley 20.0” DIA x 28.0” long.
Drive and line shaft assembly.
Structural turning Roll towers.
Designed Blow Box lifting mechanism, bearing housing, heads for shells, forging & casting parts, clamps, doors, panels, journals and water deflector unit for several machines in order as “Stone”, “Union”, “Thurso”, “CL-Pak”, “Weyerhaueuser”, “Celgar”, and “Alpak”.
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VIA RAIL CANADA 1988 - 1989
Mechanical structural designer on stainless steel fleet passenger cars.
Mechanical Designer
Assigned to conversion heating system from steam heating to electrical base boards Designed heating system on seven different passenger cars as Coach, Manor, Sleepers, Skyline, Diner, Park and Baggage Café specially made to prevent movement between Base Boards and Heater Strips by Creating Structural base Frame, Sheet-Metal Panels, doors and boxes, piping using Redesign the kitchen cabinet for Diner also interior finishing. Preliminary drawings, General Arrangement assembly. Detailed drawings & Bill of material.
BLACK CLAWSON INC. 1987 - 1988
Senior Mechanical designer
• Design and detailing to finish drawings section of pulp and Paper machines. Also bearing housing, heads for shells, forging & casting parts, clamps, doors, panels, journals and G.A. Assembly & Bill of material
VALMET DOMINION INC. 1984 - 1987
Senior Mechanical designer
• Design and detailing to finish drawings section of pulp and Paper machines and also designed a new balancing machine to rotate at 9.000 F/M a roller of a 6.0" Dia by 38.0" long. I also done G.A. Assembly. Bill of material
GENERAL MOTORS CANADA 1980 - 1984
Senior Mechanical designer
Design facilities for new robotic systems on conveyor delivery #417 front and rear seats, also designed water test car wash with a new system of dark room to detect water leaks in automobiles, by Creating Structural base frames, Sheet-metal, Doors, panels boxes, brackets, clamps, piping, elector-Mechanical Mechanism, casting parts, tooling stations using geometrical Tolerance system. Using Cadam ver. 2.1 to make G.A. assembly, details, review drawings and Bill of material.
TRIPLEX ENGINEERING LTD. (Montreal) 1976 - 1980
Tool designer/process planner
Working on jig fixtures for casting & forging parts among other components for electro-mechanical parts of Xerox equipment and other parts such as shell cases, machine components and metal sheets, shop process planning and methods improving machine, loading design and detailing of jigs, fixtures, press tools, cold-heat tooling, process planning, bill of material and revision to existing production machines using geometrical tolerance system ANSI Y14.5M.
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PRECI-TOOLS LTD 1974 - 1976
Tool & die maker
Working on tool room department using tool machines such as milling, jig bore, surface grinder, tool grinder, drilling assembly and welding to make general tooling, milling fixtures, drill jigs, dies, forming dies, and progressive dies from drawings.