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Wilfred H. Wolf

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Hot Springs National Park, AR

Cell: 501-***-****

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SUMMARY

Very innovative, talented automation development engineering professional with solid experience in leading development programs that resulted in concrete, cost-effective manufacturing solutions. Superb visualizer, designer, innovator, inventor and analytical trouble-shooter in complex situations. Great out-of-the-box thinker; Recognized as a team player. Also an outstanding procurer, coordinator, plant auditor, bench marker, new technology developer, technical writer, R&D professional and project leader. Committed to providing concrete solutions to maximize bottom line results; to fulfill company initiatives and to broaden their horizons and dreams for their future goals and ambitions. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WOLF TECHNICAL CONSULTING, Park Ridge, Illinois/Hot Springs, AR09/2005 to 01/2011 (Full Time) and 01/2011 – Present (Part Time).

Independent contractor; technical consulting practice that is devoted to advising and selling and developing its clients on solutions to pursue in the area of manufacturing, automated assembly process technology development, process improvements, product development, R&D and to develop, coordinate and implement the most robust solutions: Senior Engineering Consultant

• Convinced and sold clients on using my services to play key roles in advancing their automated assembly and other manufacturing technologies and provided enabling leadership and facilitation in making their dreams a reality.

• Assisted in developing concepts, strategies and plans for moving forward with clients’ businesses.

• Provided guidance for growing clients’ businesses by showing them how to work more efficiently, smartly and cost effectively without resorting to offshore manufacturing in low wage countries.

• One of my clients, located near Pasadena, California, is a medical device manufacturer where, over a 6 month period I sold my services and contracted to help them in automating certain new product lines via automated equipment. Spent time assisting in equipment FAT’s and SAT’s etc. and identifying existing equipment inefficiencies/identify root problems and provided recommendations for improvements. Worked with vendors to implement solutions. This won them significant additional business with 2 of their existing customers.

• Developed unique automated processes for a current client in Hot Springs, AR between 9/2014 and 2/2015 With over 25 years of related engineering expertise, these are some of the consulting tasks taken on with clients over the past 10 years:

• Automated Equipment Design and Build

• Manufacturing Engineering

• Micro-miniature Component Assembly Automation

• R&D to develop unique cutting edge strategic manufacturing solutions

• Product Design for Automation Assistance (design for manufacturability)

• Application Engineering

• Value Engineering

• Industrial Engineering

• Manufacturing Technology Development and improvement

• Product development

• Program & Project Management

• Vendor Selection

• Automation Program Facilitation and Coordination

• Project Management for Manufacturing Efficiency Improvement projects:

• Project Coordination

• Process Re-engineering

• Facilitation

• Technical Writing / Work instructions for equipment and manufacturing processes

• New Technology developments that paved the way for new product possibilities and flexibility Page 2 of 5 Wil H Wolf Resume.doc

SUN CITY SOLAR COMMERCIAL ENERGY, LLC, Spring Grove, AR 07/2012- 04/2013 and 06/2014 to 9/2014

Developers and installers of custom, turnkey commercial and residential solar PV, solar hot water and solar pool heating systems.

Regional Sales Manager

Technical Consulting and sales for selling commercial and residential solar systems. Was involved with the sales, marketing and technical configuration of solar systems; face to face with customers.

• Commission-only-based work under contract for selling, sizing and configuring PV, hot water and pool heating turnkey residential and commercial solar system installations within my region.

• Worked on site directly with residential and commercial customers in configuring turnkey systems for them

• Developed proposals for customers and communicated technical details to Sun City Solar on the scope of the project and customer’s requirements.

• Contacted customers’ municipalities and energy companies to get the proper permits. MOLEX INCORPORATED, Lisle, Illinois 10/1990 to 05/2005 Global manufacturer of electronic, electrical and fiber optic interconnection devices that serve the power, automotive, appliance, consumer electronics and telecommunications sectors. Automation Development Engineer/Global Operations

Assumed a leadership role from Molex’s Corporate Headquarters in advancing and improving Molex's worldwide automated assembly and machine vision technology to the cutting edge. Reporting to the Director of Worldwide Manufacturing, this position had the responsibility for procurement and for leading the development of assembly process platforms and leading assembly automation projects at various levels at Molex manufacturing sites worldwide. I traveled 75% globally, working across geographic boundaries globally impacting and gaining the respect of peers in similar roles in global Molex entities.

• As a key leader in the Connector Assembly Automation realm, I spearheaded improving global automation competency at Molex manufacturing sites internationally.

• Worked with manufacturing plants and local equipment suppliers to identify assembly automation opportunities, got projects approved, and managed multiple projects for international implementation.

• Developed and maintained auto-assembly standard platform concepts to support new product offerings and growth plans for vastly lowering time-to-market, lower implementation costs, improved platform standardization and re- toolability and for improvement of product quality. Worked with plant product development and cross functional teams to ensure both new product manufacturing flow and upstream manufacturing processes met Design for Manufacturability and Design for Assembly objectives. With global entity input, eventually developed DFM and DFA guidelines and design rules for global connector design engineers to follow.

• Closely also worked with internal and external equipment designers and suppliers on a global basis in developing concepts, strategies, standards to eventual pilot programs and final implementation.

• Assisted in strategic planning to support manufacturing growth for the most efficient, cost effective outcome, and influenced senior leadership with proposed manufacturing concepts for specific product mixes in local international regions.

• Pushed specific improvement of local automation development competency at international locations. MISC.:

• Results Award recipient for fiscal year 2002 for outstanding contribution developing a unique manufacturing techniques for assembling micro-miniature components.

• 20+ years of hands on automation equipment design experience.

• Received PATENT award in 2004 for special design features on land grid array connectors which significantly reduced time and materials to manufacture.

• Contributed to the increase of product sales by a minimum or $7 million annually in 1991 from connectors manufactured on 22 assembly systems single handedly procured, qualified and delivered within a 1.5 year window, Page 3 of 5 Wil H Wolf Resume.doc

achieved by procuring systems from US vendors for overseas divisions. Tasks included preparing detailed machine specifications, cost-justifications, sourcing vendors, purchasing, tracking, and continuous technical communications between overseas entities and US vendors. Conducted test runs for qualifying the equipment using SPC methods prior to shipping.

• To avoid possible loss of customer, worked closely with two teams, solved process-related problems that saved $30 million per year in potential lost revenue, and assured the business. Spearheaded a mission to Molex Shanghai to determine root causes and provided technical solutions were implemented within three weeks.

• Saved millions of dollars by finding the highest quality, cost effective manufacturing and machine vision solutions by defining to global plants which systems to standardize on purchasing. Conducted numerous benchmarking activities/tests/analysis to determine the best in class machine vision systems on the market for the price and our applications. Developed standard proven approach for benchmarking, testing and analysis method. Worked with chosen companies to get global pricing to lower machine vision implementation costs.

• Created manufacturability and process recipe solutions for a new type of product which later generated $2 to $3 million in annual revenues. Developed several new and unique manufacturing solutions never before attempted for manufacturing an LGA (Land Grid Array) socket with micro miniature, loose-piece, encapsulated contacts. This needed unique solutions and new technologies to make the socket viable and manufactureable. Performed R&D. Conducted technology searches, vendor searches, lab tests. Developed process elements and recipes for the manufacturing line.

• Conducted multiple assembly department development audits in worldwide Molex plants to review and monitor best practices in assembly departments and recommended solutions and action items for deficient areas in my reports. Followed up until recommended actions were implemented at respective global plants.

• Contributed to production facility design / overhaul in key manufacturing sites.

• Increased Molex’s overall productivity and quality by identifying best in class assembly technologies. To this end, planned, coordinated, produced and hosted worldwide assembly technology development conferences every 3 years where Molex global assembly subject experts presented and discussed their best assembly process technologies developed and locally used in their entities for their specific product mix. Championed the technology transfers of the best in class assembly technologies/standards and best practices to all entities in need of similar technologies for those with similar product mixes. Published extensive findings reports globally and followed up on all action items on technology transfers, technologies to be developed and implemented in specific global plants. TAMPO TOOL INC., Schaumburg, IL (Div of TransTech America) 1988 – 10/1990 Leading manufacturer of custom pad printing and decorating equipment. (Now owned by ITW Inc.) Engineering Manager

Headed a Design Engineering department which designed custom pad printing equipment for a large variety of applications including printing automotive dashboard knobs, Barbie doll faces, graduations on syringes, golf balls, etc.

• Developed new concepts and designs for high speed, state of the art, precision parts handling and indexing systems for multicolor, "continuous" rotary printing applications. Mechanical drives with complicated gearing and belt drives were used. Drives were inherent to those used on rotary printing and packaging machinery. The majority of equipment was custom designed, but standard printing equipment was also developed. These precision machines print with a registration accuracy of plus or minus .001 inch. Some examples of printing applications: Print graduations on outer diameters of medical syringes at rate of 500/minute; print two rows of golf balls two colors and separate balls into respective discharge chutes (balls numbered 1 through 4); Automotive dashboard knobs; taillight lenses; Barbie doll faces; etc,

• Led the engineering team in development of several new printing equipment standards, increasing overall sales by approximately 25%.

• Developed several custom equipment including large, complex, carousel-type printing machines for decorating plastic Downy bottle necks for Procter and Gamble.

• Increased design process productivity 30% by setting up and transitioning the design team from board design to AutoCAD. Set up standards and procedures for use on CAD. Page 4 of 5 Wil H Wolf Resume.doc

CRESTWOOD MACHINE COMPANY, Schaumburg, IL

Custom machine builder of cam-driven automatic assembly machines. Project Leader

Developed machine and station concepts for machine and managed those projects and respective design teams. In parallel, I solo designed and self-managed my own machine development projects.

• Responsible for creating concepts, engineering layouts, details and parts lists for large scale, one-of-a-kind, automatic assembly machines. Supervised Detailers, Designers and other Engineers on projects which were under my jurisdiction. Coordinated documentation package and monitored overall design process while generating my own machine design layouts and concepts. Also assisted in the development of lengthy project proposals, both written and pictorial.

• The majority of machine projects included the automatic assembly of electronic components such as card edge connectors, switches, I.C. lead frames, etc. These machines were mainly in-line machines rather than indexed-dial rotaries.

• The in-line machines utilized "walking beam" devices, servo or cam driven, for indexing piece parts through machine from point to point in an in-line manner. Cycle rates varied from 30 to 600 assembly cycles/minute, depending on type of product. Most mechanical motions were derived from rotary cams. The later projects included development of the latest state-of-the-art high speed terminal insertion machines (contact insertion "stitchers") for a variety of electrical interconnect devices.

• Multi-axis servo drives were later utilized for maximum flexibility and to minimize set-up time for various product sizes whose insertion patterns can be varied in any possible combinations

• Developed the first high-speed servo powered contact stitching machine.

• Developed standards and analytical methods for designing rotary mechanical cams. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS (CORTRON DIV.), Elmhurst, IL

Manufacturing division that manufactured custom computer and word processor keyboards. Manufacturing Engineer (Automation Specialist)

Designed, fabricated, built, plumbed wired and programmed, a variety of extremely cost-effective, automated equipment for the assembly of computer keyboards and key switches.

• Searched and initiated plant manufacturing efficiency opportunities: Initiated, proposed, justified and implemented successful in-plant assembly automation projects and solutions.

• Saved ITW millions of dollars by identifying a variety of automatable manual operations and converting them to automated manufacturing solutions by designing and building the respective automated assembly solutions.

• Built assembly machines in-house. Most were completed in 6-10 weeks, and paid for themselves in less than two months.

MID-WEST AUTOMATION SYSTEMS INC., Wheeling, IL

Leading builder of precision, custom, cam-driven high-speed assembly systems. Project Engineer

Total responsibility for design of custom precision assembly machines, from concept to completion. Responsibilities included creating original machine designs and generating complete detailed layouts of overall machine and subassemblies as well as detailing of piece parts and tooling. 25% of the time was spent in shop during construction and debugging phase.

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KIWI CODERS CORPORATION, Wheeling, IL

Leading builder of custom printing and high-speed code date printing equipment. Machine Design Engineer

Total responsibility for design of custom precision printing machines, from concept to completion. Responsibilities included creating original machine designs especially for the custom printing industry.

• Projects ranged in size from small, simple machines weighing a pound to large, intricate machines weighing up to 3 tons.

• The majority of machines were custom designed for special applications. Some typical applications included:

• Machines to print a date code on the bottoms of beverage cans at a rate of 1500 cans per minute

• Printing specifications and coding stripes around the circumference of 105 millimeter artillery projectiles

• Printing customer logo and UPC code on corrugated cartons.

• Printing small cartons using Flexographic printing head. on.

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Graduated Lane Technical HS, Chicago, IL

Attending Triton College, River Grove, IL

Attending Wright College, Chicago, IL

Attending Oakton College (Real Estate)

Attending National Park College (General Aviation

and aircraft sheet metal and composite repair), Hot Springs, AR

Employer Sponsored Training courses, certs.

Tool Design at Metal Stamping & Mfg Co.,P.T.

Coop - Draftsman at Vapor Corp. F.T. 3 mo.

Metallurgical Lab Technician, P.T. Nights&W.E.

Machine Design Engineer at Kiwi Coders

Project Engineer at Mid-West Automation

Manufacturing Engineer at ITW Cortron

Machine Design Engineer (Group Leader) at

Crestwood Machine Co.

Engineer Manager at Tampo Tool

Automation Development Engineer at Molex

Wolf Technical Consulting Activity:

Consulting for Gryphics Inc. (full time)

Consulting for Cascade Microtech (Full Time)

Consulting for Molex (F.T. in China - 3 weeks)

Consulting for HSIO llc (Full Time)

Consulting for Helix Medical (Full Time)

Consulting for Dickey Mfg (F.T. 4 weeks)

Consulting for Sun City Solar (Sales) FT&PT

Consult for Alliance Rubber Company - F.T.

Regional Sales Manager for Sun City Solar Energy,

LLC (see above consulting activity)

USA Truck - Training and Solo Driving 16 wheeler

coast to coast (not in resume)- 6 Months (April -

Sept)

: Working Part Time : Working Full Time : Attending School : Employer Sponsored Training Courses (Certs) Wil Wolf Career/Education Time Line

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