Design Engineer Customer Service

Scott Russell Cell - 651-***-****, ************@*****.***

Engineering Lead, Senior Design Engineer

Creative and resourceful Engineering Professional focused on strategic vision and success of business. Recognized for innovation that drives change and produces results. 23 year pattern of increasing quality and productivity while reducing costs of complex systems and processes including:

Team Activities: Run and participate in teams to ensure delivery of breakthrough Technologies to the market. Bring together cross functional groups at all levels, inside and outside the organization, improving employee engagement, team productivity, and operational efficiency by learning and leveraging staff and colleague strengths.

Communication: Leverage different skills from cross functional team to analysis, develop and implement new product Designs. Have ability to communicate complex designs to none technical groups.

Product Development / Project Management: Deliver projects to specifications, on time, and on budget. Design, Develop, and Manage development of great number of products and intellectual property.

Process Improvement: Establish or enhance many systems and processes to avoid mistakes, improve validation, testing and cost reduction.

Testimonial

“Scott has a instinctive way to find new and creative solutions to problems and the innate ability to combat resistance to the idea of doing things differently and adeptly communicates the team vision so it easily becomes adopted and embraced, leading to completed projects and expanded future business activities.”

Dominic Grey, Director Sanus AV Tech, Roseville, MN

Professional Experience

Sanus/Milestone AV Technologies Sept 2006 to Present

Global leader in TV Wall Mounts.

Sr DESIGN ENGINEER – New Product Development, Sep 2006 to 2017

Priority: Design, Build and implements new product designs that satisfy customer needs efficiently and cost effectively.

Innovation / Impact on Revenue: Created competitive products. Introduced new products previously unavailable in market. Identified opportunities and created new revenue streams outside historical core competency of company.

VPL50A- Bestselling tilt sku, 2011-13, selling 1million to date and accounting for $33million in revenue

XF228 became a revolution in design, first and only hollow joint articulation

These are just two of the 30 mounts designed and brought to market, while at Milestone.

Development: Redesigned older Follow Thru design, prototyped and implemented design changes. Results were 25% reduction is cost and 30% reduction in joint parts and a 25% better performance by implementing better design methods with SolidWorks as CAD platform.

Cross functional Team: Within Milestone, Improved company goodwill between Sanus and Chief engineering during a time of increased tension by pulling together the two groups.

Mentorship / Hiring: With a complete engineering replacement over the last 3 years, provided recruiting, interviewing and hiring advice, as well as mentoring all new hires as they made the transition to productive employees.

Technical Support: Was the resident expert, go to person for Engineering, Product Management and customer service. Interacted with the end use customer on occasion, instructing them on the proper used and installation of our product when Customer service couldn’t.

DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION: Extensive international travel background for product launch and process setup in (China).

Communication: Interacted with multi-cultural colleges thru video conference calls and on-site travel to their location.

ENGINEERING INTERN, DESIGN ENGINEER and SR DESIGN ENGINEER, Jan 1993 to September 2006

Priority: Develop R&D design for fluid and material handling

Ecolab Inc, Eagan, MN Sep 2003 to Sep 2006

Global leader in cleaning and sanitizing solutions

Professional Experience (continued)

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ENGINEERING INTERN/DESIGN ENGINE/Sr Mechanical ENGINEER

Priority: Develop R&D design testing laboratory for fluid and solid dispensing solution. Improved safety, operations, and environment; cut costs by designing mechanical and process solutions.

Project Management: Designed and coordinated the installation of Ecolab’s new state of the art $1,6 million, 9,000 sq.ft testing laboratory. Including coordinating all external contractors of electrical, plumbing, drainage design and specification for specialized testing equipment.

Human Resources: Hire, managed 4-8 engineers and technicians to assist in the laboratory move and negotiated all allocations of testing space with the various business units.

Capital expenditure: Created the justification documentation and installation plan for the purchase of two capital equipment projects, a $500,000 Failure Mode Verification Test (FMVT) unit and an $80,000 environmental cycling chamber. Installed, calibrated and trained technicians on the said equipment’s use.

Priority: Develop R&D designs for fluid and solid dispensing solution.

Fluid handling: Developed a variable Venturi deliver system for a product demand dispensing system.

Dispensing system: Developed a 6 product dilute from concentrate delivery system for the retail market. Including a bar scanning package identification system to deliver appropriate product to retail floor.

Ecolab Inc, Eagan, MN August 1993 to Sep 2003

Global leader in cleaning and sanitizing solutions

ENGINEERING INTERN/DESIGN ENGINEER

Priority: Develop R&D Designs for manufacturing and dispensing of chemical products in both fluid and solid form. Deliver saleable product design on time and under budget through project management, mechanical and industrial applications, and continuous improvement.

Pilot Plant installations: Developed and prototyped pilot plant equipment for extrusion, cutting and on-line shaping of new solid caustic chemicals line, as well as down line support equipment to meet aggressive production speeds and 98% line efficiencies

Pilot Plant production: Developed production ready equipment to be installed later at a production facility within the company. Supported startup team, assuring specification for all equipment were complete

Design Production equipment: Wrote Spec and installation contract for production equipment, to assure on time delivery. Over saw installation, testing and startup launch. Designed and procured extrusion dies used for this and four other product lines.

Production line installations: Prototyped process equipment for pilot plant to provide proof of concept for capital authorization of the production line, including process equipment specification, and down line support equipment to meet

Education

Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering (BSME) University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN, May 1995

Professional Development:

CAD: SolidWorks, Solidworks Simulation, Nonlinear Simulation.

What’s New SolidWorks 2015, Pro-E 1995.

MS: Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project and Word

MRP: Matrix, CAS, Mass, with current knowledge of SAP

Other Training: Kepner Tregoe, Minitab, DOE, DFMEA, Tolerance analysis,

Minitab, SolidWorks Simulation (FEA) tools. Ardupilot

Personal Data

Construction of Own home: Completed work, HVAC, plumbing, electrical and all interior work. Contracted major outside work, framing, siding and roof.

Designed Radio Controlled Helicopter rotor head: Developed revolutionary FFB (Floating Fly Bar) rotor head to allow for max control during 3D maneuvers.

Force amplification air valve: Created a pneumatic valve that used high pressure air to increase/decrease output pressure with minimal input force.

Owned Small Business: Started, hired and ran small Retail Business with 3 other investors.

Patents, Trade Secrets

8 Utility Granted: 9433293, 6764719, 7093771, 7597861, 7708023, 8020578, 8254092, 863172, 14 Applied,

47 Design, 3 ROI.

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