David L. Davis
***** **** ****** ** ***, Canton, IL. 61520 309-***-****
Email: ***********@*****.***
Summary of Qualifications:
Creative engineering professional with over 38 years of experience in product design as well as solid model and prototype production.
Able to work effectively on multiple projects simultaneously.
Capable of high-level performance on solo assignments and in team environments.
Co-inventor on 3 United States Patents.
Education: St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley 1987 to 1995
Mechanical engineering courses
St. Louis Technical School 1985
Certificate in Mechanical Drafting
Experience: Actalent Goodfield, IL
Contract Design Engineer at CNH Industrial May 2022 to Dec 2023
●Design and detailing of fabricated components and weldments for current production
●Design of hoses and tubes for routing current production
●Creating top level assemblies, layouts of concept design and interference checks
●Participate in design review
Kress Corporation Brimfield, IL
Design Engineer February 2021 to May 2022
●Design and detailing of fabricated components, weldments, vendor supplied components, hoses and tubes for current production.
●Participate in design and weld review
●Creating Engineering change request
●Working with manufacturing and purchasing to procure new alternatives for obsoleted components
Cintal Peoria, IL
Contract Engineer at Komatsu July 2010 to May 2020
●Design and detailing of fabricated components, weldments, castings, machines components, vendor supplied components, and hoses for special features request around current production.
●Work directly with manufacturing to design and incorporate customer required changes to production trucks. These features were added to trucks on the production line not part of a standard truck
●Assisting project leads in the power train and current design groups with conceptual designs, prototypes, layouts and incorporation of engineering change requests.
Daxcon Engineering Inc Bartonville, IL
Senior Project Engineer April 1999 to July 2010
●Designing of castings, moldings, sheet metal parts and toolings, and creating detailed toleranced layouts for Caterpillar, Terex, Liebherr, Ford and other companies using Pro/Engineer, Ideas Master Series and Unigraphics.
●Utilizing geometric tolerancing, Caterpillar standards, CP3 standards (Ford) and JIS standards
●Creating tolerance stackups of new designs and current assemblies
●Overseeing of request for quotes from customers questing engineering and manufacturing projects
●Overseeing of request for quotes sent out to machine shops
●Overseeing of multiple projects
●Mentoring of Engineers
Emerson Tool Company Division Emerson Electric St Louis, MO
Designer November 1988 to April 1999
●Design, draft and troubleshoot drawings of finished products and components in a time sensitive, quality oriented environment, using I-Deas Master Series and Cadam Software
●Check on work of other draftsmen to ensure quality and conformability of work
●Perform tolerance check on pre-production drawings
●Design and order prototype parts and manufacture prototypes using lathes, mills, drills and presses.
●Team with product engineers, manufacturing engineers, purchasing and marketing in development of new products and modification of existing lines.
●Participate in prototype production, building models for pre-production dimensioning checks.
●Write test protocols and procedures to verify quality and durability of prototype and production parts.
●Oversee testing to verify compliance to UL and CSA specifications.
●Work closely with Manufacturing Engineers to ensure integrity of drawing quality to enable pre-production tooling manufacture.
Computer Literacy:
Pro Engineer Ver Creo 8 (solid design program)
Unigraphics NX
I-DEAS Master Series Ver 7.m1 (solid design program)
IBM Pro-Cadam Ver 3, Rel 7
Microsoft Office Suite
References: Available upon request