William Groves

Rialto, CA *****

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CAREER SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE

Toolroom start ups and working manager

Plastic Injection, Silicone Injection, Mold Design, CAD/CAM Experience

Conventional shop operation, CNC Vertical, CNC Horizontal, Wire EDM, Ram EDM

Grinding ID/OD, Jig Grinding, Prototype Machining, Mold Build, Mold Repair

Hard milling-graphite milling-CNC programming to .0002 tolerances

Set up and program above equipment

All name brand equipment used for high tolerances projects

Run manual shop equipment grinders, lathes, mills etc

CAREER ACHIVEMENTS

State Indentureship Tool & die journeyman state of Wisconsin 10,400 hrs

Design various molds for plastic injection, die cast, and silicone transfer molding

Build Molds for plastic, die cast, silicone, lost wax, rubber molds, liquid injection, compression

Generation of 2 to 5 axis cutter path for mold making, different software’s

Construction and process controls for silicone injection molds

Ez Cam, CADkey, SurfCAM, SolidWorks, Unigraphics, MasterCAM, Espirt mill and wire, Pro-E, pro/NC, CMM Brown and Sharp 555, PC-DMIS 4.2. ISO 9001.

I own CADkey 7, and Pro-E 2001 with Pro-NC package, Cimitron 16

Current 2024 Mastercam – NX8.5 Unigraphics – 2022 SolidWorks-Veri cut 9.22-Creo 4 –Pro-Nc

Contract CNC programming and design

Certificate in SolidWorks 3D, 2011. Mechanical design

All machining is done on tool steel S-7, H-13, 420SS, A-2, D-2, O-1

Design fixture and build machines as needed. aerospace galley-structural-engine components-composites

Prototype parts molds automotive-Harley Davidson-Buell-Milwaukee tools-snap on-Briggs and Stratton

Edwards life science-CareFusion- Megan-bard-unilever-Bic -Johnson and Johnson-etc

AmericanMaid riverside ca. Director of manufacturing. 3 to 5 axis, ram and wire edm. Cradle to grave.

Cnc programmer/ moldmaker. Mastercam 2024-fusion 360-espirt wire.

TNT Plastic molding corona, ca : Cnc programmer/mold maker. Build and repair. Roku-haas-mits edm-EA8S. 2020 mastercam-2020 solidworks

WET design sun valley ca. prototype-plastic injection cnc programmer/mold maker. Makino U6 wire. Makino v5 mill-cnc haas lathe TL-VM2 haas mill 7/31/2019-02/13/2020.

Contract work self employed, cnc programmer/mold maker/ design 05/2018- open

N2 IMAGING SYSTEMS/UTC aerospace. Irvine, CA 05/2014-05/2018

CNC Programmer/Mold maker

Build new tooling and engineering changes-mastercam2018. 2018-solidworks-Zeiss

Mikron with 530 heidenhein control-Haas VM2, both use probes. .0002 tolerance

NX12 Unigraphics

Farrar aerospace. Ontario, CA 09/2012 – contract

CNC Programmer/design. Aerospace components-Mastercam X9

C. Brewer Co., Ontario, CA 01/2007 – 09/2012

Moldmaker/Programmer

Cradle to grave Unigraphics NX8.2-mastercam X6MU2-solidworks 2012SP4 hard milling, Roku, EDM Mitsubishi, CMM & PC-DMIS 4.2 for inspection

Prototype and class 101 tooling

Repair and engineering changes

Plastic injection, medical, etc

ATM, Clearwater, FL 06/2005 – 01/2007

Programmer

Unigraphics NX2 2d 3d 4 and 5, Roboform wire, Roboform Ram

Plastic injection stack molds and two shot tooling, Jay wax- Bic pens-Unilever

Up to 64 cav tools

Hardmilling and graphite

Unigrahics-edm charmilles

Quashnick Tool, Lodi, CA 09/2004 – 06/2005

Moldmaker/CNC Programmer

Pro-E, pro man, SurfCAM, sodick wire and ram; Bostimatic mill

Plastic injection, Cepheid tooling medical

Build and repair tooling

CCS Composites, Benicia, CA 01/2004 – 09/2004

Tool Engineer

Pro-e pro man SurfCAM, Haas, Okuma, Mits EDM ram

Composites carbon tooling, Haas, Okuma mills

Compression, transfer molds for composite aero industries F35 helmet

Labcon North America, Petaluma, CA 08/2002 – 01/2004

Moldmaker/CNC Programmer

Espirt Wire and mill, Mits wire EDM, Haas mill, Hansvedt EDM Plastic injection 3 plate 16 cavity hot runner molds to do pipettes

Bentec Medical, Woodland, CA 01/2001 – 08/2002

Moldmaker/CNC Programmer

SolidWorks, MasterCAM, Roboform, Haas mill, Haas lathe, Liquid injection, silicone transfer and compression molds, implants for humans

Pro Tool, Butler, WI 06/1995 – 12/2000

Moldmaker/CNC Programmer

SurfCAM, SolidWorks

Mits EDM Ram, Plastic injection for Harley Davidson, simplicity motors, Buell

Ironwood Plastics, Two Rivers, WI 09/1992 – 06/1995

Moldmaker

Mits EDM

Build and repair plastic injection of automotive parts for AMP

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EDUCATION

Nicolet College, Rhinelander WI

Associate degree in Machine Tool Techniques

Diploma in Mechanical Drafting

WCTC, Pewaukee, WI

26 credits towards a degree in Manufacturing Engineering

Certificates in: Mitsubishi ram &wire-SurfCAM-SolidWorks-pro-nc- MasterCAM- Unigraphics-CMM –PC-DMIS 4.2

Santa Ana College

College Certificate 3D modeling 2011

Continued education: SolidWorks

Chaffey college Rancho Cucamonga ca . adv cad modeling/applications-solidworks 2018

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