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Michael Mott

Career Summary

I have successfully delivered results in various roles of increasing responsibility throughout my thirty-year career. I developed my engineering and management skills both as an employee and as a business owner. Within this breadth of experience, I strived to exceed expectations as an individual contributor and as a management leader. My career focus continues to be providing innovative solutions and exceptional results for my employer in a team environment. In addition, as I am entering the latter part of my career, I would like an opportunity to mentor younger engineers and coworkers by continuing to utilize my passion and experience in solving challenges that arise in a manufacturing/engineering environment.

Experience

April 2023 – Present Ezworx, LLC Fort Smith, AR

Owner

Automation Design/Programming Consultant – provided contract PLC programming/design for several small projects supporting pet food processing.

Start Up Commissioning/Support - provided sortation system commissioning and start up support. System utilized AB Armor PowerFlex Drives with distributed 24VDC Ethernet/IP I/O.

October 2022 – April 2023 Tyson Foods, Inc. Springdale, AR

Lead Controls Engineer

Provided Engineering support for approx. 120 Poultry facilities. Support included electrical design, trouble shooting, PLC and Ignition HMI programming for Feed Mills, facility refrigeration, Hatcheries, and rendering plants.

Upgraded obsolete Schneider quantum PLC controls to M580 and Ignition HMI for three (3) Feed Mills.

Provided electrical design and programming support for various Feed Mills including steam system upgrades, milling, and pelleting equipment upgrades.

June 2020 – October 2022 Ezworx, LLC Fort Smith, AR

Owner

Amazon ARS Robotic Sort Facility FMS Design – provided flow management software design, programming and implementation at six (6) Amazon sort facilities.

Automation Design/Programming Consultant and Custom VB/VBA application programming – MARS Petcare Project Database.

USPS PIVR robotic induct systems training.

June 2018 – June 2020 MHS, Inc. Louisville, KY

Senior Electrical Design/Project Engineer

Hired full time to continue development of world class electrical controls for sortation facilities for Amazon, Federal Express, UPS and others. I was challenged with a team effort to develop new customers as MHS grew into the 5th largest material handling company in the world. Key emphasis was modernization and implementation of new technologies like IoT, Distributed Ethernet I/O and control.

After working on 2 of MHS’s first 3 Amazon projects which implemented new distributed VFD and I/O controls schemes I moved to the Federal Express team to help develop similar successful implementation for MHS’s first 2 Federal Express projects.

I’ve been described by MHS management as an A-Team member in helping develop innovative solutions that provide value to MHS and its customers. As a result, I am assigned to new customers and critical for MHS’s success projects.

Jan. 2015 – June 2018 Ezworx Fort Smith, AR

Owner

Designed world class electrical controls for various customers which included; Amazon, Whirlpool, FedEx, Amazon, UPS. Areas of expertise include: MHE design/specification, AutoCAD Electrical Design, ControlLogix/CompactLogix PLC/Safety PLC programming, Wonderware & RS View HMI, Custom VB and SQL application programming.

Reduced client capital equipment expenditures by providing innovative/standardized software and hardware control solutions that focused on improved reliability and maintainability.

Jan. 2014 – Jan. 2015 Gerdau Fort Smith, AR

Senior Project Engineer – Electrical Controls

Hired for special expansion project for Electrical Controls project management; project that was not executed. Provided lead for facility utilities monitoring project which was approved.

Implemented waste water system controls internally reducing project expenses.

Dec. 2006 – Jan 2014 Ezworx Fort Smith, AR

Owner

Designed world class electrical controls for various customers which included; Amazon, Whirlpool, FedEx, Amazon, UPS. Areas of expertise include: MHE design/specification, AutoCAD Electrical Design, ControlLogix/CompactLogix PLC/Safety programming, Wonderware & RS View HMI, Custom VB and SQL application programming

Reduced client capital equipment expenditures by providing innovative/standardized software and hardware control solutions.

Jan. 2006 – Dec. 2006 Automation Engineering Fort Smith, AR

Project Manager

Responsible for the design and implementation of industrial control systems. Provide management of all aspects of project; schedule, BOM, resource allocation, specifications, implementation, programming, start up and debug.

Jan. 2004 – Jan. 2006 Rockwell Automation/CHS Little Rock, AR

Motion Area Manager & GMS Sales Manager ACIS/ACAS

Responsible for Rockwell Automation Industrial Motion Control products sales growth within the Little Rock District.

Provided technical leadership for sales engineers, distributor motion specialist, and customers.

Supported motion product division commercial and product launch activities as well as develop district specific commercial activities to support sales growth quotas.

Developed Rockwell Engineering & Software solutions to meet customer specifications. Coordinated with various product and service mangers to provide proposals for RFQ’s and presented final proposal to customer management for acceptance.

Mar. 1996–Nov. 2003 Whirlpool Corp. Fort Smith, AR

Technical Coordinator

Supervised four controls engineers in maintenance department.

Designed plant wide MES system that utilized RSSQL to record production, process and quality data for OEE calculations. System also monitored equipment and PLC status and was integrated with Maximo for predictive and preventive maintenance work orders.

Designed and implemented product tracking system utilizing DeviceNet and Adaptascan barcode readers to track 5,500 products/day reducing internal SKU tracking errors and provided improved quality tracking.

Led Fort Smith Division MES efforts by integrating data collection utilizing Wonderware Intouch, Visual Basic, and MS Access

Implemented production and quality databases with Visual Basic and MS Access to reduce manpower required to input information and improve the quality of the data. Worked with Corporate IT staff to convert to SQL Server and integrate reports through Intranet.

Managed day-to-day controls support for cabinet foaming operation. Reduced cycle time of conveyor systems by 3% by programming and with no capital expenditures.

Developed and managed yearly expense budget for maintenance engineering department.

Supervised five controls/process engineers supporting automated refrigeration manufacturing processes.

Jan. 1993– Mar. 1996 Integrated Solutions, Inc. Owner Fort Smith, AR

Sep. 1989–Jan. 1993 Whirlpool Corp. – Engineer Fort Smith, AR

Jan. 1988. –Sep. 1989 Ford Motor Co. - Engineer Fort Smith, AR

Jun. 1987. –Jan. 1988 Ford Motor Co. – Intern Fort Smith, AR

Education

1983–1987 University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK

B.S., Electrical Engineering.

Other Education

Inductive Automation – Ignition

Wonderware System Platform

Consumer Centric Selling Training

Whirlpool Operational Excellence (Six Sigma) Training.

Institute for Productivity Through Quality – University of Tennessee

Interests

Kayaking, camping, computers.

References

Available on request.

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