Electrical Engineering Maintenance Technician

Richard Musumhi

*** * ******* ******, ****, Iowa 50010 515-***-**** ********@*****.***

Objective

To obtain a full-time position as an electrical engineering technician or any other role where my skills are utilized.

Education

A.A.S. in Electronics, Robotics, and Automation December 2015

Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, Iowa

•GPA: 3.57

•Related Coursework: Motor Controls,Hydraulics And Pneumatics, Advanced PLCs, Industrial Electronics, Process Control Instrumentation, Robotics

Bachelor of Science: Electrical Engineering

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

GPA: 2.75 December 2003

National Craft Certificate in Electrical Engineering December 1992

Harare Polytechnic, Harare, Zimbabwe

Capstone Project

•Variable Speed Drive (With manual stop - start station with variable speed using a potentiometer).

•Variable Speed Drive with PLC controlled Stop -Start (Three states off, slow, medium, fast as well different times incorporated for example 30 seconds for slow speed, 20 seconds for fast speed and 10 seconds for medium speed).

•Variable Speed Drive with HMI and PLC( Touch screen interface for slow, medium and fast, stop button, start button, jog button and frequency counter for speed indication).

Electrical and Technical Skills

•Troubleshooting electrical problems ranging from failure of motors to start, faulty sensors such as PT 100, inductive and capacitive sensors and thermocouples.

•Analyzed and repaired AC and DC motors, 3 phase and single phase.

•Electrical maintenance on dairy machines including milk, yogurt, powder making and packaging machines.

•SLC 500, SLC 5000 PLCs, Dura Pulse AC drives, Reliance AC drives, Toshiba, Allen Bradley relays and contactors, Variable DC drives, DC motors and AC motors.

•Continuity testing, stripping down shafts and removing bearings from AC and DC motors.

•Aligning motor back into position and coupling to the load. Familiar with machines in the dairy manufacturing industry.

•Worked on hydraulics, pneumatics, conveyors, changing belts and chains.

•C++ and Matlab.

•Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Work Experience

Express Employment professionals 11 September, 2023 – 5 June, 2024

Warehouse Worker: Working in the warehouse stamping bottles for deposit returns, palletizing the product, some basic troubleshooting involved on scanners and stampers.

Dee Zee 3 April, 2023 – 22 May, 2023

Maintenance Technician : Lubrication of machines specifically presses, adjustments of light curtains, motors 3 phase, relays,

A E Dairy 28 November, 2022–16 December,2022

Maintenance Technician: Working on chain conveyors that transported the milk jugs to the loading docks, PLCs, motors 3 phase, relays

Radisson Hotel 4 August, 2022- 4 November, 2022

Maintenance Technician : Working in motel environment repairing electronic doors, faucets, toilets, some dry walling as well, lighting, HVACs

Express Employment Professionals 18 July, 2022 – 31 July,2022

Production Operator: Working on a production line cooking oil packaging bottles as well as monitoring the production line, working on the filler as well.

American Spirit Graphics 31 May, 2022 – 13 July, 2022

Maintenance Technician : Working on printing machines, some inserters involving placing packages into envelopes, presses that produced the final print, sensors, 3 phase motors

Manpower 30 November 2021 – 13 April, 2022

Production Operator: Working on an assembly line assembling pumps for John Deere at Danfoss.

Express Employment Professionals 5 July 2021 – 30 December, 2021

Amazon – JLL 25 May,2021 – 18 June,2021

Capital City Fruit 19 April, 2021 – 12 May, 2021

Arby’s 20 April, 2020 – 25 April, 2021

3 E 21 November,2019 -31 December,2019

Mass Markets 9 September 2019 – 20 November,2019

Love’s Travel stop 1 April 2019 – 13 May 2019

Danfoss 13 November 2017 - 1 February, 2019

Advance Services 28 August 2017 - 24 October, 2017

Walmart 8 May, 2017 - 9 August,2017

QPS Employment Group 13 March,2017- 1 May, 2017

Osceola Foods 29 August 2016 - 21 February 2017

Midwest Distributing 30 April 2016 - 15 July 2016

Remedy Intelligent Staffing 4 January 2016 - 20 April 2016

•Assembler (Contract Position), SMX, Ames, Iowa 24 August 2015-01 December 2015

•Production Operator, 3M, Ames, Iowa 18 March 2014-05 March 2015

•Maintenance Associate, Wal-Mart, Ames, Iowa 10 January 2012- 17 March 2014

•Machine Operator (Contract Position), USA Staffing, Ames, Iowa 20 June 2010- 15 December 2011

•Machine Operator (Contract Position), Advance Services, Inc., Ames, Iowa 15 May 2009-15 June 2010

•Process Technician, Ball Plastics, Ames, Iowa 23 June 2008-14 March 2009

•Technician (Contract Position), Helena Chemicals, Des Moines, Iowa 11 February 2008-04 May 2008

•Technician (Contract Position), Titan Tire, Des Moines, Iowa 24 August 2007-14 December 2007

•Operator, Clarion Technologies, Ames, Iowa 14 March 2005-14 March 2007

•Lab Technician (Contract Position), BASF (Adecco), Ames, Iowa 10 March 2004-15 February 2005

•Electrician, Dairibord Zimbabwe Limited, Harare, Zimbabwe January 1993-May 1998

•Apprentice Electrician, Dairibord Zimbabwe Limited, Harare, Zimbabwe December 1988 -December 1992

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