Aircraft tool maker

**** **** *** *****, *********, TX 843-***-**** **********@***.***

Aircraft tool builder.

Tool Maker, Jig & Fixture Builder with experience using conventional machines including Bridgeport milling machine, engine lathe and surface grinder also using precision measuring tools and digital measuring systems to set jig details and aircraft assembly fixtures. Skills include the understanding and use of aircraft reference systems, measuring tools such as scales, micrometers, dial calipers, surface table gages to verify dimensionality. Hands on experience building aircraft assembly tools & fixtures. I also understand blueprints requiring drawing revisions and have used optical measuring tools.

Plaster Pattern fiberglass tool maker and Graphite Epoxy Mold Maker. Skills with setting up and building high temperature composites layup bond molds.

Tool & fixture specialist B, US Tech Solutions, from 03-2016 to 10-2016 (contract)

Repairing Drill Jigs by replacing broken bushings, broken retainers for to support production of 787 Dreamliner

Replacing and maintaining assembly line locator pins

Tooling and machine shop support for mid-body manufacturing production

Repairing and maintaining assembly line tooling and conducting tool preventative maintenance

Tool & fixture specialist C, Boeing Aircraft from 4-2011 to 8-2014 (direct hire)

Jig and Fixture tool maker, assembly jig tool modification and maintenance

Reading and understanding tool engineering requirements to identify, maintain and repair needed tooling

Used machine shop equipment (including but not exclusive to) milling machine with conversational head, engine lathe, drill presses, saws, standup grinders & bench top work

Using hand tool skills such as drilling, tapping, precision drilling locating and using drill blocks

Jig and Fixture Tool Maker working for Vought 1-2009 to 5-2010 (contract)

Modified assembly jigs for 787-800 cargo bay doors to attach locators for door installation.

Built aluminum bond jigs used for panel bond operations testing them for vacuum integrity.

Jig builder Northrop Grumman in Palmdale, California 3-2007 to 2-2009 (contract)

Built jig tooling, modified and installed assembly fixture sub-assemblies required by tool engineering, using Bridgeport mill, engine lathe and hand tools to create tooling details and locate these using Leica laser tracker for F-35 fuselage final assembly line.

Jig and Fixture Builder Bell Helicopter in Amarillo, Texas from 10-2005 to 10-2006 (contract)

Performed preventative maintenance and revision updates on assembly line tooling. Various skills included use of milling machines, engine lathe and Leica laser tracker.

Jig and Fixture Builder Northrop Grumman in Saint Augustine, Fl. From 5-2005 to 9-2005 (contract)

Made and repaired various assembly jigs for E2C and E2D production support

Jig and Fixture Builder at Crestview Aerospace from 1-2005 to 4-2005 (contract)

Made details for FAJ Chinook CH-47

Composites Mold Maker at Aurora Flight Sciences in WV from 10-2003 to 12-2004 (contract)

Made graphite epoxy bond molds and fiberglass trim and drill fixtures.

Plastic tool maker at Gulfstream, Savannah, Georgia from 3-2002 to 3-2003 (contract)

Built close tolerance trim and drill fixtures from SPTs and Bond Molds

Plaster Patternmaker at Cessna Aircraft Company, Wichita, KS from 6-2001 to 9-2001

Made vacuum form and high temperature bond molds for business jet prototype part construction

Aircraft Tool and Die Maker at Bombardier Aircraft, Wichita, KS from 10-2000 to 4-2001 (contract)

I made aluminum Hydraulic Press Blocks, Drill Fixtures and Assembly Jigs

Plaster Pattern maker at Senior Composites in Wichita, Ks from 9-1999 to 9-2000 (direct hire)

Made fiberglass SLOSH Molds, high temp bond molds and trim & drill fixtures.

Jig and Fixture Tool Maker January 1999- April 1999

Dassault Aviation, Little Rock, Arkansas

Making Aluminum Final Assembly Jigs and Installation Fixtures

Plaster Pattern Maker May 1998- October 1998

Cessna Wallace Division, Wichita, KS

Making full scale plaster tooling models and wooden vacuum form molds for Citation Business Jet mock up prototype

Plaster Pattern Maker and Mold Maker June 1997- June 1998

Machinery Technology, Wichita, KS

Making Plaster Tooling Masters, Fiberglass Trim Fixtures and Hydraulic Form Blocks

Plaster Pattern Maker July 1996- March 1997

KMG Tool and Machine, Wichita, KS

Making Plaster Tooling Masters and Vacuum Form Molds.

DECEMBER 1993 TO JULY 1996: NON- AEROSPACE EMPLOYMENT

Pattern Maker and UAV Mold Maker June 1993- December 1993

Mission Technologies, Hondo, TX

Working to build Prototype Proprietary UAV Military Aircraft

Jig and Fixture Tool Builder August 1990- September 1991

Butler at General Dynamics, San Diego

Constructed Final Assembly Jig Tooling for MD11 offload

Plastics Tool Maker March 1990- June 1990

Northrop Aircraft, Newbury Park, CA

Building Graphite Epoxy Bond Molds and Fiberglass Trim and Drill Fixtures for B2 and BQM Programs

Composites Mold Maker February 1989-February 1990

Mcdonnell-Douglass Helicopter, Mesa, Arizona

Building Graphite Epoxy Bond Molds, Fiberglass Trim and Drill Fixtures for C17 tooling program

Tad Technical Services June 1988- February 1989

Heath Techna, Kent, Washington

Making Graphite Epoxy Bond Mold, Fiberglass Trim and Dill Fixtures primarily for McDonnell-Douglas C17 V-Fin offload

Plaster Pattern January 1988- April 1988

TRA-COR Aviation, Santa Maria, CA

Making Plaster Tooling Masters for Grumman Tooling Offload

Composites Mold Maker June 1987- December 1987

Northrop Aircraft, Newbury Park, CA

Making Graphite-Epoxy layup molds and many fiberglass trim and drill fixtures

Plaster Pattern April 1987- June 1987

Gates LEARJET, Wichita, KS

Making hand router fixtures and stretch form dies

Plaster Pattern November 1986- February 1987

Bell Helicopter Textron, Hurst, TX

Making Soft Tooling for V-22 Program

Advanced Composites Mold and Tool Maker July 1985- October 1986

LTV Aerospace and Defense, Grand Prairie, TX

Making Graphite-Epoxy and Fiberglass-Epoxy Bond Molds and Trim and Drill Fixtures

Plaster Pattern April 1985- May 1985

BEECH Aircraft Company, Wichita, KS

Making plaster tooling molds and masters

JIG and Fixtures Builder February 1985- March 1985

Gates LEARJET, Wichita, KS

Final assembly tooling Learjet Final assembly

JIG and Fixtures Builder and Plaster Pattern Maker March 1982- February 1985

Rockwell International, Tulsa, OK

Making Final Assembly Jigs, Inspection Check Fixtures, Plaster Tooling Masters & Soft Tooling

Tool Coordinator June 1981- March 1982

Cessna Aircraft Company Wallace Division, Wichita KS

Resolved tooling related flaws requiring engineering and planning changes

Fitter Welder March 1981- June 1981

CMI Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK

Welding MIG, ARC and INNER SHIELD to build road-grading equipment.

Experimental & Test Mechanic August 1980- January 1981

Boeing Military Aircraft Company, Wichita, KS

Making Hydro Form Blocks, Drill Setup Templates, Brake Templates and Experimental Parts

Education

High School Graduate May 1972

LILLIS High School, Kansas City Missouri

College experience

Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas 1972 to 1973

Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri 1973 to 1975

Tulsa Junior College, Tulsa, OK 1984-1985

Training

Training included the following equipment experiences: Forklifts, electric and LP gas small and large, standup forklift, small tow lift, scissor lift, JLG man lift, omni directional tow vehicle (ODV) stacker man lift and electric aircraft tow.

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