ERNEST J. HELM

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Warminster, PA ****4

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PERSONAL CAREER SUMMARY:

Engineer skilled in machine design, hydraulic and pneumatic system design, process equipment design, and manufacturing engineering. Extensive material handling systems and conveyor systems design expertise for food and dairies. Design PLC controlled filling, sealing and packaging machinery for medical, food, consumer and related industries. Expert designing vertical form, fill, seal machinery for powder applications. Engineer web handling machinery for consumer products. Experience with servomotors, stepper motors, gears, cams, ball screw linear actuators and intricate small mechanisms. Design powder transport systems. Design clean rooms for filling and packaging of aseptic products. Design plant layouts for material handling of products. Plant engineer in manufacturing. Work with ASTM,3A,UL,CSA, ASTM, AND OTHER CODES, ASME SECTION VII, FDA, cGMP, etc. Design hydraulic testing and molding machinery for industry. Also all tooling as required. PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

EJH & ASSO.,WARMINSTER, PA 2016-PRESENT

SR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CONSULTANT/CONTRACTOR

Design / manufacturing contractor to small / medium sized companies in various industries, tooling, electronics, entrepreneurs, fixture design, machine design, etc. ETHICON-JOHNSON & JOHNSON.,SOMERVILLE, NJ 2016-2016 SR MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

Design, develop and release for build special rotary indexing suture tab welding machinery, using RF energy. To weld tabs on either side of a suture, scan for tab place, determine height, do weld and reject any suture which was non conforming. Design all tooling associated with the above equipment. Also upgrade swage winder and associated tooling. NEWAGE INDUSTRIES INC., SOUTHAMPTON, PA 2013-2016

SR MECHANICAL DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

Design, develop, manufacture devices and components used in single use systems for the pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries. Patient pending on several devices. Developed liquid silicone injection device for manifold sub-assemblies. Developed device to increase pressure rating of sub-assemblies. Designed and developed variable diameter tubing retainer for tubing to barb connection. Designed welding system for TPE tubing and also a method of bonding silicone tubing to manufacture variable distance manifolds. Work with manufacturing to source over molding vendors, bring injection molding in house, source clean room vendors. PENN ENGINEERING INC., DANBORO, PA.

SR MECHANICAL PROJECT ENGINEER 2011-2013

Design Assembly Equipment, Develop Methods and supervise the entire project for the manufacture and testing of Quick Release Alignment Pins for Government and Industry Design Tooling for impact staking on both sides at the same time of product shanks for ball bearing retention

Design ball bearing delivery system for the automatic insertion of various size balls into their respective shanks

Design Assembly tooling too encompass multiple diameters and lengths in conjunction with a variable tonnage hydraulic press. Vendor selection, interface and negotiations. ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC., COLLEGEVILLE, PA.

SR MECHANICAL PROJECT ENGINEER 2008-2011

Design, Develop and supervise the manufacture and testing of Optical Cavity Ring- Down Spectroscopy Analyzers. The principal of operation involves the measuring the decay of laser light(1550nm) in an optical resonator that consists of two or more dielectric mirrors used for trace gas analysis in ppb and ppt Design and develop the Vacuum System used in the evacuation of the optical resonator Design and Develop the mirror articulation system used to align the mirrors with the lasers optical axis. Also work with UL and CSA for systems product approvals. Work with ASME CODE U2/U3, SECTION VIII, DIVISION 1 AND DIVISION 2,ASME SECTION VII PRESSURE VESSEL DESIGN CODE.

DENTON VACUUM LLC, MOORESTOWN, NJ

SR MECHANICAL PROJECT ENGINEER 2004-2008

Design Vacuum Systems for metalized coatings, including mask manipulators and Substrate flip fixtures for optical lenses for eye wear used by Zeiss Inc. Develop plasma system for web coating of polypropylene material used in medical dressings. Work with ASME CODE SECTION VII PRESSURE VESSEL DESIGN Design and develop 300mm wafer transport system.

Work on developing a UHV System for plasma coating plastic bottles. Design RF systems to be used in sputter chambers. Code welding on chambers. CABOT MEDICAL INC., LANGHORNE, PA 2000-2004

SR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER and PRODUCT DESIGN ENGINEER Designed and developed Laparoscopic Surgical Devices. Design molded Housings for suction and Irrigation devices used in laparoscopic surgery. Implemented and installed PVC Extrusion and Cutting Equipment to control costs. Identified and recommended doing on- site passivation to reduce costs. Improved efficiency thru- put 80% on hand instruments and savings of $860,000. Designed, developed, and implemented and installed packaging equipment for medical disposal product line. Did validation for cGMP and FDA regulations as needed. Plant Engineer for manufacturing entire product line. Develop vacuum forming packaging systems for product. DENTRONIX INC., IVYLAND, PA 1999-2000

SR PROJECT, MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN ENGINEER

Customer service Engineer doing field installations of sterilizer systems and repairs. Design dental instruments for the orthodontics profession. Design sheet metal enclosures used as dry heat sterilizers for instrumentation. Designed cool down units to be used after sterilization was complete. Developed vacuum formed blister packaging systems for company products. Implemented cost reduction procedures in manufacturing, service and assembly. Introduced new state of the art materials to improve reliability. Instrumental in achieving the "UL MARK" on all electrical products. ADTECH INC., HATBORO, PA

SENIOR MECHANICAL PROJECT ENGINEER 1997-1999

Conceptual design of PLC controlled liquid filling machinery-for pharmaceutical vials, bottles, syringes and other specialty containers. Also powder fillers for capsules and vertical form, fill, seal machinery for granular products for food,dairy, consumer, and medical products. Developed TPO filling and packaging systems for Pharmaceuticals Developed and designed and installed packaging machinery, tooling, and assembly machinery and fixtures for proprietary medical devices and consumer products. Extensive customer contact as an integrator of turnkey systems utilizing components purchased and installed by other vendors. Experience with cGMP, FDA, USDA,3A regulations. Extensive work with various plastics and vacuum thermoforming molds and equipment. Design clean rooms for aseptic packaging of ESL PRODUCT sterile filling operations for LAND O LAKES. Coordinated various crafts for the installation of these systems. AMS FILLING SYSTEMS, MALVERN, PA

PROJECT ENGINEER / MANUFACTURING ENGINEER 1994-1997 Design auger filling and packaging systems for a variety of consumer products,foods Liquid, paste, and powders. Standards followed 3A,USDA,FDA,UL,CSA. Provide solutions to assembly and manufacturing problems of complex machinery; also scheduling and purchasing. Assist customers with technical support for their equipment and filling problems. Write Manuals for product line

PORTION PACKAGING INC., TREVOSE, PA

SR. MACHINERY DESIGN and DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER. 1990-1994 Designed and implemented high-speed filling and packaging machinery for medical and consumer,food related filling industries. All equipment too FDA,USDA, 3A standards. Designed special CAM-driven pump for viscous products, which had variable volume capabilities, built into it and was accurate within .l cc. Supervised the total installation of turnkey packaging systems utilizing outside vendors and their sub-assemblies at customers plants, both domestic and international. JOHNSON & JOHNSON INC NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ

PROJECT/ MANUFACTURING ENGINEER CARDIOVASCULAR DIVISION 1980-1990 Designed / implemented automatic and ancillary /CARDIOPULMONARY PRODUCTS. Designed systems resulted in annual savings of $215,000. Manufacturing costs were reduced and substantial quality improvements were experienced. Designed special curing oven and encapsulation machinery for Dialyser production. Developed method to reduce blood residuals in dialysers. Developed a method to oxygenate blood for open-heart surgery. Write 510K's, cGMP, FDA interface. MANUFACTURING PROJECT MANAGER, PLANT ENGINEER MEXICAN DIVISION Designed and supervised the installation of equipment to manufacture Stretch Disposable Diapers and Sanitary Napkins.

Supervised a staff of 75 production and maintenance personnel in manufacturing. Implemented Quality Control and Quality Assurance Program. Implemented a recycling program for imported raw material as a cost reduction program, saved $900,000+ PROJECT ENGINEER, BABY PRODUCTS DIVISION

Designed and Developed web handling machinery to manufacture disposable diapers. Designed and Implemented special machinery to manufacture elastic leg diapers. Consultant to J & J International in South and Central America. Implementing productivity improvements in the manufacture of diapers and sanitary napkins. Productivity improved 87%. Design baby powder filling line and supervise its installation. Designed and supervised plant expansion, adding a machine shop, QA and QC department. EDUCATION:

Temple University

Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering Auto Cad Design Software 2016

Ashlar Vellum Design Software

University of Wisconsin-Madison; Design Plastic Parts for Assembly Training in Tool and Die Making

H.I.M.A.,Washington, DC., Ergonomics

Seminar German language skills

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