Engineer Design

AREAS OF SPECIALS SKILLS AND PROVEN EXPERIENCE

Other areas of my experience include

3D modeling and detailing of products and fixtures using CREO and Solidworks

New Product development assemblies and systems

Manufacturing process improvement

Problem solving skills

Product release from design to manufacturing

CNC Programming - Gibbscam

Innovative product and fixture Design Engineer. Knowledge and experience in the following engineering and manufacturing disciplines practical experience, personal study, and training. Proven problem-solving skills and a track record of improvements in quality, price, and performance both in product design and development or manufacturing process engineering.

SPECIAL AWARDS

Received 10 patents

1

9,435,521

Antenna element for a directional lighting fixture

2

9,210,773

Wireless light fixture

3

8,012,425

Apparatus for deactivating instruments and devices

4

7,625,534

Apparatus for deactivating instruments and devices

5

7,608,228

Apparatus for deactivating instruments and devices

6

7,476,368

Method and device for deactivating items and for maintaining such items in a deactivated state

7

7,422,729

Device for deactivating items and for maintaining such items in a deactivated state

8

7,314,966

Method for deactivating and maintaining items in a deactivated state

9

7,169,369

Method and device for deactivating items and for maintaining such items in a deactivated state

10

6,979,428

Fluid over-flow/make-up air assembly for reprocessor

EMPLOYMENT Denotes contract position

LASZERAY TECHNOLOGIES North Royalton, Ohio Contract 7/19 To Present

Custom injection molder and job shop

Design Engineer

Trouble shooting manufacturing and injection molds

SUMITOMO ELECTRIC CARBIDE Grand River, Ohio Contract 10/18 To 7/19

Designers and manufacturers cutting tools Insert Tools. Carbide Drills, Special Cutting Tools.

CAM Programmer

Programming 4 axis lathes. DMG Mori, Hitachi Seiki. GibbsCam

*MOLD RITE PLASTICS Twinsburg, Ohio Contract 02/16 To Present

Designers and manufacturers of high volume bottle caps.

Designer

Implemented PDM a system for the maintenance and retrieval of product data from a central database. Created standard drawing templates for mold vendor and customer drawing. Solidworks, Solidworks PDM

*TCP Aurora, Ohio Contract 01/13 To 12/15

Designers and manufacturers of LED lights IOT wireless dimming lights.

Engineer

Designed LED lights dimming, non dimming, and wireless dimming lights. This includes the packaging of the antenna and receiving components; these are residential replacement lights. Designed replacements for fluorescent luminaries’, and a new outside light fixture. Built a database common assembly components for CREO assemblies. 2 Patents

CNC PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS Glen Willow, Ohio 09/12 to 11/12

Job shop – helped the owner establish this business. Started from one machine with no business to 3 vertical mills. running 2 shift per day. We developed customers and manufacturing processes we increased. This was a side job.

Operations Manager/Tooling Engineer

Generated CNC programs with Gibbscam. Developed and designed fixtures, set up and proved the programs and operations, developed inspection procedures for all jobs in the shop..

RELIABLE PATTERN Glen Willow, Ohio 09/12 to 11/12

Designers and manufacturers of patterns for the casting industry.

Pattern Maker

Responsibilities include programming setup and machining of Patterns and Molds. Delcam, Surfacing in Solidworks

*AEROCONTROLEX South Euclid, Ohio 06/12 to 9/12

Designers and manufacturers of mechanical aerospace components for business class jets. Tension Controllers Parking Brakes, and Mechanical Cabling Systems

Mechanical Engineer

Responsible for the documentation of a series of three tension regulators to meet FAA conformity requirements. Worked on the design of a test fixture. Solidworks

This was a contract Position

KELLY AEROSPACE Willoughby, Ohio 01/11 to 05/12

Designers and manufacturers of electric Air conditioning systems for private airplanes, deicing systems for airplanes and wind turbines

Designer

Responsible for layout and design of an air conditioning systems in small airplanes, Piper, Cessna, and Cirrus

Training of other engineers and designers in the use of Pro-E

*SWAGELOK OFC Solon, Ohio 07/10 to 12/10

Designers and manufacturers of industrial Valves and Fittings: Nuclear services Group

Engineering Technician

This is a new group. They are concentrating on developing standard nuclear products that can be sold off the shelf. This includes documentation, testing, developing process and traceability procedures that will meet nuclear requirements. Solidworks

*JLG Orrville, Ohio 03/10 to 07/10

Designers and manufacturers of Lift trucks

Manufacturing Designer

Upgraded and improved the performance, reliability and repeatability of welding and machining fixtures. Initiated a fixture redesign reduced welding the time from an hour to less than a half hour. Utilized Pro-E to design parts and fixtures.

ZIN TECHNOLOGIES Cleveland, Ohio 08/08 to 03/10

Designers and manufacturers of Space flight hardware

Designer

Designed components and assemblies for in flight testing on the International Space Station (ISS). This piece of test equipment has been designed and built to NASA flight standards. Pro-E

*SWAGELOK FALON 1 Highland Hgts, Ohio 03/08 to 08/08

Designers and manufacturers of industrial Valves and Fittings

Manufacturing Technician- Contract

Worked to implement High Pressure coolant on existing twin turret CNC lathes. This project had been in process for over a year Implemented in 1 month. Reverse engineered a number of tooling components that had not been previously documented using Solidworks. Maintained documentation to insure that parts are being manufactured to Swagelok standards and to fulfill customer requirements.

Software; SolidWorks, Smarteam, Control Database, OKUMA OSP-5000L-G CNC controls

*NORTH AMERICAN MANUFACTURING Cleveland, Ohio 12/07 to 03/08

Designers and manufacturers of industrial guiding systems

Designer - Contract

Designed roller guides for tire industry. These are automated in process roller guides to maintain the alignment of strips of material as used on high speed processing lines. Pro-E Wildfire

DCD TECHNOLOGIES Cleveland, Ohio 05/07 to 12/07

Designers and manufacturers of Die cast dies.

CAM Programmer

Programmed milling machines to machine graphite electrodes and before and after heat-treated die inserts. Generated toolpaths from solid models

STERIS CORPORATION Mentor, Ohio 00- 05/07

STERIS Corporation designs and manufacturers medical sterilization equipment.

Designer Sr

Assigned to the Advanced Engineering group. Our group designed, built and tested three iterations of a new product in 5 years. The last revised iteration was designed detailed and built in six months.

Soliworks and PRO-E Wildfire (Became Creo)

Responible for the design and analysis of Quick Connects for usability and manufacturability.

Initiated efforts to have vendors machine parts from solid models

Selected and justified selection of Gibbs cam

Learned to program parts from solid models and programmed parts to be machined in house.

Selected and justified the purchase of a CNC Lathe

Inspected incoming prototype parts

Helped one of our job shops improve the performance of a machining operation

oReduced machining time from 45 minutes to 5 minutes

oBy switching from a manual lathe to a CNC vertical mill.

oThis process improvement also reduced rejected parts from 20% to less than 1%.

Developed an automated test procedure that gave very stable results and the results were not operator dependent. This test also utilized an automated data acquisition system.

MODEL PATTERN Maple Hgts, Ohio 99-00

Manufacturer of Patterns for sand castings and Plastic injection molds. Tightly integrated application of solid models (Solidworks), CAM (Anvil), and DNC are used to produce the patterns and molds.

SELF EMPLOYED AND TRAINING Wickliffe, Ohio 97-99

Solicited contract engineering work and training. Obtained various short-term and engineering positions. Including ISO implementation, project engineer, and designer. Received 6 months of training for CNC Programming at Cleveland Manufacturing Project (CAMP).

While in training at CAMP developed a fixture for a 4 axis mill That was used to machine a gear box body and cover in one operation

oBoth the body and the cover were machined on a 4 axis horizontal mill in one operation the machine cycle was 45 minutes

oThis assembly could be machined in small lots as needed

SKRL TOOL AND DIE Eastlake, Ohio 88-97

Designer and manufacturers of machines, turbine blade gages, fixtures and die cast dies. Supplier of die cast and compression molded thermo-set parts to the Automotive and Gas distribution industries

Sales Engineer

Responsible for $1 million per year sales.

Obtained long term contract as primary tooling supplier for GEABG - $8 million for 5 years

Quality Supervisor

Achieved ISO certification in one year (ISO 9001 approved first audit).

Developed and implemented basic shop scheduling system based on input from the users.

Project Engineer

Responsible for insuring that 5 automotive parts were meeting quality goals at three GM engine plants, Tonawanda, Livonia, and Flint..

Improved the quality of one part from 4% rejected parts to .25%.

Learned how GM looked at the process flow to determine where bottle necks occurred because of capacity imbalances and how this affected pricing.

GM Engine cover- 6.5 Turbo Diesel

Managed release of production product in 8 months instead of the normal 18 months. .

No customer rejects after 2 years of production.

GM 3.1 valve cover Plastic- Aluminum

Developed returnable packaging to minimize shipping damage.

Reduced product returns from 2% to .025%.

These efforts resulted in contract for the production of this product in alternate material.

Tool Designer

Established dimensioning standards for tooling based on product datum's and machine locations, Experience with CAD systems: ME10, CADKEY

OUTSIDE CONTRACT WORK

Worked with a small machine shop responsibilities include for product design, CNC programming, fixture design, and tool selection. I have been using Solidworks and Gibbscam.

EDUCATION

CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE 1979 – 1982

Courses toward ASMET 100 credits. Including Engineering Calculus and Physics

SMARTFORCE 1999 – 2000

Online MCSE training – received 2 MCP’s

CAMP 1998-1999

CNC training

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