Resume of Bradley A. Peters

*** ** ***** #**, ******, OR 97115

CELL 503-***-**** Email adhp8d@r.postjobfree.com

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Objective

Available for an opportunity that can make use of my experience as a SolidWorks Mechanical Engineer, Software Programmer, and Manufacturing/ Quality/ Testing/ NPI Engineer for many different industries.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering

New Equipment Installation

Strong Computer Skills

Project Management

Six Sigma and Statistical DOE

Database Design and Tuning

Custom Automation Design

Mechanic, Fabricator, Machinist

Product Life Testing

SolidWorks

Vendor / Subcontractor Relations

GUI, SQL, and PLC Programming

Education BS Mechanical Engineering Oregon State University

Employment History

Mechanical Engineer

Self Employed

Dundee, OR

Dec 2018 – Present

Mechanical Engineering design work on Custom Equipment. SolidWorks software owned and used to build solid models and drawings of projects. Large centrifuge, vacuum vessels, filing and distillation stainless equipment designed. Development work on laser/ plasma cutting machines and laser cut products.

Manufacturing Engineer

DCI Edge

Newburg, OR

Jul 2016 – Dec 2018

Manufacturing Engineer for new product introduction. Layout, Work instructions, Custom Fixtures and Machines

SolidWorks software used for both equipment design and product revision. Evaluation, life testing and redesign of numerous components and assemblies. Programming of test fixtures to automate testing. Designed and managed the building of upholstery machines and track light lifts to provide better ergonomics, reduced effort, and reduced cycle time.

Mechanical Engineer

C&H Excavation

Ault, CO

Oct 2012 – Mar 2015

Mechanical Engineering design work on Oil and Gas custom equipment and projects. SolidWorks software installed and used to build solid models of projects. Includes simulation of weldments for stress analysis. SOP developed for field inspections and production floor instruction. Developed Access based job cost tracking system. Created designs to diversify the offered products and prevent company downturn three times in rapidly evolving volatile oil market.

Scope Assembly Room Manager

Burris Optics

Greeley, CO

June 2011 – Sept 2012

Manage daily clean room operations for Laser Engraving, Washroom, Kitting, Subassemblies, and Scope Production to the point of packaging. Raised production efficiency, ramped product production and met large order schedules. Five new scopes introduced. Developed Access based application to collect manufacturing data for testing, configuration, and routing of scopes.

Dairy Service

Advanced Dairy Service

Evans, CO

June 2008 – June 2011

Job was taken to support breast cancer treatment for my wife. Performed day-to-day service of on farm dairy equipment with focus on milking and milk handling equipment. Cover an area from Torrington WY to Colorado Spring CO and east to Yuma CO. Duties included scheduled maintenance, emergency service and new equipment installation. Work on all brands of dairy equipment, VFD, compressors, vacuum pumps, building plumbing, ventilation, cattle handling equipment, waste management and sanitation equipment. Metal working with TIG, MIG, Arc, plasma cutting, oxy acetylene cutting and machining. Helped with chemical deliveries to customers. Setting up of metering equipment for chemical injection.

Mechanical Engineer/Consultant

Self employed

OR – CO

Aug 1995 - May 2008

Provided manufacturing engineering, automation, and software programing for numerous companies. Sixteen-month job refining manufacturing operations for a small electronics firm in NW Colorado. Numerous custom fixtures and machines developed. Created tunnel oven and did Mechanical, Electrical or Software Engineering for system. Planned improvements to Dry mix plant. Programming in HTML, Perl, PHP, JAVA, SQL, and PLC Ladder Logic. Y2K, Internet, and machine control applications developed.

Mfg Engineering Manager

Tektronix CPID Div.

Wilsonville, OR

1994 - 1995

Work daily with engineers and production personnel to solve production and quality issues. Designed, specified and negotiated vendor contract for a new production conveyor system for the Phaser 340 printer. Worked with R&D on DFMA, vendor selection and preparation of new production facilities for next printer generation. Developed a client server Oracle/ Cellworks based GUI/Barcode reader quality tracking system with multiple Sun UNIX Servers. Included unique features to code issues found and prevent engineer created queries from impacting manufacturing floor. Expanded to multiple manufacturing areas, providing desktop access of production life cycle data to management and engineering. Formed Computer Integrated Manufacturing Department.

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Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Tektronix CPID Div.

Wilsonville, OR

1992-1994

A key member of the new product introduction team driving DFMA, lean and statistically valid DOE investigations on the Phaser 300 color printer. As a team we tripled the inventory turn rate that was normal. Work daily with engineers and production personnel to solve production and quality issues. Designed and setup manufacturing facilities and processes. Instrumental in ramping production to five times originally planned level. Lead process development work on head to drum settings, printer frame assembly, fuser loading and printer testing.

Mechanical Engineer/ Project Manager

Various Companies

Corvallis, OR

1984 –1992

Project management and custom manufacturing equipment design for semi conductor and electronics industry. Custom semiconductor equipment developed for Delco Electronics, Texas Instruments, Motorola, and Hewlett Packard. First person to develop robotic wafer loading of vertical EPI reactors.

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