John Moco

Plymouth, MI *****

adhv9g@r.postjobfree.com

734-***-****

I am looking to further my career as a test technician capitalizing on my 9.5 years of military mechanical experience and schooling, plus 28 years of civilian experience and training, in testing parts systems, and components in the automotive industry. Work Experience

Test Technician

Cooper Standard Automotive - Livonia, MI

July 2017 to Present

Duties as a test Technician involve testing automotive door and window seals, and seal systems. Tests include environmental, physical, and chemical testing of the seal components. Engine dyno test Technician - Emissions

Jacobs Technologies - Dearborn, MI

July 2014 to June 2017

Duties as a test technician include setting up, calibrating, and running of testing on ford engines in a dynamometer test cell in support of ongoing emissions testing. LOTUS eng

LOTUS - Ann Arbor, MI

June 2013 to April 2014

Duties as an audit test technician are building and installing test engines on dynamometers for engine build quality audit tests. Test monitoring, modifications, and teardown, and inspections are also performed daily.

Aerotek Inc. (contract) Federal Mogul, Ann Arbor, Mi. 12/2012 - 04/2013 Duties as a test technician in a 3 month contract position included assisting in daily testing activities in support of ongoing windshield wiper blade, and wiper assembly testing.

Test Technician

Hitachi - Farmington Hills, MI

June 2012 to August 2012

Duties as a technician included building and testing development level shock absorbers in support of ongoing testing and development activities for the company's internal and external customers Test Technician I

Aspen Search Group - Troy, MI

July 2010 to March 2012

contract) Defiance Testing, Troy, MI 07/2010 - 03/2012 Duties as a test technician included set-up, and monitor of various automotive chassis, and suspension component fatigue, and durability tests using MTS 407 servo-hydraulic test equipment. Tests were performed using single, dual, and up to 16 channel full-frame road simulation test stands. Tests were performed on front, and rear suspension cradles and all related hardware, as well as full frame road simulation assemblies. Also responsible for fixture building, repair, and modification as required for any particular test. Equipment used included CNC lathes, Bridgeport mills, band saws, drill presses and other hand and shop power tools

Duties as technician

BOSCH LLC - Farmington Hills, MI

September 2007 to October 2008

in the marketing group included maintenance on the vehicles in the demonstration fleet as well as installation of data collection equipment, prototype parts and components. Responsible for supporting the set-up and operation of all company technology displays and demonstrations. Required to travel to off-site test facilities and product display and demonstration events in support of BOSCH corporate events.

GM

ZYTEK N. America - Milford, MI

July 2006 to July 2007

Duties as a mechanic/driver include all maintenance, and installation of parts on a new prototype hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, as well as driving the vehicle on the Milford test tracks while performing computerized data acquisition on the vehicle systems. Duties also include interfacing with program engineering staff regarding test functions, performance issues, and any maintenance problems arising during the performance of the tests.

Test Technician

Trialon Corp - Burton, MI

July 2006 to October 2006

Duties as a temporary contract technician included building test stands and related wiring harnesses. Made modifications to existing test bucks to expand future test usage and capability. Set-ups were in support of ongoing windshield wiper assembly module testing. Involved in manufacturing wire harness assemblies in support of prototype direct drive electric wiper motor system. Assisting with installation of system into costumer test vehicles, and monitor ongoing tests. Test Technician

TOYOTA - Troy, MI

August 2005 to January 2006

Duties as a test technician include assisting in daily activities in a 4-post road simulation vehicle test cell. Duties include: installing vehicle, adding necessary data acquisition devices, daily inspections, installing/removing prototype parts, removing test vehicle after completion of test. Also performing post test inspections (dye-checks). Used servo-hydraulic to perform testing on vehicle suspension and trailer hitch components.

Test Technician

Kelly Services - Livonia, MI

June 2005 to August 2005

Duties as a test technician include set-up, and monitoring of testing of seats, suspension components, trailer hitch's, and other company products. Testing was performed using MTS servo-hydraulics, and air cylinders for various durability and load tests. Assisting with the set-up of the company 207/210 pull test table, four-post test cell, multi-axis NVH cell, robotic seat ingress/egress testing, door slam,

& jounce & squirm seat testing. Also work in company machine shop building test fixtures using mills, drill presses, band saw, and gas, & electric welding. Livernois Eng

Aerotech Inc - Livonia, MI

July 2004 to June 2005

Duties as an instrumentation tech include tear-down, and re-build of test vehicles for the various test, and data acquisition equipment, and their related wiring harnesses. Extensive use of k-type thermocouples, pressure transducers, flow gauges, and digital multi-meters. Vehicles are also road tested to verify proper data acquisition, drivability, and equipment functionality. Marketing group vehicle technician

BOSCH LLC - Southfield, MI

May 2004 to June 2004

Duties as a test technician included de-trim/re-trim of test vehicles, and conducting vehicle occupant airbag safety systems testing. Also vehicle airbag software integration testing. Test Technician

Defiance/Tower - Westland, MI

December 2002 to February 2004

Duties as a test technician included set-up and monitoring of various automotive chassis, and suspension component fatigue, and durability tests using MTS 407 servo-hydraulic test equipment. Tests were performed using single, dual, and up to 16 channel full-frame road simulation test stands. Tests were performed on front, and rear suspension cradles and all related hardware, as well as full frame road simulation assemblies. Also, using standard machine shop tools, responsible for building, and repairing of various test related fixtures.

Test Technician

Yoh H. L - Troy, MI

May 2002 to September 2002

Duties as a temporary test technician included setting up, and running tests on automotive door latch assemblies. Testing consisted of door slam, insertion/extraction load, functionality, and environmental conditioning. Also building new test fixtures, and wire harness assemblies in the client's machine shop. Test Technician

Faurecia - Troy, MI

May 2001 to September 2001

Duties as a test technician included setup and monitoring of power life cycle, fatigue, ingress/egress, durability, and other forms of complete seat testing. Responsible for writing, and submitting all test reports. Also assisted with purchasing, and installation of new test equipment including a new walk-in environmental chamber.

Test Technician

C.E.S. Inc - Livonia, MI

November 1998 to April 2001

Duties as a test technician included all forms of vibration, durability, corrosive, electrical, and temperature testing of current production, and prototype anti-lock braking systems. Responsible for all test data acquisition, photography, and report writing. Also interfacing with the project and design engineers on all test issues, and design changes. Assisted with rebuilding, and updating several test stands, and was tasked to manufacture all new test related wire harnesses for the test stands, and vehicle computer interface devices.

Test Technician

Entella Inc - Livonia, MI

May 1998 to October 1998

Duties as a test technician included all forms of vibration, thermal-shock, dimensional stability, fatigue, and durability testing on outsource customer supplied parts, and components. Testing was performed on automotive interior trim, HVAC units, electric control modules, and other automotive components, as well as aviation surface control devices.

Test Technician

Entella Inc - Troy, MI

May 1995 to May 1998

Duties as a test engineer included all forms of automotive materials testing. Tests included dimensional stability, peel strength, Xenon sun exposure, fogging, corrosion, cyclic durability, and fatigue test. Also responsible for test report writing, interfacing with requesting engineering staff, out-side customers, and attending product design, and evaluation meetings. Assisted calibration engineer with calibration of company equipment including load-cells, test chambers & pressure transducers. Test Technician

Lear Corp - Allen Park, MI

October 1994 to May 1995

Duties as a prototype technician included build up of all prototype, and development seats and seat component systems. Work was performed on all seat systems supplied to Ford Motor Co. Also required to assist with daily test functions in the test lab. Aerotek Inc. (contract) Johnson Controls Plymouth, MI 05/1991-12/1993 Duties as a test technician included working in the test lab on complete seat durability testing (jounce & squirm, ingress/egress, folding durability, stability, load capacity). Also intensive involvement the WITS 6-way power adjusters on the ford seating program. Work involved assembly of prototype adjusters with different parts and running data acquisition tests on the components (dimensional stability, speed of operation, noise, currant draw, and life cycle testing).

Education

Diploma

Canton High School - Plymouth, MI

Additional Information

Welding (mig, arc, gas, tig), Wire harness lay-out, & build, Test fixture layout, & build Machine shop tools (bridgeport, toolroom lathe, band-saw, etc)

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