Mechanical Engineering A Team

OTLEY D. FREYMILLER ME, PE

*** ***** ****** ******. *********, WI 53531 C: 608-***-**** ***********@*****.*** MARCH 2025 PAGE 1 OF 2

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Seeking opportunities to lead and leverage my mechanical engineering, project, and management leadership skills in a collaborative environment with a team of energetic, motivated, and innovative professionals to actualize marketable solutions to today’s needs and challenges and thereby advance the quality of life of customers, shareholders, coworkers, family, and others. SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

● Patents: 11,116,357: 10,617,256: 10,213,050: 10,010,218: 9,927,382: 9,861,230 Applications: 202********, 020*******, 201********

● Registered Professional Engineer – Wisconsin, # 38474. Admirable work ethic, self-driven, friendly, positive attitude.

● Universal Robots Cobot automation work cell design, programming, and commissioning.

● Proven project leadership and management experience in multiple project environments; project values $100k - $3.8mil.

● International project leadership; ability to surmount language, distance, and cultural barriers to achieve results.

● Hands-on product development, R&D testing, statistical experimental design, in consumer and commercial foodservice products, as well as industrial food processing equipment applications; balancing performance, cost, technology, time.

● Stainless steel food processing equipment design; sanitary design, mechanical heating and industrial refrigeration, thermodynamics, psychrometrics, process modeling, fluid piping, material handling, and transport design.

● Familiarity and experience assessing and applying code requirements to product design; UL, FDA, ASTM, 3-A, USDA, ANSI/NSF/3- A 14159, NFPA 54&86, EU Machinery Directive – CE, AMI 10 Principles of Sanitary Equipment Design.

● Excellent problem solving, organizational, analytical, written communication, interpersonal skills, design team leadership.

● Proven and effective use of computer software to enhance engineering design productivity. Excellent Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, VBA programming), Pro-E/Creo, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, FreeCAD, Adobe Acrobat, Engineering Equation Solver (EES), Abaqus and Creo FEA, CFD, and other engineering software skills.

● Hands-on, stainless steel sheet metal and prototype fabrication, TIG and MIG welding, machining, press brake, shear.

● Training experience – including the development of training materials for employee and customer training seminars.

● Experience developing and implementing business management and project scheduling tools; multi-project portfolios. EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration – AI Focus

Enrolled Student April, ‘25 – September ’26, Strayer University – Jack Welch Management Institute Washington, DC Master of Engineering

May 2001 (Inaugural Class) University of Wisconsin Madison, WI For Master of Engineering curriculum details, please visit: https://pdc.wisc.edu/degrees/engineering-management-ms/#overview Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

May 1996 University of Wisconsin Madison, WI

Registered Professional Engineer – Wisconsin # 38474 – Granted August 29, 2006 – Expires July 31, 2026 Universal Robots e-Series Core Track January 2024

Universal Robots e-Series Pro Track January 2024

Universal Robots Core Training Certificate number: E202401172900650 January 2024 Universal Robots Interfaces Training Certificate number: E202403202900650 March 2024 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Lean Engineer Dec. ’21 – Mar. ’25 Eurofins Food Chemistry Testing DesMoines, Inc. Madison, WI Accountable for working with Business Unit Managers, and LEAN Project Managers to develop and implement technology solutions within the laboratory environment that drives productivity, efficiency and quality improvements. Designed, developed, programmed, and implemented a Universal Robots UR3e cobot work cell. Wrote systems requirements documents and worked with a supplier to develop two UR5e cobot work cells. Wrote system requirements document and worked with a supplier for an end-to-end robotics solution proposal for a laboratory assay. Designed and built small appliances for the lab to improve safety and productivity. Designed small fixtures to improve ergonomic safety and productivity in the chemistry laboratory. Engineering Manager Apr. ’18 – Aug. ’21 Broaster Company Beloit, WI Manage a team of engineers to design and develop commercial foodservice pressure and ventless fryers for global markets. Develop business plans and strategies to coordinate with the annual budget. Manage the departmental budget expenditures. Responsible for the successful launch of the E-Series 18G and 24G pressure fryers and the VF3/VF2 Ventless Fryers with SmartTouch controls. Refresh the obsolete controller on the Instant Burger. Collaborate with external vendors to complete projects where outsourcing is necessary. Collaborate with notified bodies to ensure regulatory requirements. Implement Quality Management System to meet ISO 9001.

Senior Engineer, Robust Design Leader Nov. '11 – Apr. ‘18 Taylor Company Rockton, IL Design and development of novel commercial foodservice grilling and frozen dessert equipment for global quick-service restaurants. Apply lean development and design for six sigma tools to demonstrate compliance with customer expectations. Experimental design and oversight of the execution of concept, product qualification, and field trial, test plans. Implemented reliability improvements using root cause analysis, measurement, implementation, and control techniques to resolve high-profile warranty concerns. OTLEY D. FREYMILLER ME, PE

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BioProcessing Project Manager Jan. '10 – Oct. ‘11 SciLog, Inc. Middleton, WI Project management, Mechanical Engineering management oversight with direct reports, inventory and component outsourcing management, delivering SciLog’s tangential flow filtration systems for the biopharmaceutical industry.

● Overall project management oversight of the delivery of SciPure, SciFlex, and Weigh Station products; ~$1.75mil./yr

● Management of mechanical design, BOM, engineering documentation, and output of Mechanical Designers.

● Develop standard operating procedures for execution, delivery, FAT-testing equipment for FDA / GMP environments.

● Vendor selection, inventory control, and quality assurance of the outsourced fabrication of mechanical components. Senior Product Design Engineer Jun. '08 – Jan.’10 Alto-Shaam, Inc. Menomonee Falls, WI Engineering oversight, research, design, development, and maintenance of commercial foodservice oven products.

● Develop and implement product test protocols to identify the root cause of component failures in installed products and follow through with development and collaborative implementation of design modifications and field service bulletins. Collaborate with vendors and product designers and resolve failures related to; fan motors, thermal overload of zero-switching solid-state relays, geometric temperature uniformity issues in a commercial oven, and in a combi oven/mobile warmer processing solution, premature tripping of high-limit switches, water droplet failure of a combustion fan control board, condensation wicking and freezing failure of a temperature sensor, convection oven door switch failures, and thermal failures of LED display components while avoiding the addition of a cooling fan.

● Conduct convection oven, combi oven, and food warmer product performance testing per ASTM standards and identify and implement designs to reduce consumption, improve efficiency, and achieve Energy Star requirements.

● Lead cross-functional teams in FMEA evaluations of new products and design improvements.

● Perform tests, evaluate results, and report recommendations in comparative assessments of competitive equipment. Product Design Engineer Apr. '06 – April, ‘08 Therma-Stor, LLC Madison, WI Engineering, research, design, development, and maintenance of new and existing consumer products and product lines, i.e. fans and dehumidifiers, for the water damage restoration and home appliance industries.

● Co-led the design and development of a family of Energy Star rated, dehumidifier products that are produced both in the USA and China. Worked with ETL to obtain product listing per UL 474. Served as the lead technical engineer and advisor on the design and development of a centrifugal air mover that was designed by a team of engineers in China.

● Collaborated with a vendor to resolve product quality issues, providing a savings in excess of $35,000 in 6 months.

● Developed new research testing protocols, applying statistics and experimental design, for assessing the effectiveness of competing equipment in structural drying applications, i.e. a prototype radial downdraft fan, a prototype radiant wire heated blanket for drying water damaged wood floors with dramatic results in the reduction in drying time, an adjustable window adapter product to facilitate the placement of temporary ductwork for water damage remediation equipment. Project Engineer Aug. '97 – Dec. ‘05 Alkar-Rapidpak, Inc. Lodi, WI Technical leadership of design teams in the delivery of custom, cooking, and chilling equipment and associated material handling systems for the global food industry. Management experience (2 reports, ~1 year) Engineering Supervisor – Standards and Support Team – responsible for developing design standards and specifications for equipment, Project Operations Coordinator (Alkar and Rapid-Pak) responsible for maintenance of project schedules and managing project expenses vs. budgets and gross margin analysis, in addition to design engineering responsibilities on individual projects.

● Designed industrial food processing system design projects installed in the USA, China, France, Italy, Brazil, Spain. Managed the outsourcing (engineering design and mfg.) of a patented frankfurter loading system with a US vendor.

● Conceived, developed, implemented, and trained personnel on the use of a BOM database using MS Access to automate the reporting of BOM information to purchasing and manufacturing, i.e. automated reporting of materials requirements, cutting lists, stock pull lists, and data uploads to Growth Power materials management business software.

● Improved and managed the production schedule for two companies: Alkar and Rapidpak. Developed a gross margin tool to monitor project costs against the estimate for the entire project portfolio; Alkar and Rapidpak.

● Developed and authored product design and manufacturing specifications for indirect gas-fired heat exchangers, clean-in-place systems, welding, and stainless-steel passivation procedures. Developed several custom engineering sizing / design applications to assist project engineers with routine calculations for the design of standard systems to meet customer requirements. Developed and presented training materials for a course delivered as part of a customer marketing seminar on sanitary design and food safety. Trained employees in Kraft Foods facility safety (Madison, WI, and Davenport, IA) and OSHA safety rules. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Technical Leadership Certificate UW Madison

Business Acumen and Strategy UW Madison

Coaching and Mentoring for Technical Leaders UW Madison Defining and Managing Business Requirements UW Madison Creating a Culture of Innovation UW Madison

Design Thinking in Your Organization, How to Innovate Swiftly and Systematically UW Madison Leadership Beyond Your Team Managing Up and Across UW Madison Certificate: Leading Quality Management Systems Audit Teams BSI Group Certificate: Quality Management Systems ISO9001:2015 Requirements BSI Group Certificate: Management Systems Auditing ISO19011:2018 BSI Group

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