Controls / Automation Engineer

Work Experience:

**** ** ******* *********** ******** Engineering Contractor, New Paradigm, LLC

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Owner, Principal Engineer

• Design, build, and installation of complete control systems for a variety of automation systems. Projects include robotics, complex motion control, data management, and reporting.

• In 1997 Control Methods, was granted a patent for a microprocessor controlled optical sensor.

1986 to 1987 Schuster Electric, Inc

Operations Manager

• Managed all aspects of the company including accounting, proposal, engineering and build activities.

1978 to 1986 Fraser Automation, Inc.

Controls Engineering

• 1985 – 1986, Control Systems Manager Introduced to accounting and management concepts. Involved in sales and proposal activities. Responsible for controls engineering budgets, wiring build budgets and managed all controls engineering and electrical wiring personnel, approximately 25 individuals.

• 1982 -1985. Control Systems R&D Manager for Fraser Automation Robotics Division. Reported directly to the owner of the company. Researched, procured and developed standard control system family for company’s line of robots. Heavily involved with the development of motion control systems using microprocessor control, based on the Motorola 8088 processor.

• Created and lead the electrical wiring group.

• Designed pneumatic, hydraulic and electrical control systems for special machines.

• Designed hardwire and software for machine control systems.

• Designed machine control programs for programmable control systems and performed system start-up and commissioning of automation at the customer’s facilities.

1977 to 1978 Schuster Electric, Inc.

Electrical Field Leader

• Electrical field leader and control system trouble-shooter.

• Worked on a variety of systems; small and large stamping presses; dial index machines, in-line transfer assembly and welding machines, cold header machines and functional testing machines.

Technical Experience:

• Machining cells and transfer lines.

• Synchronous and non-synchronous assembly systems.

• Automated spot welding, arc welding and laser welding systems.

• Process and batch control systems for bulk and liquids

• Functional test systems.

• Robotics integration, programming and robotics system design.

• Cold header, industrial stamping presses and vacuum forming presses.

• Ultrasonic and vibration welding.

• Water treatment automation.

• Vision systems programming and integration.

• Material handling systems. All types of motion control systems.

• AutoCad 2011

• Designed and developed programs for a variety of programmable controllers including; Texas Instruments, Mitsubishi, Schneider Electric, Modicon (084-984 series), Honeywell, GE Fanuc, Omron, Siemens, Allen Bradley MicroLogix (all models), SLC 5/01-5/05), PLC/2, PLC/3, PLC/5, Compact and Control Logix processors.

• Proficient in the application of various communication architectures including; Modbus, DeviceNet,ControlNet, standard serial protocols, DCS, Profibus and Ethernet communications for data and I/O implementations.

• Designed automated systems using computer based deterministic software components to control systems exceeding 1000 I/O.

• Designed extensive control, testing and data collection systems using high level languages including Microsoft Professional Basic and RTC engines while utilizing processor resource sharing strategies. Experienced in high level structured programming languages as well as OOP languages such as C, C++ and Java.

• Designed databases utilizing Microsoft Access.

Education:

University of Phoenix

Third year in BSIT program GPA 3.85

Cleveland Institute of Electronics

Completed two year Electronics Theory program.

Achieved numerous certifications for Allen Bradley, GE, Modicon and Siemens programmable controls.

Attended variety of classes for hydraulic and pneumatic discrete and proportional control strategies.

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