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Engineering Management

Location:
Burleson, TX, 76028
Salary:
80000
Posted:
July 13, 2012

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JOB POSITION

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

Multifaceted, detail-oriented, and dedicated engineer offering several years of extensive and hands-on experience in providing excellent leadership and supervision within engineering industry. Demonstrate expertise in analyzing and administering designs, layouts, and drawings specifications. Extremely capable of handling increasing and varying roles in diverse areas, which include product development, manufacturing, design engineering, industrial engineering, technology, and production.

CORE COMPETENCIES

General Management: Expert at overseeing projects from conception to execution with keen eye for accomplishing task in an accurate and timely manner. Skilled at creating design, handling industrial costs and controls, managing data and system design, and working toward efficiency.

Organizational Skills: Exemplify administrative skills in organizing schedules, maintaining records, and preparing reports. Accustomed to preparing comprehensive specifications for structure and mechanical layouts.

Communication and Interpersonal Relations: Well-versed in written and verbal communication; bilingual in Gujarati and Hindi. Proven success in establishing and maintaining constructive and collaborative relationships with owners, engineers, inspectors, suppliers, and co-workers.

Problem Resolution: Highly adept at utilizing well-honed experience in solving problems and troubleshooting hardware issues.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

4FRONT Engineered Solutions - Carrollton, TX 2011–Present

PRODUCT ENGINEER, Controls

Preside over the scheduling of assignments, billing of clients, estimation and management of small installations, monitoring of various systems installation, and procurement. Adeptly handle the preparation, evaluation, and updating of configuration drawings. Maintain comprehensive records of all agreed changes, and organize reports of implementations. Directly oversee physical and functional configuration audits on proprietary system. Provide support in designing and manufacturing control products for warehouse, retail, and distribution centers.

- Integrated the loading dock and warehouse logistics into an intelligent software to keep track, communicate, and effectively handle tasks and trailer movement.

- Contributed to the development and administration of customer service for Costco’s Internal Logistics.

- Headed the project of insourcing few products which forecasts revenue of $500K through the following:

- Facilitating the project from redesigning the panel to feature more efficient electrical components which added to cost savings

- Developing and streamlining a more efficient testing procedure to reduce error rate by providing major contribution in overseeing manufacturing and cutting cost.

- Spearheaded the testing and finalization of infrared sensor, which was utilized by more than 200 warehouses around the nation for sensing trucks for warehouse logistics.

Siemens-Airport Logistics Baggage Handling System (BHS) - Irving, TX 2007–2011

Los Angeles International Airport–Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) / Miami International Airport (MIA)

CONTROLS ENGINEER SPECIALIST II

Functioned as one of the engineers in control system development of large automated conveyor system for distribution and manufacturing, including field commissioning and engineering. Conducted functional testing of system sortation, ETD room reconciliation (suspect bags), and saturation test. Carried out static check, PLC I/O verification, and troubleshooting of hardware issues prior to commissioning.

- Played a pivotal role in value engineering assessments and systems and equipment coordination during the development of BHS Systems and baggage screening systems protocols.

- Rendered assistance in managing of Baggage Handling System through accurate documentation; played an integral role in over-seeing electrical installation and commissioning; and took the lead in the final testing phase of the BHS.

- Demonstrated expertise in generating hardware design, including device locations and electrical layouts.

Kiewit Pacific Co. -Waste Water Treatment Plant - Ukiah, CA| Elk Grove, CA 2006–2007

STRUCTURES ENGINEER

Leveraged analytical skills in reading and interpreting civil design drawings and specifications; executed material take-off, supervised costs, and checked the quality of in-process and completed work. Keenly administered the design and layout of the formulation erection plans. Took charge in conducting submittal review; authored and supervised request for information (RFI), command language (CL), fairness monitor (FM), and request for quotation (RFQ).

- Implemented design calculations for Water Treatment Plants which included the modification of structural and mechanical layouts.

- Presided over the creation of comprehensive, accurate, and timely estimation in preparation of bid documents and enhancement of clear written proposals and correspondence.

Siemens Logistics and Assembly Systems-Postal Automation - Arlington, TX 2005–2006

ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

Thoroughly examined electrical layouts and integrated electrical and power cabling throughout the machine. Conducted evaluation on the accuracy of sales estimate and job layout by participating with the sales team for operations turnover meetings.

- Efficiently executed the configuration of PLC, combination of power and electrical layouts, and reengineering of pneumatics system.

- Drove 100% increase in production output by planning and assisting in the installation of equipment and PLC-based control systems for high-speed electronic transfer feed project.

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: 2005 - University of Texas, Arlington, TX

TECHNICAL ACUMEN

AutoCAD, Electrical CAD, C HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office Suite

Siemens PLC, Variable Frequency Drives, Alan Bradley Contractors, and Alan Bradley PLC

Control Relays, Motor Starters and Contactors, and Fuse Blocks



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