Mechanical Engineer Power Plant
Resume:
Clifford E Lowrance
Round Rock, Texas 78664
Cell # 817-***-****
Resume
Graduated Llano High School
May 1969
June 1969 to July 1973
United States Navy
Aviation Hydraulics Tech.
Honorably Discharged
July 1973 to Sept 1975
Wes-Tex Hydraulics
Odessa, Texas
I was a field hydraulic troubleshooter. Job required hydraulic repairs out in field on all types of heavy equipment and oilfield machinery. Rebuilt pumps, motors, hydrostatic transmissions and drive systems, cylinders, built custom hydraulic hoses and custom hydraulic systems for various industries.
Aug 1975 to May 1976
Midland College
Midland, Texas
Machine Shop Technology Course
Course was a hands on training on manual machine tools.
May 1976 to April 1979
Miller-Nelson Machine Shop
Monahans, Texas
General machine work, repairing centrifugal pumps, gear boxes, various oilfield equipment, fabrication of specialized gas heaters to be used on drilling rigs.
May 1979 to July 1982
Texas Electric Utilities
Permian Basin Power Plant
Monahans, Texas
I worked on all types of pumps and gear boxes, from very small to huge large volume equipment. I repaired shafts, impellors, housings, and couplings. I worked with crews doing overhauls on 500 megawatt Westinghouse and General Electric steam generators.
July 1982 to Sept. 1984
BC Manufacturing
Wicket, Texas
I was machine shop foreman over a three to four man machine shop where we built parts for pick-up and lay down machines to be used in the drilling industry for handling pipe on drilling rigs. Also was involved in the design and building of rotary pipe straightners.
Sept. 1984 to Dec. 1986
Owner/ Operator
Monahans Wicket Machine
Wicket, Texas
I ran a general machine shop where we repaired many different types of oilfield equipment. I was also a distributor for Gates industrial hoses.
Jan. 1987 to Feb 1990
Highland Lakes Quality Casting
Marble Falls, Texas
Investment Casting Moldmaker
I used both manual and cnc machines to design and build molds for our casting processes. I learned to use cam software to build the molds and tooling. While in this shop I designed and built a whole process to cast the blades and hub for high performance boat propellers.
March 1990 to Sept. 2003
Corning Cable Systems
Keller, Texas
Senior Tooling Designer
Started as plastic injection mold maker, but within a year was transferred to a new automation department that was being formed. I worked with a mechanical engineer to design and build automatic machines to produce fiber optic and other products for the telecommunication industry. While in this position, I learned AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop and then AutoCAD Inventor 3D solid modeling software. After about five years I was transferred to what was called an advanced engineering group. While in this position I received extensive training on Kaizen which we used as we designed the production lines as was our directive. It was our job to take new products coming out of engineering and in the quickest way possible, design, build, test, and verify a full production line. Upon completion of that, we had to crate the line up and ship it to whatever plant it was going to. We then went to that plant and set the line up and trained the people there how to run it, working out any bugs that may show up.
I have traveled to Mexico and the Dominican Republic to install these lines. While in this position, I had to travel to different locations to check on various types of machines to use in our processes. Also while at this job I learned to use most of the programs in the Microsoft Office Suite.
June 2003 to October 2005
Capital Powder Coating
Buda, Texas
Owner/ Operator
I setup shop, built all racks and tooling required for processes except, oven, powder booth, and application equipment. Developed potential customer list, made sales calls, contacted vendors, ordered supplies, scheduled work flow, supervised 3 to 4 man crew, and did books.
November 2005 to Feb. 2006
Herrin Enterprises
Buda, Texas
Machinist
Worked as general machinist in job shop running manual and CNC machines.
June 2006 to May 2008
Texas Department of Transportation
Austin, Texas
Machine Shop Lead man
Worked as lead man over 4 man machine shop. Organized shop and helped bring shop up to date with newer technologies (CNC machining center and CNC lathe). Co-coordinated with welding fabrication shop to build most of the specialized equipment that the department uses to maintain the states highways.
May 2008 to today
Hospira
Austin, Texas
Senior Maint. Mechanic/ Machinist
I have worked in machine shop on 12 hr. night shift for the last three years making repair parts for production machines and engineering projects that come along. Learned new Hurco machining centers that came in about 4 months ago. In April I took refresher course to upgrade to new Mastercam X5. Have been using Mastercam for about the last 5 years.
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