Engineer

James R. Anderton_____________________________

Objective To acquire a challenging position that will utilize both my education and

experience while allowing for growth opportunities.

Experience 2002-2009 Viking Tool & Gage Conneaut Lake, PA

Senior Design Engineer/Senior Estimator

Major Duties: Design fixtures, gages, dies, automated production machines, and

automated inspection machines for fabrication and production requirements, as well as

estimating production and fabrication costs for quote purposes.

Major Accomplishments:

• Designed, programmed and implemented production fixtures and inspection machines for G.E. Locomotive, Grove City, PA.

• Designed, programmed and implemented production fixtures and inspection machines for Ford Motor Co., General Motors, Humvee, Honda, Toyota, Chrysler, Chevrolet, Siemens, Delphi, Visteon, and BMW.

• Responsible for production and tooling fabrication quotes for sixty percent of all jobs awarded at Viking Tool & Gage.

1997-2002 Channellock, Inc. Meadville, PA

Senior Process/Product Design Engineer

Major Duties: New product design; process and/or equipment design to meet all

manufacturing needs, maintain state-of-the-art knowledge and principles of

manufacturing and design, provide all required technical resources for product and/or

process implementation.

Major Accomplishments:

• Designed the 209, 212, 215, 428, 423, 433, 443, 463, 483 pliers. Determined the start-up cost, production cost and return on investment for each. Also designed broach inserts, broach holder bars, broach fixtures, punch press dies, punch press fixtures, milling cutters, milling arbors, milling fixtures, and all required gauging for each plier.

• Designed the automatic wire/paper cut test machine to meet Channellock and A.N.S.I specifications. (Patent Pending)

• Designed the standardization of pliers to form an entirely new plier line known as SOLAR™. (Patent Pending)

• Designed the fully programmable automatic feed system (carrier plate with guides) for double disc grinding system, (Patent Pending)

• Designed new high-pressure coolant nozzles for high speed CBN creep feed grinding of hardened tool steel. (Patent Pending)

• Specified the requirements for and designed a new plier riveting system termed “box joint cold peen” to eliminate two current operations. (Patent Pending)

• Developed a steel blackening operation utilizing a common rust preventative. (Patent Pending)

• Installed 1.5 million dollar e-coat process line for cleaning, coating, gripping and curing all pliers manufactured.

1989-1997 Dad’s Products Co. Meadville, PA

Project Engineer

Major Duties: Conceiving and developing designs; drawing, detailing, and specifying equipment

to meet desired objectives; designing new equipment for specific applications; purchasing

equipment, coordinating all facets of installation and implementation based on a sequential time

line; overseeing start-up procedures and providing training to operators and maintenance

personnel.

Major Accomplishments:

• Managed and implemented Fine Grind Project: 5.4 million dollar expansion to increase weigh-up, mixing, grinding, and conveyance of mash by 250%. This project also fully automated the mixing and batching system, saving 75% of the man-hours previously required. Over two hundred separate tasks and twelve subcontractors were coordinated in this effort.

• Installed grain bins and automatic cannery grain batching system (1.1 million).

• Completed mash bin addition project (.75 million), small bag line project (.45 million), and warehouse expansion project (1.4 million).

Other duties have included: Overseeing summer intern engineers, acting as a team leader for

Technical Service Team and functioning as Measures Star Point for the Technical Service Team.

1986-1989 Channellock, Inc. Meadville, PA

Engineering Designer

Major Duties: Design and drafting of broaches, milling cutters, punch press dies, forge dies, trim

dies, machining fixtures, and machine assemblies.

1977-1981 United States Navy Cecil Field, FL

Aviation Fire Control Technician (AQ2/E5)

Major Duties: Maintenance and repair at the “I” level of all weapons release and navigation

systems for the A7-E attack aircraft.

• Awards: Received two letters of appreciation, one letter of commendation, Meritorious Unit Commendation, two Battle “E” commendations, two sea service commendations, two meritorious promotions, pistol sharp-shooter commendation, rifle sharp-shooter commendation, four year good conduct commendation.

Education 1981-1985 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA

• School of Engineering (4 years of Electrical/Mechanical Engineering)

• Related engineering courses from Allegheny College, Thiel College, City Colleges of Chicago

Professional Team Leadership Training, Project Leader Training, Facilitation Training, Planning Workshop,

Development Total Quality Transformation, Transformation of American Industries, Lean Team, Total Quality

Management, Agenda Planning, Kaison Production, CNC Machining, Abrasive Grinding.

Software Skills Extremely proficient in the use of Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word as

well as Anvil Cad, Arris Cad, and familiar with SolidWorks Cad, AutoCAD, and SolidEdge.

References Letters of reference upon request.

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