Mechanical design engineer

William (Bill) Sowden

**** **** *******, ****** ** 77304

r7mafy@r.postjobfree.com

936-***-**** (Home), 936-***-**** (Cell)

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SUMMARY

I’m a self-motivated and results oriented engineering professional with 20+ year’s experience in product development, management production planning/scheduling, customer service, and training/development. I’m a disciplined leader with effective communication and presentation skills, who guides teams to execute long term strategic planning aimed at increasing company earnings. I am proficient with AutoCAD, Solid works, Autodesk’s Inventor, Ideas, Microsoft Project, and MS Office. ASME, ASTM, API, BS, cryogenics DIN, and NACE.

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EDUCATION

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Spring Garden College, Philadelphia, PA.

Certificate in Machine Design Pennsylvania State University, Abington, PA

B.A. Organizational Management, Eastern University, St. David’s, PA

A.A. Business Administration, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AMOT CONTROLS (RODA DEACO) Houston, Texas

Engineering Manager for North America Oct ’07-Apr ‘09

AMOT provides the oil and gas, rail, marine, power generation and many other markets with tailored design solutions for the control and monitoring of process packages, engines, compressors and pumps.

RODA DEACO products provide diesel engine protection products within the AMOT portfolio.

Responsibilities

Direct the formulation of engineering strategies, policies and plans.

Ensure engineering standards of quality, cost, safety, and timeliness are met.

Interpret plans, drawings and specifications and provide advice on engineering methods and procedures to achieve production requirements.

Design and implement project and work schedules and budgets.

Coordinate the activities of engineering staff.

Control engineering staff selection and training.

Contribute to research and development.

Oversee and optimize sustaining engineering.

Accomplishments

Staffed both departments with engineers and draftsmen.

Developed and implemented quality management systems that are ISO compliant.

Designed improvements to several Amot product lines.

Implemented material changes to Roda Deaco’s product line to increase operating temperatures.

Led the team that designed a new thermostatic filtering valve.

Designed an emergency diesel engine shut down valve.

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Professional Experience Continued

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TYCO CONTROLS Houston, Texas

Senior Product Development Engineer Mar ’06-Oct ‘07

TYCO is the world's largest manufacturer of valve products that move, control, and sample liquids, gases, powders, and other substances. Product types include, ball valves, butterfly valves, control valves, check valves, gate valves, globe valves, instrumentation valves, knife gate valves, pressure & safety relief valves, rotary process valves, sampling valves, electric actuators, pneumatic actuators, hydraulic actuators, actuator positioners and actuator controls.

Responsibilities

Supervise the performance of design engineering.

Direct the performance of laboratory and experimental facilities and equipment.

Supervise the construction of products to be tested

Determine proper equipment and testing procedure for each product to be tested.

Perform all necessary tests to insure that the product will perform satisfactorily in a production line.

Accomplishments

Designed and tested a 4” Automatic recirculation valve with a modulation switch point.

Product tested at a Mobil refinery in California.

ADAMS VALVES Houston, Texas

Engineering Manager Mar ’04-Mar 06

Adams invented and patented the triple eccentric valve, developments that paved the way for metal seated, zero leakage valve performance in use today more than ever.

Responsibilities

Make sure engineering standards of quality, cost, safety, timeliness are met.

Direct shop personnel.

Direct field service personnel.

Interpret plans, drawings and specifications and provide advice on engineering methods and procedures to achieve production requirements.

Design and implement project and work schedules and budgets.

Contribute to research and development.

Oversee and optimize sustaining engineering.

Accomplishments

Directed several successful field service trips.

Directed casting house in correct materials.

Provided BOM to the shop from which they built product.

Wrote several testing procedures.

CRANE VALVE NORTH AMERICA Long Beach, CA

Senior Sales Engineer Sep ’01-Feb ‘02

Director of Engineering Feb ’02-Mar ‘04

CRANE has been designing and building high-quality, reliable valves for the refining industry. In fact, we literally wrote the book on understanding the flow of fluids in refining applications.

Responsibilities

Interpreting customer’s specifications and determining product offering.

Determining materials of construction, per customer’s specification.

Coordinate the activities of engineering staff.

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Control engineering staff selection and training.

Contribute to research and development.

Oversee and optimize sustaining engineering.

Interfacing with planning department to determine the amount of time required to produce and test valves for the customer.

Prepare engineering department for a move from Long Beach Ca to Houston, TX.

Accomplishments

Prepared the engineering department for a move from Long Beach, California to Montgomery, Texas.

Directed field service personnel

CONTROL COMPONENTS Inc. Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.

Principal Designer Oct ’97-Sept ‘01

The world's leading provider of severe service control valve solutions, develops, designs valves for use in the power industry, oil and gas industry, and pulp and paper plants worldwide.

Responsibilities

Create drawings and calculations for prototyping and production.

Create a prototype for functional testing.

Work with manufacturing to create a process that is accepted as a manufacturing production process.

Direct installation of retrofit kits.

Accomplishments

Led a design team that designed and developed a high pressure turbine by-pass system. The turbine by-pass system was designed to fit into a single pressure containing body.

Designed and led manufacturing team in development of retrofitting Control Components’ previous turbine by-pass system.

Traveled the world leading field service engineers in implementing the retrofit kits.

Developed retrofit kits for turbo-cascade valves, and led installation of the kits at customer‘s location.

MASONEILAN Montebello, Ca

Senior Design Engineer Oct ’96-Oct ‘97

Masoneilan® has been the leading global supplier of process control valves for more than 100 years. The Company delivers customized products, services and diagnostic equipment for oil and gas, power and process generation applications.

Responsibilities

Prepare Bills of materials.

Read customer specifications, and determine materials of construction.

Train sales personnel on the benefits of the Steamform valve.

Travel to various sales offices for training of sales personnel.

Meet with customers at their sites to explain the Steamform valve.

Accomplishments

Acted as engineering, inside sales, customer service, sales, and manufacturing for the Steamform product.

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Masoneilan purchased the Steamform product from Yarway; I was part of the team at Yarway that designed the Steamform product. When Masoneilan purchased the Steamform product they offered me a position in California with an increase in salary.

YARWAY CORPORATION Blue Bell, PA

Engineer Sep ’86-Sep ‘96

Senior Designer May ’69-Sep ‘86

CAD Systems Administrator Oct ‘86-Oct ‘88

YARWAY product types include ball valves, high pressure control valves, check valves, gate valves, globe valves, instrumentation valves, knife gate valves.

Responsibilities

Responsible for engineering design, development, and production support.

Duties involve engineering assistance, problem resolution, training and other engineering duties.

Design specific parts in assigned phases of projects, applying standard engineering techniques with a minimum of supervision, occasionally requiring independent evaluation.

•Coordinate and complete projects and design efforts.

Assign, approve, perform or delegate design modifications as appropriate.

Directs and conducts necessary research incidental to design.

Design projects and manufacturing process changes from planning, calculation and design analysis, design, testing, evaluation and implementation necessary for successful completion.

Prepare engineering activity status reports and other detailed reporting as directed.

Accomplishments

Led a design team that designed the Steamform product. (A steam conditioning product).

Worked on the team that designed the turbo-cascade valve.

Worked on desuperheating nozzle.

Led the design team that designed the Auto-Recirculation Valve.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Sig Sigma

Design, analysis and Validation

Project/Qualification Planning

Manufacturing Requirements and Specifications

On and Off line Test Development

ISO and Safety Compliance

Member ASME

DFM, Design for Manufacturing

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