Engineer Design
Resume:
Patrick G. Galea
Bluffton, Indiana 46714 swbp2b@r.postjobfree.com
Mechanical Design Engineer
20+ years experience plus Domestic and International installation, training, and new product launches
u Designs and troubleshoots tooling, fixtures, dies, gauges, and special machines for manufacturing that maximizes efficiencies and productivity while reducing cost and facilitates maintenance.
u Communicates, evaluates, organizes and plans projects and coordinates efforts through to completion.
Professional Experience
03/01 – 5/10 A.T. Ferrell Company – Bluffton, Indiana
Manufacturer of process equipment serving the agricultural, food, and industrial markets
Design Engineer
• Develops and coordinates special projects with accounting, manufacturing, purchasing, sales, scheduling, suppliers and customers understanding customer requirements.
• Oversees engineering operations for new product design in a job shop environment involving welders, machinists, press operators, and assemblers.
• Utilizes Autodesk Inventor 2011 3D CAD solid modeling, Autodesk Vault on PC workstations running Windows NT, MS Word and Excel, and Novell InMass (bill of materials).
• Travels for product installation, startup, training, and troubleshooting.
Highlights of Accomplishments:
• Designed and built machinery used to process, condition, and convey animal feeds, vegetable and seed oils, edible cereals, food ingredients, grains, seeds, spices, chemical, minerals, plastics, wastes, and other powders and bulk materials under the trademarks of Ferrell-Ross, Clipper, Mix-Mill, Farmatic, Conquest, and Flakemaster.
08/92 – 10/00 ALMCO Steel Products Corp. Tier II Automotive Stamping Company – Bluffton, Indiana
Tooling Engineer
• Designed tooling, fixtures, dies, gauges, and material handling equipment.
• Coordinated new tooling designs and tryouts per customer requirements.
• Interfaced with customers in product design, prototype, and development of new products.
• Quoted customer design improvement/casting conversions, new tooling design and tryouts.
• Provided die modification, QDC reviews, engineering changes, and continuous improvement.
Highlights of Accomplishments:
• Designed aftermarket bumper for American model pickup trucks for United Truck Parts.
• Coordinated efforts through to completion.
Prior to 1992: McIntosh Stamping (Division of Tower Industries) – Novi, Michigan
Tooling Engineer
Livernois Engineering (Studio design house for automotive industry) – Dearborn, Michigan
Design Engineer
Altair Int’l., Inc. (Electronics stamping for automotive industry) – Mt. Clemens, Michigan
Tooling Engineer
Kent-Moore Stamping & Fabricating (Big 3 supplier) – Detroit, Michigan
Tooling & Process Engineer
Education
Pursued B.S. in Mechanical Technology, Henry Ford Community College – Dearborn, Michigan (Sr. Status)
A.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology, Detroit Engineering Institute – Detroit, Michigan
References Available Upon request
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