Aaron Spicer Email & Phone Number

Kent, Oh

Product design/engineering, tooling, market research and project management.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Joined and been a regular member of the community since 1995.

Akron, Oh

Responsible for business development and product design. Most recently in the additive manufacturing space where I facilitated an additive manufacturing facility utilized as both a showroom and AM lab for production. This included all logistics from the ground up.Over the past few years helped transition Parabolic Designs from a design service to a full-service solution for PD's clients. Over the past year I was responsible for developing our business around additive manufacturing (all technologies, FDM, SLA, SLS, DMLS, etc.) utilizing the latest in 3D printing technologies and software.Responsibilities and skills included:Plant/Facilities layout - Responsible for designing and coordinating a facility for 3D printing machinery and support equipment, including post processing center.Machine Installation - Coordinated move of a plant in to the new facility, including installation and overseeing rigging and proper facility requirements for each piece of equipment. Coordination of suppliers vendors - Established and maintained relationships with suppliers for equipment and vendors who provided secondary (post processing) capabilities to our technologies.Design -- Assist clients with projects to ensure their viability for 3D printing. Utilized Creo Parametric 2.0-3.0 Maintenance/Operation of 3D printing equipment, including: 3D Systems line of professional and production machinery: SLS, SLA, Multi-jet, Color-Jet, Metals (DMLS)Post-processing - From lab layout to post-processing parts after the printing process, I was responsible for those activities.Quoting - Responsible for generating proposals for customers for requested services.

Middleburg Hts., Ohio

• Responsible for engineering support to Boundary Systems and PTC customers• Certified as a PTC Training Instructor (Core, Advanced, Specialized (i.e. Piping/Cabling, Tool Design))• Responsible for instructing students in Creo 1.0/2.0 and its advanced modules.• Responsible for installation and set-up of PTC software.• Work with my sales team to ensure that our clients have the proper training and correct software required to complete their tasks.• Day-to-day responsibilities include product design, rapid prototyping (Objet Geometries 3D printers), customizations for PTC software (Modelcheck, configuration files, plot files, UI).• Customized workflows for companies utilizing PTC products and other business applications.

Western Ohio, Indiana And Illinois

• Responsible for the sales of software, training and consulting services• Reseller for products from PTC, Moldex3D, Invention Machine and Mentor Graphics and Objet Geometries 3D printers• I utilized my previous work experiences to assist customers to understand our products• Responsible for project managing Boundary Systems pre-sales team activities• Maintain customer relationships to go beyond the sale and build partnerships

Greater New York City Area

Our team is responsible for expanding and growing the 'Im Too Young For This!' community for young adults suffering from or who have gone thru cancer. Responsibilities included managing local chapters for growth in 9 states. Helping to organize social events and 'Stupid Cancer! Happy Hours' where young adults could get together and commiserate in a more social environment.

Orrville, Oh

• Team member of Product Support Group responsible for improving current tele-handler lines to new EPA criteria and requirements.• Utilized PTC products, including Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire (2-4) and Windchill PDMLink (8.0-9.1)• Responsible for processing design modifications and engineering change requests• Worked with suppliers and vendors to bring in design projects and ensure that they met JLG Industries standards. This included importing designs in to PDMLink.• Experience in Pro/Cabling and Pro/Piping critical for producing accurate documentation of JLG's tele-handler product line.

Naples, Florida Area

• Responsible for ensuring manufacturability of medical devices, including implantable devices and delivering quality products to our customers.• Utilized GibbsCAM for programming Willemin-Macodel 5-axis mill-turn centers.• Specialized in 5-axis and 3+2 milling/turning techniques• Responsible for managing projects through design, manufacturing and quality phases.• Responsible for ensuring products met ISO 13485: 2003 specifications• Set up and test g-code, including prepping tooling and the CNC equipment.• Experience with FANUC RoboMate Tooling Mill, Kitamura 4-axis Milling Center, and Howa HQ 40 4-axis Milling Center including set-up operations

Mentor, Oh

• Responsibilities included ensuring the manufacturability of medical devices, including implantable devices and delivering quality products to our customers.• Developed manufacturing processes utilizing Pro/ENGINEER Pro/NC• Responsible for ensuring products met ISO 9001 quality specifications.• Responsible for managing projects through design, manufacturing and quality phases.• Set up and test g-code, including prepping tooling and the CNC equipment.• Experience with Makino's and Mazak milling centers, including set-up operations.• Helped to procure and implement a Willemin-Macodel 5-axis Mill/Turn Center.

Solon, Oh

Worked with a new start up division, North Cape RIM Manufacturing

Tech specializes in precision, production quality prototypes & high volume production molds, custom molded plastics and integrated assembly. From co-development of injection molded components through production, assembly and packaging of molded plastics.• Responsible for producing quality injection mold designs• Experience in single-cavity to 16-cavity tooling, including hot runner system designs.• Utilized PTC's Pro/ENGINEER suite of software, including Tool Design• Team member of TECH's Commitment to Quality through ISO practices• Team member responsible for helping to implement Lean Manufacturing processes, including evaluation and implementation of JobBoss for tool room management.• Designing of electrodes for manufacturing on TECH's Makino SNC-64• Maintained and implemented PTC software for both design and manufacturing groups.

• Designed consumer products for industries such as vacuum cleaners, power tools, medical devices and children's toys utilizing Pro/ENGINEER software (Rel. 17-2000i)• Developed design techniques to creating models capable of being produced in TTH's stereolithography (SLA) machines.• Developed urethane cast molds• Project managed designs, including on-site debugging of products at our customers Hong Kong manufacturing facilities.• Maintained and implemented PTC software

Strongsville, Oh

I was contracted out through Designers And Draftsmen (DAD Engineering Group now) as a draftsman. Experience with converting Microstation drawings in to Integraph I/EMS CAD system.Also helped evaluate moving to a 3D CAD system. Worked with a team that eventually chose Pro/ENGINEER as their design system.• Responsible for transitioning 2-D designs from Microstation to Integraph I/EMS• During this transition I was also responsible for converting the machines to metric machines.• Worked with the new product development group on injection unit designs.• Worked on team developing a new hydro-mechanical injection molding machine (Calibre)• Team member responsible for evaluating and implementing VDD's first 3-D design system.• My responsibility was to test and evaluate PTC's suite of products, including Pro/ENGINEER and Pro/Mechanica.

Polymer/Plastics Engineering

Activities and Societies: NOPUG (Northern Ohio Pro/Users Group) for Pro/ENGINEER (PTC)

Tool Design, Injection Mold Tooling

Activities and Societies: Tool Design certificationTool Design program

Vocational Drafting, Mold Design And Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: V.I.C.A. (Vocational Industrial Clubs of America)Vocational Drafting program

High School Diploma, Vocational Drafting

Activities and Societies: VICA (Vocational Industrial Clubs of America) - PresidentVocational Drafting