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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Global Ball Valve product management for Ball valve products for Flow-Tek Products, a division of Bray International including new product development and Sustaining.

Houston, Tx, Us

Senior Design Engineer for Flow-Tek, a division of Bray International. Delivering applications for severe service metal seated ball valves along with Bray's controls and actuators.

Cypress, Texas, Us

Digital Factory® from Kraftwurx™ streamlines additive manufacturing workflows in one consolidated package allowing factories adopting and utilizing different types of AM production equipment, each requiring unique workflows to be managed using one consolidated package. The standard product portfolio includes 5 distinct modules including pre-flight analysis, production planning, nesting / Packing, Production scheduling and production monitoring as well as additional plugins for a wide variety of enhancements including e-commerce, generative design and more.

Cypress, Texas, Us

Digital Reality (Acquired by Kraftwurx) was formed to commercialize Enterprise software solutions for Additive Manufacturing. Digital Factory is an end-to-end production planning, scheduling and management system that enables high-volume Additive manufacturing.

Cypress, Tx, Us

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOR ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC PRODUCTS, QUARTER TURN SCOTCH YOKE AND RACK & PINION ACTUATORS, ELECTRONICS AND CONTROLS AUTOMATION - AS WELL AS PRODUCTION SUPPORT, FIELD SERVICE SUPPORT AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT.ACTUATORS & CONTROLS SYSTEMS, Electrical, Mechanical & hydraulics products design including controls packages. Work with and support sales activities.Understanding of DCS, Fieldbus, HART Profibus, MODbus, and otehr communication protocolsExperience with modulating positionersAPI, ATEX, GOST.REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY.

Cypress, Tx, Us

A Platform as a service operating both a 3D Printing bureau in Houston Texas with real-time quotes, a marketplace for hiring CAD designers and retail integration to produce parts directly from CAD models with Additive Manufacturing. Successfully exited and folded into a software business called Digital Factory - which makes Industry-defining software for Additive Manufacturing including Workflow management, production scheduling, Nesting, Quotations, and retail e-commerce.

Houston, Texas, Us

Lead a Data Migration Strategy for Rig Solutions - connecting various discrete ERP, MRP & PDM solutions by mapping field to field in databases and generating reporting schema.

Houston, Tx, Us

Product Manager for the V1 & V3 Valve product lines consisting of High Pressure Severe Service Metal-seated ball valves. Utilized in the Oil & Gas industry, petrochemical and power plant industries. • Design-To-Order (engineering) for each project according to specs.• Developed software-based Valve design configurator software system• Reduced engineering Dept. time from 2-3 weeks per project to 2-3 hours.• Use of ExOne Coreless Sand Casting for prototype valves.• Gained Merit-based advancement to product line manager within 12 months.

Houston, Texas, Us

Special Projects Senior Designer. I specifically worked on Oceaneering's BOP systems and Rig Controls for Frontier Drillings' Bully 2 platform. contractor.

Arcalux is a commercial lighting products startup company. I worked on New Product Development and sourcing. • Engineered all company products. Extensive use of AM for Prototyping.• Set up Factory, supply chain and created AM jigs & fixtures.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Managed and Delivered Wi-Fi technology for notebook computers. Intel Centrino mobile Technology and Broadcom wireless. Later I managed power Supply development with Delta, Hipro and LiteOn.Coordinated Global Extended Team of 120 in efforts to deliver projects on-time to production.Managed Project Schedules for deliverables. Conducted Pilot Readiness Reviews and Vendor/Supplier reviews for New Product Development and launch.

Dallas, Texas, Us

I deployed technology for the manufacturing of custom jewelery for American Achievement Corporation which is the holding company for Artcarved, Balfour, Keepsake, Keystone and other jewelry brands.My speciality was Linux and windows systems integration into the manufacturing supply chain for automation, data management and factory operations.Hummingbird ExceedRed Hat LinuxDEC VT TerminalsVAX mainframesDell Power Edge Servers

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Outsourcing and supply chain - I worked for the Subsystems Management Team outsourcing suppliers to sub-contractors and monitoring production.

Houston, Texas, Us

Manufacturing Switchgear.

College Station, Texas, Us

Graphic Design and Publishing for TEEX Electronics Training Division (ETD). I did all of the illustration and layout of the book "Semiconductor Processing Overview", a vocation training manual for the Semiconductor Industry. Traveled to Semicon Trade Show and interviewed at Applied Materials to learn about their processes.

Digital Pre-Flight of Commercial Offset Printing including Scanning Images, Page layout (Quark & Page maker), Photo Editing (Photoshop), graphic design (Illustrator), Trapping, Ripping, Film Development & Plates (photo lithography), Agfa, Hercules, Rip Pro and experience with 6 color Komori Press and 4 color Heidelberg speed master. Most of my work was for Annual Reports for Fortune 500 companies.

Digital Pre-Flight for Commercial Offset Printing. Scanning, Desktop Publishing, generating film for plates, burning film to plate for 4-6 color printing on 2 Komori Presses and 2 Heidelberg Speed masters. Adobe Creative Suite, Pagemaker, Quark Express, RIP and Hercules film systems.I also created and published the companies first website in 1006.

Promotional Products sales and graphic design for some of Houston's top companies including Gundle, FMC, The Houston Chronicle, Brown & Root and others. I created graphic art for corporate trade show gifts including banners, bags, cups, koozies, mugs, umbrellas and Shirts (Including Embroidery).I also helped with creating Company Stores and corporate incentive programs such as rings, watches and other gifts for tenure.

B.S., Manufacturing Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Technology Management