Bill Erdmann Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Momence, Illinois

• Produced layouts of equipment and work stations for beef and pork processing plants;
• Created fabrication and assembly drawings for items such as work stands, conveyor frames, and other equipment;
• Produced cut sheets, bills of materials, RFQ’s (Requests for Quotes), quote comparisons, and purchase order requests

Chicago Heights, IL

Produce site permitting drawings as well as shop production drawings of sign supports and light poles using AutoCAD as well as prepare bills of materials for quoting purposes. Also produce CNC files for the plasma/flame cutting operations.

Made perspective cutaway illustrations of motorized coaches housing diagnostic equipment such as mammography machines and PET scanners. Also made othographic black-and-white layouts of the graphics to go on said coaches.

Chicago, Illinois

Determined the size and location of various departments (e.g., houseware, apparel, home electronics) on the store floor as well as the placement of product categories (e.g., menswear, women's, and children) within said departments.

Professional Master'S, Industrial Design

Master's Thesis Topic: Computer-assisted Means to Match Technologies to User Needs and Wants; served as a graduate research assistant

B.S., Product Design

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Naval Reserve Officers' Training CorpsSenior Thesis Topic: Manned Device to Evacuate.