Colin Todd Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Brookfield, Wisconsin, Us

Conduct repairs on pipes, tanks, motors, and other related production utilities along with engineering related tasks.- Initiated management of change (MOC) processes to improve lack efficiency or safety for areas of plant, including developing presentations for a solution.- Completed work orders regarding repairs on equipment, usually with other maintenance workers.- Created 3D modeled assemblies for training and safety devices to be sent to each plant site to be built.

Brookfield, Wisconsin, Us

Investigated several efficiency and safety related projects, created pipeline and instrumentation diagrams, contacted contractors for managed projects, and presented findings for approval. Worked to upgrade systems involving chemical mixing tanks including motors, compressed air, scrubbers, agitators, safety compatibilities, ENU, and chemical receiving/transfer.  Contracted outside companies for improvement quotes, ensured work was done to the needed specifications for each project. Created pipeline & instrumentation diagrams for plant systems to aide in future plant upgrades.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Design, program, and build a robot capable of scanning, navigating, and describing its environment using Arduino, MATLAB, & 3D printed objects made in SOLIDWORKS.- Fabricated a 4-wheel drive robot using DC motors, servo motors, ultrasonic sensors, force sensors, batteries, and LEDs between two connected Arduino boards.- Body of robot created using iPhone boxes with two Arduino boards stacked on top of each other, allowing for multidirectional 4-wheel drive.- Attached distance sensor to servo via 3D printed mount used to scan a 180-degree area in front of robot and plot data into a polar graph.- 3D printed bump sensor used to detect when an object has been driven into using force sensors.- LEDs used as indicators for when an object has been hit and other applications.- Tested and troubleshot design to ensure functionality and reported final design to faculty. Result: Two programable modes, manual and auto, that controlled different functions of robot to locate four different objects, and drive to bump into each one and indicate it with an LED.

Spring Grove, Il, Us

Production Floor Technician: Objective: Conduct repairs on any machinery involved with forging process including thousand-degree furnaces, quench tanks, and 1,250 to 16,500 ton hydraulic presses. - Operated industrial & forging equipment including manlifts, forklifts, overhead cranes, furnaces, & hydraulic presses. - Learned functionalities of hydraulic presses, furnaces, quench tanks, & mechanical systems to effectively repair them. - Responded to calls on machinery malfunctions and completed necessary repairs. Laboratory Prep Worker: - Prepared metal tensile & charpy specimens to be tested for hardness & elasticity to meet specifications for customer. - Operated two CNC machines simultaneously to create several specimens for each customer to collect sufficient data. Machine Operator Assistant: - Assisted in machining process for industrial sized CNC machines to successfully complete parts for customer.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Product Improvement Design Project: Design and test a prototype for an improved NERF Gun with higher accuracy and fire distance. - Tested NERF Jolt Blaster by measuring displacement and accuracy of dart to collect controlled initial results. - Modified NERF Jolt Blaster by removing internal air resistor and changing springs to measure affects it had on fire distance and accuracy. - Created a parts list and simulated NERF Jolt Blaster in SOLIDWORKS to visualize assembly of modified components. - Created a presentation in google slides to present modifications of NERF Jolt Blaster and its effect on fire distance and accuracy to class and faculty.Result: Replacement spring allowed air to be forced quicker behind dart and removed air resistor allowed for more air to force dart out of NERF gun. But to remove air resistor, internal guiding components lead to a decrease in accuracy.