Lead R & D for new automation equipment. Led Labeler, Hygienic Automatic Product Loader, & Automatic Drop Table redesigns. Led new designs of Hygienic Labeler, Bottle Labeler, Modular High-Speed Labeler, Vacuum Transfer Conveyors, 1 & 2 Lug Collators, & High-Speed Pick & Place. Primary inventor of Hygienic Labeling Machine, Patent #11066205, issued 7/26/2021. Checked & mentored junior engineers & designers.

Designed, reviewed, & released bottle filling production equipment for manufacturing. Worked with and supervised engineers and designers. Developed low jerk bottle handling method and reduced foaming technique for bottle filling. Led department lean activities.

Wrote methodologies, instructions, & checklists for automation group lean design processes. Checked & updated machines for ease of manufacture. Designed 8 station, 11’ diameter dial machine for filter production.

Designed, assembled, and debuged automation equipment.

Worked on several projects for 3M, Kraft, MillerCoors, Ralcorp, JohnsonDiversey, Kimberly Clark, & USPS. Fluent with AutoCad, SolidWorks, Inventor, MathCad, & other software platforms. Published pneumatics articles in Machine Design and Hydraulics & Pneumatics magazines. Privately developed pneumatics sizing software for optimizing pneumatic circuits and minimizing energy consumption/CO2 production.

Designed & trouble-shot in-house automation equipment for filter production.

Generated machine concepts, quotes, mechanical designs, assemblies with details, purchased components, assembled and debugged machines with outside control engineers. Published pneumatics article in December 2004 issue of Hydraulics & Pneumatics.

Lead Engineer on several projects for White Consolidated Industries, Graco, Delco, Anderson Window, Gelman, Bayer, 3M, United Technologies Automotive, and several other confidential customers. Worked with and supervised contract designers and detailers. Reviewed designs with fabrication and assembly personnel to achieve the most efficient designs.Designs include 10,000 psi hydraulic test equipment, 40 ton presses for forming and punching operations, 900 ton curing press, high speed/complex motion custom cams, indexing dials, and high speed feeding, punching, picking and placing assembly equipment.Developed custom pneumatic sizing software. Published pneumatic sizing article in Machine Design, December 2003 issue. 3M patent co-inventor of web stretching tenter.

Formally Remmele Engineering - Automation Division. Now part of Ascential Medical, Brook Porter Group.

Designed on government contracts, did stress and gas flow analysis, human engineering, and trouble-shooting for various projects.

MOS 98C. Intensive formal schooling in techniques of collecting, interpreting, and managing sensitive information.