Darren Cloud Email & Phone Number

Darren Cloud is a NAFTA Tooling EngineerManager at Vesuvius USA at Vesuvius USA.

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  Tooling Engineering Manager - Nafta Region

  Vesuvius Usa

  Jul 1998 - Present - Champaign, Illinois

  Design and build custom mechanical devices from concept to finished product for steelmaking industry. Products range from simple devices to complex hydraulically driven mechanisms including ladle and tundish slide gates and manipulators. Other products include argon and nitrogen gas control panels, hydraulic pumping units and various support equipment of all complexity. Strong emphasis on reliability and durability due to potential of catastrophic losses in event of failures. Both, human and capital loss.Report writing. Multiple concurrent projects 10-15 at any given time. Customer interface with required travel. Interface with internal and external machine shops. Some research and development experience. Projects include new design, modify existing design. Defect analysis. Supplier feedback. Corrective actions.ProE, Intralink and Windchill PDM Link Administrator. Main figure in 3D software implementation, library creation, part and assembly model creation, detail creation. Ten years experience with modeling and detailing with ProEngineer. AutoCAD user for twelve years.Oversee and suggest technical needs of engineering department CAD software and hardware requirements. Various database creation with programming in VBA VBS. Managed engineering controlled data storage, with over 100,000 drawings and or documents.