Tooling Repair, upkeep, press calls, tooling reviews, tooling buy offs, Machine shop work. Mig And Tig welding. Automotive tool and die work. Progressive dies, transfer, and hot stamp. Problem solving.

Build, Maintain, In Press trouble shooting of automotive stamping dies. Progressive, and transfer dies.

Automotive prog. and draw dies, repair, maintain, in press trouble shooting.

Worked on class A outer skin dies. Aftermarket Automotive hoods. Repaired dies, modified dies.

2009 $42,000 per year, average 45 hours per week, Tool and Die MakerMachine castings, and produced parts to print, evaluated repairs to broken equipment and made repairs, designed and built tooling including Dies, weld fixtures, and production jigs for production facilities, estimated jobs, QC work on final products, final assembly and test runs on mfg. systems. Programmed and set-up and ran computer numeric 3 axis mills with occasional 4rth axis work, operated all manual shop machines, made 2D mechanical prints on auto-cad software, maintained shop equipment. Expedited, and performed work in other production facilities. MiG and arc welding. Shop Maintenance.

$38,000 per year, average 45 hours per week, Tool and Die MakerHired in as production welder union shop, after 1 year I successfully bid into the tool room. Maintained and sharpened production dies, mostly progressive dies, some hand load, or robotic load dies. Mfg. weld fixtures, built dies, and fixed or replaced broken componentsAlso held the following

Pumps, valves, flanges, ship board machine work, Tenders