Eric Ostendorf Email and Phone Number

I have worked in various manufacturing facilities in one role or another over the last decade and I have picked up a variety of skills: Currently I'm back to work in a countertop fabrication facility doing much the same type of work that I performed at the previous company. In my previous position I assembled circuit boards for commercial HVAC units. I take blank printed circuit boards (PCBs), add solder paste via stencil, operate a pick and place machine to place surface mount devices, and then bake the boards in an oven to melt the solder paste to affix the devices. After inspecting and making any repairs to the boards, the through-hole components are added to the boards and soldered by hand. These soldered boards are then washed to remove flux and assembled onto a metal mounting plate before testing, programming, and packaging. In addition to the actual process of building the boards, I have made several improvements to the overall workflow of the shop. The biggest project I completed was the reorganization of our inventory. Parts were strewn about on various shelves in cardboard boxes when I started but I collected all the parts, re-arranged the shelves onto one wall and organized the components into clear plastic tubs with easy to read labels. Tall sticks of parts were organized into a 6-hole organizer I built. The clear tubs made seeing how many parts we had much easier which had the added benefit of making parts ordering faster by being able to easily see when inventory was low. The component reels for the pick and place machines were similarly organized on a shelf in boxes marked with the feeder number to make it easy to find refills and see when I was low on parts. Previous to electronics, I worked for a countertop manufacturing company. I was an engineer in charge of creating programs for our CNC machines in the shop. I would create digital renderings of the customer's counters in AlphaCam (a 2D CAD program), oversize edges as needed for machining, create GCODE programs for our CNC saw/waterjet machine that cut out the rough parts, then create GCODE programs for our CNC router to cut and polish the edges of the tops to their final sizes. I also put my technical writing skills to use by creating several reference charts and quick-start guides for use in training employees on how to operate the CNC machines in the shop.In other jobs I learned skills such as safe forklift operation (~2 years as a material handler), overhead crane operation, running/terminating ethernet cables, customer service, money handling, etc.