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Concord, Ontario

Designing & detailing Hydraulic Presses with SolidWorks utilizing FEA analysis.

Toronto, Canada Area

Design conveyors mainly for the food and drug industries incorporating metal detectors and various reject mechanisms.

Toronto, Canada Area

Design load cells for rolling mills in the steel industry.

DesignerCreated new product lines and customized our standard product to fit onto customer’s equipment.• Responsible for detailing and starting up water cooling systems required for steel casting industry electromagnetic stirrer installation.• Part of a team that developed and created a product that was unavailable in the aluminum industry undercutting the competition’s solution by 50%. This resulted in a $100,000 contract and extremely favourable results from the customer with more orders pending.• Created new in-house shop equipment to make fabrication and assembly work more ergonomic. This reduced worker back strain while improving shop productivity and assembly precision.• Custom fit the equipment into a difficult arrangement for client that surpassed competitor’s ability to compete. This produced an $800,000 order and a successful installation.Project ManagerCommunicated with customers, suppliers and shop to keep projects on time, within spec and within budget.• Ran $1,070,000 project for steel casting customer in Brazil. Included 4 trips to customer’s Pittsburg office before design was finalized. Supervised on-site commissioning of the equipment in Brazil.• Managed $880,000 project for steel casting customer in China. Project was delivered on time and within budget. Did successful start-up of equipment in China.• Supervised $600,000 project for automotive customer in US. Project was delivered on time and within budget.Commissioning / start-upOn-site start up of cooling systems by verifying coolant flows, pressure, temperature and conductivity, ensured correct PLC communications to customer’s control room and trained customer’s maintenance personnel.Successfully completed 25+ start-ups around the world.Created set of commissioning reports and checklists to record outstanding customer issues and ensure consistency in written communications and documentation.

Design and manufacture dairy industry filling and packaging systems

Design and manufacture food industry conveyor systems

Design and manufacture paper handling equipment

Design and manufacture programmed hoists and waste water treatment systems for the electro-plating industry.

Architectural Technology

Education record

NALCO Mini Mill Water Treatment St. John’s Hoist Safety Facility Safety Water Treatment Working at Heights Low Voltage Electrical Safety.