Greg J. S. Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

When Mr. Arvid Casler informs you, he has an opening on his primary metallurgy team and you are his first choice and are a professional employed in a certain specialty discipline, you do not hesitate to say "oh, ok, when can I start work?"

Carol Stream , Il, Us

Freelance writer and contractor working in technical writing and fiction. Worked on a range of technical and creative projects. This included a career pause, while I was providing Childcare, based out of Milton and Pensacola, Florida.Failed to find much in the way of paying work as an independent.

Series of consulting projects for diverse customer list including corrosion prevention and process investigations. See list of past projects below.

Moline, Il, Us

http://www.adecco.comHourly Compensation:$35.00 per hourAs a contract "Force Multiplier" attached to the John Deere Product Development Center, I provided test engineering support for prototype and production test programs and assisted Manager of Test Engineers for test and reliability in planting and seeding tool development.This included some test project management and fixture design and sourcing with an emphasis on technical report writing and analysis of test results for R&D and PV&V validation test programs for the Harvester administered business units located at the test proving ground facility in Silvis, Illinois.I also assisted in field work related to seeding system prototype validation and systems integration.

Crystal Lake, Illinois, Us

http://www.tcindustries.comSalary: $55,000, per yearOne of the most difficult jobs I've ever worked. The state of the Mill Products Division's furnaces required me to act as both "Survey Technician" and "Process Engineer" to run dataPAQ surveys of every Austenitizing and Draw furnace in the division, in all, 30+ surveys in 52 weeks. These surveys were conducted routinely, while production was ongoing and in close proximity to tons of moving steel with roller hearth furnaces operating at 1700 degrees Fahrenheit.

http://www.quanex.com/Products/3/ProductLine/Nichols-Aluminum/33/http://www.roberthalf.comPay Rate: $15.00 per hour for two weeks.This was a quick and simple project to build a stopgap Access Database to pull furnace BTU information and related charge data off an Allen Bradley controllogix system at the Nichol's Aluminum Foundry. Within three days, established design document and planned out the appropriate Access database structure to collect data and produce any reports needed. A challenging short term project requiring rapid development in MS Access.

Moline, Il, Us

http://www.volt.comhttp://www.johndeere.comThe Moline Technology Innovation Center functions as an internal R&D and design resource for John Deere business units and maintains it's own dedicated metallurgy lab for internal business unit test requests, or did?Working directly for the Senior Metallurgists and Mr. Tom Mauger, I was exposed to some of the most challenging metallurgy I've ever dealt with, at the world's largest Ag equipment manufacturer, which is a little like Disney World for Engineers, if such a thing exists?I met Bruce Boardman briefly and was a very peripheral member of a talented group that included Mr. Chuck Nielsen, Brent Augustine, Cory Alexander and Dr. Eric Johnson.

Mclean, Va, Us

http://www.alionscience.com"It's 11:00 at night in the dead of winter, I'm currently feeding scraps of Nukon thermal insulation into a Braun kitchen blender, so we have enough material to run through our massive hydraulic test system in three days time? I'm utterly exhausted from pulling a triple shift, my first marriage is on the rocks, and all I can think of is; I must be the only person on the face of the Earth, who is doing this bizarre activity right this second?""Living the dream..."- Alion Science and Technology, ITSO Hydraulics Test Facility, 2007.

Zurich, Ch

http://www.amphenol.comA six month contract with Amphenol Fiber Optic, working in parts release and building Bills of Material (BOM's). Working this contract, I learned more about what to do and what not to do, when working for a mid-sized company in the process of moving production primarily overseas while being introduced to RFID sensors and the basics of optical ferrule components for fiber optics.

Glenview, Il, Us

"80/20 all the way"An early dose of what I like to call "culture fit to a degree?" ITW's Manufacturing Research Group may be the closest thing in the Midwest to a Corporate "Think Tank" focused on next generation "highly engineered" products and reverse engineering. At ITW, I learned how to roll with the punches and how to handle difficult projects in a tough but fair working environment.note Aerotek is now Actalent.

Wheeling, Illinois, Us

http://www.engis.comAfter two years, I'd gone about as far as I was going to go with the company. I knew I just wasn't cut out for a QA inspection roll even though I was proficient at Gauge R&R and final inspection, so it was time to branch out as a Contractor or Consultant. Looking back on it, Engis was a better employer and a better job than I knew at the time?I had no idea what I would be iñto next?

Wheeling, Illinois, Us

After the "dotcom bubble" and subsequent recession in 2002, the opportunities for a newly minted Materials Engineer in Michigan, were "slim to none." There was nothing to do; but roll up my sleeves, ask for help when I could and tough it out? My options were to take what was available and hope things got better?I got my start in process and QA in diamond grading for the Hyprez product line and met Doctor Shih-yuan 'Peter" Kuo. I also had the good fortune to meet Mr. Allen Stone, formerly of astonmet.com, who has been a valued friend and mentor to me and many others in the Chicago metallurgical community over the years. No matter what happened, Al always seemed ready to buy me lunch and talk about what to try next?Note, Al has now moved to Microtrace.

East Lansing, Mi, Us

While finishing my undergraduate thesis, I worked as an IT helpdesk consultant entering requests in the "Remedy" ticket system while working phone technical support for our campus users.

East Lansing, Mi, Us

"Gather round young people, I'm in a mood to speachify.. Now, many years ago, there was a place called a 'Computer Lab' that had carpet of a somewhat questionable nature and was where technical type folk, like you or I, had to go when we wanted to get on something called 'the world wide web?' I know this seems very strange now, but these odd and lonely places required to be cleaned and serviced from time to time, when young college barbarians would come through to play and pillage and do all manner of school things. Also, you could study while you worked there.. so that was how I helped pay for my degree at the tough Big Ten school, with the nice labs and the really very patient Professors.."

Plymouth, Michigan, Us

"You need a job and we've got 120 some odd concrete cylinders a day to break this summer to service our concrete placement work? You come in at 7:00 AM every day or you're fired! You are going to support Doug in the concrete and soils lab. Keep your mouth shut, work hard and get it done. And if we need you at 3 AM in the morning, we'll beep you? Welcome aboard! I hope you like dirt and concrete, kid?"​ -Mr. R. Scott Steiner, SME Group, Eaton Rapids Operations ManagerSME is an Engineering Record Top 500 Design Firm and I was very lucky to get a summer rotation in a tough Michigan economy. The lessons I learned working for SME, have kept me going during the first twenty years of a highly unconventional engineering career.The most important memory I have from this time is watching the twin towers fall on September 11th from the conference room at Eaton Rapids. No one who saw that event that day can ever forget?No matter where I go or what I do, it hasn't changed. "The only easy day, was yesterday!"