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Consult/Project Manage on plant layouts, manufacting equipment, manufacturing processes and equipment installation for brazed aluminum heat exchangers. Design and supply prototypes and production quantity brazed aluminum microchannel condensers and evaporators to the HVAC industry

A private consulting business from which I provide engineering assistance to companies interested in design and manufacturing instruction on controlled atmosphere brazed, parallel flow, aluminum heat exchangers. Clients have been national and international and include AllStyle Coils, Banco India Products, Bodycote, Carrier Corporation, IEA, Hamilton Sundstrand, Thermo-Coil LTDA, Thermokey, Thermo King and Youshen Shanghai International. Also coordinated and provided manufacturing process consulting for a Consortium, which consisted of a group of manufacturing companies, whose goal was to promote brazed aluminum parallel flow heat exchangers in the HVAC industry.

Initial duties included the planning, development and staffing of a $4 million research and testing facility. The facility was staffed with six engineers and one technician experienced in heat transfer theory, fluid dynamics, structural analysis and product design, modeling, prototyping and testing. Ongoing duties included managing the day-to-day operations of the Tech Center; advancing existing product lines to improve efficiency, costs and durability; developing new technology for heat transfer products of the future (primarily in parallel flow brazed aluminum AC systems); expanding the Group's niche capabilities into new marketplaces; and provide technical support to the Group companies when process and field problems arise