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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Manage new home construction schedule while maintaining high quality finished product and customer satisfaction.
• Hire, schedule, manage, and coach subcontractors.
• Review and complete subcontractor payroll
• Collaborate and manage relationships among sales,,customers, warranty representatives, and city and government inspectors.
• Monitor labor and quality installation.

Roseville, MN

Product development, field technical assistance, and sales and manufacturing support.

• On-Site Contractor for Caterpillar Global Paving.Responsible for all phases of custom product development for asphalt paving, soil compaction, and related equipment.
• Business case analysis
• Maintained strong relationships with sales and marketing, dealers, and customers.
• Successfully completed and directed others including engineers, drafters, and mechanics in design, prototyping, validation, and detailing of products.
• Integrated custom solutions within complex production machine systems including hydraulic systems, electrical systems, controls, and software.
• Collaborated with component suppliers to acquire quality parts and solutions quickly.

• Armament Systems Division - Navy AGS/DD(X) Magazine
• Provided detailed design of pallet-handling latch mechanisms while following design recommendations and guidelines and providing supporting calculations, analysis, and documentation.
• Supported and communicated magazine integration concerns.
• Participated in on-site testing of prototype ammunition pallet-handling equipment as well as disassembly and assembly of latching mechanisms.
• Prepared engineering drawings for shock test fixtures, participated in fixture assembly, and aided in testing.
• Completed Tolerance Stack-up Analysis training program.

Eden Prairie, MN

• Designed various components for heavy mobile equipment such as motor graders, wheel tractor scrapers, and off-highway trucks.
• Prepared and presented influential analysis reports thoroughly detailing modeling procedures, results, and recommendations for future design to other engineers.
• Provided quality work that has been sited in positive evaluations of RFA.
• Performed modal, structural, fatigue, and bolted joint analysis on mining construction equipment, paving products, and engine components.
• Designed components/assemblies for wheel tractor scrapers with the goal of cost reduction, manufacturability, safety, weight reduction and increased efficiency.

Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: ASME Liason,SAE member