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Loves Park, Illinois, United States

• Watersurplus, Loves Park, IL 8/2020 – PresentContract Mechanical DesignerCurrently responsible for the design of custom water treatment equipment for the industrial, municipal, food and beverage market. Lead designer.
• Custom engineered reverse osmosis systems.
• Custom engineered and pre-piped cartridge filter skids, pump skids, chemical and UV sterilization skids.
• CIP (clean in place) systems.
• Code and non-code pressure vessels. Media filtration tanks, Ion exchange and softeners.
• P&ID creation.

Rockford, Illinois, United States

• Member of Honeywell Thermal Solutions Engineered to Order group (ETO).
• Development of custom designs for industrial burners and combustion systems serving a large variety of industries.
• Created burner designs: air, direct, indirect, recirculating, duct, furnace and tube firing applications. Asphalt burners, gas/ oil manifolds and burner control systems.
• Glass industry burners fired with air, oxygen, gas, oil and combinations of fuels. Sinusoidal, tubular, cross flow and dimple heat exchangers.
• Custom skidded and pre-piped valve trains for natural gas, oil, oxygen, air, nitrogen and propane. Designs conform to NFPA, UL, ANSI B31.3 and others, depending on customer requirements. Custom duct systems, insulated.
• Additional responsibilities include gas boosters, blowers, control panels, piping and instrumentation diagrams and technical documentation. Bill of materials development and transfer to ERP system (Winman).

Machesney Park, IL

• Responsible for the design of custom fabricated equipment for the wastewater industry.
• Manufacturing drawings include details, sub-assemblies and assemblies for package MBR plants, MBR’s, UF filters, Sand filters, Decanters, Diffusers, Air lift pumps, Lift out air racks, Splitter boxes, and SAM’s.
• Reengineer existing plant facilities to bring clients new state of the art waste treatment plants.
• Create renderings for advertising brochures and web pages. Develop process flow diagrams and piping and instrumentation diagrams.
• Redesigned old equipment for cost efficiency and improved operability through successful implementation of 3D design capability within the company.
• Bill of material development. Provide equipment inspection at various manufacturing facilities. Completed Autodesk Inventor Level 1 training.

South Beloit, IL

• Responsible for the design of custom fabricated stainless-steel equipment and controls for the pharmaceutical, biotech, dairy and food processing industries.
• Manufacturing drawings include details, sub-assemblies, assemblies, frames and weld maps for CIP systems, spray devices, transfer panels, shell and tube heat exchangers, pumps, ASME supply, recovery and recirculation.
• Bill of material development.

Janesville/Beloit, Wisconsin Area

• Responsible for manufacturing details, sub-assemblies and assembly drawings of components for eleven production tube mills, four with lasers.
• ISO-9002 and QS-9000 producers of stainless steel and corrosion resistant tubing for boilers, heat exchangers, HVAC, condensers, super heaters, sanitary, pharmaceutical, auto industry, ASTM, ASME, ornamental and.
• Verified dimensions on shafts, rough and finished castings. Precision measurements taken on components using depth gauges, dial calipers and micrometers.
• Dimensional tolerance methods include symmetrical, deviation and limits.
• Baseline dimensioning for Mazak Quick Turn CNC. Rockwell hardening designations. Materials include Stainless steel, Hot and cold rolled steel, Ampco-21, CPM-M4 and Rex-20 tool steels, Bronze, Aluminum and UHMW plastic.
• Drawings include the following machinery, pumps, puller drives, motors, transmissions, tachometers, gear cases, gear reducers, worm shafts, couplings, weld buffers, deburring machines, cutoff saws, stands for side.

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for the plant layout of the Amurol facility pellet coating and syrup preparation rooms.
• HVAC/ environmental air design.
• Interconnecting piping and vessel design.
• Equipment modeling.
• Concrete pad, electrical panel and equipment layout.
• Process flow diagrams and piping and instrumentation diagram development.

Rockford, Illinois Area

• Responsible for the design of ASME filters, softeners, DI units, heat exchangers, CIP skids, UV skids, pump skids, chemical skids and reverse osmosis units.
• Lead designer on self-contained mobile trailer systems. Skid fabrication drawings. Instrumentation detail drawings. Plant facility layout and interconnecting piping drawings.
• Field walk downs. Isometric weldment detail drawings (B31.1 and B31.3 code and non-code). Process flow diagrams and piping and instrumentation diagram development.
• Document management.
• Bill of material creation.
• Bolt and gasket charts.

Lincolnshire, IL

• Same design responsibilities as Vivendi/ USFilter.
• Electrical panel layout and ladder schematic drawings for 120V and 480V power systems.
• Develop vendor relationships.
• Equipment inspection at various vendors’ sites.
• Construct and implement standard/ custom design packages for self-contained mobile trailer systems for emergency and long-term customer contracts.
• Lead designer on mobile trailer refurbishment project.