• Extensive controls hardware and software design, debug, and troubleshooting – manufacturing plant and OEM shop floor• Robots, Servos, Motor Controllers, Vision, Transducers, Thermal Controls, Welding, Leak Test, Gaging, Signature Analysis• Extensive experience working with union trades, production personnel and management. Strong training experience• Extensive experience with production ramp, parts flow, bottlenecks, cycle time improvements, process improvements, downtime reduction, lost build issues, quality and defect issues, open issues management, and engineering work during production SOPs• Experience with material handling, process control, ovens and heat-treat, machining, assembly and testing systems• Extensive programming experience: Allen-Bradley – All PLCs, Siemens Step 7, Modicon, and GE PLCs, and PC based control systems• 6200 Series, Logix, ICOM, Modsoft, ProWorks, Simatic Ladder Logic software, Steeplechase, Open Control flowchart software• Extensive HMI/SCADA experience: PanelMate/Panelview, RSView, Intellution, Iconics, WonderWare, HMICE/CC, Visual Basic.• InterBus, DeviceNet, and Profibus I/O BUS, Data-Hwy, Mod-Bus, RF, Ethernet, and serial communications• High-speed LAN design, installation, and operation experience. Client Server and Web Server system design and deployment • VB 5.0, 6.0, VB.Net, VBA, VB Script, C, C++, MS-Access & SQL database design, Web Technologies, ASP, XML, OPC• Advanced machine diagnostic software & methods. Engineering, plant floor Client-Server based systemsSpecialties: • Extensive team leadership, control system engineering project and IT project management experience• Extensive experience with productivity improvement, cost reduction strategy planning and execution, and Process Redesign•