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Dayton, Ohio

This shop had many roles. There was an array of standard items produced on a regular basis always trying to keep up with customer demands. Orders were taken for employees to produce specialty furniture, cabinet, and display items. The highest priority was given to the "Do it Yourself" customer paying an hourly rate, utilizing shop tools and equipment, to build their own project.Responsibilities:• Repaired and maintained industrial woodworking equipment, power tools, and capital equipment• Provided unlimited assistance and knowledge, from 12 years of furniture and cabinetry experience, to "do-it-yourself" customers necessary to complete furniture projects above and beyond original expectations giving them the confidence and desire to take on more projects• Designed and produced manufacturing drawings with Auto Cad, building custom furniture from domestic and exotic hardwoods meeting customer expectations• Trained DIY users and Employees to operate industrial woodworking equipment safely and effectively for intended operations, ensuring proper use of personal protective equipment• Received, processed, and tracked customer orders, assigning work orders ensuring quality and delivery specifications resulting in customer satisfaction• Laser engraved wood, acrylic, leather and glass, including cylindrical objects in a specialty attachment, driven by images created and prepared in Corel Draw• Procured expendables, consumables, new equipment, and repair parts• Filled manager role in his absence after being employed for less than two years

Dayton, Ohio

• Designed and built custom cabinets, furniture, and odd shaped parts• Installed reception stations, commercial cabinets, and counter tops• Provided cut lists to the production floor for cabinets being produced in house• Machined and Constructed post laminate commercial cabinets• Produced production Cad drawings for wall plates, curved walls, and reception counters• Created and supplied cad drawings of complex parts to sub-contractors to machine parts via CNC machine

De Pere, Wi

• Worked with customers and designers to provide custom projects per their design expectations• Constructed high end custom residential cabinetry and furniture, many with curved surfaces and complex details• Programmed Pattern Systems software with the unique specifications for the shop's desired construction method• Produce Auto Cad drawings for customer approval and for accuracy of high detail furniture and cabinetry• Programmed and operated Weeke CNC specific to V&A's construction methods and custom items• Made custom jigs for use with vacuum press to create curved cabinets and doors• Operated and maintained woodworking machinery used to manufacture and construct high end custom cabinetry

Minot, Nd

Scherr's Cabinet and Doors manufactures ready to assemble cabinets, doors, drawer fronts, drawer boxes, supplying the necessary hardware to go with it. Everything made is in direct response to customer order needs creating any desired effect using a broad range of offered designs.Responsibilities:• Engineered projects in Cabnetware, a cabinet production software customized to Scherr's construction techniques• Verified parts in cut list and CNC Link to ensure proper location and dimensions of machining operations in programs sent to the Morbidelli CNC Machine• Created custom G-Code programs in Xilog for the Morbidelli computer numerically controlled machine• Performed quality inspections of assembled cabinet parts making required adjustments to CNC programs• Gathered appropriate style and quantity of hardware necessary for assembly to be shipped with the cabinets

Appleton, Wi

• Engineered upgrades to production equipment increasing production, providing consistency, and maintaining precision of a given operation eliminating re-work• Diagnosed and repaired mechanical and electrical problems on production equipment, specified and ordered replacement parts, tasked appropriate individuals with repair, and utilized contractors for specialized work• Utilized micrometers, dial calipers, Pi tape, and profilometer for quality inspection, and to produce CAD drawings• Produced Auto CAD drawings for reference, manufacturing, and to be able to manufacture replacement rollers for a customer before they shut a machine down to remove an existing roller• Gathered quotes from local machine shops per created CAD drawings, and procured bearings and other mechanical components from multiple vendors• Facilitated lean processes with a team of employees from various departments and levels

Associate Degree In Applied Science, Mechanical Design Technology

Courses Included: Computer Aided Design, Strength of Materials, Machine Design, Hydraulics, Welding, Machining, and Geometric Dimensioning.

Mechanical Design Technology

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