Michael Feldhake Email & Phone Number

Fenton, Mo, Us

St. Louis City County, Missouri, United States

Inventor of the airTurbine™ - the Fleet Manager's Fuel Saver. Engineering professional with 26+ years of Fortune 500 experience in Manufacturing, Engineering and Software Development. Blue chip client roster includes: MillerCoors, Anheuser Busch, Peabody, Owens Corning, Chrysler, and Boeing. Process optimization and project development experience focuses on developing solutions that increase ROI and cut costs by keeping an eye on planning, budgeting, scheduling and execution of projects.Summary Business Experience• Business DevelopmentHave developed new technologies, developed business plans and IP, developedbusiness and project costs, managed groups to achieve goals.• Technological DevelopmentHave developed new software technologies, conducted scientific experiments, andcreated IP strategies. Has many years’ experience in optimizing processes, increasingROI and OEE.• Business LawHave written patent applications, developed By Laws and Articles of Incorporation, andnegotiated license agreements.• Project ManagementManaged many multi-discipline project teams successfully with an impressive record indelivering projects in the black.- 10+ years of strong project management. Managed large teams of permanentemployees, contractors, and vendors across the Globe.- Managed projects from Cradle to Grave, below 100k and above 10MM.- Developed and executed ROI and OEE enhancement projects.- Provided cost estimates for projects up to 25MM.- Develop cost methods for Process Mechanical and Control Systems.- Have managed multi-discipline groups in several major industries including Food &Beverage, Cosmetics, Personal Care, Material Handling, and more.- Have managed large scale control system migration projects with major clients.- Provided technical oversight to large startup teams.- Provided concept project development and business case services for large scaleclients.

St. Louis Missouri

- Provided management and oversight of a large reorganization plan for a Personal Care Products company. Tasks included new warehousing, staff reorganization, production line relocations and optimizations along with QA/QC and OEE improvements. Led team of 8 senior level engineers and planners to develop large multi-million dollar program. - Provided Business and Technical management for focused client group to bring revenues back in line with historical figures.- Developed overall automation, permanent power and controls strategy for a new greenfield Brewery in Angola for new overseas client. Worked with client staff and internal team members to resolve needs for brewery. Provided tender package analysis for contract adjudication.- Managed Programming Group, defined project scopes and assigned resources for projects. Hired and developed staff members as required by project requirements and company goals. - Managed Process Electrical & Instrumentation department, interfaced with clients, develop quality standards and procedures and work to develop specifications with clients, developed project scopes and costs schedule. - Provided control system engineering and implementation services for a Motion Control solution involving Siemens Simotion products in an Automotive Final Assembly Plant.- Provided graphics development & programming services for a large Siemens WinCC Client-Server MMI application. Graphics were rendered in very high-resolution 3D GIF objects.- Provided control system management & engineering for modernization projects. Duties also included project proposal preparation, budgeting, scheduling and procurement.- Provided control system management services for a GE Turbine upgrade project for an existing brewery using Siemens S7 and Woodward equipment.- Provided programming services for Fiberglass plant for a data collection and reporting system using MS Access DB.

Presided over the formation of the company and have managed company through its early stage development. Throughout this stage, we have completed two platforms and completed several projects. I am also the inventor of our core technology and have played a major part in the development of the software and its patent application.

Greater St. Louis Area

Worked as an Engineer in the Brewing and Aerospace industries. This was a senior level position performing engineering and programming services for projects.My expertise is in Process & Controls, Batch-Weigh & Motion Systems, Instrumentation Specifications, Software Development and Implementation. My software expertise is in PLCs, PCs and Motion Controls. Besides many different PLCs and HMI packages, I have also worked with developing software applications using .NET, C#/C++/C, VB, and assembly. I also have working industrial experience applying Expert Systems and Neural Networks.Some Project examples:- Provided electrical engineering management services for a 1200+ manday brewery expansion project using Siemens PCS7, Profibus , Allen Bradley IO and ASi networking equipment.- Provided control system engineering for Aircraft manufacturer on a $1,000,000 Wind Tunnel upgrade project. Including the design & procurement of a medium voltage AC drive for a 1750HP fan unit and the implementation of a complex Servo control system using Allen Bradley PLC5, 1394 GMC Servo Controllers and Wonderware.- Provided software programming services for Aircraft manufacturer to develop a DDE-Channel Access communications server using VC++ 6.0 for closed loop control between a control system an data acquisition system.

Clarksburg Wv

Provided Electrical Design & PLC Programming services to the Coal Handling and Processing industry. Notable project was the fully automated control system for a coal preparation plant using a combination of a Neural Network and Expert system to drive the throughput and performance of the plant.