Michael Standish Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Shelton, Ct, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

Leader of the Caterpillar 6090 Platform in the Hydraulic Mining Shovels product group. Leads product design and documentation improvement initiatives which have led to over $90 million in machine and after-market parts sales since 2011. Travels internationally to meet with customers, dealers, suppliers, and internal manufacturing facilities in support of relationships, information gathering, strategic decisions, project planning, and budget management. Supervisor role involved talent development, selection, and performance review.• Established manufacturing production of the relocated Caterpillar 6090 hydraulic mining shovel. Interpreted German engineering standards, processes, and tribal knowledge for implementation in successful production at the South Milwaukee facility. These new hydraulic mining shovels are currently operating in 3 continents and at sea.• Directs teams of internal and external resources focused on bill of material restructure, investigation, and drawing conversion of legacy designs from multiple shovel platforms into new corporate information systems. Instrumental in developing guidelines, priority, service strategy, and sourcing. Converted parts earned $116.5 million in sales in 2016.• Achieved highest levels of hydraulic mining shovel availability and production at Ravensworth mine in Australia. Supported the customer through extensive visits to the mine site. Advised immediate corrective actions and targeted design efforts with our engineering department from a very remote location on the other side of the globe. • Coordinated design modifications with the OEM Solutions Group and customer to build the world’s largest dredging excavator Magnor. The successful introduction featured in magazines has sparked engagement with new customers.

Peoria, Il, Us

Member of the Bucyrus Shovel Group and Special Projects team commissioned to introduce the largest-ever 1270 ton hydraulic mining shovel for the mining equipment industry. Created hydraulic system designs with integrated hydra-electric regenerative and high voltage ultra-capacitor technologies. Design role involved new product introduction, product and prototype development, project planning and leadership, systems integration, and technical document releasing. • Formalized hydraulic systems utilizing high pressure proportional poppet valves for main attachment functions that performed better and cost less than traditional spool valves of comparable size. Supported the onsite construction of the largest and most complicated system in mobile hydraulics.• Collaborated with software engineers using D-Space controllers for rapid prototyping of hydraulic pump allocation, speed control and active dampening, and electronic cylinder snubbing. Each successfully validated and introduced as firsts in the industry.• Instrumental in a hydraulic reservoir and cooling system design unmatched on competitive mining shovels through the use of FEA and CFD analysis. Innovative designs regarding internal baffling for cooling, de-aeration, and contamination settling improved component life and reliability.

Irving, Texas, Us

Leveraged experience at the Peoria Proving Grounds to establish a new Test Group for the Forest Products facility which saved operational costs and decreased projects cycles by 50%. Led a team that analyzes, tests, and develops multi-million dollar projects regarding various forest industry equipment. Development role focused on new product and prototype development, model correlation, product stress analysis and testing, fatigue life prediction, hydraulic and cooling system evaluations, test equipment installations, structural weld classification, and software evaluations.• Worked with engineering and manufacturing groups and dealers to identify the root cause of failures of machine log skidders. Team resolved a critical issue for forest equipment which saved $500,000 in warranty expenses and circumvented millions of dollars in possible lost sales if issue was unresolved.• Collaborated with staff members from the corporate simulation center to design one of the company’s best FEA model correlation plans and predict stress levels prior to manufacturing.

Irving, Texas, Us

Member of the Technology and Solutions Division and Machine Development Group at the Peoria Proving Grounds. Initially tested, evaluated, and created multi-million dollar projects involving new crawler dozers and track loaders sold to the construction equipment industry. Product development role involved systems testing, prototype development, mechanical and technical test support, project management, and competitive benchmarking.• Tested an advanced series of crawler dozers including electro-hydraulic control systems and controlled software. Instrumental in helping company gain over $2 million in new business and capture a 23% increase in market share.• Conceived a groundbreaking plan to change the position of undercarriage rollers on crawler dozer models that experienced problems with blade bounce and vibration. Invention helped company improve three models and granted US and international patents.• Designed steering and blade control modulation maps that outperformed previous models and primary competitor’s machine according to results of benchmark studies and customer survey.

Southfield, Michigan, Us

• Worked at a $15 million windtunnel test cell which evaluated prototype automobiles, and tested HVAC systems manufactured by several companies. Gained experience working on a new Cadillac STS model before it was launched in the market.

• Instrumental in testing and developing a device to control and return an automobile’s exterior mirror to desired settings. Helped design a mirror actuator device integrated into Ford and Honda cars and trucks.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration

Study Abroad, Mechanical Engineering, Business Administration