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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn

• Design mechanical systems for workholding, automation, and manufacturing solutions• Communicate consistently and effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure orderly integration of mechanical design with electric controls, automation components and manufacturing processes• Lead design reviews with customers, clearly communicating solution to attain approval and purchase order• Compile BOM, create detailed design prints, order materials, and plan manufacturing to deliver solution on time• Perform run-off for acceptance and install Industrial Tool, Inc.’s solution into customer’s manufacturing process• Support sales team through project cycle, including customer visits, quotation processes, and project revisions

Rogers, Mn

• Conducted cost/benefit analysis of adding fountain to product line• Created motor housing, propeller, nozzles and other components to produce fountain patterns from a submersible motor using SolidWorks 3D CAD software• Reviewed technical drawings with suppliers, determined production processes for metal and polymer fountain components, and created sourced BOMAccomplishments:• Successfully introduced the Vitaflume(R) floating fountain to Lake Restoration, Inc.'s 2017 product line.

Mequon, Wi

• Designed noise enclosure for etching machine with counterweight and alignment system to meet OSHA noise standards and improve ergonomics and overall efficiency of part number etching process.• Developed CAD models for analytical analysis, dimensioned drawings for production, and a sourced BOM for ordering.• Assembled improved system on-site that exceeded the goals initially set by General Metalworks.

Rogers, Mn

• Provided solution-oriented sales service to customers across the country by phone and in-person.• Sold over 500 TORMADA™ units since March 2015• Managed quality control for TORMADA™ by inspecting received components for defects and directing the testing procedures and approval of assembled boats• Catalogued customer complaints and issues and determined corrective and preventative design or production changes after performing root cause analysis• Performed production review and reconfigured supplier selection, assembly processes and quality control procedures in order to improve the quality of the TORMADA™

Rogers, Mn

• Piloted a team through an iterative product design cycle for a chemical application tool.• Consulted customers, conceptualized ideas, built/tested prototypes and problem-solved tobalance innovation, performance, ergonomic and other considerations in a way that provided themost value to the customer.• Designed and introduced the TORMADA™ to the market; a remote-controlled application boat that enables homeowners to remotely treat their lakes and ponds for aquatic weeds and algae• Created a continuous revenue stream for the company’s algaecides by using the TORMADA’s refillable design