Phil Powers Email & Phone Number

Boulder County, Colorado, United States

Tasks include: Managing all aspects of product development processes, creating concept and prototype models, CAD modeling, circuit design, risk analysis, managing employees and equipment, handling supplier and manufacturer selection, and supply chain management.• Manage projects from concept to working prototype, including evaluating risk potential, proposal submissions, project estimates, researching parts suppliers and manufacturers, communicating and negotiating with suppliers, assessing electrical and mechanical loading, writing C++ code for electronics controllers, circuit design, and prototype construction.• Diagnose and repair equipment failures, including PIDs and pulley systems, averting production crises and bringing business into solid financial standing.• Product development using hydraulics, electronic components, gears, bearings, DC motors, electronic speed controllers, chemically resistant materials, DC power supplies, conducting research, and, as needed, consulting fellow experts.• Hire and manage staff, control equipment and supplies, equipment maintenance, create quotes and proposals, and offer training on Gibbs CAM package for CNC mill and lathe programming and Haas CNC mill and lathe.• Demonstrates product development success on multiple diverse projects. Horizontal oil well pumps, light for dog use, fabric retraction and expansion method, dynamic automotive wing actuator, affordable keg washer for microbrewery industry, and automation for home beer brewing systems.• Developed a new disc golf caddy design that ultimately became Micro Motion, Inc.’s top-grossing product line.• Improve and optimize manufacturing processes to increase throughput and reduce lead times and non-conformance. In addition, enhance first-pass yield, implement single piece lean flow, and improve safety and standardization across world areas.

United States

Pursuing therapy treatment options for at risk or early stage Alzheimer's patients.

Boulder, Co

• Improved and optimized manufacturing processes to increase throughput, reduce lead times, reduce non conformance, improve first pass yield, implement single piece, lean flow, improve standardization across world areas, and improve safety.• Designed, implemented, and filed patent for new product to change manufacturing process from welding to brazing process to improve quality, increase throughput, reduce COGS and reduce overall lead time of the product.• Led and defined technical projects in areas of existing expertise, continuous improvement projects, and burgeoning research and manufacturing areas, working alongside colleagues of all ranges of experience and knowledge.• Learned through workshops, experts, and self study - vacuum brazing, induction brazing, TIG welding, vacuum theory and technology, helium leak detection, lean manufacturing, project management, CIP tools, basic metallurgy, and six sigma tools.• Acted as global knowledge source in brazing, vacuum technology, and helium leak detection, guiding and providing assistance and training to other world areas of manufacturing including Romania, China and Mexico.• Conducted troubleshooting and repaired failures and abnormalities of unique equipment including vacuum furnaces, pumpdown equipment, PLC controllers, induction coils, helium leak detectors, and PID controllers.

Lebanon, Pa And Boulder, Co

• Repaired and modified vehicles performing any work needed including tasks such as engine and transmission replacements, carburetor rebuilds, fluid leak diagnostics, electrical diagnostics, accessory installation, and system malfunction diagnostics and repairs.• Ran small, personal business buying and selling cars and motorcycles, learning skills as necessary to maximize profits including major body work, welding, electrical wiring, frame adjustments, extensive electrical troubleshooting, and effective online sales methods.• Designed and implemented real time data acquisition program for automotive diagnostics using LabVIEW software and National Instruments hardware, gathering, recording and plotting data from MAFS, TPS, O2 sensor and fuel injector signals. • Ambitiously pursued projects outside my area of existing expertise which provided a personal education by experience and study. Some past pursuits include a replacement and partial rebuild of an electronically controlled, fuel injected, turbo diesel engine with virtually no prior diesel experience; troubleshooting and repair of a third-party, custom veggie oil conversion on a turbo diesel engine; capacitor replacement on the PCB within the engine control unit (computer) of a car exhibiting computer problems; learned independent engine control tuning software to optimize performance, fuel efficiency, and engine monitoring methods; and many similarly creative, non-automotive pursuits.

Boulder, Co

• Designed and modeled moderate and complex systems for both new and existing designs using Solidworks, helping new and existing companies to refine and improve their designs.• Grew and managed production - hired and managed production staff; controlled tooling and equipment purchase; sold design and production capabilities; learned, used and trained others on Gibbs CAM package for CNC mill and CNC lathe programming; compiled cost and time quotes for design, repair, and manufacturing projects; learned, operated and trained others on Haas CNC mill and CNC lathe; maintained equipment. Successfully brought production business from financially red to black.• Diagnosed and repaired failures of unique equipment including PID’s, pulley systems, etc, averting production crisis.

Wilmette, Illinois

• Managed a large scale, short-term restoration project on the unique and complex Baha’i Temple with a focus on exterior cleaning and sealing while on rappel at heights up to 200 ft above ground.• Responsible for: strategic planning of closures and resource allotment; task delegation to optimize employee strengths and availability; financial expenditures including equipment rentals, equipment purchases and chemical purchases; logistics planning spanning from overall project timing and processes to rope placement for the safest, most efficient work done on rappel; personnel employment including hiring, termination, and transportation for national and international employees; payroll and worker’s compensation; material management and safety with isopropyl alcohol, ammonium bifluoride, and volatile cleaning agents; crisis management including acid burn treatment for employees, and unexpected chemical behaviors such as applicator hose degradation and window coating failure; acting as liaison between Hadden Restoration owner and Armbruster Restoration president and project manager, in addition to other contractors and project managers.

Lebanon, Pennsylvania

• Facilitated experiential education activities and discussions for a corporate teambuilding and training company. Engaged participants in adventure based activities designed to apply principles necessary in real world/ vocational scenarios and verbally processed how these principles could be applied. Worked with student groups ranging from middle school to college and worked with corporate groups to build cohesion and teamwork. Received Adventure Based Counseling training from Project Adventure.• Implemented creative, strategic, adaptable activities that encouraged mutual dependence, problem-solving, and recognition of essential team and community principles.• Designed, built and maintained high and low cable elements and solid structures. Largely expanded the useable elements of the ropes course including what was the longest zipline in PA, spanning 600 ft.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.8