Rick Ales Email & Phone Number

• I provide Management, Marketing and Engineering services to fill your resource gaps. I can help plan, manage, design and market your IoT embedded product for a wide range of Industy 4.0 applications including.
• PMI and Agile project management
• System requirements and architecture
• Strategic planning and life cycle management.
• Marketing collateral & Sales tools
• Industrial communications.

1485 Exeter Akron Ohio 44306

• Engineering leadership reporting to the President with the goal of improving WRC profitability by driving process improvement, developing new business and participating in company strategic and financial planning.
• Led new product introduction of automation and aerospace control products that increased sales by 8%.
• Managed product life cycle of Rockwell Automation and WRC brand industrial I/O and communications products and aerospace controllers generating over $3MM in annual sales.
• Instituted PMI management practices, performed lean process analysis and enhanced the ISO 9001 Quality System that Increased productivity while reducing rework and scrap, all resulting in faster time to market and.
• Obtain Product Certification – UL, CE, FAAWRC designs and manufactures both catalog and branded OEM embedded system products for industrial and aerospace customers. WRC participates in the Rockwell Automation Encompass.

Managed and led the engineering team that developed Home Refueling Appliance and Conversion Kits that enable vehicles to use Compressed Natual Gas as an economical and green transportation fuel.

• Automated and Intelligent Products business development,
• Established Automated and Intelligent Product new business that increased related system sales by 25%.
• Conducted Voice of the Customer and market analysis to set requirements and pricing to meet ROI goals.
• Led the New Product Introduction of a basket of “Smart”, intrinsically safe, fluid control products.
• Proposed and managed integration projects typically valued in the $20K - $40K range.
• Evangelized the Swagelok technology vision through presentations at industry symposia, tradeshows, Swagelok global distributor meetings & Sr Sales seminars; also published articles in international industry trades

<> Conceived and developed a series of “Smart” sensors, electronic solenoid valve actuators and networked valve positioners, expanding the Swagelok product basket for the Semiconductor, BioPharm and PetroChem markets..

Designed extended communication protocol and components for intrinsically safe 1797 Flex EX I/O system.ProcessLogix commercialization team.

Designed Gantry Controller with LonTalk protocol and digital Anger (gamma) camera motherboard for the PRISM XP nuclear imaging systems.

I/O Product devleper, 1771-VHSC, 1791-Block I/O, 1794-Flex, Contributor to CIP application layer protocol definition,DeviceNet/ControlNet adapter designs

Designed low watage, High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamp ballasts and electrodes. -- Design of Experiments -- Regression and Statistical Analysis -- Data acquisition design -- Ballast Design – Plasma Physics -- High-speed Video and Fourier Analysis

Bsee, Control And Signal Conditioning

Project Management Certificate