I started Axis Engineering in 2008 after working as a machinist and tool designer for 16 years. We produce high quality CNC machined components for many different industries. We also offer mechanical design services with the advantage of having our own manufacturing facility. We use the latest version of Solidworks as our primary design software, but we are not afraid to read prints from 1920 either! Axis r/c, a division of Axis Engineering, was launched in 2010 to produce exciting products for the radio control hobby industry. We currently sell these products through various distributors as well as direct via our own website, axisrc.com.

At G&V, I designed tools, jigs and workholding fixtures to machine components for the heavy equipment industry. Fixtures ranged in size from hand held to many thousand pounds. Complexity ranged from "quick and dirty" to fully hydraulic, multi station set-ups. My responsibility was to fully engineer and oversee production of fixtures from pre-production planning to final inspection as well as ongoing maintenance and updates. Duties also included supervision of selected production employees, working with CNC programmers, QA personnel, the maintenence dept. and anything else it took to ensure projects got done.

Mechanical design / CNC and toolroom machinist. In this position, I would design tooling and fixtures and prepare drawings for the toolroom and see projects to completion. I would also program, set up and run Traub 6 axis lathes with bar feeders.

CNC machinist and programmer making high tolerance parts for the medical and aerospace industries. Responsibilities were to program, set up and run parts to print on CNC lathes with live tooling, vertical machining centers and manual machining equipment. Designed and built jigs and fixtures as needed.

Manual machinist making parts to print on old mills and lathes. This was a summer job while I went to trade school in an "old school" shop full of cigarette and cutting oil smoke. I made everything from copper bus bars to delrin bushings to re-threading old tractor axles.