Worked maintaining a wide variety of old and new equipment to make specialty filters used in food and general industry as well as biomedical devices. Familiar with GMP. Most difficult thing was troubleshooting with limited prints, such as schematics and mechanical drawings on older equipment. Qualified Electrical Worker (QEW)

Maintain automated equipment use to make products in the health care industry.

Remote service technician that maintains a scanner passing across paper being manufactured. An encoder marks the position taking 600 snapshots per pass of the papers moisture, weight and thickness properties. The feedback goes through a QCS computer controlled system and positions the actuators (machinery) that dispenses the material at the start of the process and applies necessary corrections to achieve the desired set points. Worked with radiation, microwave, encoders, sensors, drive motors and controllers. Certified for radiological work, NFPA 70E and OSHA 10. Greif Paperboard, our customer, had an equipment upgrade that included service for a year, so our contract was not renewed. The site contact is one of my references.

Worked in the automotive industry with gaging equipment that measured cam and crank shafts dimensions. The cam or crank would rotate, while another measuring device would record the dimensions - down to a micron. Worked with encoders, optical glass scale measuring devices, magnetic and optical limit switches, drive motors and controllers, GE Fanuc and Allen Bradley PLC's, point to point wiring, component level troubleshooting. Routinely traveled the United States, Mexico and Canada for installations, repair and maintenance. Since I left, about 70% of the company has been retired, furloughed or layed off.

Due to my short tenure, I almost did not include this. Hired to test and install Ion Implanters used in the semiconductor industry. The company expected tremendous growth that never materialized. Worked with the usual electro-mechanical equipment - closed looped control systems, sensors, controllers and vacuum systems. My last day of work at Evergreen was a Saturday. My first day of work at Varian was the following Monday. When it became clear the orders would not come in, I was fortunate to find work at Adcole without skipping a beat. HR and my fellow workers were very happy for me, as I wish them the best as well.

Yes, I wrote the letter to the newspaper linked below. Moving on: worked in metallization of solar cells. This is a high-tech technician position to maintain and repair a variety of equipment. It is high volume production that uses a silk screen process that coats metals on silicon wafers and bakes the material at a number of steps, later - lasers the edges, test the wafers and sorts them by their electrical and visual characteristics. This requires troubleshooting point to point signal tracing from PLC's to various components; 24 volt control and feedback loops; various instrumentation; working with 3 phase motors; controllers; furnaces; dryers; silk screen printers; material handling; product testing and other equipment. Worked with the smallest, most delicate electronics up to industrial size motors. Extremely automated. Wrote/Write (till day's end) Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) for various aspects of cell manufacturing and support equipment. Fully familiar with Microsoft Office and other programs. Excellent communication skills. Member of the Emergency Response Team. Due to the falling price of solar panels, the company was no longer profitable and closed March 2011.

Worked in photolithography, manufacturing computer chips as a high-tech technician in a class 1 clean room. The job used virtually all aspects of science. Chemicals were deposited on silicon wafers where a picture of the chips circuitry would be exposed and developed. Extensive electro-mechanical skills, pneumatics, sensors, temperature control loops, close system servo loops for mechanical placement and alignment of wafers, focus settings, laser operations, light filtering, vacuum generator, refrigeration systems. Wrote reports and Standard Operating Procedures for various aspects of production. Applied 6 sigma and lean manufacturing techniques. Intel was very up front that the Hudson plant was scheduled for shut down.

Worked from home as a Field Service Technician for the installation, repair and maintenance of various packaging equipment. Worked closely with the company's sales persons and distributor to generate sales of equipment and the packaging material as well as maintenance. Intensive use of electro-mechanical skills, pneumatics, heat sensors, proximity switches and so on. The packaging equipment is used in virtually through out all industries. The patent on the "Bags on a Roll" expired and intense competition made the company's survival questionable. They have since been sold to Sealed Air Corporation.

Customer Service Engineer working in photolithography. Hired to install, test and maintain equipment used to coat and develop wafers for the Pentium IV processor. Job required extensive knowledge of electronics, pneumatics, refrigeration, mechanical interface and chemistry. Accepted voluntary lay off to accommodate downsizing during industry slump.

Contractor hired to test and debug gas and steam turbines worldwide. Instrument hundreds of temperature, flow and heat points over a given period of time under strict operating conditions. Collected and analyze data to research new and modified turbines, as well as prove equipment meets contractual guarantees. Often political, and involves the consent of the manufacturer, customer, and contractors building or renovating each unit. Extensive use of Visual Basic and other Windows programs. Use IBM and Compaq laptop computers to develop software to interface with Hewlett Packard devices, Kaye Netpac, Scanivalve and other peripherals for data collection. Operated and maintained chromatographs used to analyze natural gas. Extensive domestic and international travel, often to remote areas in third world nations. Reasons for seeking another job: While this is an extremely high tech and professional position, a fair amount of time is spent in undesirable and often-dangerous work situations.

Field Service Technician. Maintained equipment found in and around control rooms, such as indicators, controllers, PLC's and recorders for a variety of applications such as temperature, pH, pressure, conveyor belts speed, flow rates, etc. Familiar with common sensor inputs and controls, such as thermocouples, millivolts, pneumatic systems, RTD's, and transducers. Maintained service contracts with respect to cost ratios and customer satisfaction. While solely responsible for New York State Southeastern Division, was able to achieve a cost ratio of $.40 from $1.20 per customer dollar spent. Have worked on tunnel ovens, environmental chambers, kettle and batch mix operations, furnaces, storage tanks, autoclaves, freezers, warehouses, sanitation, public water facilities, tempered metals, caustic chemicals, bakery, incinerator, crematory, and other processes for companies that made wallboard, dyes, pharmaceutical, glass, temperature treated materials and various chemicals products. Left Honeywell to take advantage of the educational benefits earned while on active duty, before they permanently expired.

Honorable discharge with the rank of E-5. Bench checked "black boxes", that were actually grey, on the F-111 aircraft. Maintained and repaired microwave transmitters, receivers, and modulators used on the aircraft, as well as supporting digital test equipment. Worked with various registers, counters, flip flops, transistors, resistors and other chip level repairs, as well as modular replacement of RF microwave equipment. Familiar with test instruments such as oscilloscopes, frequency counters, spectrum analyzers, and other associated devices. Served as an Air Force representative to General Electric for technical publications review. While stationed at Plattsburgh, exposed a discrepancy in testing the Antenna-Receiver that resulted in a mean fail rate of 120 hours from the previous rate of 18 hours flying time.