Robert "Dale" Bryan Email & Phone Number

Gainesville, Florida, United States

United States

Using ground penetrating radar, lidar, friction devices, and reflectometry, determine the quality and condition of roadways, pavement surfaces, roadbeds and paint materials.

Ocala, Florida, United States

Online and in-class instruction of electronics technology subjects ranging from an introductory course to solid state devices and digital devices.

Alachua, Florida, United States

Creating online testing and training documents to reflect current industry standards and technologies including, but not limited to electronics technician and buried pipeline

Gainesville, Florida, United States

United States

8th Grade Pre-Algebra, Comprehensive Science 1 Advanced, ESE Math 7th Grade

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Teaching all grads and all subjects in the Alachua County school system following the regular instructors work plan. Maintain order and handle disruptive students in such a way as to not denigrate them or allow them to impact the students that want to learn. Manage attendance, lunch breaks and records for the regular instructor. Often times there is zero notice so you have to be ready to respond to a call and arrive to the job site early.

Jacksonville, Fl

Contract engineer at Johnson & Johnson Vision Care. Performing machine safety assessments, validations, calculation of existing and required performance levels for safety circuits, create safety matrices, assist with troubleshooting. Programming safety interface controllers. Modify equipment as necessary for compliance with OSHA, ANSI, ISO, NEC and Johnson & Johnson specific requirements.

Eagan, Mn

Onsite machine safeguarding assessment for compliance with OSHA, ANSI, ISO, NEC and company specific requirements.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Accomplishments: Created strong customer relationships to the point that one company flew me to Europe to review a robotic system in The Netherlands even though we already had a technical presence in Europe.Responsibilities: Performed safety assessment/risk reduction reviews to determine level of compliance with local, state, federal and corporate regulations and applicable consensus standards throughout continental North America. Prepared, delivered and presented reports, analysis and quotations of proposed risk reduction systems. Specified machine safety system solutions. Developed and conducted training and presentations on capabilities, products, regulatory and best practice safety standards. Specified redesigning of existing control systems to incorporate control reliability, new functions and/or circuits. Modified software programs in PLCs, safety relays and other safety devices. Performed stop "Stop Time Measurements".

Gainesville, Florida Area

Accomplishments: Improved efficiencies of equipment and personnel which reduced the length and quantity of off-air events, returned the stations to full compliance with FCC and FAA regulations and improved the subjective listening experience. Designed and managed the installation of a high-power strobe system for a 1350’ tower.Responsibilities: Project management, installation, testing and maintenance of all facilities and equipment, maintaining optimal performance/efficiency and Federal compliance of two FM radio stations with four high-power transmitter sites, one microwave relay site, and three studios. Managed the IT department, installation of two hybrid digital (HD) transmitters and associated equipment including troubleshooting computer, studio and transmitter equipment to the component level. Minimized loss of service, and at times of equipment failure; rapidly identified, repaired and or implemented alternative methods of service provision.

Bainbridge, Ga

Accomplishments: Created dynamic marketing materials and modular costing worksheets with matching product/services descriptive material for quick, error-free quotation delivery which increased sales opportunities. Developed drawing standards, modular control systems and introduced control safe systems which combined to reduced costs and improve delivery times. Created world-class drawing packages, HMI applications and maintained good customer relations during challenging startups. Received special recognition for outstanding customer support on three occasions.Responsibilities: In 2005 accepted the position of Technical Sales Manager to create cost estimates and proposals for systems exceeding $25 million (U.S.), interact daily with sales team, engineering, provide training, initial design and when required, installation support. Previous duties included project management, R&D, control system design, programming, and startup. Implemented and troubleshot advanced pneumatic, hydraulic and electric servo control systems for glass press equipment on a worldwide installation base. Assisted in the process of ISO 9001 Certification.

Thomasville, Ga

Accomplishments: Created a vibrant program producing honor students, increased student retention, procured and installed new lab equipment and placed students in three new internship workplaces.Responsibilities: Created budgets, syllabi, tests, managed modern labs, LAN, student recruitment and advisement. Developed and refined course instruction of industrial safety procedures, soldering, DC circuits, AC circuits, solid-state devices, linear integrated circuits, digital electronics, microprocessors, microprocessor interfacing, biomedical instrumentation, communications, robotics, fluid power, motor controls, process control, mechanical devices, and programmable controllers.

Greater Atlanta Area

Accomplishments: Through careful observation, identified defective QA systems that had plagued a major manufacturer's engine line. Improved HMI graphics, panel designs and maintained solid customer relationships.Responsibilities: Complete system integrations ranging from operator panel design to robot cell safety with emergency stop control systems following NFPA-79 ANSI and OSHA standards. Control system design and startup for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler plants, integrated custom robotic machine centers into existing CNC machines. Programmed Allen-Bradley PLCs, PanelView products and VFD’s. Site management of installations and start up of multi-million dollar projects.

Greater Atlanta Area

Accomplishments: Created standards for control cabinet designs, operator stations, power and emergency stop circuit designs which reduced costs and lead times. Due to my broad ranging background and proven innovation, assignments were issued for most of the retrofit, one of a kind or emerging technology projects. Found an elegant, legal method to increase the effective I/O count of an otherwise limited Wonderware HMI I/O point license by a factor of 15.Responsibilities: Site surveys, complete written system specifications, control system design, optical layouts for vision systems, customer training, field startup management, Wonderware HMI development and CAD resource management. High level of customer and vendor interaction, field and in-house training, and support. Researched new technologies and created feasibility and utilization studies.

Ocala, Florida Area

Accomplishments: Developed two separate electronic methods for non-destructive lumber testing. Increased production and reduced down time in two plants utilizing a variety of PLC, motion control and SCADA systems by adding mechanisms and new programming as well as creating training and step-by-step documentation for efficient system-specific troubleshooting.Responsibilities: Relocated an entire production plant, developed new process lines, and integrated new systems with seven major machine centers. Specified and supervised electrical purchases and installations from utility feed transformers to operator stations. Developed and coordinated all mill programming, electrical, mechanical, safety and environmental control equipment. Provided engineering, technical support and troubleshooting aids for plant maintenance.

Bs Electronics Engineering Technology, Engineering

Activities and Societies: Dean's List

As Computer Engineering Technology, Electronics

Aa General Education, General

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