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10 Ascot Parkway, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Pneumatic Scale Angelus is an industry leader in the design and manufacture of packaging machinery for wet and dry filling, capping, can seaming, labeling, and centrifugation applications across the globe.Founded in 1895 in Quincy, MA, Pneumatic Scale Corporation was born when retail merchant William H. Doble realized a device he had developed for sealing and weighing dried currants could be applied to other products. Originally the Electric Scale Company, the firm was renamed to Pneumatic Scale Corporation upon switching technologies from electricity to compressed air. Originally handling only dry goods, the purchase of the Standard Automatic Machine Company led to patents in bottle filling and capping. As early as 1922, Pneumatic Scale Corporation had offices in Chicago, New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo.Meanwhile, in 1910, the Angelus Sanitary Can Machine Company was founded in Los Angeles, CA by inventor Henry L. Guenther, who designed and patented machinery for producing double seams on cans. It was his vision to build a company that would produce the finest machines of its kind, anywhere in the world. His legacy lives on today as the Angelus name is considered the gold standard for seaming.In 1989, the Barry-Wehmiller group purchased Pneumatic Scale Corporation and the company's headquarters moved to Ascot Parkway in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Eventually, PSA expanded into a second building 4 miles away on Allen Road in Stow. By 2007, the company had also acquired the Angelus Sanitary Can Company, bringing together the powerhouse bottling equipment and canning equipment manufacturers to form Pneumatic Scale Angelus. Today, we are one of five Barry-Wehmiller businesses represented in BW Packaging Systems, which also includes Accraply, BW Integrated Systems, BW Flexible Systems, and Synerlink.

Solon, Ohio

Based in Solon Ohio, PPI is a technical communications consulting company with a rich and successful history servicing a wide range of customers and industries, including equipment manufacturing, medical, aerospace, software, and more. Since 1989, PPI has helped companies create, organize, manage, and distribute their content in the fields of technical communication and information management.I was an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team of Technical Writers, Project Managers, Graphic Designers, Programmers, Translators, and Web Application Specialists dedicated to providing customers with a combination of resources not typically available through other service providers.

An integral part of a cross-functional global IT documentation and training services group, dedicated to creating a comprehensive internal IT knowledge base repository.• Identified and addressed recurring revision control issues with select IT documents by redesigning document style sheets and developing, implementing, and enforcing a training plan of new best practices resulting in a 50 percent decrease in errors and rework in a 5 month period.• Created a comprehensive document style guide detailing the procedures, requirements, and guidelines used to prepare draft and final copy for online publishing with the purpose of increasing associate system understanding and to promote self-service.• Created, standardized, and maintained IT procedures, user aids, help text, training material, and how-to documentation to accompany system and application deployments, including those related to SharePoint, HP Project and Portfolio Management, and Service Manager 7. Recognized by global IT organization as having a positive influence on system and application deployments.• Requested by Australian associates to create an extensive Oracle Project Billing (accounting) training and user manual and personally received special recognition from multiple management levels as well as the Australian project management team regarding the manual’s user-friendly format and ease of understanding.• Collaborated with various IT groups to ensure network and process workflows were consistent and easily read by both IT associates and those outside the organization resulting in a consistent and collocated process manual used to evaluate and re-engineer organization processes.• Cross-trained in Adobe Captivate and Microsoft SharePoint with colleagues in tangent job functions to enhance skill sets and improve department efficiency to align with business directives

Created a concise and complete set of ATM Depot Repair manuals through field research and manual disassembly of complex multi-component equipment.• Conferred with project engineers and technicians to dissect equipment to determine the best way to illustrate the steps required to repair the various detailed components. • Travelled to Japan to confer with team leads from Asia-Pacific to learn the technology and component parts for a new ATM model in order to create accurate, complete, and detailed repair and maintenance instructions for the manual.• Acted as technical advisor providing insight and guidance to 10 team leads from across the globe during a 2 week hands-on training workshop where the manuals were used to acquire repair and maintenance competency.• Updated and streamlined the manuals based on feedback and experience during the 2 week training program.

Worked as both a mechanical design drafter supporting manufacturing, and a documentation specialist creating and managing technical and instructional documentation.

Part-time firefighter for the City of Munroe Falls, Ohio. Duties included rescue, fire supression, water and ice water rescue, medical response, and public safety.

Hudson, Ohio

Morse Controls (Currently owned by Teleflex Inc., manufacturer of steering and engine/transmission controls systems for the marine and industrial markets) was an established world leader in the business of mechanical push-pull cables and remote throttle and shift control systems for both the marine and automotive industry. Mechanical Drafter:• Created mechanical detail and assembly drawings from sketches of prototypes.• Matched up drawings with bill of materials and created balloons for item numbers.• Updated marked up drawings for engineering changes.• Created details in drawings to clarify assembly process.• Prepared and coordinated engineering Notice of Change documents.Technical Illustrator:• Orthographic, trimetric and Isometric 3D exploded views• Created Owner and Operator manuals.• Operated a vertical graphics camera and darkroom facility creating in-house halftone PMTs, and final copy negatives for use by the in-house Print Shop to burn offset printing plates.• Operated a one-color and two-color offset printing pressWorked exclusively on the drafting board with either a parallel bar or drafting machine.

Engineering Division, South Broadway Street At West Exchange Street, Akron, Ohio

Contract mechanical drafter for Dineen Enterprises in Tallmadge, Ohio, working for the Firestone Tire Engineering Division in downtown Akron, Ohio. Worked extensively on creating top assembly and detail drawings for the various conveyor belt systems in the (then new) Firestone plant in Valencia, Venezuela.Worked exclusively on the drafting board with parallel bar or drafting machine.

Coursework, Mechanical Engineering

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