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New Ipswich, Nh

Machine designer of all machines built in house for a new line of personal protective vest & other misc. mechanical designs. Working directly with the company's Chief Mechanical Engineer/CEO on these projects. These machines were for phase 2 & 3 of the manufacturing process included: adding mechanisms (cams, gears, pulleys & belting) to an existing stamping press (phase 2); revamping another machine to apply 3 different coats of adhesive to the stock strip to go into the stamping press (phase 2): designing from the ground up two SCARA robot machines to assemble the personal protective vest.Created government formatted drawings & maintained them during the Chem-Bio Tent project.Designed & acted as Project Engineer of a fabric coater with interchangeable coating heads. This project was running in production 4 months after the first line was drawn in the design. This project came in under budget & beat the project deadlineCo-designed a Biomass facility for using woodchip fuel to replace existing oil burning boilers.Did all CAD work for the company using Inventor 2013. This included all machine upgrades, test machines, as well as doing prototypes for personal protective garments, gloves, vests and tents.

Northfield, Nh

11/04-9/05 Sr. Machine Designer-Principal designer of the Flexible & Modular finishing machines. From May 1st, 2004 to August 1st, 2004 I was part of a joint effort with the parent company in Germany to design a flexible finishing machine for the world market at Freudenberg. This required me to live in Germany for that period of time. -More recently I was Project Manager of a $1.6M project, which included 14 different machines. Six trimming machines, Four Leak Test/Greasing machines & 4 assembly machines.-Machine Quoting 6/03-12/03 Automated Machine Group Leader/Sr. Machine Designer-Was Interim Manager of the machine-building group, which included: 4 Machine designers, 3 Controls designers, & 8 machine builders. -During this time I was also the Designer & Project Manager for a project that included 7 lathe trimmers. These trimmers are running & are instrumental in meeting the customer’s needs of both quantity & quality. These finished parts make up $3,000,000+ in sales. 1/00-6/03 Sr. Machine Designer/AutoCAD coordinator-Principal Designer & Project Manager of the Coast assembly machine. This machine doubled the throughput by 50% & reduced the scrap rate another 50%. This included adapting the first two SCARA robots ever used in the company onto this machine.-Principal Designer & Project Manager of 2 In-line finishing machines. Also created standard designs for the different stations on the in-line finishing machine so that only tooling needed to be designed.-Co-Designer of a finishing machine using a 6-axis robot. This machine was capable of running 6 different parts (one part style at a time).-In charge of the continued running of AutoCAD & Mechanical Desktop including training new employees. 1/95-12/99 Machine Designer/AutoCAD coordinator-Principal Designer & Project Manager of 2 In-line finishing machines.-Principal Designer & Project Manager of 12 Horizontal trimming machines.

Became the machine troubleshooter from engineering for a machine that consisted of 28 different stations. This machine assembled the automatic transmission clutch for the '95 Ford Taurus.Also designed the manual stations for the above machine. (6 total).Co-designer of the machine to assemble the explosion canisters for air bags on cars for TRW.

Alton Bay, Nh

Chief Designer & Project Manager for the design and operation of the company’s main moneymaking machine, the carton loader. This included the instruction of the operation of these machines at customer locations and the producing of a manual for each machine.

Designed the Carton Loading machines produced by A & A Technology. Also debugged the machines & went to the customer's facilities to help set-up the machines as well as train their operators on the use of the machines.

Spent 2 years as a machine operator. Spent 2 years designing compound & progressive stamping dies.Six months actual machine work including: milling, & grinding.Designer of prototype machines. Included in the design of these machines, I participated in the assembly, debug, initial set-up & instruction of operating these machines.

Education record

Gibson Engineering Company -DVT Machine Vision Workshop-2000 Inventor 2008 Classes - 2008 Inventor 2010 Update Class - 2009

As, Industrial Drafting, 3.65 Gpa

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