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St. Louis, Mo, Us

Monroe, Mi, Us

Plans, directs, and coordinates activities relating to all aspects of Automation within the Residential division. This will include production equipment automation, material handling and process automation, and facility automation. The facility automation will include controls for all aspects of Sustainability by Design. Plans, directs, and coordinates activities relating to all aspects of SBD including HVAC, lighting, compressed air, and electricity, natural gas, and water usage. Plans, directs, and coordinates activities relating to physical facility operations, expansions, renovations, capital equipment installation, and major plant maintenance within the Residential Division. To ensure that all project goals are accomplished by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate personnel.

Toledo, Oh, Us

Member of Facility Assessment team for all locations. Played key role in designing coating process that resulted in starting a joint venture for dry lube application to steel coils. Plant Manager during startup and implementing Lean Manufacturing techniques and accomplished getting plant ISO 9001 certified. Developed all job descriptions, work schedule, maintenance supervision, supply contracts, and warranty claims procedure.

S2F Engineering was a custom equipment designer and manufacturer that specialized in automation. There were approximately 25 employees with 3 mechanical engineers, 7 electrical engineers, machine assembly and office personnel. S2F did around $4 million in sales per year. Responsible for all facets of running corporation. Sales, Engineering, Production, Purchasing, Accounting, and Customer Service. Principal person in developing layout and design conceptions for equipment.Inc. magazine’s fastest growing companies in 2004 (rated 304th).Co-founder of company starting as control engineering house for several industries including OEM's, paper, film, foil, automotive, and steel. Some of our customers were Cryovac/Sealed Air, Kimberly-Clark, Holcim, Southeastern Container, and Celanese. Also worked with many machine builders for automation of their machines and designing control cabinets.Extensive use of programmable logic controllers (PLC's) from various manufacturers.Developed relationships as system integrator for Wonderware, Fanuc Robot, Rockwell, and Phoenix Contact.

Erie, Michigan, Us

Conceptualized and designed electrical and electro/pneumatic control panels and servo control systems for automation and handling equipment, utilizing in-house and vendor-based PLC controls and programming features.Programmed, debugged and troubleshot all machine control functions including AC and DC drives, MMI's, and sensors.Used Autocad, Excel, Rockwell (Allen-Bradley), Siemens, Wonderware, Microsoft Office software for design and implementation of equipment.Communicate with cross-functional teams to facilitate smooth operations.Responsible for final startup, operator and maintenance training at various Fortune 100 companies.