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Cloquet, Mn, Us

Start-up offering handyman services including home repair and small engine repair. Serving my customers with integrity and respect. Also manufacturing raised garden beds.

•Research, design, and build a wastewater treatment system using chemical flocculant, settling, pressure filtering, and water recirculation to remove primer from effluent and reduce water consumption.•Research, design, and build an automated custom process for priming doors up to 10 ft. by 4 ft. including; belt and roller conveyors with 90-degree transfers, flipping and denibbing machines, and PLC controls.•Designed and built industrial ventilation system for new prime line to collect dust. Design included connections to a wide belt sander, custom hoods for denibbing machine, custom hoods for air knife clean-offs, and all ducting.•Personally built and wired equipment in-house.•Research, specify, and source, off the shelf equipment.

Duluth, Minnesota, Us

• Thorough review of structural and architectural drawings, project specifications, and other documents to determine fabrication requirements.• Creating shop drawings for fabrication including detail sheets, gather sheets, cut lists, and generating CNC files.• Field measure customer sites and draw custom hand/guard railings, gates, platforms, stairs etc.• Research American Welding Society D1.1 Structural Steel Welding Code and develop (24) Prequalified Welding Procedure Specifications.• Improved methods of transferring CNC data to shop enabling direct use.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Manage rigging of new jobs, completing engineering changes, and repair and maintain patterns by assigning duties to seven union direct reports.• Design gating and riser systems for new patterns.• Troubleshooting quality issues and developing solutions related to pattern rigging.• Review new designs for manufacturability.• Provide technical support to molding, pouring, and finishing departments.• Order shop supplies and equipment to keep operations running smoothly.• Generate and manage quality control documentation including dimensional reports and gauge certifications.• Lead implementation of 3-D laser scanning technology in the foundry.• Troubleshoot casting, core, and molding quality issues.• Manage pattern and gauge storage.

Duluth, Mn, Us

•Developed positive relationships with customers and internal cross-functional teams.•Completed function checks, testing, limit setting, and troubleshooting of control and safety valves ranging from ½ in. to 36 in. for oil and natural gas pipeline facilities.•Coordinated with the customer and contractors to ensure that all facility devices were installed and functioned according to the engineered drawings.•Pumped up pressure transmitters to verify functionality and calibration.•Maintained documentation for commissioning device checks and daily activities.•Worked closely with customer and contractors to document construction changes and developed as-built drawings using Bluebeam Revu software; collected the data through remote collaboration and personally inspecting facilities.•Reviewed Engineering drawings packages for pumping stations for errors and consistency. •Supported mainline valve site construction periodically as a Craft Inspector. Responsible for ensuring safety of workers and adherence to design drawings.

•Troubleshoot and repaired mechanical and electrical issues on paper converting machinery.•Repaired broken/damaged components or fabricate new as needed.•Welded aluminum, steel and stainless steel with MIG, TIG and stick equipment.•Machined components using manual mill and lathe.•Performed troubleshooting and program modifications for Micrologix PLC controls.•Used the freedom allowed in deciding how to create, repair, or modify/improve equipment to increase productivity or reliability, or expand capabilities of the equipment to process new or different products.•Independently found opportunities to improve machinery and pursued them.•Maintained attitude and practice of fixing machinery right the first time and not band-aiding a problem.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Us

•Collaborated with Engineering and technicians to design system and component tests for military wheeled vehicles.•Conducted reliability/test-to-failure and A-to-B comparisons for new and redesigned components.•Collected stress/strain data for analysis.•Tested components for compliance with government regulations.•Directed technicians working on tests.•Documented test setup and procedure and reported results. •Supported vehicle tests at remote testing locations and obtained necessary secret level security clearance.•Developed interpersonal skills by taking leadership and teamwork training and seeking feedback of coworkers.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

•Worked in Steel Machining Group, taking transmission gears and shafts from forging to finished product.•Improved efficiency and user friendliness of paper inventory management system and material handling work centers.•Responsible for data collection and analysis of supervisor’s 6-Sigma project to determine cause of large discrepancies between on-floor inventory and computer inventory.•Responsible for data collection for cost reduction project aimed at investigating tool life and machinability of non-heat treated forgings.•Designed and collaborated with tool department to build a gauge layout board for a production cell.

Houghton, Mi, Us

•Design part models and complete part/assembly drawings with Pro/E Wildfire 3.0.•Responsible for packaging and shipment to customer of all parts for a large project.

Irving, Texas, Us

•Disassembled and assembled major portions of a Caterpillar D11T track-type tractor while documenting process through pictures and notes.•Wrote most of D11T Engine Supplement and contributed to Machine Systems and Power Train service manuals.•Worked with engineers in the Dealer Service Tools group (Jan.-Apr.) with exposure to diesel particulate filters. •Designed and prototyped, and successfully tested a deflection-measuring tool for load testing engine lifting frames. •Completed Six Sigma Green Belt classes.

Auburn Hills, Mi, Us

•Conducted time studies and capability studies. •Compiled tooling management list for dies, fixtures and gauges. •Disassembled/documented competitor’s products for benchmarking.•Developed a material packaging requirement calculator for new assembly lines based on multiple factors.

Auburn Hills, Mi, Us

•Conducted time studies and capability studies. •Compiled tooling management list for dies, fixtures and gauges. •Disassembled/documented competitor’s products for benchmarking.