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Rancho Bernardo

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Manufacturer of electro-hydraulic valves and actuators for nuclear and aerospace systems.
• Manage 18 engineers, test technicians and contract employees
• Supervised flight qualification environmental, endurance, fatigue, thermal, icing, electrical, performance, and vibration testing of electro-hydraulic valves and actuators.

Independence MO

• Operating contractor for the US Army’s Lake City Ammunition plant, a 4,000 acre, facility, which produces small caliber ammunition.
• Managed electrical engineers supporting 7.62, Caliber.50, and 20mm ammunition production lines consisting of 6 direct reports.
• Responsible for improving and integrating shop floor data collection and MES systems with corporate IT network and business systems

Radford, VA

• Operating contractor for the US Army’s Radford Ammunition plant, a 4,000 acre, 2,000 building facility, which produces propellants and energetic materials.
• Managed facilities process control and electrical engineering staff consisting of 10 direct reports.
• Responsible for all control and electrical projects with total annual ATK funding in excess of $5 million as well as the Army's $168 million dollar modernization program.
• Championed the implementation of plant wide process data historian and web based portal for plant data visualization and data analysis currently seeing 20-40 users daily including plant GM/VP.
• Responsible for moving control and electrical systems from the 1980s to state of the art.
• Selected for Key Talent Incentive Plan, offered to only the top 2% of employees.

• Privately owned manufacturer of custom automated guided vehicles utilizing laser and embedded wire navigation
• Managed project engineering, software development, automated guided vehicle design (electrical, mechanical, software), manufacturing, IT support and QC/Documentation departments consisting of 13 direct and 20 indirect.
• Responsible for all aspects of Automated Guided Vehicle design (mechanical, electrical, software), production and project implementation.
• Implemented design review process for vehicle mechanical and electrical design to lower costs, improve quality, and reduce delivery times.

• World leader of large-scale ozone generation systems which are custom designed, complex electro-mechanical process systems.
• Managed project engineering group of 10 engineers (electrical, mechanical, software), 4 CAD designers, document specialist, and IT support specialist.
• Conducted project design reviews for electrical, mechanical, process, and software designs.
• Reviewed sizing and selection of: pumps, valves, piping, compressors, fans, blowers, heat exchangers, air dryers, cryogenic storage tanks and evaporators, cooling towers, and chiller systems.
• Designed and reviewed ISA P&IDs, equipment layout drawings, piping drawings, system layouts control system architectures, control system strategies, schematics, and ISA loop diagrams.

Member Board of Directors, PCI Inc. Youngest board member of PCI Inc., parent company of PCI Ozone and Control Systems, Inc. Involved in decision process for real estate and electrical distribution subsidiaries, insurance, employee benefits, budgeting, and corporate wide P&L.Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing Managed engineering, research and.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: WRPI, RPI Players, UPAC

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