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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Production line layout. Equipment Installation, 8 years, Independently handled all design and drafting for Wrigley Manufacturing’s largest U.S. facility. Construction drawings, parts and assemblies, Facilities Design, P&ID’s, 2D illustrations and 3D solid modeling. I performed Facilities planning , Facility and office layouts and design. Asset management, Asset tracking, Documentation control, Maintained the Project Document management system, Drawing and part number Assignment. Drawing Revisions of architectural, structural, civil, piping, plumbing, electrical, part manufacture, and P&IDs. Self Taught Microstation. Also performed Design in AutoCAD. Drawing transmittal's and receiving. Drawing management for contract consultant companies .

PDM software- Agility, Adept - Document transfers. CAD support. PT while employee at Wrigley

Engineering Consulting. Engineering Design . Power Distribution, Equipment Installations, Lighting Design, Pump Station Designs. Performed all applicable calculations under the review of the Owner and Principle Engineer. Visit to Installation sites for measurements and Design meetings. Site walk thrus and Equipment/Panel location. Design of Control panels, Marshalling panels, duct banks . Design P& ID's, Single lines, schematics and Loop diagrams. US Financial Meltdown affected workload. September 2009 I was laid off due to "lack of work".

Engineering support,. Controls Design and Drafting team. Drafting of Conveyors controls and material handling systems. AutoCAD and Manual drafting.

Design and drafting of "custom switch gear". CAD support to cad designers in various departments. CAE: Eplan, Promis-e for wire list and schematic data extraction. Design and management of a CAD Menu system and training of engineers in use for product design. Prototyping of two new product lines of control panels. Heavy customer contact on design and quality. Parts re-specification from Asian to U.S. market. IT support. Promis-e "process owner". HMI- specification. Developed new diagnostics computer for control system. HTML development of faults diagnostic software. Active-x control design. Travel to customer sites for commissioning and repairs- (domestic and international). Sent to Germany to collaborate with software team on software development. Full cycle development of HMI in Visual Basic 6 for MV Drive commissioning. B.O.M. development and ordering of parts through purchasing department. Design of cables and various control panel structural support members. Facility design drawings changes. Interim Project management. ECN's and ECOs on project changes. Created labor routings, assignments and labor time studies. Project management documentation. Coordination with production personnel and product engineers on product improvement, process improvement and error reduction. Production database normalization. Training in Drives, PLC, and HMI. Conducted Commissioning Engineers training and support. Q.A. check of incoming manufactured and stock parts. ISO 9001 procedure writing. Development of OEM manual for products. Autolisp programming.

Part Time employee, not volunteer. Performed engineering tasks. Computer network , PC's and peripherals installation. Co-Designed security features around venues to include: Georgia Dome, World Congress center, the Olympic village and Wolf creek park. Created Drawings and documentation for control of patron ingress and egress. Given Full access to every venue even field and floor level and private areas during games events. This was part time work while full time employee at Siemens.

Bonnier Technology Group ,Advantage Industrial Controls, AMEC , Dean Oliver International,, Atlanta Technical Support-Response Automation, Rosser Lowe Engineers. Atlanta Airport. Er-we-pa.Electrical Control panel design. Engineering support Controls and HMI. Design and drafting in various discipline in "CAD outsource position". Mechanical, Electrical, Facilities and limited civil. GIS power distribution ,mapping and digitization. Manufacturing Design and Construction., Illustrations, Commercial and Industrial lighting design. Machine parts drafting. Contracts taken to remain viable while seeking full time direct.

Computer Hardware and software support. Networking (Novell). Assembly, installation and configuration of hardware and software. Installation of parts and replacements. Computer and peripherals shipping and receiving. IT help desk, international and local - 3 high rise buildings. (Contract position) (I was laid off while budget discussed for my direct hire. Found new job before the offer was extended..)

Electrical and Mechanical design and drafting. Design of weapons simulation systems hardware for training of military and law enforcement. Redesign of weapons to accommodate co'2 to simulate natural reactivity. Mechanical design of system consoles.

Army Reserves . Delayed Entry Program. Enlisted while in College.I am not a protected Veteran. I am Just short of enough "Active Duty days".

Certification, Computer Aided Design-Autocad

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering