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| Career Summary
& Objective: |
Seventeen
years of varied engineering experience in a product development area.
Developed and use strong design/analytical, problem solving, oral
and written communication skills. Interested
in using design and engineering experience in a product engineering
position. |
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Work
Experience:
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1998
- Present |
Lucent
Technologies |
Naperville, Illinois |
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Project Engineer (November 1999 - Present)
 | Responsible for electronic closure doors, cable management and supporting site
material with $15M in annual sales for our flagship telecom switch.
Engineering responsibilities include mechanical design
(Pro/Engineer), engineering support, compliance testing, and supplier
management. |
| Core member of implementation team responsible for the migration
from a drawing to a data centric collaborative PLM software system
(Agile). Areas of focus were data migration, new engineering
release procedures, and integration of Pro/Engineer and Pro/Intralink
data. |
| Developed a next generation EMI shielding door design that resulted
in a $1M per year cost savings. |
| Developed creative solution for a cabinet hardware enclosure
required on a new product. Went from requirements to first
prototypes in 4 months. |
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Pro/Engineer Workload Coordinator (April 1998
- November 1999)
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Managed staff of 6 engineers responsible for
design documentation, project coordination, budgeting, estimation,
scheduling and mentoring. |
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Developed an Access database to track projects,
compare estimated vs. actual hours, create status reports and maintain
historical information log. |
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Created new procedures that reduced cycle time
and increased project on-time performance by 50%. |
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1994
- 1998
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Case
Corporation |
Burr Ridge, Illinois |
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Design / Analysis Engineer
| Responsible for casting design (Pro/Engineer) and
FEA analysis (I-DEAS & Cosmos/M) of hydraulic hitch systems for agricultural
tractors. Developed
analytical tools and benchmark of past, current and future designs to
ensure quality and reliability. |
| Analyzed over hitch mechanism to meet system
requirements and determined performance criteria for individual
components. |
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Developed power sub-system for a new mid-sized
tractor line. Realized
over $1M cost reduction through design and analysis efforts. |
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| 1990
- 1994 |
Coach
& Car Equipment |
Elk Grove Village, Illinois |
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Design / Analysis Engineer
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Responsible for concept creation for sales
proposals, concept design (Aries Solids) through production, and
provided analytical FEA (ANSYS) expertise. Worked with Sales/Marketing to develop new product designs. |
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Developed engineering requirements,
test plans, and performed static and dynamic testing. |
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| 1987
- 1990 |
Atwood
Industries, Inc |
Rockford, Illinois |
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Product Engineer
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Developed new, in-house finite element analysis
ability including software selection (Aries Solids / ANSYS),
development and application. Provided
engineering analysis of products with recommendations and solutions. |
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Performed mechanism analysis, spring calculations,
and stack-up tolerance analysis. |
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| Technical
Training & Expertise: |
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Sheetmetal, plastic, machined and iron casting
component design |
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Assembly, mechanism and weldment design |
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3D Solid Modeling:
Pro/Engineer (10,000+ hours) |
| Finite Element Analysis:
ANSYS, Cosmos/M and I-DEAS |
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Project management: Planning, establishing
milestones, forecasting and target costing |
| MS Office, Access, Spreadsheet analysis &
modeling |
| Web Site Development: HTML and MS FrontPage |
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| Education: |
1996 |
Northern
Illinois University |
DeKalb, Illinois |
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Master of Business Administration
Beta Gamma Sigma honors society |
| 1987 |
Bradley
University |
Peoria, Illinois |
| Bachelor
of Science in Mechanical Engineering |
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