15 YEARS CONTROLS ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE.
•PLC’S: ALLEN-BRADLEY RSLOGIX5, RSLOGIX5000, CONTROLOGIX, RSLINX, RSNETWORX, DEVICENET, PLC5-6200. TELEMECANIQUE UNITYPRO, PL7PRO. TAYLOR PROWORX.
•HMI’s: PANELBUILDER32, RSVIEW, MAGELIS, PANELMATE PLUS
•COMMUNICATIONS: DEVICENET, RSNETWORX, RSLINX, RIO, DH+, PROFIBUS, UNITELWAY, FIPIO, FIPWAY, PROFIBUS, INTERBUS-S.
•CONVEYORS: ABB, COMAU-PICO, DURR, WEBB, I-R, BOSCH.
•ROBOTS: ABB-IRC5, ABB-S4C, NACHI-AX, NACHI-AW.
•POWERTRAIN ASSEMBLY, PRESS, TRIM, FINAL, BIW, WELDING, HOT/COLD TEST, URETHANE, RTV, FLUID FILL.
Employment History
2/2009 – Present Electradyne LLC Warren, MI
Project Controls Engineer
•Contract consulting for tier 1 and tier 2 automotive suppliers, controls engineering, process analysis, managing factory information systems.
10/2008 – 2/2009 Durr Ecoclean / G-Tech Wixom, MI
Controls Project Engineer – Assembly and Test
•Contract Controls Engineer for a diesel engine program. Designed controls for machining, assembly and test stations.
•Created controls designs per customer specifications and standards.
11/2006 – 8/2008 Kuka Corporation Sterling Heights, MI
Controls Project Engineer – Automotive Trim, chassis and final assembly
•Designed control systems for new and re-tooled automotive assembly systems. Supervised electrical installations. Estimating projects.
•Designed electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic drawings per customer specifications. Customer approvals, documentation control, ordering material. Root cause analysis, problem solving.
1/2006 – 10/2006 Electradyne LLC Warren, MI
Controls Engineer – Automotive Robot Welding Systems
•Contract position designing controls for body-in-white robot welding systems.
6/1997 – 12/2005 ABB Inc. Auburn Hills, MI
Controls Project Engineer – ABB Powertrain Assembly Division
•Lead Project Engineer designing control systems for assembly lines, axles, engines and transmissions. Created software standards for customers.
•Supervised engineers on projects, installations, buy-offs, maintaining schedules and budgets. Estimating and quotation duties.
6/1992 – 6/1997 Controls Systems International Warren, MI
Controls Engineer
•Designed control panels for new and re-tooled assembly machines. Supervised the Autocad department. PLC/HMI programming.
•Panel building, wiring and troubleshooting of control panels.
1984–1990 Jervis B. Webb Company Farmington Hills, MI
Engineer – Webb Electric
•Designed field wiring and conduit layouts for automotive conveyor systems, commercial buildings, and mining operations.
•Duties included estimating, project quotation, supervised and trained CAD department personnel.
1983–1984 J.I.C. Electric Detroit, MI
Detailer, Engineer
•Detailer for electrical ladder diagrams, engineering and blueprinting.
Education Kendall College of Ferris State University Grand Rapids, MI
•Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design, Six Sigma green belt, 5s trained.
Skills
•Responsibilities in Project Management, cost reduction of electrical and controls project budgets of + 3 Million USD.
•15 years programming PLC’s and HMI’s.
•10 years electrical design and troubleshooting of machinery, PLC hardware, communications, power distribution systems, robotics, pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
•5 years integrating servo and VFD drives.
•Started in the industry field wiring, panel building, and panel wiring.
•Awarded “Supplier of the Year” for three consecutive years.
•NEC, CSA, ANSI, NFPA, OSHA, ISO Standards.
