To obtain a career position in an office environment where I can use my 9 + years of engineering, project management, administration and production efficiency implementation experience, as well as my marketing and web designing ideas.
 

Experience:
1994 - Current: Custom Electronics, Inc. (Oneonta, NY) 

Asst. Engineering Manager: 2003 – Current
    · Direct engineering department in design, research, and prototype areas.
    · Supervise 8 people in daily tasks and project management.
    · Oversee building maintenance and preventative maintenance.
    · Visit customers to initiate new sales and review current projects.
    · Provide daily updates to the General Manager as to the status of R&D projects.
    · Lead meetings to investigate reliability of components and assemblies.
    · Approve all engineering drawings and changes.
    · Initiate the companies push toward lean manufacturing.
    · Look for new products that fit within the company's core competencies.
    · Strive to meet and exceed productivity goals for engineering employees.

Design Engineer: 2002 - Current
    · From customer specifications, design complex, detailed, high voltage product layouts for my employer, a defense sub-contractor.
    · Work with production and assembly personnel to teach the best techniques, to insure the product is manufactured properly. 
    · Write Engineering Change Notices.
    · Write Testing Specifications.
    · Write Operating Procedures.
    · Authorize and Approve final drawing packages and Production Routers.
    · Establish time ranges for production operations.
    · Interact with Customers, to answer technical questions. 
    · Interact with Sales, to insure the product can be manufactured and estimated. 
    · Lead teams of Prototyping to insure the proper techniques and standards are used. 
    · Ensure compliance with various national standards.

Jr. Design Engineer: 1998 - 2000
    · Work with seasoned Design Engineers to learn the product line. 
    · Work with production and assembly personnel to learn the best techniques, to insure the product is designed properly. 
    · Continue to learn and grow with the company and its product lines. 
    · Interact with Customers, to answer technical questions. 
    · Interact with Sales, to insure the product can be manufactured, and properly estimated. 
    · Lead teams of Prototyping to insure the proper techniques and standards are used. 
    · Write, maintain, and update documents and specifications in an Engineering change controlled facility.

Manufacturing Engineer:  1995 – 2000
     · Design tools and fixtures for new designs.
     · Design tools and fixtures for old designs to aid in production.
     · Design various equipment for production uses.
     · Work with maintenance on new equipment design and implementation.
     · Work with molding department to develop new and improved mold designs.
     · Work with machinists to incorporate required mold designs.
     · Create new mold designs and drawings.
     · Evaluate / recommend new equipment for production.
     · Work with Production employees to alleviate assembly problems.

Note:  Saved the company thousands of dollars by choosing equipment that was more efficient, and easier maintained than previous equipment.  Reduced work related injuries, labor time in units and order-to-delivery time by searching for equipment to aid the various departments.  Swiftly solved problems by finding equipment to relieve work related injuries due to repetitive stresses, reduce labor time, and increase product reliability.  This has saved thousands of production hours as well as money saved from possible lawsuits and injuries.

Sales Manager: October 2000 – 2002
     · Multiple managerial responsibilities.
     · Track sales and marketing efforts.
     · Implement new sales tactics.
     · Generate Sales, enter orders into AS/400
     · Coordinate deliveries with production schedules and capabilities.
     · Establish better sales and marketing methods for entire department.

Note:  Within 1 year in the sales office for Custom, the sales have gone from two years of selling $3.0 million dollars to two consecutive years of $4.0 million dollars.  I have negotiated several multiple year contracts with new customers, while regaining past customers.  The customer base has grown 25%.

CAD Systems Coordinator: 1994 - Current
     · Evaluate new CAD software & software upgrades for CAD.
     · Teach others how to use our CAD software
     · Use CAD to generate drafting level drawings.
     · Troubleshoot CAD software and hardware.
     · Order CAD Supplies, computers and software
     · Set-up and install CAD software, hardware and computers.

Note:  Saved the company approximately $20,000 by choosing a software that is adequate for their needs, without the un-needed functions.

Web Master: 1997 - Current
     · Create, design, update, maintain and promote the company's web site http://www.customelec.com
     · Designed all graphics for the web site.
     · Established domain name to allow growth and avoid problems in the future with changing e-mail
     · Established multiple e-mail address system for company and its employees.
     · Interact with the Internet Provider to reduce costs and achieve higher level of service.
     · Advertise the company web site extensively (with almost no cost to the company!).
     · Established an extensive link program.
     · Maintain and redesign entire site as needed. Develop techniques to gain site "hits" and visits.

Note:  With a cash outlay of less than $10,000.00, I have generated approximately $500,000.00 per year of business with new customers due to the web site.

IT Administrator:  1994 - Current
     · Determine need for, quote, purchase, install, upgrade, maintain and teach the uses of networks and operating system platforms. 
     · Work with technical support groups to insure the best choice of hardware and software for the company. 
     · Set-up P.C.'s throughout the plant and modernize data collection capabilities.
     · Establish best means of communication for various systems; Win 95, Win 98, Win NT 4.0, Win 2K Pro, Win XP, and AS/400. 
     · Write, maintain, and control security for Access Databases and Excel Spreadsheets
     · Determine proper back-up media and technologies to safeguard the company documents and perform regular back ups. 
     · Continually learn newest technologies of the computer industry, to insure that the latest hardware and software items are installed. 
     · Establish and maintain a complete, company wide network on multiple platforms.
     · Install new hardware, including memory, video cards, controller boards, and hard drives.

Notes: Created multiple, complex databases for CEI, which shares data via a network with various departments, thus increasing efficiency and reducing errors.  The Engineering, Production, Executive, Sales, R&D, Purchasing, Inventory Control and Shipping departments have enjoyed the use of free data exchange, and thus enabled the company to operate efficiently with fewer employees.
 

1997-1998
Egli Machine Co., Inc.

Systems Trainer:
     - Determine employees skill levels.
     - Design a training schedule.
     - Teach CAD and CAD related software to machinists.
     - Evaluate the employees after training.

1993-1995
Delaware County Correctional Facility

Corrections Officer:
     - Ensure the basic civil rights for the inmates.
     - Protect inmates from danger, and from themselves.
     - Maintain peace and order in the jail cells.
     - Controlled and stopped any skirmishes before the erupted into larger problems.
     - Determined if an inmate was suicidal and harmful to himself/herself or to others.

• I have extensive experience in the operation of a variety of hardware and software applications

and computing platforms including :
 
• HARDWARE:

• SOFTWARE; GENERAL

• Furthermore, I have had substantial experience in the aspects of marketing procedures.

 
• I also have practical experience training individuals in the use of computer systems and software

applications, as well as comprehensive understanding of interoffice data communications,
networked applications, systems design and maintenance, data base applications and designs,
as well as processing procedures.