Work Experience

U.S Army GVSC (01/26/2008 - Present)

Senior Mechanical Engineer Technician DE03

6501 E 11 Mile, Warren Michigan United States

As a Senior Mechanical Engineering Technician I am required to perform and provide leadership in physical prototyping laboratory assignments in connection with research, development and field support of mobility components, materials, and processes. This description yields several variants of expertise broken down into the categories below:

  • CNC Machining is my primary function where I am required to setup, program, operate, teardown, and maintain, a variety of multi axis computer numerical controlled (CNC) equipment, as well as several manual machines. Examples of these machines are listed below in the “Machine Experience” section that include machine variants such as mills, lathes, grinders, waterjets, and sheet metal fabrication equipment. Knowing manufacturing attributes and limitations of these machine provides technical support for not only engineering design for manufacturing (DFMA), but for production planning, quoting, and reverse engineering.

  • Metrology is one of my secondary functions that has been an evolving role in GVSC-CSI which initially required data management of the shop certified tools. This requirement was in alignment of the ISO17205 laboratory for data retention of certified, serialized, measuring equipment. As that role transitioned to other hands, I took the role of the Portable Measuring Machine (PMM) subject matter expert by utilizing the metrology experience from years past and learning Verisurf metrology software. Several opportunities fruitioned from learning this “measuring suite” and previous knowledge of Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerances (GD&T) such as reverse engineering, part measuring, quality control, and spacial point plotting.

  • Network Administrator of Shopnet began with myself and a few other coworkers creating a small network infrastructure to replace the need of USBs, DVDs, CDs, and 3.5" floppy disks. This task originally started with running Cat 6 wiring to different machines from layer 2 switches and terminating RJ45 ends to a full network with servers and managed switches. During that period I was adding users, creating groups, shares, databases, setting up RADIUS authentication, RAID configurations, WI-FI, SMB, virtual machines, DNS servers, and running ethernet lines. Some of these technologies started to cross over into other categories of the work environment by means of pure need such as creating a thingspeak site for temperature sampling using a Rapsberry Pi and a SHT31-D sensor to collect temp/humidity reading and forward the results to the GVSC safety department to monitor.

  • ISO14001 Enviromental Managment Representative (EMR) point of contact for GVSC-SIE-CSI-CFM is a volunteered additional duty to which I have overseen since 2010. Our CFM group that I oversee has had zero non-conformances under my lead and is deemed a great example for the organization to follow. The additional duties include monitoring environmental aspects, yearly internal audits, maintaining Safety Data Sheets (SDS), updating EMS 26 database and index for audits, labeling and providing instructions for new and used containers, ordering HAZMART materials, working with safety on safe and effective products, turning in waste products, and reducing Cutting, Forming, Metals (CFM) overall environmental impacts.

  • Unit Safety Officer (USO) duties are to align everyday working activities with federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), National Fire and Protection association (NFPA), and Army safety standards (385-10). Individual responsibilities vary per unit. CFM is primarily a prototype manufacturing facility with inherent risk that require continuous monitoring for the intermediate and prolonged safety of the employees. Weekly/Monthly safety evaluations are done to reduce hazardous exposures such as tripping, falling, airborne particulates, electrocution, material stacking, chemicals, and machines. USO’s are also a large contributors towards proactively reducing risk with safety programs and and risk evaluations such as Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO), machine guarding and interlocks, noise and air evaluations, temperature sampling, egress routes and reducing fire hazards.

  • Data Management and standardization were undefined categories that required modernization of past solutions and the creation of centralized data. Upon my own accord I created the Automated Government Build List (GBL) spreadsheet, from an old template, to automate engineering tasks using a microsoft excel spread sheet and several VBA modules. The Automated GBL became the engineering standard used for all projects in GVSC-CSI. Additionally I created several SQL databases, using a Microsoft Access front end and VBA, to document SDS sheets for EMS 26, tracking purchase requests, recording ISO9001 Measuring Equipment certifications, waterjet part number tracking, and a parts tracker for manufacturing.

  • Machine Repair and Maintenance is another evolving roll that changes with the assets available. I have been formally trained, by several machinine manufacturers, to maintain and repair several variants of CNC machines. This includes the ability to fully rebuild Omax and Flow waterjet pumps ranging from 40,000 psi to 87,000 psi, replacing ballscrew assemblies, replacing servos, coning/threading high pressure lines, rebuilding high pressure head assemblies, replacing spindles, and performing troubleshooting or preventative maintenance. On the facilities side I have wired up CNC machines (120-480v), ran black pipe, install air lines, moved machines, repair cranes, setup racks, and performed other general maintenance tasks upon request.

  • Major Programs Accomplishments

    • Bradley APS
    • Stryker APS
    • Abrams APS
    • Overhead Wire Mitigation (OHM)
    • Gunner Restraint System (GRS)
    • MRAP Egress Trainer (MET)
    • HMMWV Egress Trainer (HEAT)
    • HMMWV Improvement Program (HIP)
    • Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) Urban Survivability Kit (HUSK)
    • Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB)
    • Add on Armor (AoA)
    • Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFP) Armor
    • Robot Deployment System (RDS)
    • Husky blast plastes
    • Squad Centric Mounted Maneuver (SCMM) Vehicle Systems.
    • Travel Lock ERCA (Extended Range Cannon Artillery)

DeLoco LLC (03/15/2015 - 03/14/2019)

Owner/Operator

Howell, Michigan United States

Owner and operator of a physical prototyping machining enterprise that provided customers a unique opportunity to rapidly engineer, prototype, and manufacture products or ideas. DeLoco LLC also provided G Code optimization, manufacturing engineering, 3D printing, welding, and Design For Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA).

  • Physical Prototyping for creators only required a sketched, molded, or CAD designed product to which we could provide a CAD solution that was designed for manufacturing. Our product could be reproduced, at any facility, with cost optimization in mind. This prototype solution could then be 3D printed for fitment and modified in house for corrections as required. The final product would consist of the part manufactured from the material requested or recommended and the CAD required to manufacture against. DeLoco LLC provided not only everyday individuals with the opportunity to create and furnish brilliant ideas, but also provided major corporations rapid prototyping capabilities typically not found with in-house solutions. Customers such as Tesla, Ford, Chrysler, GM, HBK enterprise, and Tooling Solutions used DeLoco as a rapid resource for modifying and producing plastic injection molds that house production tooling for their assembly lines.
  • Optimization of manufacturing processes included analyzing G code and CAM structures to reduce excessive movements, pause times, and tool changes. Some entities, such as Wirtz Manufacturing, used the several years of DeLoco fabrication experience to retool and improve their quality and manufacturing processes throughout the world.

Carbon Tool (11/05/2007 - 01/22/2008)

Prototype Machinist

Livonia, Michigan United States

Prototype CNC machinist that set up low volume or prototype jobs as a Tier 1 supplier for research and development. Description includes selecting accurate feeds and speeds, using correct work holding practices, creating programs for low volume parts, creating fixtures, modifying or editing programs, generating quality reports, keeping a clean work area, and working with and around other prototype machinist to create a productive work environment.

WTI Waterjet (01/01/2007 - 11/04/2007)

Foreman/ Co-Owner

Plymouth, Michigan

Foreman and Co-owner of a waterjet and machining corporation that provided low volume, production, prototype, “cut while you wait”, and public services.

  • Waterjet duties were widely ranged due to the new and complex nature of process. As the subject matter expert of Flow waterjets, I provided troubleshooting experience and insight during the manufacturing process as waterjets are inherently prone to malfunctions due to their many moving parts. I was also the in-house solution for machine repair on all the assets in the shop. There was maintenance such as wiring machines, rebuilding head assemblies, bending and threading High pressure lines, rebuilding low and hihg pressure seals, rebuilding and repairing check valve assemblies, repairing and rebuilding on/off assemblies, replacing hydraulic pumps, replacing baldor electric motors, replacing linear guides and Blocks, replacing Star ball nuts and ball screws, piping in the machines for water supplies, piping in pneumatic lines, replacing pneumatic controls, replacing way covers, replacing servo motors and supporting equpipment, replacing mini hoppers, replacing center supports, replacing drive line couplings, greasing the water jets, and upgrading mechanical parts.

  • Foreman duties included corresponding information with customers, corresponding with vendors, outsourcing overflow work, ordering parts, ordering supplies, controlling inventory of perishable tooling, scheduling employee hours, calling in payroll, writing invoices using QuickBooks, scheduling waterjet and EDM jobs, assigning work orders, creating raw material travelers, create work in progress travelers, label material for certain jobs, controlling work in progress, rearranging the shop floor to increase productivity, creating work instructions, drawing cad files from prints, reverse engineering, and programming flow waterjets.

*engineered the only dual head setup, to run two 12' parts at the same time on the same jet, in Michigan

AB Heller (08/26/2003 - 12/01/2006)

Team Leader/Apprentice Machinist

Milford, Michigan United States

Hired as a general laborer to load and unload CNC machines for production purposes. My work ethic and determination to learn was enough to allow me to work in other departments and learn other machines. This benefit was instrumental when testing for the apprenticeship program to which I was rewarded spot in the program.

  • CNC Machine Operator covered several different parts and machines at AB Heller. At first I learned tool offsets, measuring, GD&T, and how to use several pieces of metrology equipment to maintain quality and performance for the part I was machining on a vertical mill. After learning the basics, I volunteered to move to the “blanking dept” since that area did not have much organization and poor performance. There I learned how to use and maintain CNC cold saws, single disk grinders, and double disk grinders while cleaning and organizing the area to meet the “silver pan” standards of the 5s requirements. After the blanking department had reached it’s near potential, I move to a new section, that had a new part, using new Mazak Multiplexs'. There I learned more about drill geometries, feeds and speeds, carbides, G&M code, APQP, SPC, and how to benchmark processes while charting progress. Shortly there after I was awarded the apprenticeship program.

  • Apprentice Machinist program was broken down into many categories. The object behind the program was to take high performing indiviuals and give them the knowledge to product a higher quality product and process with less cost. These individuals would eventually graduate to Jouneymen Machinist after 4 years of college and an ample amount of time working within each catagory of machine processing. Apprentices would start their transition working in one machining areas (turning, milling, grinding) while learning from a state certified Journeyman machinist that specializied in that particular trade. After I worked and learned those trades, I then moved to Quality Control and Quality Assurance to learn calibration, Range and Repeatability (R&R), Advanced Production Quality Planning (APQP), Statistical Process Control (SPC), and proper measuring methods. That position required me to do first article inspections, process change notifications, statistical analysis/forecast, calibrations, translating GG&T, producing in process prints, and segregate non-conforming product. From there, moved to Process Analysis and Process engineering to which I studied tool life, feeds and speeds, exsessive machine movement and code, excessive operator movemement, and natural errors in the process. My job then was to evalute individual aspects and perform a root cause analysis to further imporve the manufacting process and quality methods.

Wire Technologies (12/01/2001 - 08/25/2003)

Supervisor

Plymouth, Michigan United States

Supervisor of a waterjet and machining corporation that provided low volume, production, prototype, “cut while you wait”, and public services.

  • Waterjet duties were widely ranged due to the new and complex nature of process. As the subject matter expert of Flow waterjets, I provided troubleshooting experience and insight during the manufacturing process as waterjets are inherently prone to malfunctions due to their many moving parts. I was also the in-house solution for machine repair on all the assets in the shop. There was maintenance such as wiring machines, rebuilding head assemblies, bending and threading High pressure lines, rebuilding low and hihg pressure seals, rebuilding and repairing check valve assemblies, repairing and rebuilding on/off assemblies, replacing hydraulic pumps, replacing baldor electric motors, replacing linear guides and Blocks, replacing Star ball nuts and ball screws, piping in the machines for water supplies, piping in pneumatic lines, replacing pneumatic controls, replacing way covers, replacing servo motors and supporting equpipment, replacing mini hoppers, replacing center supports, replacing drive line couplings, greasing the water jets, and upgrading mechanical parts.

  • Foreman duties included corresponding information with customers, corresponding with vendors, outsourcing overflow work, ordering parts, ordering supplies, controlling inventory of perishable tooling, scheduling employee hours, calling in payroll, writing invoices using QuickBooks, scheduling waterjet and EDM jobs, assigning work orders, creating raw material travelers, create work in progress travelers, label material for certain jobs, controlling work in progress, rearranging the shop floor to increase productivity, creating work instructions, drawing cad files from prints, reverse engineering, and programming Flow waterjets.

Gage Marketing (07/05/2001 - 11/30/2001)

Hi-lo Driver/ Inventory management

Romulous, Michigan United States

Duties included: Driving a conventional Hi-lo, a Man-up Hi-lo, an E Level Hi-lo, and a “Ride atop” motorized pallet jack. Other duties included: pulling inventory from a module, reloading the module, auditing inventory, relocating non-conforming material, picking inventory from a pick list, packaging product, loading trucks, charting product movement, involved in inventory meetings, trained on microsoft inventory control software, and cleaned floors and rack in spare time.

Wire Technologies (09/30/2000 - 06/05/2001)

General Labor

Plymouth, Michigan United States

Duties Included: Production waterjet cutting, changing orifices, Changing tubes, setting up jobs, pulling up new programs, changing offsets to make parts to print dimensions, rework of non-conforming parts, filling the hopper, moving material around with a hi-lo, pulling material from trucks, running parts on a Wire EDM.

Antler Construction (06/25/2000 - 09/05/2000)

Labor

Bellville, Michigan United States

Job duties consisted of; Cleaning, sweeping, moving building materials, digging, washing the streets, operating heavy equipment, operating Front-end loaders (Komatsu 420 and 320), operating Backhoes (John Deere), operating Bulldozers (Caterpillar), painting, staining, and heavy equipment maintenance.

Machine Experience

CMM

  • Romer
  • Faro
  • Invision

CNC Vertical Mills

  • Haas VF6
  • Haas TM2
  • Haas EC2000
  • Haas VF6
  • Haas VF6SS (5 axis)
  • Haas TM3P
  • Haas VS3
  • Haas VF9
  • Haas VF11
  • Brother
  • Fadal 20
  • Fadal 40
  • Fadal 3016
  • Fadal 3020

CNC Lathes

  • Haas TL2
  • Haas SL10
  • Hardinge SP1
  • Hardinge SP2
  • Hardinge SP3
  • Mazak Nexus
  • Mazak Quickturn

CNC Turn/Mills

  • Haas SL20 (with Live tooling)
  • Haas DS30SSY
  • Mazak Multiplex

Manual Lathes

  • Wilton Lathe
  • Clausing Lathe
  • Monarch
  • LeBlonde
  • South Bend
  • Hardinge flat top

Manual Mills

  • Giddings and Lewis HMC
  • Bridgport VMC
  • South Bend

Grinders

  • Okomoto CNC surface Grinder
  • Besly Double Disc Grinder
  • Peter Wolters Double Disc Grinder
  • Blanchard #18
  • Gardner

Waterjets

  • Flow 55k Flying Bridge
  • Flow 87k Flying Bridge
  • Omax 60120
  • Omax 80X
  • Omax 120x
  • Omax 2652
  • Omax 55100

Saws

  • Do-All Horizontal band saws
  • Do-all Vertical band saws
  • Tsune50GL CNC Cold Saw
  • Tsune70GL CNC Cold Saw

Deburring

  • Timesavers deburing machines
  • Rotofinishing vibratory bowls
  • Rotofinishing deburing beds
  • VL Rampe Vibratory Bowls
  • Rosler High Energy Tumbler
  • Gibson Shot Blaster

Filtration

  • Ebbco centrifuge system
  • Ebbco Water Filtration Systems

Shears

  • Barcorp Hydraulic shear

Brake Press

  • Ursviken
  • Barcorp

Warehouse Equipment

  • 6000# Crown Fork Truck
  • 12000# Crown Fork Truck
  • 6000# Mitsubishi Fork Truck
  • 4500# Crown Stand up Reach truck
  • Crown Order Picker
  • Crown PE Series ride atop pallet jack

Lifts

  • Gennie Scissor Lift
  • JLG Articulating Boom Lift

Contruction Equipment

  • Komatsu 420 Front End Loader
  • Komatsu 320 Front End Loader
  • John Deere Backhoe

The listed machines above include setup, program, tear down, preventative maintenance and repair

Software

Mastercam

  • Mastercam Solids
  • Mastercam Lathe
  • Mastercam Multiaxis
  • Mastercam Mill
  • Mastercam Mill 3D

Verisurf

  • Reverse Engineering
  • Material Based Definition

FlowMaster

  • FlowPath
  • FlowCut
  • FlowNest

Omax IntelliMax

  • Omax Layout
  • Omax Make
  • Omax IntelliEtch
  • Omax 3D Path Editor

Creo

  • Creo
  • Creo Mechanical
  • Creoview

Microsoft

  • Access
  • Visual Basic VBA
  • Excel
  • Visio
  • Outlook
  • Teams

Linux

  • Debian
  • Manjaro (Arch-ish)
  • Raspbian
  • Ubuntu
  • Gnome Desktop Manager (GDM)
  • Ghostwriter
  • Transmission
  • Nginx
  • LXC
  • Pi-Hole
  • Cumulus
  • Wireguard
  • Nano
  • htop

Other

  • Fusion 360
  • Cura

Education

College

Oakland Community College. Auburn Hills, Michigan

Journeyman Machinst

  • Practical Shop geometry/algebra
  • Practical Shop Solid Trigonometry
  • Metallurgy
  • Shop Drafting
  • Advanced Shop Drafting
  • CNC Machining
  • Mastercam Solids
  • Mastercam CNC Lathe
  • Mastercam Mill Level 3

Certificate

Monroe Community College

  • Core tools: Statistical process control

Mastercam

  • Mastercam Multi Axis
  • Mastercam 3D Advanced Toolpaths
  • Mastercam Solids
  • Mastercam CNC Lathe
  • Mastercam Mill Level 3

Haas

  • Haas 4th and 5th axis
  • Haas Interface and controls

Flow Waterjet Corp

  • Flow Waterjet Intensifier Maintenance 55K
  • Flow Waterjet Intensifier Maintenance 87K
  • FloMaster Control, FlowCut, and FlowNest

Omax Waterjet Corporation

  • Omax 4055 Direct drive HP pump maintenance
  • Omax Premium Layout
  • Omax Premium Make

Microsoft

  • Microsoft Access Level 1
  • Microsoft Access Level 2
  • Microsoft Access Level 3

Vocational School

William D Ford Vocational school, Westland
GPA: 4.0

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC). Hands on skills involving sheet metal fabrication, brazing, welding, electrical wiring, schematic drawing and reading, mechanical and electrical troubleshooting, pressure to air temp ratios, electric motor repair, pipe threading, plc programming, calculating unit to room size capacity, and installation.

Awards

  • National Vocational-Technical Honor Society - Outstanding Scholastic Achievement And Success In Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning
  • Heating/ air conditioning and refrigeration - Outstanding Achievement

High School

Thurston High School, Redford

High School Education

Awards

  • Industrial Welding - Industrial Technology Key Award
  • Industrial welding - Outstanding achievement
  • Michigan student Film and video Festival
  • Sexual harassment Awareness Video Award
  • Video production - THTV engineering expertise
  • Welding 1 and Welding 2 - Classroom Achievement Certificate
  • Graphics 2 - Classroom achievement certificate