Experience
Licensed Professional Engineer in the Mechanical Engineering field, with over thirty years of experience in custom machine design and build, including product and process development. Highly technical and innovative with excellent communication and project management skills, demonstrated by a proven track record of successfully delivering multi-million-dollar projects on time and on budget. 26 years of experience using SolidWorks including formal SolidWorks training classes (3D parametric design, drafting, Motion, FEA, and CFD).
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Principal Engineer responsible for project management and technical leadership of custom equipment design and build from start to finish. Project tasks include machine concepts, quotation development, cost estimates, sales presentations, specifications, design, build, system debug, documentation, installation, equipment validation strategy, and after sale support. Some of the more notable multi-million-dollar systems successfully developed as the lead project engineer are featured below:
Pharmaceutical
Catheter Guide Wire Hydrophilic Coating Machine - Class I - Div. II environment, UV curing ($400K value).
Catheter Guide Wire Coating Machine – Two machine build, precision heated mold, Pebax coated wire ($750K value).
Lithium Battery Assembly Machines – Three different machines ($1.4M value).
Configurable Contact Lens Manufacturing Machine – Linear motor, vehicle design, nitrogen environment ($7M value).
Bio-degradable Stent Balloon Forming Machine – Fast and accurate balloon forming of a stent device including precision heated stent forming with cGMP validation ($1M value).
High Throughput Screening Systems for Drug Discovery - Peripheral development including fluid transfer, precision dispensing, aspiration systems, Class I - Div. II environment, and robotics ($10M – multiple projects over 5 yrs).
Stent Retention Forming Machine - Critical heat transfer stent/balloon forming process with cGMP validation ($1M value).
Drug Inhaler Component Testing System - Custom torque and snap force testing of injection molded components including vision inspection with cGMP validation ($1M value).
Product/Process Team - Successfully solved customer product and process issues as part of a specialized team enabling the continuation of a high value ($60M) commercial build project.
Industrial
Electric Vehicle Power Train Assembly Equipment – Multiple robotics and dial machines ($12M value).
Mineral Processing Pilot Plant – High temp processing of iron, custom heat exchanger, stainless steel ($15M value).
Custom Thin Film Web Processing Tenter – > 300 FPM web, > 100-foot-long machine, within a > 300 Fahrenheit oven, 60 HP servo drives, custom chain transport system ($11M value).
Energy Storage Cathode Processing Machine - Precision semi-fluid servo driven calendaring ($2M value).
Custom Fastener Delivery System - Automatically installed all the fasteners for the F/A-18E Super Hornet wings – Published SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-3444 ($1M value).
Discontinuous Web Handling RO Filter Assembly Machine - Three different webs.
Custom Color Printing Press System - Dual stream lithography printing press including thermography ($5M value).
Twin Sheet Rotary Pressure Forming Machine - Hydraulics, radiant oven ($3M value).
WORK HISTORY
Bedwell Engineering, SC (April 2011 – Current)
Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing, Madison, WI (March 2010 – April 2011)
Remmele Engineering, Saint Paul, MN (July 1997 – March 2010)
Deluxe Check Corporation, Shoreview, MN (February 1993 – July 1997)
Grimm Brothers Plastics, Wapello, IA (July 1991 – February 1993)
Hamilton Industries, Two Rivers, WI (September 1990 – July 1991)
Winnebago Industries, Forest City, IA (July 1987 – September 1990)
Omaha Public Power District - Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station (COOP employment 1982 – 1987)
EDUCATION
Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Minnesota since 1993 (License Number 22997)
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) - University of Kansas, 1987
Westside High School - Omaha, Nebraska, 1982
Notable additional training
26 years of experience using SolidWorks including formal SW training classes, solid modeling design, drafting, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Motion kinematics of mechanisms (own a license for SolidWorks Premium, Simulation Professional, and CFD), AutoCad, ISO 13849-1 Functional Machine Safety, ASME Y14.5 Dimensioning and Tolerancing standard, GD&T, Simulation of Logistics and Industrial Systems, Web Handling and Converting, Aseptic Processing, cGMP and Validation, Six Sigma, Better Business and Technical Writing, multiple graduate level Project Management courses at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI., OSHA 10 Certified; Global Entry Approved.