Michael — Controls Engineer

Technical Expertise & Experience:

• Extensive controls hardware and software design, debug, and troubleshooting – manufacturing plant and OEM shop floor
• Robots, Vision Systems, Servos, Motor Controllers, Transducers, Ultra-Sonic, Lasers, Welders, Leak Test, Gaging, Signature Analysis

• Extensive experience working with trades, production personnel, and management. Strong training experience
• Extensive experience with production ramp, parts flow, bottlenecks, cycle time improvements, process improvements, downtime reduction, lost build issues, quality and defect issues, open issues management, and engineering work during production SOPs

• Experience with material handling, assembly and testing systems, process control, machining & welding systems

• Extensive programming experience: Allen-Bradley – All PLCs, Siemens Step 7, Modicon, and GE PLCs, and PC based control systems

• Extensive HMI programming experience: PanelMate, Panelview, Intellution, Iconics, WonderWare, HMICE, Visual Basic, HTML-CSS
• InterBus, DeviceNet, and Profibus I/O BUS, Data-Hwy, Mod-Bus, RF, Ethernet, OPC, and serial communications
• High-speed LAN design, installation, and operation experience. Client Server and Web Server system design and deployment

• VB 5.0, 6.0, VB.Net, VBA, VB Script, C, C++, MS-Access, MSSQL, & MySQL database design, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ajax

• Advanced machine diagnostic software & methods. Engineering, plant floor Client-Server based and Web based systems

Project Management Expertise & Experience:

• Extensive team leadership, control system engineering project and IT project management experience
• Extensive experience with productivity improvement, cost reduction strategy planning and execution, and Process Redesign

• Dynamic idea generation and creative problem solving skills. Strong organizational, time management, scheduling and expediting skills

• Effective interpersonal and customer relations skills. Strong training and presentation ability

• Strong workstation PC skills; Microsoft Windows development tools, MS Office, and MS Project