William — AUTOMATION DESIGN-SERVICE ENGINEER

Lombard, IL Involved with a start-up company focused on automation for plastic molders. Primarily working on re-design & re-building AEC gantry robots. Responsible for all production assembly, installation and service work. Directly involved with Megatel & MEI industrial computers and Allen-Bradley PLCs. Software development using AB RS-Logix ladder-logic and Visual Basic programs. Knowledgeable with Phase-Motion, Siemens & KEB servo & frequency drive, including tuning and motor parameters. Expert with electrical & digital circuit troubleshooting. Related efforts include installing & servicing Nd:YAG laser marking systems and application engineering of vision computer systems. Also assisting with sales efforts, including estimates, quotes & closing orders.

Lake Barrington, IL Promoted to Engineering Department Manager (with ten direct reports) for a small company with over $12M in annual sales, where I assisted with the introduction of Gen-Next line of products. Provided leadership for 7 mechanical engineers designing PCB material handling products. Design of controls involved circuit & software design & testing for 20 products. Spearheaded a project to design CO2 laser marker to 'print' identifying codes onto PCBs. I installed equipment for all shows, trial-runs and first 3 beta-site sales. Controls were based on industrial PC running Windows NT, with PCI cards controlling I/O, networking & the laser system. Software designed using Borland C++ Builder 5.0.

Lake Barrington, IL Developed low-cost pick & place robot workcells for electronics PCB testing, with 24 robots installed within an 18 month period. This project required managing 2 engineers and a service technician. I designed all software for pallet loading and unloading of cell phones & cards at Motorola CSS. I provided hardware design, technical support, service & documentation for several Motorola plants in the Chicago area. Six robot models provided the ability to load & unload test pallets. Programming was done with IA's Super SEL language and extensive work was put into advanced features, such as single-step, auto-configuration, FIFO buffering options, simple user displays and full diagnostics. All robots were Intelligent Actuator IS-series 3-axis Cartesian systems.

Wood Dale, IL Supervised a group of five electrical engineers in the design of controls for robotic systems for the plastics industry. Introduced a PC-Servo, which increased AEC's robot sales beyond $6 million/year. The PC-Servo provides customers with many advanced features while costing 25% less than PLC controls. From early 1997 to 2000, over 300 PC-Servo robots were installed across North America. Project cost was $500,000 & with sales of 80 systems/year, payback was 1.4 year. This system, based on 80386 & MEI DSP motion card, controls a 4-axis robot for tending injection molding machines. The PC-Servo went through extensive beta-site & environmental testing. Robot control was supervised by a set of multi-tasked C programs running under RMX operating system. End-user robot programming uses a Pascal program within the C application

Broadview, IL Responsible for electrical engineering in a specialized metal products plant. Activities included design, implementation, and support of machine controls, motion controls, & process data collection. Machine control designs involved Allen-Bradley PLC-5 and SLC-500, primarily for steel grinding & polishing operations. Motion control designs utilized AB-IMC, G&L PIC-409, and Compumotor JSI controllers. Servo motors included Allen-Bradley & ElectroCraft. Control software developed using 6203 & APS ladder-logic, MML, PIC-Motion, and Quick-BASIC. All electrical schematics developed using AutoCAD 12 and EEPD+. Xycom industrial computers used for programming, diagnostics, and data collection.

Northlake, IL Successfully implemented several robotic systems involving PCB assembly & materials handling. Experience gained with Seiko, Adept, Intelledex & American robots & vision computers. I lead a team of 12 engineers over a two-year period in the implementation of a robotic Odd-shaped Assembly & Component Insertion System (OACIS). I developed all robot programs using DARL IV (BASIC), and assisted with design of EOA tooling. OACIS, a $1,000,000 custom-designed PCBA assembly system, consists of three Seiko RT-3000 robots, component feeders & end-effectors, an integrated computer-PLC control system & 4 operator interfaces. Knowledgeable with AB & Modicon PLCs, DOS/ UNIX microcomputers, HP-BASIC & VBASIC.