Conveyor Design Systems, LLC                            Marion, Ohio

Qualifications for MECHANICAL DesignER

 

Self-starter offering more than 25 years of experience in mechanical design and proposal design efforts.  A quality-driven professional with a proven ability to build strong foundations for manufacturing projects.

 

Skilled user of AutoCAD Mechanical 2-D, MS Word and MS Excel.

 

Experienced in bulk material handling systems including steel mill bulk material storage and conveyance systems, and coal fired power plant coal/lime storage and conveyance systems.  Also experienced with numerous platework designs from small to large scale.

 

Have worked in a design capacity as either direct hire or contract, with the following organizations and projects:

 

Adolph Coors Co. – Golden, Colorado (Cans, Bottles, Boxes)                     

Air Control Science – Marion, Ohio (Bulk Material Handling)                    

B-Ten Systems – Arvada, Colorado (Small Scale Robotics)                         

Barber-Nichols Engineering (Military)                                                             

CCC Group – San Antonio, Texas (Bulk Material Handling)                       

Decker Industries – Lake Wylie, South Carolina (Steel Mill)                       

Fairfield Engineering Co. – Marion, Ohio (Steel Mill & Power)                  

Johns Mansfield Corporation – Littleton, Colorado (Packaging)                  

Marathon Oil – Denver, Colorado (Miniature Centrifuge)                            

MK Metal Products – Mansfield, Ohio (Conveyance Systems)

Stock Equipment Co. – Chagrin Falls, Ohio (Power Plants)                         

Stock Fairfield Corporation – Marion, Ohio (Power Plants)                         

Systems Engineering & Construction Co. – Nashville, TN (Steel)              

Tamrock, Inc. – Commerce City, Colorado (Underground Mining)            

Varo Engineers, Inc. – Dublin and Marion, Ohio (Power Plants)                 

 

Work History

(A more specific work history can be provided if requested)

 

Designed a dual-lane live roller conveyor system, steel hinged belt conveyor for scrap metal conveyance, and an Intralox conveyor system. (MK Metal Products, Mansfield, Ohio)

 

Design of a vertical curve conveyor for power plant coal delivery system.  Rated at 2800 tons per hour on a 60-inch belt at 725 feet per minute. (Stock Fairfield, Marion, Ohio)

 

Designed layouts for structural supports, towers, bents, hoppers, plate work, sheet metal assemblies, and other fabrications and weldments.  Designed layouts and components for trough, flat, and pocket belt conveyors.  Designed chute work for conveyor systems, bins and hoppers.  Participated in conceptual overall system layouts.  Created system and General Assembly drawings and design layouts to a project’s final design.  Conducted field measurements and participated with equipment start-up. (Varo Engineers, Inc., Marion, Ohio - Systems Engineering & Construction Co., Nashville, Tennessee - Fairfield Engineering Co., Marion, Ohio - Decker Industries, Lake Wylie, South Carolina).

 

Designed proposal layouts, estimated costing for engineering, design, purchasing, fabrication, delivery, installation, commissioning, and training for proposed systems, and determined preliminary scheduling. (CCC Group, San Antonio, Texas - Air Control Science, Marion, Ohio - Systems Engineering & Construction Co., Nashville, Tennessee)

 

Designed and participated within design teams to create “conveyance and dust containment systems” for coal delivery into power plants and “automated washdown systems” (Air Control Science, Marion, Ohio - CCC Group, San Antonio, Texas - Fairfield Engineering, Marion, Ohio).

 

Designed “alloy/flux conveyance and storage systems” for raw material conveyed into steel mills (EAF & LMF systems) and “bag house system” to contain dust developed from the system (Systems Engineering & Construction Co., Nashville, Tennessee and Decker Industries, Lake Wylie, South Carolina).

 

Team member in the design of robotic systems from concept to detail and assembly of fabricated and machined parts for automotive air bag deployment systems (B-Ten Systems, Arvada, Colorado). 

 

Designed a miniature centrifuge for rock/oil separation that consisted of intricate machined plastic components. (Marathon Oil, Denver, Colorado).

 

Participated in the design of numerous “fiberglass conveying/banding/stacking systems.” (Johns Mansfield Corporation, Littleton, Colorado)

 

Participated in the design, implementation and debugging of mechanical and pneumatic improvements to existing packaging systems.  Designed “high-speed conveyor derailing system”, “full-case inspection/rejection system”, and improved “vacuum conveyor reject system” for aluminum cans, served as part of a design team for a “scrap aluminum can handling system”, “bulk can handling system” and numerous other smaller systems. (Adolph Coors Co., Golden, Colorado).

 

Designed equipment for center-articulated rubber-tired underground mining machines used for face drilling, bolting and scaling.  Machines were designed for both hard rock and for coal and were designed for both explosive and non-explosive environments.  Held responsibility for critical drawings including electrical/hydraulic schematics, details, assemblies and documentation drawings (Tamrock, Inc., Commerce City, Colorado).

 

AEP (Power Plant)

Canadian Gas & Electric (Wood Burning)

Carmeuse Lime (Lime Storage)

Charter Steel (Steel Mill)

Fuchs – Trico Steel (Steel Mill)

Hoeganaes (Powdered Metals)

Ispat-Inland (Steel Material Storage)

Neal North (Power Plant)

NorthStar – Kingman (Steel Mill)

Nucor (Crawfordsville, Hickman, & Yamato)

SRP (Power Plant)           

Steel Dynamics (Steel Mill)

Texas Genco – Parish (Power Plant)

Tri State – Craig Station (Power Plant)