Experience

MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS, LLC.

• Biotechnology Research
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Automation Engineer II

  • Jan 2022 - Present



Berry Global, Inc.

• United States
• Plastics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Engineer - Automation

  • Jan 2019 - Jan 2022



Quad

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Tech Specialist - Machine Vision and Automation Research and Development

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2019

  Research, Development, testing, prototyping, and troubleshooting of hardware and software components of machine vision, PLC, and rtos based industrial control and motion control systems for the printing industry. Spearheaded and developed a reconfigurable vision system application that interfaces with existing control systems and gives our customer new capabilities in quality control, process management and streamlining, automation, and sales. My responsibilites include requirements gathering, prototyping, hardware design (electrical and mechanical), software design, research into new technologies, development, troubleshooting, and optimization of vision systems, real time control systems, PLCs, and motion control systems. I have extensive experience with MIL (matrox imaging library), smart cameras, ocr, barcodes, pattern matching, metrology, particle/blob analysis, edge detection, color analysis, image filtering and processing, unsupervised lighting correction, and much more. I also have some experience with CVL (Cognex Vision Library), CVB (CommonVisionBlox), (Cognex) VisionPro, and OpenCL. I have PLC development experience on Siemens, Rockwell, and Wago; motion control experience with VFDs and multi-axis servo systems on mostly Siemens drives, PLCs, and PACs. Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet/IP, Modbus, EtherCAT, custom TCP & UDP protocols, memory mapped interfaces, encoders, FPGA integration, GPU offloading and distributed computing. Show less



QuadTech

• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr tech specialist - software testing and testing development

  • Jan 2005 - Jan 2008

  responsible for testing rtos based control systems, imaging systems, vision systems, presses and finishing equipment, inkjet printers and their controllers, electrical and mechanical automation systems, networks, etc...I also developed a machine I/O simulator which revolutionized our ability to test in the lab and provided the capability to simulate almost any type of finishing equipment, press, or inkjet printer. prior to this, most testing was done in the field on live running systems which was a high-risk environment to test in. The product tracking scheme i developed for the simulator was later adapted for tracking product on systems with variable product spacing such as folders and digital web-based presses with variable impression spacing. Show less

• field service and shift support technician

  • Jan 1999 - Jan 2005

  provided 24/7 support for finishing and press equipment at quad graphics. i excelled at this position and learned many advanced troubleshooting techniques. i was called on to fix many pieces of equipment i'd never seen or heard of before and never failed at finding the problem.i gained experience with commercial press and finishing equipment, industrial control systems, PLC's, programmable drives, VFDs, industrial fieldbuses, rtos systems, embedded controllers, mechanical design and troubleshooting, electrical design and troubleshooting, safety and safety equipment, web control, inkjet systems, offset presses, and much more. Show less