Experience

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  Simulation Dynamics, Inc.

  • Consultant / Director of Training

    • 2008 - Present

    • Engineer: Built computer simulation models of manufacturing processes ranging from single lines to plants and even entire supply chain networks.• Tech Support: Troubleshoot models from clients as well as guided them in modeling techniques while they developed their own models.• Instructor: Developed and taught courses on simulation and simulation software.• Software Developer: Helped develop an in-house simulation engine.• Account Manager: Maintained the health of the relationship with clients.

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  Zepnick Solutions, Inc.

  • Senior Electrical Engineer

    • 2004 - 2008

    • Specified, engineered, purchased, installed, and programmed motor-drive systems.• Performed throughput analyses using discrete-event computer simulation models.• Web-handling drives projects (winders, unwinders, tension control, non-wovens).• PLC programming. (palletizers, high-speed carton sorters). • Project management.

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  Simulation Dynamics, Inc.

  • Consultant

    • 2002 - 2004

    Same as above.

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  HiTech Control Systems, Inc.

  • Electrical Engineer/Technical Lead

    • 1996 - 2002

    • Specified, engineered, purchased, and installed drive systems ranging from fractional horsepower to 700 HP.• Executed the entire engineering process from the feasibility study through start up.• Managed the relationships with the clients.• Project manager.• Designed closed loop controllers for electric machine and fluid processes.• Responsible for maintaining a technically robust engineering work force. Duties included hiring, seeking and providing training opportunities, helping people generate and follow through with their career development plans, and staffing projects with these plans in mind.• Member of a leadership team responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, problem solving, resolving staffing issues, customer strategies, and the overall health of the business unit.

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  Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

  • Adjunct Instructor

    • 1999 - 1999

    Designed and taught a course called Electro-Mechnacial Systems. Topics included dynamics, classical control theory, LaPlace domain block diagrams, analog vs. digital systems, controller hardware including motor-drive systems, power conversion, and controller software. Most concepts were demonstrated in the lab using an AutoMax controller and an Electro-Craft servo system.

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  Northern States Power

  • Nuclear Engineer

    • 1989 - 1996

    • Modeled nuclear power plants. Processes modeled include neutronics, heat transfer, heat conduction, fluid flow, steam cycle, and control systems. • Designed and analyzed nuclear reactor cores balancing safety, fuel cost, length of cycles, spent fuel storage, and margins to operating limits.• Performed safety analyses to license the core design. Analyses were based on putting the core design through many simulated accident scenarios.• Advised management on $15 million/year nuclear fuel purchases.• Reduced fuel costs by $10 million over 10 years through innovative core designs and fuel management strategies.• Instructed engineering classes for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Certification Program.

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  Jacobs

  • Electrical Engineer III

    • 1900 - 1906

    Consulted on a contract basis for special expertise. Scope of applications includes drive system integration, drives tuning and programming, motion control, tension control, and PLC programming.