Steve Yewell

Experience

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  VETCO Offshore Inc

  Jan 1982 - Jan 1983

  Manual Machinist

  Duties included production and repair of oil field tooling and equipment utilizing a variety of manual lathes and mills. VETCO was a job shop environment with control tolerances of +/- .003.

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  Applied Precision Products

  Jun 1983 - Jan 1988

  CNC Machinist

  Set-up and operated CNC milling centers that included light programming and production fixture construction. APP is a producer of medical, civilian/nuclear power, military and aerospace products. APP is a job shop environment with control tolerances of +/- .0001.

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  Mark IV Industries

  Jun 1988 - Feb 1993

  "A" Machinist- CNC Milling Centers

  Program, set-up and operate CNC machining centers. I was responsible for design and construction of production fixturing, work flow management, concurrent second operations and deburring. Perform first article inspections & document control for milling departments design revisions. Conventional and CNC lathe operations, and conventional and CNC mill operations (Vertical and Horizontal). Perform Yasnac 3000, Bridgeport TNC 2500, Dyna Path20 and FANCU 6M control functions. Perform tool grinding and construction. Trained & certified as a Total Quality Management Facilitator and an original member of Mark IV's Executive Leadership committee. Mark IV produces aerospace and nuclear products in a CAD/CAM, MilSpec. environment with control tolerances of +/- .0001. Vis mindre

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  Computer Controlled Machines of Minnesota Inc

  Feb 1993 - Jan 1994

  CNC Set-Up Machinist

  Primary duties included program, set-up and operate CNC Machining centers. Design and construct production fixturing. Design, produce and document machining processes for R&D and initial production runs. Initiate team quality and work cell efficiency improvements for existing production runs. Perform Yasnac MX-1 and Fanuc 6M control functions on Acroloc and Mori Seiki VA-40 machine centers. Other duties included tool grinding and construction, conventional lathe and mill operations and First articles inspections. CCM produces capital equipment for the food processing industry. Job shop environment with controlled tolerances of up to +/- .0001. Vis mindre

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  Ziegler CAT, INC

  Apr 1994 - Jan 2008

  Machinist / Hydraulic Specialist

  Primary responsibilities involved the design, blueprint & document / revision control as well as the fabrication of the initial prototypes. My work centered on building hydraulic systems for a variety of heavy equipment applications in construction & heavy industries. This included subcomponent pumps, manifolds, valve bodies, hydraulic lines, linkages & hydraulic cylinders. I designed and constructed a variety of special application systems for external customers as well as tooling, jigs and fixtures for Caterpillar, Ziegler's machining department and Ziegler's branch stores. I also machined, repaired and rebuilt worn/damaged structural, power train & hydraulic components on both CAT & non-CAT equipment. In the course of my work I used a variety of manual lathes, horizontal boring mills & milling centers, Mig, Tig & spray-welders to construct prototypes or repair system components. Duties also involved the use of portable line-boring and bore welding systems for field service machine repair. Ziegler's Hydraulic Shop is a combination job shop & project shop with tolerances of up to +/- .0005. Vis mindre

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  Wellsco Inc

  Jul 2008 - Sept 2009

  FTTP Network Engineer

  Wellsco Inc., Paragould, Arkansas - July 2008 to Sept. 2009FTTP Network Engineer-Primary duties involved designing Fiber-Optic network paths to individual and multiple property locations as well as project managing the implementation of these designs for Verizon Communication’s FiOs build. Responsible for site surveys of buildings, drafting necessary blueprint designs, document control of the multiple projects in my build area and coordinating between customers & construction crews to effect successful implementation of Verizon’s FTTP service distribution system. Designs ranged from single apartment complexes to large service area distributions encompassing hundreds of addresses over dozens of city blocks. -Projects would include Feeder Fiber Routes, Fiber Distribution Hub size & location, Fiber Distribution Network path from Hub to premises & Fiber Distribution Terminal size & type per location and obtaining all necessary city & state permits including CALTRANS traffic control plans.-Performed IT support for Wellsco Inc. to insure remote access and VPN connectivity (Virtual Private Networking) of Wellsco’s Off-Premise (OSP) engineers & staff to Verizon servers. Vis mindre

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  R.A.H. Industries Inc.

  Dec 2010 - Mar 2012

  Tool & Die Maker- Manufacturing Technical Specialist

  System component supplier to Bombardier, Hamilton Sunstrand, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Parker Hannifin, Raytheon, Spirit Aerosystems and more. See website for details.

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  PCC Aerospace Dynamics International

  Jan 2012 - Jun 2014

  Tool & Die Maker & resident Kaizanimal for ADI's LEAN Manufacturing Department

  Managed and operated ADI's rapid prototype shop known as the "Moonshine Shop". My primary duty was Tool & Die Maker & resident "Kaizanimal" for ADI's LEAN Manufacturing Department.

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  PPG Aerospace- Sylmar

  Jun 2014 - Jan 2016

  Toolmaker

  I worked as tool maker producing hard tooling in support of PPG Aerospace's Sylmar Plant. PPG Aerospace- Sylmar produces windshields and canopys for programs such as the F-18 & F-22 as well as commercial aircraft programs for Boeing and Airbus.

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  Balboa Water Group

  Apr 2016 - Jun 2016

  Moldmaker

  Fabricate new injection mold assemblies as well as repair and replace existing damaged molds and their respective components.

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  Northrup Grumman Corporation-Astro Aerospace

  Jul 2016 - now

  Experimental Machinist III

  I am currently employed by and developing tooling for Northrup Grumman Aerospace Systems at their Deployables OBU Division in Oxnard, CA. Here we prepared various components for the James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST is a joint venture with NASA and JPL and is scheduled for launch in 2020. Current satellite projects include Nissar, I6 and various classified projects.