Experience

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  Richwoods high school

  May 1987 - Aug 1989

  Swimming instructor/lifeguard

  Summer job during high school

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  Environmental science & engineering

  May 1990 - Aug 1993

  Cad draftsman/surveyor

  Summer job during college

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  Lockwood greene engineers, inc.

  Jul 1994 - Aug 1995

  Assistant engineer

  Project to design and install a plant wide reverse osmosis water system on site at the Proctor & Gamble plant

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  Quaker oats

  Aug 1995 - May 1997

  Project engineer

  Plant Engineering (Contract)

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  Caterpillar inc.

  May 1997 - now

  Senior Engineer in the Medium/Small Track Type Tractor machine validation group, managing machine programs and mentoring employees Supervised up to 14 engineers and technicians, accepting more responsibility with time - machine development programs from additional international product groups; Managed hiring/layoff/headcount of team. Mentored new employees and rotational engineers; Developed and Managed budgets, forecasts, and actuals; Managed incident investigations; initiated and led process improvement projects; Founding member of PPg "People Involvement Team"; etc. Senior member of the Large Wheel Loader Validation team - Managed and executed machine validation programs, and became action engineering supervisor when the position was vacated. Managed and Executed Large Wheel Loader machine validation programs, including field testing. Dealer Capability Department - Travelled to dealers to assess their service departments and make improvement recommendations and share best practices CGT program promotion CGT rotational program

  • Senior Engineer - Test/Development

    Sept 2014 - now

  • Engineering Supervisor

    Jul 2007 - Aug 2014

  • Senior Development Engineer

    Jul 2006 - Jun 2007

  • Machine Development Engineer

    Jul 2003 - Jun 2006

  • Development Engineer

    Aug 2001 - Jun 2003

  • Repair Process Engineer - Diagnostics

    Jun 1999 - Jul 2001

  • Service Information Engineer

    May 1997 - Jun 1999