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KEITH HAMILTON

3408 Winchester Lane, Glenview, Illinois 60026

Phone: 847-724-7526

 

MECHANICAL ENGINEER

 

 

OBJECTIVE – After building and working a small home-based business while my children were young, my goal is to once again work in the engineering field.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Union Special Corporation, Chicago, Illinois 2/1980 – 3/1985

Machine Development Engineer

• Conceptual design of sub-systems and improvements for existing lines of industrial sewing equipment.

• Used proprietary design program, CASASP, to design and analyze sewing component geometry for performance, overload, fatigue, and bearing loads.

• Analyze design ideas within the company, for mechanical integrity and workability.

• McAuto CAD for component part design. Supervised design staff as needed.

• Worked with model makers and test engineers to certify new prototype equipment.

 

Hi-Cone Division of Illinois Tool Works, Itasca, IL 4/1985 – 8/2000

Senior Design Engineer

• Conceptual design of applicating machines for beverage can and bottle multipacks.

• Layout, details, assembly drawings, bills of material, and documentation of the design.

• Assist others to produce an Operator and Service Manual for each machine.

• Guide machine shop personnel through prototype development, testing and revisions.

• Assisting field service personnel with debugging the machines at the customer’s plant.

• Worked in department of eight to ten engineers, with projects split up amongst the group.

• Gained experienced with custom component design, welded machine frames, castings, machined parts, sheet metal design, specification of off-the-shelf components, power transmission design, lubrication systems, plastic and sheet metal safety shields, etc.

• Experienced with manual drafting equipment, Medusa 3D CAD, and AutoCad.

• Served as head of a department committee, given the task of choosing a new 3D CAD system to replace AutoCad. As part of this, took coursework and ran 1-month trials of three leading 3D CAD systems.

• Additional responsibility as system manager for a DEC Microvax host-based system for approximately 5 years.

 

Sole Proprietorship 11/2000 to Present

Part-time stay-at-home-father, and part-time self-employed in a small home repair and remodeling business that I run out of the house. The scope of this work includes all customer contact, job bids, design where required, materials specification and procurement, and labor.

 

 

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 1979

Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, Illinois

 

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