I am a hard working, dedicated and loyal professional. I take great pride in my work and will work tenaciously to achieve the goals I set. I have a very positive attitude working well as a leader, a team member or as a self starter. I am a skilled troubleshooter and I am able to solve engineering issues with limited resources. I have a very diverse background including supervision, assembly, installation, test and repair of control panels, stand alone machines and complete machine cells. I am able to quickly adapt my training and experience to most any industrial electronics controls field.
Kenneth R DeBoer
QUALIFICATIONS
I am a certified industrial Electronic Controls Technician. I am experienced with Programmable Logic Controls including hardware configuration, PLC startup and logic debug. I am a skilled assembly, test, and repair technician. I have a strong electro-mechanical aptitude. I have build up and interface experience with control panels, stand alone machines and complete machine cells. I am familiar with working from all common electrical documentation, schematics and blue prints.
I have supervisory and management experience including leadership of multiple assembly, test and repair departments. I have been responsible for structuring and organizing department inventory, production, customer orders, and department personnel. I have strong customer interface skills including product application and technical support either on the phone or at the customer’s site.
WORK HISTORY
9/03 –2/09 Service Engineer, EMAG LLC.
Build up and installation of stand alone CNC machines all the way to completely integrated turn key machining cells. Hardware and software interface of all required equipment including, PLC programming and debug as well as HMI programming required to operate all the equipment. Build up and tear down of completed equipment in the shop then reassembly and qualification on the customer floors. Also working with customers personnel to interface with factory information systems. In addition repair of existing machines and equipment on site when a failure occurs and to do hardware and or software, upgrade, retrofit and retool at the customers facility. Provide customer training at the shop or on the customer sites as well as customer support on the phone.
10/02 – 9/03 Field Service, Repair Technician, Atlas Copco
Installation, scheduled maintenance and repair of hand operated torque monitoring assembly systems. Bench repair of the system controller to the circuit board level, programming and upgrading the unit to the latest software revisions or standards. Repair of the tool to the integrated circuit level, also the mechanical tear down and rebuild of the tool for re-qualification to NISTA standards. Installation and integration of new assembly tool systems into customer assembly lines and programming of real time data gathering to factory information systems.
6/98 – 5/02 Applications Engineering Technician, Quality Systems Company
Build up and prove CNC machines to meet customer specified requirements including updating electrical control devices, machine control systems, drives and machine control logic. Assembly and integration of hydraulic and pneumatic systems and devices to match customer requirements. Installation and integration of safety, process control gauging and automation including robots. Assembly and run off on shop floor and at the customers facility. Making changes on all supplied documentation to meet customer expectations both in quality and timeliness.
8/91 – 8/97 Leader, Patriot Sensors and Controls
Programmable controller assembly department leader, responsible for quality and customer orders. Circuit board assembly department leader responsible for internal inventory levels as well as assembly parts required for circuit board assembly. Controller test and repair technician, assembly technician and circuit board assembler. High voltage control panel layout, assembly, wiring, test and repair technician.
5/86 – 5/90 Electro-Mechanical Technician, U. S. Air Force
Maintenance and repair of radar guided gunnery system. Repair of radar, electronic controls, hydraulics and pneumatics on a defensive gunnery system on the B-52 aircraft.
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