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Qualifications
Over 25 years machinist experience, supervision and training of others, special tooling and design, inspection and reports, production of mining and oilfield tools, pump and machine repairs. |
Work History
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Oct 98 to Present
Contract shop, doing work for John Crane Industrial Seals, and holding .0002 daily on most parts.
CARDINAL INDUSTRIES
April 96 to Oct 98
6977 E. Commerce, Odessa, TX 79761
Raymond Cook (915) 367-2907
Working for former boss of Applied mechanics, production of environmental pumpjack packing housing, stuffing boxes, and flow meter production. Also past production in Fisher seals, large sizes 12� to small 3� seals in Cobalt 6, Nitronic-60 and Ferilium 255.
DICK SPARKS INTERNATIONAL
Aug 92 to March 93
1523 Elwyn St Midland, TX 79701
Dick Sparks (915) 689-3901
In charge of machining prototype parts for pipe boring and honing, manual mill, lathe and saw.
B AND M TOOL CO
Dec 90 to Dec 91 &
March 93 to April 96
40 E. Industrial Loop, Midland, TX 79701
Keith Morgan (915) 682-0856
Production of mining and oilfield tools, stabilizers. subs, pipe. Supervisor of pipe shop and welding shop, in charge of 20 machinists and welders and all outgoing stabilizers, blasthole pipe, waterwell pipe, reamers, subs and oilfield miscellaneous.
PENATEK
May 90 to Nov 90
6830 E. Highway 80,
Odessa, TX 79762
Oscar Valasquez (915) 368-0888
Supervised and ran nightshift, running of boring mills, and in charge of keeping all machinery and employees in my department running. I set new production records for my shift while I was there. Production in chromium pump liners.
APLEX INDUSTRIES
Aug 81 to May 89
Formally Applied Mechanics, moved to Ohio
2045 S. Loop 250 West, Midland, TX 79703
Doug Heron (915) 694-5545
Specialized in pump products. Experience includes manual lathes, mills, shapers, planer, CNC mills, CNC lathes, manual centerless grinder, surface grinder, and centered grinder, Axelsons, Lodge & Shipley, Hercules, Cincinnatis, Makinos, Mazaks, etc. Tooling for various pump parts for Wheatley, Aplex, Gaso, Raven, Lufkin, Continental-Emsco, Bethlehem, National, Union, Ingersoll-Rand, and Garner-Denver pumps, including Duel, Tri-Plex, and Quin-Plex pumps. Also ran production of fluid ends, plungers, stuffing boxes, crossheads, crankshafts, wristpins, extension rods, wiper boxes, flanges, carrier bearings, valves & stems. Also inspection of outgoing parts and prototype design and production. Also manual machine repair.
OILWELL DRILLING
Aug 80 to Aug 81
Reopened under new owners
8001 E. Highway 80, Midland, TX 79703
Brent Price (915) 563-5533
Ran lathes including Mazak and Gerutzbe, in production of core retrieval parts, including close tolerance 3/8 taper core threads, and 1 thread per inch core barrel tools. Also tooled close tolerance 3/8 taper gauges.
APPLIED MECHANICS
Aug 77 to Aug 80
No longer in business
2045 S. Loop 250 West, Midland, TX 79701
Raymond Cook (915) 694-5545
Job Shop- Ran lathes and mills, shapers, and old style GE controls, H.E.S., NC lathes, cut splines, API gauges, various CNC tooling, including multi-cutting boring bars, stabilizer and shock sub prototypes and production. Miscellanies experience including P51 airplane parts, as well as Chaparral race car engines parts, fixture design, and inspection of CNC production parts
DRILCO INDUSTRIAL
March 73 to Aug 77
No longer in business
Garden City Highway, Midland, TX 79701
Wiley Ballard (915) 694-6313
Ran Engine lathes, Hollow Spindles,Turret and miscellaneous lathes including Lehmanns, Lodge & Shipleys, American, Axelson, Warner-Swaseys, Smith. Specialized in mining and oil tool joints including API, Hughes, X-Hole, H-90, DI-22, Beco, Robbins and Buttress threads, on drill pipe, stabilizers, casing, subs, and some tooling.
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Materials Machined |
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Include various strengths of Iron & Steel, Stainless steel, Magnesium, Titanium, Aluminum-Bronze and a variety of plastics and rubber. |
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Interests |
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I'm an avid fan any sport my 5 year old son is involved in. I also enjoy home improvement and cactus gardening. My hobby is genealogy, visiting libraries and grave sites on a regular basis. |
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