Victor M. Rivera Jr.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
To provide the best possible service and to apply my extensive first-hand experience on the design, manufacture, installation and maintenance of heavy industrial and commercial equipment.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
AutoCad ™, Inventor, Solid Works, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Studio, Spicer Imagination, GTX Raster CAD
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Field Service Engineer
IPR – Salem OH
2020 - Present
- Coordinate with NUCOR Gallatin, Kentucky and their vendors the installation and upgrade of their project.
- Develop Danieli Drawing and Documentation list in Excel.
Field Service Engineer
Fives ST – Wadsworth OH
2018 - 2020
- Provide on-site installation, commissioning and training for equipment sold in the USA.
- Provide customer support and in-site services.
- Coordinating with customers their installations and upgrades.
- Assisted the Sale Dept. in designs and costs of various equipment for the steel processing industry.
- Installation, training and commissioning of a strip galvanizing line in Ohio.
- Installation, training and commissioning of a strip galvanizing line in Miss.
Design/Field Service Manager
Redex of America - Swedesboro, NJ
2016-2018
- Assist in the design of various wire mill lines.
- Provided on site installation, commissioning and training for equipment sold in the USA.
- Updating (modernizing) drawings Wire and Strip Rolling Mills.
- Provide customer support and in-site services.
- Coordinating with customers their installations and upgrades.
Design Engineer
Fenn LLC – East Berlin, CT
2014 to 2016
- Assist in the design of various wire mill lines.
- Provided on site customer service support in USA and India.
- Updating (modernizing) drawings for swagers and spring machines.
Mechanical Project Engineer
RESCO – Port Saint Lucie, FL
1997 to 2014
- Providing Mechanical Project Engineering, engineering services and support.
- Created over (40) Mill Operation, Maintenance and Installation Manuals for Intergrated Industrial Systems, A rolling mill manufacturing company. This includes 2 High, 4 High, 6 High and “Z” Mills.
- Developed the process for the manufacturing a new type of retractable screen for Storm Solutions.
- Designed a storm protection quoting program, for Storm Solutions, using Visual Studio for quoting jobs using various vendor supplied products. This program also included a wind load calculator to determine the size and spacing of the fasteners required based on the wind load and the size of the opening to be protected.
- Trained and certified the Storm Solution installers on the proper methods of installing hurricane rated storm products.
- Field installation and maintenance manuals for Storm Solutions.
- Designed and assisted in the installation of a glass curtain wall exterior for the Alex Hotel, New York, New York. This was designed with no field verification dimensions.
- Providing consulting, engineering, designing and detailing services for many projects. Most of which are for Intergrated Industrial Systems and “The Miller Company”.
- Designed and detailed 4-high rolling mills for bonding precious metals – Intergrated Industrial Systems.
- Designed a Document Drawing Database System, using Visual Basic for finding, retrieving and printing drawings and/or other documents for the Windows 95 ™ /NT/2000 environment.
- Detailing metal panels for Delta, Boston Logan Airport for M.R.S. Enterprises.
- Assisted in the design of a system for drawing metal panels using AutoCad™ and Microsoft Excel for M.R.S. Enterprises.
- Designed a 4-high mill and a ZR22B-52 mill for Intergrated Industrial Systems.
Mechanical Project Engineer
Worked directly for several engineering and manufacturing companies in CT
1974 to 1997
Intergrated Industrial Systems –Yalesville, CT.
The Miller Company – Meriden, CT.
Trio Industries – Shelton, CT.
- Introduced and implemented the multi-gauge rolling process where one coil had several finished gauges processed at one time.
- New fume exhaust system for a casting shop.
- Designed, installed and trained people on several 4-high reversing mills overseas and domestic.
- Assisting in the creation of engineering standards at I2S.
- Created LISP programs and files for making Autocad ™ user friendly.
- Researched and designed a new standard gamma gauge assembly for I2S.
- Assisted the Sales Dept. in quotations, which included engineering, manufacturing and assembly costs. Also provided proposal drawings and other misc. information.
- Directed and supervised the efforts of all the Mechanical Draftsmen, Design Engineers and Jr. Project Engineers at I2S.
- Designed a drawing filing system in Visual Studio to replace the manual system.
- The removal and installation of equipment from Meriden Rolling Mill Industries in Meriden to Sikeston, MO. This included new foundation and mechanical drawings for all of the equipment.
- Hired to be the first Mechanical Engineer at I2S to use Autocad ™.
- Assisted in the implementation of the Autocad ™ Drafting Standards at I2S.
- The design and installation of (4) horizontal casting lines.
- Assisted in the installation of annealing furnaces including GE Series Six programming.
- Installation of a stretch-bend-leveler line and (2) new slitters
- Assisted in the design of a new tinning line.
- Design and manufacture of a 50’ circular skylight and parabolic skylight...
- Field tested building curtain walls in Florida and Indiana
EDUCATION
University of Connecticut, West Hartford, CT – various math and science courses, 1984-1986
Norwalk State Technical Collage, Norwalk, CT – Associates Degree in Architecture, 1975
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Current Patents:
- Patent Co-inventor: Star Insert – US Patent No. 8,622,112
- Patent Co-inventor: Retractable, Low-profile Storm Shield Systems and Methods - US Patent No. D 639,644 S
- Patent Owner: Wrapper -Apparatus and Method for Wrapping Articles in Film Material - US Patent No. 6,688,076
