Engineering & Design of Industrial Equipment, Machines & Machine Build

                                       

 

                                   Alan James Battaglia

                                    101 Wellington Lane

                                North Abington Twp., PA 18414

                                      570-563-1916

 

EDUCATION

 

1976  Pennsylvania State University, Dunmore, PA

         Associate Degree in Mechanical Engineering

 

1993  Kennedy-Western University, Boise, Idaho

         Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering – Incomplete.

 

2001  Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus, Reading, PA

        Statistical Process Control

 

1992  Pennsylvania State University, Dunmore, PA

         AutoCad & Auto Lisp Programming.

 

1990  Lackawanna County Vocational-Technical School, Scranton, PA

        Programmable Controllers/Robotics

 

1981  Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus, Reading PA

1982  Progressive Basic Metallurgy I & II

 

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

2006 – 2014, Self employed.

Alan J. Battaglia, Engineering and Design Service.

North Abington Twp., PA

      Mechanical engineering services providing contract work to industry:

 

                 Types of Equipment                               Fields                                                    Other

 

          Custom Machine - Design                       Steel industry                                       Building layouts

          Process Machine - Design                      Plastics Industry                                   Site layouts

          Machine Modifications                            Food & Candy Industry                          Process Flow

          Automated Machines                              Explosives Industry                               Traffic Flow

          Assembly Machines                               Aerospace Industry                               Property & Paving

          Tooling & Fixtures                                  Salt Industry                                         Water & Basin

          Conveyors, Hoppers, Platforms               Fiber Optics Industry                             Sewage & Recycling

          Saws, Sheet Stackers, Feeders             Glass Industry                                       Bulk Storage

          Bulk Material Handling                           Research & Development                       Truck Scales

          Storage & Retrieval                                NRC                                                     Hunting Equipment

          Pick & Place                                         DOD                                                     Patent Work

 

 

 

2005 – 2006, part time.

Creative Design & Machining, Inc.

Clarks Summit, PA

      Machine Designer

Part time position. Responsible for sales, designing and building of custom equipment and machinery.

 

2003-2005

Prompton Tool, Incorporated

Honesdale, PA

      Sales/Design Engineer

Responsible for sales, designing and building of custom equipment and machinery. Designed special assembly fixtures for D.C. electric motors and air operated nut driver tools. Designed built special knife bar slitters for plastic extrusion industry.

 

2001-2003

Tinsley Design & Fabricating

Moscow, PA

      Sales Engineer

Responsible for sales, designing and building of custom equipment and machinery.  Fabricate all types of O.E.M. equipment, including purchasing, spare parts, equipment manuals, technical support, training, etc.

 

2001 (company closed 10/2001)

FiNet Technologies

Dunmore, PA

      Mechanical Automation Engineer

      Designed new machine assembly stations and modified existing tooling for the

fiber optic device industry.  Conducted root-cause failure analysis meetings for machines to improve through-put and yield.  Worked with ball lens, laser, lead shear, sockets, package, gauges, tooling, and many other areas involving precision tolerancing down to the 9-micron fiber core center.

 

 

1998-2001

Creative Design & Machining, Inc.

Clarks Summit, PA

      Sales Engineer

      Responsible for O.E.M. design build division of business and Engineering Department.

      Establish and maintain customer base, prepare project proposals for all work, perform engineering, specifications, design

      layouts, assembly, testing, training and manuals on site and off site and marketing for all projects. Complete engineering       

      design of entire machine and/or process project including structure, hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems together 

      with an Electrical Engineer for the P.L.C.control package.

 

      Some projects;

            Designed, built and installed salt processing equipment and site layouts for I.S.CO. first bag filling, packaging facility.

            Designed, built semi-automatic P.L.C. controlled router machine for sizing plastic sheet. Completed and brought to

            market in 8 months. (Autorouter, Model 410-SA)

 

1996-1998

Avoca Machine Company

Avoca, PA

      Mechanical Engineer

      Many of my duties here are similar to those as listed at Creative Design & Machining,

      Inc. and at Ronco. Here I have designed built a number of machines.

      Some projects:

Designed built an automatic sheet stacker. Feeds in up to a 5' x 10' plastic sheet, vacuum picks it, off loads and stacks in a pile. Designed built automatic sheet cross cut saw. Machine cuts extruded length plastic to sheet length on the fly. Designed built a motorized chill roll transport vehicle. Used to move 8000 lb rolls in and out of position for changing.

 

 

1993-1996

The Ronco Group

Lake Winola, PA

      Engineering Manager

      Responsible for day to day engineering functions of in-house staff. Complete turn-key

      project responsibility managing projects in a variety of industries. Also responsible for supervising a 12 person

      engineering  department for all mechanical & electrical projects. Perform all engineering not requiring a P.E. stamp,

      including complete design/build turn-key projects.  Provide customer contact for all projects, their scope of work, design

      reviews, procurement, schedules, costs and proposals.  Responsible for design, concept, calculations, checking and

      coordination.  Also provided all proposal project engineering for R&D, machines, process, industrial and maintenance projects.

      Some Projects:

            Designed built Gum feeding machines, inserted wrapped 3 cent Bazooka gum onto baseball card stack at 6 per second

            prior to wrapping machine.

            Design built 4 head high water pressure, (25 gpm @ 9,500 psi), oven belt wash bar.

            Designed built and modified wet end forming section of a wall and ceiling

            insulation forming line.

 

Contract work years 1977-1993

 

Contract Work at various locations, including:  AKZO Salt, Inc., Clarks Summit, PA; Datum Design and Development, Inc., Dallas, PA; Intermountain Research and Engineering Company, Pittston, PA; Fairchild Weston Systems, Inc., Archbald, PA; Midway Tool Engineering Company, Wilkes-Barre, PA; West Company, Phoenixville, PA; Air Products, Allentown, PA; Ducon Fluid Transport, King of Prussia, PA; Standard Pressed Steel, Hatfield, PA; Bechtel Power Corporation (PECO), Limerick, PA; Superior Tube Company, Collegeville, PA; Handy & Harman Tube Company, Norristown, PA; Sanders & Thomas Engineers, Pottstown, PA; Sandvik Steel Company, Clarks Summit, PA; Pexco, Clarks Summit, PA; Ingersoll Rand Company, Clarks Summit, PA,

Proctor & Gamble, Mehoopany, PA.

 

      Work included, but was not limited to:  project component design, engineering of

      industrial and manufacturing machines and equipment, technical assistance, layout and

      assembly drawings, debugging, purchasing, vendor contact, and plant maintenance and safety.

 

Some special projects worked on include:

 

      - Designed/built abrasive wheel splitting machine.  Split in half on diameter a 54"dia. Jet engine cobalt orifice ring.

      - Designed/built detonation device cord and tag assembly machine.

      - Assisted with design of glass vial and cartridge forming machines. Designed glass

        burners, glass separators and conveyors.

      - Design and install of Scranton Recycling Center Renovations – conveyor system, collection bin and aluminum separator.

      - Design/layout of abrasive material pneumatic conveying systems.

      - Designed bulk material handling conveyors, hoppers, chutes and vibratory screen support structures.

      - Design and build of Doctor blade and actuators for paper mill.

      - Development/design/layout of new equipment for material handling storage

        and retrieval systems, such as warehouse carousels and automated ground vehicles.

      - Assisted in design of multiple store ejection rack for F-14 jet and oxygen transport vehicle.

      - Designed assembly machines for laser guided missile tail section and related fixtures and tools.

      - Coordinated/supervised/participated in design/installation of blast freeze spiral

        belt cooling system for emulsion explosives.

      - Redesigned paper shell making machine to add rows of perforations inside shell.

      - Redesigned variable fill mechanism on shell filling machine.

      - Hard wire component board design/layout/checking in compliance with Navy specs and standards.

      - Redesigned extruder pressing disk turntable for steel tube mill.

      - Designed ultrasonic tester for tubes at steel tube mill.

      - Redesigned main shafts on tube straightener for steel tube mill.

      - Redesigned closing mechanism on electrode can filling machine for steel tube mill.

      - Designed/built air-driven cladding strip rewind table for steel tube mill.

      - Worked in accordance with Project Engineers and NRC standards for completion of Reactor Unit One,

        Control Rod Drive, Limerick, PA.

      - Installed outside safety eye wash and shower.

      - Engineered, designed, and built 12vdc electric twin turbocharger for V8 engine.

      - In process research, engineering and build of electricity generating machine.

        Featured in the business section of the local newspaper.

      - Custom design of a residential electrical back-up system

      - Custom design of residential water back-up system.

      - Custom design of residential utility elevator.

      - In process of design and build of a twin generator head wind mill.

 

 

1985-1986

Western Montgomery Vo-Tech School

Limerick, PA

      Instructor

Instructed at nights a 4 year program from basic drafting and blueprint reading to belt, chain, gear and cam drive design and torque & horsepower.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

      Member - American Society of Mechanical Engineers

      Member - American Society of Testing and Materials

      Member – American Society of Metals International