HOWARD RING
Shelburne,United States
Summary
Skilled Maintenance Engineer with a strong background in preventative and corrective maintenance. Proven ability to manage complex machinery installations, fault finding, and component replacement. Demonstrated strengths include problem-solving skills and troubleshooting faults in equipment. Electrical and mechanical background to service and maintain equipment.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Instrumentation Technician
Perrigo Nutritionals
Georgia, VT
08.2022 - Current
- Understanding and maintaining various addressing methods for machine operation, PLC, Devicenet, Controlnet and Ethernet IP addressing.
- Performed scheduled calibrations and PM maintenance on equipment and systems in facility and off-site.
- Understand critical process requirements to develop instrumentation process and calibration tolerances.
- Initiated documentation when instrumentation calibrations indicated out of tolerance or failure.
- Worked successfully with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to maintaining our processes.
- Coordinated with vendors on procurement activities related to spare parts and replacement components for existing instruments.
Sr Engineering Maintenance
Global Foundries semiconductor Mfg
Essex Junction, VT
08.2021 - 08.2022
- Worked with Linux systems to interface with equipment
- Assessed issues to determine appropriate troubleshooting methods for remediation.
- Used Software and hardware tools for communication troubleshooting.
- Tested components, assemblies and systems to diagnose problems.
- Applied engineering principles to develop and operate electrical, mechanical and data processing systems.
Technical Support Specialist
BioTek Instruments Inc.
Winooski, VT
05.1996 - 05.2022
- Received inbound phone calls from customers to provide first-level support and remotely troubleshoot issues with service, equipment or customer accounts.
- Maintained compliance with established and updated policies and procedures with minimal supervision.
- Disassembled computer systems to troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues.
- Delivered remote assistance for technical issues using screen sharing, mouse and keyboard control and other tools.
- Worked with internal teams to deliver accurate information to customers and service accounts.
- Used proactive monitoring procedures and tools to identify problem prevention opportunities.
- Delivered local and remote Tier 1 IT support for hardware and software to company personnel.
- Stayed abreast of latest software developments to enhance job knowledge.
Education
Electrotechnology
Vanier College
Ville St Laurent04.1995
Skills
- Maintain and repair machines, mechanical and electrical
- Application Support with machine vendors
- Document and report service and repair
- Training Materials Development
- Train users
- Microsoft Windows and Office
- PLC and VFD experience
- Team player with shared workflow
Timeline
Instrumentation Technician
Perrigo Nutritionals
08.2022 - Current
Sr Engineering Maintenance
Global Foundries semiconductor Mfg
08.2021 - 08.2022
Technical Support Specialist
BioTek Instruments Inc.
05.1996 - 05.2022
Electrotechnology
Vanier College
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