Michael Baker

My current job we specialize in trim dies and fixture for the diecast industry. I coordinate with our designers and directly with the customers to meet the needs of the tooling requirements. . This requires me to modify, recommend or change the tooling to function in a production atmosphere.

The responsibilities of managing time and leading as a team player to deliver to our customers a product that meets or exceeds their expectations. The roles I perform, from machining both manual and CNC, along with welding, grinding, part inspection, and assembly. Our tools are sampled in house and any blueprint updates and changes are made. Tool making for me has become a leadership, production, customer relations, and Machinist all in one.

Performed machining tasks including milling, lathe work, grinding, and welding, as well as small production runs on CNC machines and inspections of parts.

First Job In high school. Started as clergy and maintenance.

In 1997 I started as an apprentice for toolmaker. My skills that were include blueprint reading and manual machining practices for milling, turning, grinding. The company specialized in diecast tooling and stamping dies. My job expanded to working on the tools, assembling, welding and fabricating parts. In 2002 I started training to run CNC milling machines. This job started my career and pushed me to always look to expand my skill set, along with the changing technology environments. I was always willing to learn more as the job demanded.