David K. Pyper, E.I.T.

1307 E Dakota Ave., Nampa, ID 83686, (208) 800-4472 (cell),

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

Project manager working in design and construction of new facilities, capital improvement, and utilities projects for private business, state, and or federal agencies with an emphasis in project life cycle development, design and management using soft interpersonal skills and technical software skills to deliver an orchestrated and collaborative delivery of the customer’s expectations. My goal is to enhance and raise the standards of communication and fiduciary accountability along with technical accuracy on every project,

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Obtained three technical engineering degrees (MS, BS, and Associate)
  • 8 years project manager experience as GS-12 in federal service position
  • 26 years military service as both an Officer and Enlisted in engineering and technical fields
  • 20 years of training and industrial experience in mechanical design, and coordination of cross engineering disciplines of civil, electrical, and environmental, coupled with technical sales and construction project management
  • 22 years designingcomplex systems of mechanical and electrical products requiring complicated component integration spanning many industries:
  • Facility Design and Construction – managed projects and coordinated integration of mechanical, electrical, civil, architectural, and environmental project components to meet client’s needs
  • Construction Equipment- R&D with machine design and detailed mfg drawings for various construction equipment product lines
  • Heavy Industry – design robotic material handling equipment to support material process flow with specialized programming and customized “end effector” manipulators
  • Oil Production–Oil well down hole hydraulic tools used for pipe extraction and retrieval
  • Transportation –design of emergency service vehicles, fire trucks, rescue trucks, (calculations for space claim, weight distributions, stress analysis, pump fluid flow, pressure drops, drive line analysis)
  • Military Operations – implementation of civil construction and electronic warfare system
  • 8 years managing design and construction process of over $65 million of various types of facilities
  • 16 years of experience and training with 2-D and 3-D CAD softwareand CAD design standards
  • Implemented and managed 3enterprise wide CAD data storage and collaborative information systems
  • In a corporate team environment, created 2-D CAD & narrative bid packages leading to a run of high monthly sales of gantry style robotic systems for material handling of clients in Heavy Industries (raw paper products, finished printed paper products, rubber bales, tires, metal product, large appliances, etc), each with tailored production facility constraints
  • Designed and fabricated a test facility housing fluid flow instrumentation, heat exchanger, and Neodymium-Yag laser to conduct over 1000 hrs of combustion testing with Pratt & Whitney jet engine combustor for United States Air Force of Scientific in support of a M.E. Master’s Degree

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Mechanical Engineer01/15 to Present

Employer: Boise Mobile Equipment

900 E Boeing Street, Boise ID 83705

Supervisor: Mark Todd, (208) 338-1444, may be contacted.

  • During 2016, reassigned from Engineering / Production to Sales Application Engineer and Project Lead. Provide engineering application support to 5 salesmen, develop conceptual design layout with weight distribution and center of gravity calculations, coordinated with each client after sales to acquire technical needs and feed information to engineering for design development.
  • During 2015, quintupled quantity of comprehensive fire truck technical bid packages to government agencies and municipalities resulting in acquiring a new government agency client
  • Develop robust and complex problem solving / design techniques and tools to meet customers’ requests by optimizing various design variables of physical space claims, mechanical, electrical, plumbing requirements, life span, within various government regulatory constraints
  • Instituted a new standards to fabrication and production line drawing release packagesto incorporate exploded assembly views, plumbing layouts, and water pump placement
  • Over two week period, work in concert with sales to developed over 32 conceptual fire vehicle apparatus drawings with individual weight calculations to support a 2 year open bid web based ordering program, thus defining new design standards
  • Created three new truck equipment designs, one to house components for a hydraulic front wheel drive system all within limited space constraints of an international truck chassis platform and the others for a BLM and US Park Service 1500 and 3000 gallon water tenders on two different chassis systems.
  • Update engineering calculations tools, design databases, and CAD drawing templates
  • Perform FEA analysis using Solid Works simulation software on R&D product designs

Design and Construction Project Engineer10/06 to 01/15

Employer: Federal Government

4794 General Manning Ave, Bldg 442, Boise ID 83705

Salary: GS12 Step 6, 40 hours/week

Supervisor: Jeff Hill, (208) 272-3752, may be contacted

  • Maintained a 100% design and construction execution rate of $64 million during a 8 year period for Design-Bid-Build & Design-Build projects to included: Firing Ranges, 5 miles of underground electric utility upgrades, 8,440 SQ FT electronic target repair facility with septic sewer system and fresh water well, campus dining facility, 2 and 3 story barracks, office buildings, water well, pump house, sewer system and vehicle parking.
  • Project team lead for internal and external stakeholders to insure all project designs and construction execution was on time to established milestones, budgets, and clients specifications
  • Create MS Excel software tools to streamline project management processes, efficiently process and accurately capture facility real property data, and calculate yearly facility energy savings costs

Chief Mechanical Engineer11/02 to 10/06

Employer: Boise Mobile Equipment

900 E Boeing Street, Boise ID 83705

Supervisor: Larry Segreto, (208) 338-1444, may be contacted

  • Completely overhauled company’s mechanical engineering design processes to be more accurate with weight analysis and space claims for custom design municipal and wild land fire trucks
  • Improved quality of shop drawing packages to minimize mfg errors.
  • Implemented and administered Solid Works 3-D modeling software, prepared AutoCAD 2-D concept drawings for sales support.
  • Implemented a cradle to grave life cycle data file management process using windows explorer to facilitate inter-office collaboration.
  • Recruited and trained new engineer employees

Senior Mechanical Engineer11/98 to 11/02

MQ Whiteman Inc.

6850 Business Way, Boise, ID 83716

Supervisor: Tim Jaszkowiak, 208-863-8503, may be contacted

  • Designed extendable light tower systems of trailer platform and diesel powered 6KW generator
  • Created and implemented software tools to support R&D and manufacturing
  • Integrated web based 3-D modeling visualization system and data file management to facilitate inter-office / corporate collaboration using Pro/Engineer, Pro/Intralink and Product View software
  • Spear headed teams to migrate legacy CAD data and implement SolidWorks to replace Pro/Engineer software and established procedures to migrate old CAD files and paper drawings into PDM system

Product Development Engineer05/97 to 11/98

Bowen Tools Division IRi International

2400 Crockett Street, Houston, TX77007

Supervisor: Stan, (713) 868-8700, may be contacted, but Stan Retired ask for Jim Streater

  • Performed torque and stress calculations on mechanical designs to support R&D of mechanical and hydraulic oil well down hole drilling equipment
  • Work with drafters to develop print sets for production
  • Conducted instrumentation and testing of R&D mechanical designs

Mechanical Design Engineer12/95 to 05/97

J&J Manufacturing

5455 Ohio St

Beaumont, TX 77705

Web: Jjmanufacturing.com

Supervisor: (409) 833-8951

  • Designed in AutoCAD and fabricated a proto-type mechanical material handling gantry style robot with a man machine interface to handle refrigerators along a production line
  • Designed material handling end “effector”, with application of conveyors, rollers, detection eyes, and integration with PC or PLC control system
  • Created MS Access database for sales quote system, wrote equipment users manuals

Application Sales Engineer08/94 to 12/95

C&D Skilled Robotics Inc

4780 South 23rd Street

Beaumont, Texas 77705

Supervisor: Mike, (409) 840-5252

  • Developed bid packages of conceptual layout with application engineering for gantry style robotic systems for material handling of various product types.
  • 5 month top leading sales support engineer for robotic heavy industry material handling equipment
  • Prepared sales quotes and conceptual 2D AutoCAD drawings of facility plant layouts with material handling systems

Military Technical Staff Officer11/87 to 12/15

Idaho Army National Guard

Boise, ID 83705

Supervisor: Lt. Col James Packwood, (208) 608-1696, may be contacted

Clearance: Department of Defense (DoD), Secret Clearance, August 2011

  • Member of both Air Force and Army Civil Engineering units responsible for design and coordination of base bed down operations with concrete run way design / repair and for road surveying, facility design and maintenance
  • 10 yr Staff Officer for Information Operations within 3500 men size organization
  • Twice deployed to Middle East for Operation Iraqi Freedom III (2005) to perform Inform Influence Activities and Operation New Dawn I (2011) to conduct Electronic Warfare Operations

EDUCATION:

  • BYU,Provo UT, 12/91 and 12/93B.S. & M.S. in Mechanical Engineer
  • Engineer in Training Certificate, 12/91(F.E. - Mechanical Engineer)
  • BYU,Provo UT, 12/91AFROTC, Aero Space Studies and Leadership
  • US Air Force Community College, 12/90Airframe Sheet Metal Technology (USAFR)

TRAINING AND SKILLS:

Software:

  • MS Office (Excel, Visual basic and Database programming), Adobe Professional
  • CAD Software: AutoCAD, SolidWorks (SW), Pro/Engineer (PTC)
  • Product Data Management Software: Intra-Link and Product View (PTC) and PDM (SW)
  • Corporate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems: (Baun, SAP, GFEBS)Microsoft Excel, Web design, VB programming,
  • Software Administration of both 2-D, 3-D CAD and PDM systems

Federal Government:

  • Project Management (2008, 2012)
  • Contract Claims Avoidance (2008, 2013)
  • Contractor Officer Representative (2010)
  • Engineering Facility Security – US Army Corps of Engineer (2010)
  • Leadership in Environmental and Engineer Design (LEED) (2008)
  • How to Manage the NEPA Process and Write Effective NEPA Documents (2008)
  • Post Earth Quake Inspection (2003)

Military:

  • ILE (Intermediate Level Education for Multi Service Military Operations)
  • Electronic Warfare (ASI 1J)
  • Information Operations (FA 30)
  • Career Staff Officer Training (CAS3)
  • Combat Engineer Qualification (MOS 12B)
  • Air Frame and Sheet Metal Repair Technician

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:

  • Community: Idaho Arts Charter School Board Members Oct 2006 to Apr 2010, Filled one year positions of board member, secretary and vice president
  • Church: Church missionary for 18 mo to Chile, South America, BSA Committee Chairman, BSA Scout Master, Sunday School Teacher, Young men’s program instructor
  • Church and Community: working with and managing individuals with special needs due to mental and physical disabilities.

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