ROBERT E. FISHER, JR.5420 Mansfield WayCharlestown, IN 47111502-724-7587fisher3664@gmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

GROTE INDUSTRIES, LLC April 2000 - PresentMadison, IndianaLead Designer. Provide mechanical design support to Mechanical Engineers in the development of new designs and modifications to existing lighting products for the trucking, automotive, and heavy equipment industries. Experienced in CAD modeling, CAD data transfers to/from customers and tool shops and working knowledge in tooling and manufacturing processes. Work constantly with domestic and international cross-functional marketing, engineering, tooling, manufacturing and quality team members from concept to production of a variety of projects. Experienced having close interaction via WebEx conference calls with domestic and international customers from the initial mechanical design concept all the way to the production release of products. Experienced in designing plastic products that are manufactured by injection molding processes. Experienced in designing die cast products. Experienced as back-up to the CAD Manager by handling WindChill administrative duties, assign work and check/approve drawings . Awarded three design patents for lighting products.

Professional Training: Creo 2.0 including Advanced Surfacing and Plastic Advisor Windchill 10.2 CATIA V4 CATIA V5 Foundations training, but very limited operator experience Sabic Plastic Design Webinar Management and Supervisory Institute course at Ivy Tech in 2009 Managing and Resolving Conflict course at Ivy Tech 2012 First Aid First Responder

VALEO SYLVANIA, LLC July 1997 - April 2000Seymour, IndianaDesign Engineer. Provide CAD design and drafting support under the direction of the Design Group Leader and Program Manager(s) for the automotive lighting industry. This support includes the plastics design of automotive headlamp components, feasibility study of designs, and creating iges files for export to customer and tool shops. Also provide support to Quality personnel by generating CMM points for the CMM Lab. Disclosed three design concepts for patentability. Professional Training:

CATIA V4 Basic and Surface CATIA V4 Basic Drafting CATIA V4 Essential Surfaces G.E. Plastics Design Plastic Snap Seminar

FIREKING INTERNATIONAL, INC. May 1994 - June 1997New Albany, IndianaCAD Specialist. Provide and perform design functions for fire resistant file cabinets and safes. Prepare final detail drawings of sheet metal parts and assemblies. Acted as project leader for the introduction of customer specified line of fire resistant file cabinets. Performed some system administration functions. Worked six months at FireKing's safe subsidiary, Meilink Safe Company. Responsible for the design of a new line of gun safes and the redesign of a commercial line of safes.Professional Training:

Graftek's CAD Geometric Modeling Software (GMS) Pro/Engineer's Pro/Sheet Metal Merry Mechanization's SMP 81 Sheet Metal Program Trumpf 240 sheet metal stamping machine - limited operator training "First Things First" seminar presented by Covey Leadership Center

GROTE INDUSTRIES, INC. June 1992 - May 1994Madison, IndianaCAD Specialist. Provide design assistance to engineers on automotive and trucking industry safety lighting products. Prepare preliminary and final detail drawings of injected molded plastic, sheet metal, die cast parts and assemblies. Also responsible for revising existing drawings and performing daily back-ups of the Pro/Engineer system.

Professional Training: Prime Medusa 2-D CAD System Pro/Engineer Basic/Design and Advanced Part Design and Pro/Surface GD&T - ANSI Y14.5

HANSON SCALE COMPANY January 1988 - December 1990Shubuta, MississippiDesigner. Provided design and drafting support to engineers by analyzing products design, feasibility, quality, etc. Prepared bills of materials and acted as Project Leader for new products. Experienced in the design and redesign of metal and plastic components of household bath scales. Built prototypes of design concepts and product improvements. Experienced in cosmetic/aesthetic design of new product concepts. Experience using AUTOCAD and CADKEY . Was issued an ornamental design patent of weighing scale in the United States and Japan.

PEAVEY ELECTRONICS, INC. November 1984 - January 1988Meridian, MississippiMechanical Draftsman and CAD/CAM Operator. Responsible for drawing wood and metal parts for components used in the electronic audio industry such as guitars, microphones and speakers. Worked with engineers in design suggestions for wood products. Experienced in training new CAD/CAM operators. Experience using G.E. Calma CAD/CAM System.

EDUCATION

MERIDIAN JUNIOR COLLEGEMeridian, MississippiA.A. Degree, Drafting and Design

Southeast Lauderdale High SchoolMeridian, MississippiHigh School Valedictorian

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