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LESSON I
JOB INTERVIEW
Job interviewing never seems to get any easier - even when you have gone on
more interviews than you can count. You are meeting new people, selling yourself
and your skills, and often getting the third degree about what you know or don't
know.

Here are job interview tips to help prepare you to interview effectively. Proper
preparation which helps alleviate some of the stress involved in job interviews and
the more you prepare, the more comfortable you will be interviewing.

JOB INTERVIEW TIPS

Practice
Research
Get Ready
Be On Time
Stay Calm
Show What You Know

COMMON JOB INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Preparing for a job interview can make the difference between success and failure.
The 100 common job interview questions below will help you market yourself more
effectively and feel more confident on that important day. The questions have been
organized by topic. Review the questions carefully and take time to create the best
answers for you. You may even wish to write out your answers so you can refer to
them in the future. Good luck!

Personal

1. Tell me about yourself.

2. What are your strengths?
3. What are your weaknesses?
4. What do you see as a major success in your life?
5. Describe a major disappointment in your life.
6. What motivates you?
7. What does success mean to you?
8. What are three of your greatest accomplishments?
9. What are your plans for the future?
10.Have you done any volunteer work?
11.What are your hobbies?
12.What do you like to do in your spare time / free time?
13.Where do you see yourself five years from now? Ten years from now?
14.Describe a time when you failed.
15.What is your favorite book / movie?
16.What do you do for fun?
17.What would you do if you won the lottery?

Educational

18.Tell me about your educational background.

19.What academic courses did you like the most / the least?
20.Which academic course did you find most difficult?
21.Do you have plans for further education?
22.Why did you choose your major?

Professional

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23.Why do you want this job?

24.Why should we hire you?
25.Why are you the best person for the job?
26.Explain how you would be an asset to this company.
27.Why do you think you will be successful in this job?
28.What are your qualifications for this position?
29.What can you offer our company?
30.What do you know about this industry?
31.What is your personal mission statement?
32.Why do you think youre suited for this position?
33.Describe your work ethic.
34.Describe your management style.
35.What are your short-term goals?
36.What are your long-term goals?
37.Why did you choose this field?
38.Please describe your work experience.
39.Why do you want to work for our company?
40.What do you know about our company?
41.What is most important to you in a job?
42.Describe your previous jobs.
43.Why did you leave your previous job?
44.What were your responsibilities in your previous position?
45.What did you like the most about your last job?
46.What did you like the least about your last job?
47.What did you learn in your previous job?
48.Do you work well under pressure?
49.Are you punctual?
50.How long do you plan to stay in this job?
51.Can you multi-task?
52.Describe your ideal job.
53.How would your co-workers describe you?
54.How do you feel about learning new things?
55.Have you ever had trouble with a boss? How did you handle it?
56.What major problems or challenges have you faced?
57.Why did you resign?
58.Why were you fired?
59.Are you a risk-taker?
60.What have you been doing since your last job?
61.Whats the best movie youve seen in the past year?
62.Whats the most interesting book youve read in the past year?
63.How soon can you start work?
64.Do you have any questions?

Job Specifics

65.Are you looking for full- or part-time work?

66.Are you looking for a day or night job?
67.Are you seeking a permanent or temporary position?
68.Can you work weekends?
69.Are you willing to work overtime?
70.Can you work nights?
71.Are you willing to travel?
72.Are you willing to relocate?
73.Do you have a drivers licence?
74.Do you like working with the public?
75.Do you like working with numbers?
76.How are your writing skills?
77.Hows your spelling?
78.What computer programs are you familiar with?
79.Do you know any foreign languages?
80.Have you worked in a multicultural environment before?
81.How do you relate to people from diverse cultures?

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Salary

82.What are your salary expectations?

83.What salary do you want to earn?
84.What kind of compensation are you looking for?

Leadership

85.Do you consider yourself a leader?

86.What leadership or managerial positions have you held?

Independence

87.Do you like working alone?

88.How well do you work independently?
89.How do you feel about working by yourself?

Teamwork

90.Are you a team player?

91.Do you work well with others?
92.What strengths would you bring to a team?
93.Do you prefer working on a team or by yourself?

References

94.May we contact your previous employers?

95.Can we contact your references?

Questions You Can Ask the Interviewer

96.If you were to offer me the job, how soon would you want me to start?
97.When could I expect to hear from you?
98.Are there any further steps in the interview process?
99.What are the major responsibilities of this position?
100. Are there possibilities for advancement?

Engineer Interview Questions

1. Tell me about the most challenging engineering project that you have been
involved with during past year.
2. Describe the most challenging written technical report or presentation that
you have had to complete.
3. Describe an experience with a difficult client. How did you handle the
situation? What would you have done differently?
4. Tell me about your greatest success in using logic to solve an engineering
problem at a previous job.
5. Give me an example of a time when you applied your ability to use analytical
techniques to define problems or design solutions.
6. What checks and balances do you use to make sure that you don't make
mistakes?
7. Do you have any patents? If so, tell me about them. If not, is it something
you see yourself pursuing in the future? Why or why not?
8. What engineering skills have you developed or improved upon during the
past year?

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9. Which software packages are you familiar with? What is the most interesting
thing you know how to do with one of these packages?
10.What are you doing to stay up-to-date with the latest technology?

LESSON II
THE ADVANCES IN MANUFACTURING
TECHNOLOGY
A Revolution in the Making

Digital technology is transforming manufacturing, making it leaner and smarter

and raising the prospect of an American industrial revival

On a dark and stormy night two weeks ago in Schenectady, N.Y., Ken Hislop was
relaxing at home when his cellphone suddenly began buzzing in his pocket. It was
an urgent text messagefrom the General Electric Co. GE -0.07% factory where he
works.

Soon, a second message arrived. And then another, and another. The texts were
being sent by tiny sensors embedded inside a series of machines, some of which
look like enormous upside-down cement mixers. A violent thunderstorm passing
through the area had caused something to go wrong.

"I knew right away we'd lost power at the plant," says Mr. Hislop, a manufacturing
engineer. He quickly switched on his iPad and accessed animated schematic maps

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that signaled everything happening at the $170 million facility, which makes
massive batteries for things like cellphone towers and power plants. Though the
outage had been momentary, much of the equipment at the factory had to, in
effect, reboot, and any blip could mean costly lost production time.

"I was getting a first-person, real-time account," says Mr. Hislop, who also could
watch video of the storm from the plant's roof. The information allowed him to
ensure that the machinery restarted in proper sequence and that the sensitive
battery material hadn't been damaged.

Welcome to the New Industrial Revolutiona wave of technologies and ideas that
are creating a computer-driven manufacturing environment that bears little
resemblance to the gritty and grimy shop floors of the past. The revolution
threatens to shatter long-standing business models, upend global trade patterns
and revive American industry.

Impacts Big and Small

For big companies, it means a swath of new tools to build smarter, leaner factories
and explore innovative new products, materials and techniques that weren't
possible before. And thanks to plummeting prices, small companies have access to
better, cheaper manufacturing equipment and design toolsgiving even one-
person startups the chance to create market-shaking innovations. Many people
liken the era we're in to the early days of computing, where upstart hobbyists in
their garages came up with huge advances that changed the industry. (See "Build a
Better MousetrapFast."

"Manufacturing is undergoing a change that is every bit as significant as the

introduction of interchangeable parts or the production line, maybe even more so,"
says Michael Idelchik, who heads up advanced technologies at GE's global research
lab, located about 15 minutes away from the battery plant. "The future is not going
to be about stretched-out global supply chains connected to a web of distant giant
factories. It's about small, nimble manufacturing operations using highly
sophisticated new tools and new materials."

There's no question that a coinage like the New Industrial Revolution sounds
magisterial, given the profound impact that the original Industrial Revolution had
not just on business but on living standards around the world. And there's also no
question that for all the big talk and big forecasts, many things will go on being
produced using techniques that were all but perfected long ago.

But the big label is far from unwarranted. The upheaval, still in an early stage, is
accelerating now thanks to the convergence of a number of trends: the low cost
and accessibility of Big Data associated with cloud computing; the plummeting cost
of electronic sensors, microprocessors and other components that can be used to
make machines more adept; and advances in software and communications
technology that make it possible to manage manufacturing with a whole new level
of precision and enable new forms of collaboration.

A new wave of supercheap electronic sensors, microprocessors and other

components means that facilities like Mr. Hislop's need almost no human help to do
their jobs and can collect huge amounts of data along the way. Managers can get
instant alerts about potential problems or study the numbers to find ways to boost
efficiency and improve performance.

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The 3Doodler is a 3-D printer attached to a pen that quite literally lets you make
three-dimensional doodles. Designed as a toy, it is being sought after by everyone
from architects to the sight-impaired community.

Flexible Fabricating

At the same time, technological advances now allow manufacturers to invent new
ways of fabricating things that represent an extreme departure from the classic
production-line model. By far the most significant of these steps forward is additive
manufacturinga process of making a three-dimensional object of virtually any
shape from a digital model.

These exotic machines can use a range of materialseverything from wood pulp to
cobaltand create things as varied as sneakers, fuel nozzles for airplanes and,
ultimately, even human organs. And a single piece of manufacturing equipment,
rather than being custom-designed to perform a single function, can be programed
to fabricate a virtually limitless array of objects.

And, of course, that includes making more machines. On a tour of a laboratory of

advanced manufacturing equipment that Autodesk Inc. ADSK +0.48% is building on
a pier in downtown San Francisco, Chief Executive Carl Bass points to some
masking tape on the ground that marks the spot where a sophisticated computer-
controlled milling machine will be housed.

"The Japanese company Mori Seiki is making that in Sacramento in an automated

factory," says Mr. Bass, whose company creates computer-aided-design software.
"The factory is so advanced that you almost don't need to turn on the lights
because the machines are doing everything, and what they are making is other
machines." In fact, a 3-D printer has replicated itself at a university in England.

Still, manufacturers will have to navigate big new challenges in this era, too. For
one thing, because additive manufacturing works from digital models of objects,
companies are much more vulnerable to intellectual-property theftthe same way
that easily copied music and movies have shaken the entertainment business.

The Sole of a New Machine

To get an up-close look at how the new technologies are already disrupting the old
ways of doing things, consider Nike Inc.'s NKE +0.06% Flyknit shoe.

As high tech as some sneakers may be in materials and appearance, almost all of
them are still made on assembly lines that put a shockingly heavy emphasis on
human labor. Workers sit side by side in enormous facilities, cutting material and
stitching and gluing shoe components together. But, starting last year, Nike began
making the Flyknit a whole new way.

The company's engineers modified a machine used to make sweaters into a shoe-
making contraption that knits the entire upper portion of the shoe in a single
cocoon-like piece that is then attached to the tongue and to the sole. As the shoe is
stitched, proprietary software instructs the machine to alter the materials being
useda bit more polyester thread here, a bit more thereto add strength or
flexibility where needed.

Most important, it makes all these refinements at no added cost. The technology
allowed Nike to make a shoe with just a few parts instead of dozens and with up to
80% less waste. "The Nike Flyknit is the world's first mass-produced consumer
product made using additive manufacturing," says Maurice Conti, director of
strategic innovation at Autodesk, which worked with Nike on the Flyknit project.

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"It's a hugely significant advance, not the least because, once you start doing
things this way it obviously takes a lot of the labor cost out of the equation."

The implications for this are as obvious as they are profound: Almost seemingly out
of the blue, the reason for making shoes in low-wage countries begins to evaporate
and the advantages of locating the machine closer to the customerin part for
faster deliverybegin to loom much larger. Already, Adidas AG ADDYY -0.46% is
knitting a shoe, the Primeknit, in its home country, Germany.

Last year, Boston Consulting Group published a report predicting that as much as
30% of America's exports from China could be domestically produced by 2020.
President Obama gave a nod to this hope in his State of the Union address in
February when he said that the popular additive-manufacturing technique called 3-
D printing "has the potential to revolutionize the way we make just about
everything."

Last year the president proposed a $1 billion addition to his fiscal 2013 budget to
create a network of as many as 15 manufacturing-innovation institutes around the
country. One is already up and running in Youngstown, Ohio, the setting of the
Bruce Springsteen song about the rise and fall of the steel industry. Three more are
in the works under the supervision of the Department of Energy and the Defense
Department. Congress has yet to approve spending for the others.

Not So Fast

But the jury is out on whether a boost in manufacturing will create a resurgence in
U.S. manufacturing employment, which peaked at around 19.5 million in 1979 and
today totals around 12 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
(Economists attribute the recent modest increase in U.S. manufacturing
employment to a rebound in the business cycle, and have found no evidence yet of
an employment rebound connected to advanced manufacturing or the return of
jobs from overseas.)

Almost certainly, it won't mean creating jobs the old waybuilding large factories
that employ thousands of people. The real opportunity is in the growth of highly
specialized, highly advanced micro factories and in legions of small entrepreneurial
ventures making old things in new ways, as well as producing new products and
custom-made items. An important sign of the times: the largest U.S. maker of 3-D
printers, 3D Systems Corp., DDD +1.30% introduced a slick push-button model for
$1,299 last yearputting it within range of the smallest businesses and home
users. The kits to make a printer powered by software from the open-source
RepRap project run as low as $400.

Experts envision bike shops that print custom frames and assemble bikes on
demand; made-to-order shops or websites that offer one-off or personally designed
jewelry; and more sophisticated production shops that crank out all manner of high-
end products. Already, a company called Bespoke Products, a unit of 3D Systems, is
making artificial limbs. Another, Organovo ONVO -3.37% Holdings Inc., is using 3-D
printing to create human tissue for use in medical labs. At a recent conference, the
company showed off a piece of raw meat it had made in a printer. Over time, this
"democratization of manufacturing," as some refer to it, is expected to accelerate,
and one day could mean that your local auto dealer or maybe even your neighbor
(or you) will be able print out a replacement part for your car or make you a new
cup holder sized perfectly for that enormous thermos you carry around.

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New Ways of Making

Additive manufacturing may bring other changes that are just as dramatic as
"factories" run out of somebody's garage. Additive manufacturing makes it possible
to create designs or structures that weren't feasible using the two traditional ways
of making things: milling (sculpting material out of a solid block) and casting
(pouring liquid material that hardens into a mold). Both of these techniques are
greatly enhanced by mass production because quality typically rises and costs fall
as volume increases. Making a lot of something also means it's not so painful to
discard defective units.

But additive manufacturing enables the creation of materials with multiple parts
and moving components without assembly. And because the process is entirely
controlled by computers, following precise digital instructions, the very first piece
that's manufactured is just as good as the last one. The incremental cost of
producing a part becomes strictly a function of time and materials.

All of which means manufacturers can scan further afield for inspiration. Designers
and engineers at General Electric have begun looking at ancient objects and
prehistoric bird skeletons, and delving anew into topology, for inspiration on new
forms of design. Their thinking: Centuries of making things under the constraints of
old methods may have caused their predecessors to discard innovative structures
simply because there was no practical way to produce them through milling or
casting. But what was impractical in the past may be quite feasible today.

There's another big change playing out that isn't so obvious but could have a huge
impact on the world of manufacturing. The rise of the 3-D printer has coincided
with the digitization of the physical world through the use of 3-D scanners and,
increasingly, two-dimensional photos that can be stitched together digitally using
software to create precise 3-D renditions of anything made of atoms.

That affects everyone who works with manufacturers and who participates in the
creative process: designers, engineers, materials specialists, machine makers and
supply managers, among others. It's much easier to collaborate on a model if it is
stored on a computer, because lots of digital hands can be working on it at the
same time.

"The big untold story in all of this is the way the digitization of manufacturing
compresses everythingfrom the early design of a product to its final assembly,"
says Ping Fu, who founded a company called Geomagic that makes 3-D modeling
software and is now in charge of strategy at 3D Systems. "Everyone can now work
together simultaneously. The software makes it possible, and you get much better
results than when all of these activities were being done in different silos."

Still, this new environment leaves manufacturers facing big new challenges, as
digital files of physical objects show up in huge numbers on websites like
Thingiverse and Physibles, and manufacturing instructions appear online, too.

"I give a lot of speeches about this topic to manufacturing groups, and people are
usually quiet during the Q&A," says Christine Furstoss, who oversees a staff of 450
engineers and scientists working on materials, energy strategy and processing
technology at GE's research center. "But afterward, they come up to me in private
and want to talk about how frightened they are. People get a glimpse of how this
could change the game in their business, and they are just not sure what to do
about it."

The Road Forward

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For an idea of how the New Industrial Revolution might play out on a large scale,
look at GE. Its footprints are everywhere in the advanced-manufacturing
community. It is a highly visible participant in the federal government's efforts to
boost additive manufacturing, as well as university programs focusing on the topic.
Partners include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amazon.com's AMZN
-0.45% Web-services department and the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, which are collaborating with GE on a new crowdsourcing platform for
product design and development.

The company also is latching onto the technique in-house. For instance, it is making
a big bet on additive manufacturing as a way to create engine parts that weigh
less, cost less and employ more intricate designs. Last year, it bought one of the
largest additive manufacturers in the U.S., Morris Technologies, and plans to use
the company to make the sophisticated fuel nozzle for its next-generation jet
engine, the LEAP. (The Morris family has a long industrial pedigree: It once supplied
steel tubing to the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop.)

The new nozzle will be 3-D printed as a single part rather than assembled from 18
pieces, and it will be up to five times more durable. GE is also running its own 3-D
metal printers, testing the procedure out on as many parts as possible for both the
LEAP and the GE 9x, its next-generation 777 engine. This week, GE plans to
announce a major investment in another new additive-manufacturing factory that
will mass-produce ceramic engine shrouds.

All told, the company projects it will spend $3.5 billion on aviation-related advanced
manufacturing in the next five years and will produce 100,000 end-use parts for its
engines annually by 2020 using additive techniques.

One of GE's most creative initiatives is an arrangement that will begin to make its
more than 30,000 patents available to inventors and entrepreneurs who use the
website Quirkywhich employs crowdsourcing to evaluate ideas for products. "It's
a whole new paradigm for innovation," says Ben Kaufman, the founder of Quirky,
an industrial-design company in New York.

Starting this month, inventors and their ilk will be able to sift through the first 200
of GE's patents posted on Quirky, with more than 1,000 expected to be available by
the end of the year. People who think they can use the technology without
infringing on GE's own use will be able to click a button and begin a process
enabling them to license use of the patent for whatever application they've
dreamed up.

GE's efforts also offer a look at how data can be leveraged in this new era. One of
the take-aways from a visit to GE's battery plant back in Schenectady, located
adjacent to a parcel that housed Thomas Edison's machine works, is the sheer
volume of data it generatesinformation that allows plant engineers to continually
improve the production process and head off problems before they become serious.

The company can trace a product's entire genealogy, from containers of dirt, sand
and salt to a bank of high-tech batteries supporting a nation's electric grid. The
data not only improve quality controlif a defect shows up at any point, GE can
trace it back to its original sourcebut in the end give GE a powerful competitive
weapon that's virtually impossible to duplicate.

The Schenectady plant, nestled in a valley alongside the Mohawk River, is so

extensively networked and connected, in fact, that it might just as easily be
thought of as a single machine rather than a collection of them. And, of course,
because it is so automated, it doesn't require a whole lot of human assistance. GE's

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Schenectady campus once had so many employees it was given its own ZIP Code,
12345. Yet even when it reaches full productionGE expects its output to exceed
$1 billion in annual sales by 2020the showcase battery plant won't employ more
than 450 people.

Mr. Hislop, who confesses to using his iPad to check in on the factory during a
recent camping trip, describes his experience on the night of the storm in the tones
of an anxious parent. Yet in the midst of the howling winds and thunderclaps, the
technology meant he could remain intimately in touch with everything that was
happening across town. Despite the beating the plant was taking, he says he felt
"reassured."
(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324063304578522812684722382
.html)

LESSON III
APPLYING FOR A JOB

Letter of Application Guidelines

Length: A letter of application should be no more than one page long.

Format: A letter of application should be single-spaced with a space between each

paragraph. Use about 1" margins and align your text to the left, which is the
standard alignment for most documents.

Font: Use a traditional font such as Times New Roman, Arial, or Calibri. The font
size should be between 10 and 12 points.

How to Organize a Letter of Application

Header: A letter of application should begin with both you and the employer's
contact information (name, address, phone number, email) followed by the date. If
this is an email rather than an actual letter, include your contact information at the
end of the letter, after your signature.

Salutation: Begin your letter with "Dear Mr/Mrs Last Name." If you do not know
the employer's last name, simply write, "Dear Hiring Manager."

Introduction: Begin by stating what job you are applying for. Explain where you
heard about the job, particularly if you heard about it from a contact associated
with the company.

Briefly mention how your skills and experience match the company and/or position;
this will give the employer a preview of the rest of your letter.

Body: In a paragraph or two, explain why you are interested in the job and why
you make an excellent candidate for the position. Mention specific qualifications
listed in the job posting, and explain how you meet those qualifications. Do not
simply restate your resume, but provide specific examples that demonstrate your

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abilities. You can either write about these specific examples in complete sentences
or in a bulleted format.

Closing: Restate how your skills make you a strong fit for the company and/or
position. State that you would like to interview and/or discuss employment
opportunities. Explain what you will do to follow up, and when you will do it. Thank
the employer for his/her consideration.

Signature: End with your signature, handwritten, followed by your typed name. If
this is an email, simply include your typed name, followed by your contact
information.

Sample of application letter

Bright Peters
456 Oakwood Terrace
Philadelpia, PA 12121

June 15, 2013

Mrs. Ivy Thompson

HR Manager
24/7 Engineers
Accra Ghana

Dear Sir,
I would like to apply for the role of Graduate Engineer as advertised on
JobHouseGhana.Com (website for Jobs in Ghana).

I have Mechanical Engineering degree including working with CAD and Solidworks
and learning C/C++ programming skills. I also have Electrical Engineering diploma
from NVTI. I am looking for a role where I can help make a real impact in the
business and am ready to make the next step into a career building role. As such I
would like to work for an organization where I can be given the opportunity to
expand my knowledge of design and the theoretical knowledge of Lean
Manufacturing and apply it to real life situations.

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I have previous experience of working in a System on Chip environment during one

of my long vac internships at an aerospace manufacturer based in Ghana, where I
gained a good understanding of System on Chip design and implementation flow.

I am very willing to relocate as I am keen to gain a full-time position working within

an Engineering department using the above skills and capabilities. I am flexible,
and adaptable, and able to pick ideas up quickly and take action, under instruction,
and meet project objectives and deliverables.

I enclose my CV and am available for interview at your convenience. References

are available upon request and I very much look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Bright Peters

Curriculum Vitae Format

How to Format Curriculum Vitae (CV)

The following curriculum vitae sample shows the appropriate format for an
international curriculum vitae.

Curriculum Vitae Format

Your Contact Information

Name
Address
Telephone
Cell Phone
Email

Personal Information
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Citizenship
Visa Status
Gender

Optional Personal Information

Marital Status
Spouse's Name
Children

Employment History
List in chronological order, include position details and dates
Work History

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Academic Positions
Research and Training

Education
Include dates, majors, and details of degrees, training and certification
High School
University
Graduate School
Post-Doctoral Training

Professional Qualifications
Certifications and Accreditations
Computer Skills

Awards

Publications

Books

Professional Memberships

Interests

Sample Resume for an Engineer

Contributed by Kenneth R. Zajac

Kenneth R. Zajac
8999 Lantree Dr ~ Howell, MI 48855
Home: (517)555-1111
Mobile: (734)666-1111
Email: krzajac@email.net

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a engineering management or senior engineering position in R&D,

controls, test, continuous improvement or quality at a growing, people-oriented,
high-technology consumer, medical, electrical/electronic or transportation
corporation where I can use my strong analytical, detail-oriented and interpersonal
skills along with my exceptional common sense to improve services and products,
reduce costs and lead times, delight customers and help and mentor others. All the
while engaging in new challenges and learning experiences.

SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS

Extensive experience in engineering and management, research and development,

leadership and mentoring, test and problem-solving. My engineering forte is in
electrical/electronic and automated test systems. Expert at analyzing and solving
the most complex of problems. My solutions have saved over $23,000,000 in costs
to date. Self motivated professional, capable of working independently or as part of
a team.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Advanced Technology & Test 1979 to Present Stark Rd. Livonia, MI. 48150

Chief R&D Engineering Technologist 2001 to Present

Conduct Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma projects to reduce engineering rework,
reduce project lead times, reduce warranty costs, improve processes, and
improve product quality and manufacturability.
Research, development and implementation of all technologies, products,
standards, procedures and processes including engines/transmission control,
custom data acquisition and NVH testing systems.

Chief Controls Engineer 1984 to 2001

Managed a group of 20+ engineers including hiring, performance review,

daily supervision, salary administration, mentoring and training.
Evaluated work assignments and developed a master schedule for multiple
projects to facilitate proper usage of limited labor resources.

Worked as part of a multi-national/multi-site team to develop, document and

implement standards for engineering design and practices.

Implemented and enforced ISO 9001 engineering procedures.

Developed and administered engineering concept, preliminary and final

design review processes.

Provided expert contribution to qualify equipment built for CE marking.

Senior Project Engineer 1979 to 1984

Analyzed testing requirements of various products. Proposed and

implemented methods and equipment that would detect defects introduced
during the production process.
Provided expert resolution of the most troublesome of electrical interference
issues.

Designed and implemented custom electronic circuits for signal conditioning,

data acquisition and control functions.

Control and maintenance of the laboratory. Accountable for the distribution,

calibration and repair of test equipment and laboratory facility.

Ford Motor Company 1977 to 1979 Dearborn, MI.

Electrical Engineer

Service, repair and design engineering of controls systems for factory

automation in the Metal Stamping Division.
Specify and approve the purchase of automation equipment from suppliers.

Designed and implemented custom electronic circuits for signal conditioning,

data acquisition and control functions.

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Ferris State University1973 to 1977 Big Rapids, MI.

Bachelor of Science Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center 2005 Plymouth, MI.

Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

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