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Roy
W. Schreffler
Email Address: schreffler@rcn.com
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Education
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Lafayette
College, not complete, 1986
Accepted as a
part-time evening student in Electrical Engineering pursuing a degree in
same. Courses; Calculus III, English 101, Physics 101 & Engineering
Graphics 101
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Moravian College, 1982 to 1985
Completed
Calculus I & II
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Bethlehem
Area Vo-Tech, Diploma, 1974
One year Electrical
shop, two years Electronics
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Freedom High
School, HS Diploma, 1974
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Employment
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Imagineering
Manager, Sr. Design Engineer, SKF Actuation and Motion Control (div. of SKF USA)
August 1991 to Present
Was hired to
serve 80% of my time as the North American Service Engineer
(Electro/Mechanical) for a line of precision roundness measuring
equipment, and, 20% designing electric linear actuator applications.
Since 1993, I spend 100% of my time with electric linear and rotary
actuators, design and applications engineering. Since April of 2008, I am
responsible for Actuator Application Engineering and Business Development
in North America.
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Design
Engineer, Asgco
Manufacturing
March 1990 to August 1991
Worked
extensively in the field doing research and development of products used
in the bulk material handling industry, like limestone quarrys, re-cycling centers and cement making.
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Design
Engineer, Matrix Graphics
Corp.
May 1986 to March 1990
Designed
state-of-the-art high-speed graphics controller products for barcode
label imprinting and data collection systems and various other Automatic
Identification Systems.
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Design
Engineer, Kalglo
Electronics Co. Inc.
October 1981 to May 1986
Designed computer
power protection products including uninterruptible power systems and
transient voltage surge suppression devices.
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Design
Engineer, Micro Pro Inc.
October 1978 to October 1981
Designed and
managed microprocessor based contract engineering projects, for example,
dot matrix printers, envelope addressing machines, point-of-sale
terminals, graphics controllers and system integration.
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Personal
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Travel
extensively for work, both Domestic and International.
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Computer
Software Related
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Proficient
at using AutoCad 2000LT 2-D to develop drawings for all aspects of a
product; engineering, manufacturing, sales & marketing, quality control.
Very familiar working with Knowledge Revolution's "Working
Model" 2-D simulation software used to analyze a new product design
or validate existing products designs. Experienced at using MicroSoft
Office Products (Excel, Word etc.) and Lotus Development Corporations
family of products; Lotus 123 (spreadsheet), Lotus WordPro (word
processor), Lotus Approach (database), Lotus Notes and MOVEX, Adobe
PhotoShop CS3
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Mechanical
Related
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Able
to produce parts on manually operated horizontal lathes and vertical
milling machines. Woodworking and furniture making are hobbies I do. MIG
welding, brazing and auto mechanics are also some of my strong areas.
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Publications
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Leslie Langnau 1996. "Selecting
linear actuators, made easy". Power Transmission
Design
See also this article
in SKF's "Evolution" link has
been disabled by SKF”
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Honors
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Feature
Alumnus, June 1988
The
Leadership Bethlehem Class of 1988, of The
Bethlehem Area Chamber of Commmerce, has
undertaken a study of Bethlehem
Area Vocational-Technical
School as its class
project. They presented me in a local sponsoring newspaper write-up as a
FEATURE ALUMNUS, one of a series about people of interest who attended
Bethlehem Vo-Tech.
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