| Instructor |
Affiliation |
Profile |
| Bailey,
Pete |
Electronics Inc |
Prior to
retirement Peter was Staff Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing Process Development
Manufacturing and Quality Technology Department General Electric Aircraft
Engines. Mr. Bailey joined General Electric in July 1972. Prior to that time he
was involved in the development of dispersion-strengthened mill products with
E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., and then Fansteel, Inc. Prior to his DuPont and
Fansteel experience, Mr. Bailey worked for the Line Division of Union Carbide
Corporation, primarily in the application of industrial gases to steel making.
Degrees: BS Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University 1956, and MS Mechanical
Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology 1961. |
| Barker,
Bill |
Progressive Technologies Inc |
Sales
Engineer for Progressive Technologies, Bill holds his BS degree in Physics. His
military service included seven years in the US Navy as an officer aboard a
Nuclear Submarine. Prior to joining Progressive Technologies, Bill was involved
in the power transmission industry followed by Honeywell as engineering sales.
He has worked in sales and application engineering at Progressive for several
years, having focused on the processes of shot peening, grit blasting, thermal
spray coating and high pressure waterjet cutting attaining a market primarily
in the aerospace and automotive industries. |
| Cammett,
John |
Navair
Depot - Cherry Point |
Materials
Engineer, Naval Aviation Depot, Cherry Point, NC. Dr. Cammett 's technical
activities currently include; Analysis of aircraft component failures,
development of repair/rework process methods and technical support of depot
manufacturing operations. Oversee manufacturing technology investigations to
determine feasibility/application to depot activities and metallurgical
consultations. Dr. Cammett spent 20 years with Metcut Research Associates in
fatigue, fracture mechanics, residual stress measurement, metallurgical
research and failure analysis. He has also spent five years at GE/Cincinnati
specializing in fatigue, low cycle fatigue and fracture mechanics properties of
aircraft engine materials. He received his BS and MS in Metallurgical
Engineering from Ohio State University and his PhD in Metallurgical Engineering
from the University of Cincinnati. A Registered Professional Engineer, Dr.
Cammett is a fellow of ASTM, past Chairman of Committee E-9 on Fatigue, past
Chairman and member of ASM International and member of the International
Scientific Committee on Shot Peening and member of the Organizing Committee for
ICSP-6. |
| Champaigne, Jack |
Electronics Inc |
President of
Electronics Incorporated and Publisher of three International Newsletter; THE
SHOP PEENER. Jack received his BSEE degree in 1968 from Purdue University and
has been involved with shot peening since 1978. Technical achievements include
ten US Patents and inventor of the MagnaValve. As editor of THE SHOT PEENER, he
has assembled one of the largest libraries of articles on shot peening and
related topics, which has become an industry resource. He is a member of the
International Committee on Shot Peening, past-chairman of the International
Conference on Shot Peening (ICSP-6), which was held in San Francisco, CA.,
1996. He is a member of SAE and participates in the Aerospace Materials
Engineering Committee and is currently holds the position of Committee Chairman
of the Surface Enhancement Division of Fatigue Design and Evaluation
Committee. |
| Davies,
Christopher |
Potters |
Employed at
Potters for almost 20 years. Presently Technical Service manager for Highway
Safety and Impact industries for North America. Past positions were in process
engineering , R+D product development. Worked to develop retroreflectometer
instruments to measure pavement marking visibility with FHWA. Mechanical
Engineer with Master of Science Management. Member various ASTM, CIE, SAE AMEC
committees all relating to glass beads. |
| Davies,
Dean |
Ervin
Industries |
Sales Manager
for Ervin Industries, Dean received his education at Jackson Michigan Community
College and the University of Michigan School of Business. He began his career
with Ervin Industries in 1976 as an hourly employee at the Adrian Michigan
facility. In 1990 he became involved in the production, maintenance and quality
control operations and joined the sales force in 1991. His responsibilities
include the sales in eleven states while conducting seminars each
year. |
| Dickey,
Dan |
Innovative Peening Systems |
Dan Dickey:
President and owner of Innovative Peening Systems. Dan Received his education
from Southwest Missouri State University School of Business. He began his metal
finishing career in 1983 as a technical sales representative for a Southeastern
United States metal finishing distributor. After being promoted to sales
manager he later became president of the company and founded a division of the
company, Innovative Peening Systems (IPS). IPS started as an air blast rebuild
facility and progressed to manufacturing medium priced shot peening and
blasting machines. In 2000, he purchased Innovative Peening from the
distributor and now operates the company in Duluth, Georgia. Originally a
student of the first workshop in 1991, Dan has been a speaker at the shot peen
workshop since 1997. |
| Diverty,
Dan |
BCP |
Dan joined
Wheelabrator Canada in 1974 as a member of the engineering group, later he
became supervisor of the drawing office between 1975 to 1978. He joined the
Wheelabrator Canada sales team in 1978 as a Territory Representative. Dan
graduated through the sales force as the Product Manager of Wheel Blast
Cleaning and Peening areas of the Wheelabrator Business. In 1999 through the
reorganization of the BCP Wheelabrator Group, Dan was assigned the duties of
Peening Manager for North America. |
| Gillespie, Bob |
Premier
Shot Co |
Founder and
President of Premier Shot Company, Bob graduated in 1966 from Cleveland State
University. Majoring in Metallurgy, he as over twenty years experience being
directly involved in the field of shot peening and blasting media. He spent
seventeen years at Metal Improvement Company, Cincinnati Division as Manager of
Technical Services and serving as Division Manager and Director of Research and
Development for the corporate office in Paramus, NJ. In 1988 he founded Premier
Shot Company and has been involved in all aspects of shot peening from
processing of parts to design and development of computer controlled shot
peening equipment. Premier Shot Company manufactures high quality conditioned
cut wire media for use in critical shot peening processes and also provides
services such as complete shot evaluation and introduction of new technology
items which involve Image Analysis for automatic inspection of shot peening
media. |
| Harrison, James |
Metal
Improvement Co |
Marketing
Manager, Special Projects Metal Improvement Co. Inc. Wichita, KS. 67211. Jim is
a graduate of the University of Kansas. He has worked at Metal Improvement for
16 years in both marketing and production. Areas of expertise include
Lasershotsm peening, shot peening, peen forming and heat treat processing of
metal parts. Prior to working for MIC Jim worked for Learjet and the Coleman
Co. of Wichita. In his spare time he prepares and races a 1972 Corvette in
Sports Car Club of America solo events and hacks at golf balls. |
| I'anson,
Ken |
Progressive Technologies Inc |
Sales
Engineer for Progressive Technologies. Ken has been involved in the shot
peening industry from the equipment side for 23 years. Ken has contributed many
articles and papers that are currently used in the Shot Peener Workshop Manual
and has attended every Workshop since the beginning in 19990. Ken has held
positions over the years with Wheelabrator Corporation, Blast Cleaning Products
(BCP), Blastworks Inc. US Filter and Progressive Technologies. His experience
is unique in that it has covered both centrifugal wheel peening and compressed
air nozzle peening. Ken's present focus is on airframe and land based turbine
shot peening applications and is pleased to be a presenter at these yea's Shot
Peening and Blast Cleaning Workshop. |
| Ingram,
Mark |
Electronics Inc |
In 1973Mark
received and Electronics Degree at ITT Technical Institute. Upon graduation
Mark went to Crown International as a line technician later moving to an
engineering department. 1987 Mark joined Eneractive Group to design DC to AC
converters for the RV Industry along with many other electronic devices for the
industry. 1990 Mark joined Electronics Incorporated and began doing test and
repair work in house and in the field. It was through this work that Mark
gained experience and knowledge about the shot peening industry and has gone on
to design new products for the industry. |
| Lutsko, Dwight |
Jet Wheelblast |
Dwight Lutsko is General
Sales Manager of B&U Corporation's four divisions: Jet Wheelblast
Equipment, Jet Air Technologies, Kleiber & Schulz and Snedeker Machine. He
started in metal finishing field in 1973. He received his Associate Science
degreee in Electric/Electronic Technology and his Bachelor's degree in Business
Administration and Management. |
| Nudelman, Alan |
Composition Materials |
Alan
graduated from the University of Illinois with a BS in Industrial and
Mechanical Engineering. His career was with IBM in Marketing and business
management and attended the Graduate School of Business Administration of the
University of Connecticut while working for IBM in Westchester County, New
York. In 1988 he became President of Composition Materials Company which became
a major producer of Plastic Blasting Media (Plasti-Grit) and other abrasives.
Today CMC distributes abrasives, masking systems, fillers and extenders for
both industrial and consumer product areas. |
| Protebois, Alain |
ISPC-Sisson Lehmann |
Alain is
Sales and Marketing Director. He received his Dipl.Engineer from Reims
University - France. He has over 23 years experience in mechanincal surface
preparation in blasting & peening: wheel, airblast, liquid equipment and
also mass finishing. (fluent French/English/German) |
| Rabel,
Greg |
Midwestern Industries |
Sales
Engineer with Midwestern Industries for almost 20 years, Greg covers the
outside sales for Midwestern Industries in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee. He received his BA in Management from Golden Gate
University in San Francisco, CA., while serving seven years in the US Air Force
at Edwards AFB. |
| Reckart,
Larry |
W. S.
Tyler |
1973 I
enlisted in the United States Navy. Made eight deterrent patrols aboard the
fleet ballistic missile submarine Kamehameha (SSBN 642) as part of the Gold
crew. I was honorably discharge from the navy in 1979. In 1980 I began a
carrier as a nuclear plant startup engineer that spanned the next 14 years and
included the startup of nuclear plants in Ohio, Arizona, New York,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia (High Level Waste
Vitrafication Facility). In 1994 I had the opportunity to go back to school and
obtain a degree in Business Management from Lakeland Collage. In 1995 I went to
work for W.S. Tyler in Mentor, Ohio as the Quality Control Manager. In a short
time I became involved in a new photo optical particle analysis technology that
W.S. Tyler and Haver & Boecker were bringing to the market. In 1998 I was
made Product Manager for the Computerized Particle Analyzer (CPA). As the CPA
Product Manager I am responsible for sales and service of the instrument in
North & South America, Mexico and Canada. |
| Sheyka,
Jerry |
EMI |
President of
EMI, Inc., South Bend, IN., Jerry received his B.S.M.E from University of New
Mexico in 1966 and his M.B.A from the University of Notre Dame in 1979. He was
an engineer for Dodge Manufacturing prior to joining Wheelabrator Corporation
and in 1987 became President of EMI, Inc. A full service company specializing
in Shot Blast & Vibratory Finishing services, Blast Equipment (new, used
& rebuilt), Dust Collection Equipment and many Technical Services in the
area of sample parts finishing, testing and demonstrations. |
| Schneidau, Volker |
Schlick
Roto-Jet |
is and
engineer and also the sales manager for Schlick roto-jet. He joined Schlick in
1997 as a design engineer and later was active in machine commissioning and
then moved into sales. His hometown is Dattein, Germany. |
| Schwab,
Dominique |
ISPC-Sisson Lehmann |
Graduate
Senior Engineer from French "Grande Ecole d'Ingenieur" with over 18 year
experience in peening process and equipment manufacturing. |
| Sorenson, Michael |
Boeing |
Michael A. Sorenson - A
native of Billings, MT., Michael graduated in 1986 with a B.S. degree in
Mechanical Engineering Technology and a minor in Industrial & Management
Engineering from Montana State University in Bozeman, Mt. Since college
graduation, he has been employed by the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group at
their Fabrication Division in Auburn, WA. His first (2) years were spent as a
Manufacturing Engineering planner, primarily supporting the B-2 program. Over
the next 2 years, he successfully completed an engineering-in-training
rotation, where he had assignments in NC programming, tool design, and sheet
metal process engineering. Since 1990, he has worked as a process engineer in
the Machined Products manufacturing business unit, which makes various landing
gear support and wing components for all Boeing commercial airplane models.
Since 1992, his primary area of responsibility has been in supporting the
shotpeen area. He has led efforts in area process improvements, coordinating
new shotpeen work, purchasing shotpeen machines, documenting area procedures
and training. In the last (2) years, his responsibilities have also included
providing manufacturing engineering support to his shop's assembly and kitting
areas. Michael resides in Federal Way, WA, with his wife, Dena, and 3 year old
son, Luke. |
| Tobben,
Herb |
Zero
Blast Div of Clemco Industries |
Herb joined Zero Manufacturing in 1970, supervising the assembly and
testing of the companies Blast N Peen line of automated and manual cabinets. In
1986 Clemco Industries acquired Zero Manufacturing and putting Herb in the
position to manage the Sample-processing Laboratory at Clemco in Washington,
MO. He conducts shot peening classes both on-site and at their facility. He has
been involved with Sample Processing and Research and Development for most of
his time with Clemco. The Clemco laboratory tests the effects of shot peening,
blast cleaning, deburring, dry stripping and surface finishing processes in
parts submitted by their customers. Herb has been instrumental in applying more
control in shot peening and developing lightweight media equipment for Clemco's
Aerolyte Systems Division. In the area of shot peening applications, Herb and
his technicians determine the size, type and number of blast guns needed to
produce acceptable parts and meet production requirements, creating specialized
nozzles, parts fixtures and even robotic systems when needed. |
| Weil,
Gary |
Wheelabrator Corporation |
Director-Risk
Management & Technical Services - International Surface Preparation
Corporation (ISPC): Responsible for the intellectual property, product
insurance and technical support related to the equipment and service
requirements of the former USF Surface Preparation Group of Companies. Includes
support for OEM & Distribution companies on procedures, practices and
requirements for safe, effective, timely and error free sales, service,
operation and maintenance. Thirty-seven (37) years of experience in the airless
blasting market in various roles with the Wheelabrator organization and its
parent companies. Served in the following capacities: Field Service Technician,
Repair Parts Sales Representative, Equipment Proposal Engineer, Equipment Sales
Engineer, Regional Aftermarket Sales Manager, Regional Field Service Manager,
Foundry Equipment Products Manager, Director -Customer Service, Manager-Repair
Parts Sales, Manager-Turnkey Installation Projects, Equipment Project Manager,
International Equipment Sales Representative, Manager-Equipment Services,
Corporate Technical Training-Sales & Services, Corporate Risk Manager
|
| Whalen,
Jim |
Progressive Technologies Inc |
Vice
President of Sales and Marketing, Progressive Technologies. Jim has been
involved with the shot peening process for over 12 years. Upon receiving his
BSME he joined General Electric and held several positions in both the
Corporate Manufacturing Management Program and the Manufacturing Technology
laboratory (MTL) within GE Aircraft Engines. He gained shot peening expertise
by developing new peening processes, tooling analytical analysis and inspection
tools, and equipment to peen critical aircraft engine components. Jim was
instrumental in introducing NC peening to GE's production division by
specifying and installing new equipment, NC peening methods and operator
training. During these assignments Jim also received a MSME from the University
of Cincinnati. Jim has also had the distinguished honor of being part of their
team named the 1993 "Shot Peener of the Year". In 1994, Jim left GE to join
Progressive Technologies as Manager of Process Engineering. In this position,
Jim developed and enhanced Progressive's process experience to aid in the
design and build of industry leading peening, blasting, and water jet machine
tools. |
| Nudleman, Alan |
Composition Materials |
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