FINALLY, WRITING RESUMES Jim Heilman
P. O. Box 1228
Burnsville, MN 55337-0228
Office (952) 431-2500
E-mail: jim@discoverypersonnel.com
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1996 - Discovery Personnel, Inc., Technical Recruiter
Present
Self Employed doing technical and executive recruiting for the Plastics Industry.
1995 - Belden, Inc., Equipment Development Engineering Manager
1996
Managed a department of 3 electrical engineers, 5 mechanical engineers and two design technicians designing manufacturing and testing equipment unique to Belden’s automated wire and cable manufacturing processes. Also lead a twenty person project team standardizing the process machine controls for over 100 extrusion lines.
1993 - EZ Paintr Division of the Newell Corporation, Engineering Manager
1995
Led a department consisting of 7 engineers and 21 maintenance technicians responsible for all manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, equipment design, product development engineering and maintenance for brush manufacturing. Developed a brush packaging machine and five pouching machines.
1989 - Boehringer Mannheim Corp., Manager Process & Packaging Engineering
1993
Managed the Process and Packaging Engineering Department that developed medical device manufacturing processes, new equipment, and packages. My department developed primary and secondary packages as well as the automated packaging equipment. Used Design of Experiment and Statistical Analysis Techniques to improve machine capability to meet the Food and Drug Administration’s Good Manufacturing Practices requirements.
1977 - Ross Laboratories Division of Abbott Laboratories
1989
Manager, Automated Systems Engineering
Led an engineering department developing and applying advanced automation equipment, robotics and vision systems. Developed the first robotics application at Abbott Laboratories. Developed an automated packaging line using pick and place equipment, robots, feeder bowls and conveyor system to assemble and package hospital discharge kits.
Manager, Project Engineering
Managed a group of five project managers while managing large (over $1 million) projects. Managed and engineered the installation of five can manufacturing lines at a total cost of $8 million dollars, including all of the can conveying systems, palletizers and robot body blank feeders.
Manager of Packaging Development
Managed the design and development of primary and secondary packages, single piece drawn cans, two piece welded cans, and blow molded plastic bottles.
Manager, Columbus Plant Maintenance
Managed 80 engineers, supervisors, and technicians to meet aggressive productivity, quality, budget, instrument calibration and safety goals in 600 person infant formula manufacturing and packaging plant.
1975 - Becton-Dickinson Corporation, Senior Mechanical Engineer
1977
Designed and developed specialized equipment and new processes for manufacturing and packaging blood collection tubes.
1973 - 3M Traffic Control Products Division, Project Engineer
1975
Developed processes and designed leading edge equipment used by Research and Development to develop new types of reflective sheeting and highway delineators. Purchased and developed the first extrusion at 3M for making reflective plastic sheeting, in addition to the converting equipment.
1971 - Olin Corporation, Process Engineer
1973
Designed several new and unique machines and cellophane production lines. One design let the operators reduce coating weights, saving the company over $20,000 monthly.
EDUCATION
1982 - University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio - MBA
1971 - Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana - BS in Mechanical Engineering
Skilled in the use of most Personal Computer Programs including, WordPerfect, Microsoft Project Management, Microsoft Word, Harvard Project Manager, AutoCAD LT, Lotus 1,2,3, Excel, Quatro Pro, Statgraphics, Flow Charting, etc. Experienced in applying Design of Experiments (DOE), Statistical Problem Solving, Bench Marking Techniques, Good Manufacturing Practices, Total Quality Management, and ISO 9000 Certification.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Registered Professional Engineer
Society of Plastics Engineers
When I began writing this series of Weblogs to help job searchers find a job I published my personal resume just to give everyone an idea of my experience and why I feel kind of qualified to tell people how to find a job. I am presenting my resume again so I can use it as an example of how to write a simple resume that will work for most situations, such as Networking, working with headhunters and responding to newspaper advertisements. A slightly altered resume (more Functional) should probably be used for job boards and I will discuss it when I finish with this resume layout. I call this a HISTORICAL (or chronological) resume because it deals primarily with your work history. The other type of a resume that is getting increasingly popular is the FUNCTIONAL resume and it is popular for posting on job boards and responding to company job postings on the Internet. Both have their place but believe it or not, the HISTORICAL is what most corporate and third party recruiters want to know and expect to see. If they see something else, they probably will not respond as positively to the resume.
I am going to recommend a couple of resume books although I don't think you really need to buy one. Resume writing is really quite simple if you follow a few simple guidelines.
Just remember that a resume will not get you a job but it will keep you from getting one. Also, every couple of years some expert says the resume is dead, don't believe it. I believe it may be a little less important than it was in years past when travel was slow and the only way to communicate was via snail mail or telephone for short periods of time due to the expense (I still remember an egg timer being kept by my parent's phone and being asked to get off the party line because someone was expecting an important call). I doubt that the resume will die anytime soon but writing an effective resume is not difficult once you get past the empty sheet writer's block. In the next posting, I'll present the basic outline for writing an effective resume.
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