Kevin Okopski is a SolidWorks designer with over 10,000 hours of experience in product development, mold design, and training junior designers for the medical, packaging, and plastics industries. He has extensive experience designing molds for blow fill seal and blow molding applications using SolidWorks, MasterCAM, and AutoCAD. His background includes designing pharmaceutical packaging molds at Cardinal Health and blow molding molds for toy and packaging companies.
1. (847) 428-4539 (H)(847) 421-6180 (C)K_Okopski@hotmail.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinokopski KEVIN J. OKOPSKI 16 Birch StreetCarpentersville, IL 60110 EXTRUSION AND BFS PRODUCT AND MOLD DESIGN
2. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY A SolidWorks Designer (Over 10,000 hours) in the Medical, Blow mold packaging and Plastics industries. Responsibilities have encompassed Product Development, mold design, DFM / DFA, leading and training junior designers, designing in both 2D (AutoCAD) and 3D (SolidWorks, Cadkey). Experience has led to a thorough knowledge of AutoCAD, SolidWorks, MasterCAM Mill, Cadkey, and Microsoft Office, working with a team or as an individual, shop floor experience, final review of product and concept to completion work of molds. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE BLOW FILL SEAL DESIGN Mold Designer June 2006 to November 2008, Arlington Heights Mold Design & CNC Programming Design and Programming for Blow Fill Seal molds for Pharmaceutical industry using SolidWorks 2008 and MasterCAM 9.1 sp2 Designed trim tooling i.e. punch and die and fixtures CARDINAL HEALTH Mechanical DesignerJune 2003 to June 2006 Mold Design & CNC Programming Design and Programming for Blow Fill Seal molds for Pharmaceutical industry using SolidWorks 2005, AutoCAD 2005 and MasterCAM Ver9.1 Designed trim tooling i.e. punch and die and fixtures March 2000 to June 2003 (Design Contracts) HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, Duncan, Oklahoma DUPLICRAFT INC SPEEDY TOOL LIFE FITNESS MOLDRITE TOOL & MOLD BLOW MOLD DESIGN Mold Designer May 1992 to March 2000 Design and engineering of blow molds for packaging and toy industry using AutoCAD 2000 and Solid Works 99. Created 3-d cavity geometry for CNC programming. Designed trim tooling i.e. punch and die and fixtures Designed sheet metal discharge guides for scrap material. Restructured filing and part number system. Maintained company computers and software. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Skills: 15 Years Autocad (2D Layout) 10 Years Solidworks (3D Solid modeling) 4 Years Cadkey (3D Wire frame & Solid modeling) 6 Years Mastercam ( CNC Mill Programming) 15 Years MS Office 15 Years computer and software maintenance Accomplishments Mold design for Timee Toy Products Mold design for Kidney Dialysis filter Product design for 17” Flat screen monitor housing Cabinet design for Pinball, Video games and Slot machines. Layout of test console for defense aircraft manufacturer Design of Craftsman “Hosemoble” Design of cosmetic compacts for Maybelline, MaxFactor & Noxell Cabinet layout for spinet and console organs Design & Development Vibratory Deburring Equipment EDUCATION AND ADDITIONAL TRAINING MORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Palos Hills, IL Liberal Arts and Drafting 1974 to 1976 NORTH PARK COLLEGE, Chicago, IL Practical Dimensional Metrology, 1979 TRITON COLLEGE, River Grove, IL 1984 to 1985 CAD Systems courses to maintain current state-of-the-art, SHOPWARE INC MasterCAM Mill and Advanced Mill 2003 COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY, MasterCAM Mill and Advanced Mill 2003 to Present