Dow Drake's Education and Work History |
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Description of Work and Skills Acquired |
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Mechanical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1989 |
Mechanical systems design and analysis, with focus on physical sciences and mathematics |
| Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1989-1991 |
Control systems analysis and design, specializing in adaptive, predictive control algorithms for continuous systems |
| Volunteer U. S. Peace Corps Mali, West Africa: 1991-1993 |
Project Manager, Engineer, Construction Supervisor and Laborer in the construction of a dam on a seasonal stream by the Village of Sinsina in the Region of Koutiala. |
| Project Engineer DST Controls Benicia, California 1994-97 |
Mechanical, electrical and software design of PLC-based industrial control systems, Programmed ladder logic, wrote serial communication drivers and data synthesis applications using C and VBA |
| Manager, Engineer, Operator Grandview Farm L.P. Marine, Illinois 1998-2005 |
Co-managed (with father) three thousand-acre grain/livestock farm. Designed and built PLC-controlled grain handling system involving eight bins with 500,000 bushel capacity. Developed Windows applications in C and MS Access-based database application for record-keeping and reporting. |
| Owner, Consultant Aged Man Consulting Portland, Oregon May 2005-Present |
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