Some projects
I have managed successfully:
- Eight Grant
Contracts, 1993 to 2003. The largest of these, at $248,000 involved the
modification and testing of the Arlyn Arm for educational use. Tasks included
- Modifications
to the existing prototype
- Doing
a reliability analysis
- Doing
a complete redesign, building one example followed by more copies.
During the construction I coordinated fabrication and assembly work
by as many as five people who were working on this project and another
SBIR Phase I contract.
- Finishing
the interior of my workshop, recently erected, in time to build the
Arlyn Arms for the contract. This involved insulation, plumbing, wiring,
drywall and lighting done by a crew of 3.
- Developing
add-on tools for using the Arlyn Arm to do High School Chemistry,
Physics and Biology experiments and Studio Art Projects.
- Conducting
field tests in Philadelphia and Johnstown, PA
- Developing
additional interfaces including a switch interface, an AAC (Augmentative
and Alternative Communication) device interface and a speech interface.
- Design,
sale and installation of large and small automated Material Handling Systems
for Automated Systems Division of Forklifts, Inc.
- The
largest of these, at about $500,000 was at Lancaster Laboratories
and was located both inside and outside a large walk-in cooler. It
consisted of three industrial carousels with 200# trays, three AS/RS
cranes to extract and replace trays, a double height roller conveyor
line which carried the trays out to a three person workstation with
bar code readers and computer terminals.
- I simulated
the operation of this system, coordinated the construction of the
components, coordinated the physical and electronic interfacing of
the components.
- I set
and managed the installation schedule.
- I confirmed
that everything could physically fit down the twisting hallway and
into the cooler.
- In cooperation
with LLI I designed the software architecture and supervised its writing
so that it not only managed the sample inventory in the cooler, it
provided updates to the lab inventory files.
- I got
it installed on time, in spite of some major roadblocks.
- Coordinating
the rebuilding, by my crew, of a reproducing player piano, as well as
many standard player pianos
- Construction
of 3 harpsichords and 7 clavichords