Richard Bielling has over 40 years of experience in mechanical engineering, product development, project management, and sales. He has worked for various companies in roles such as mechanical engineer, supplier quality engineer, manager of printer development and technical support groups, sales, and as an insurance agent. Bielling has a B.S. in mechanical engineering and has taken various continuing education courses throughout his career.

1. Richard A. Bielling
295 Cedar Ridge Rd
Longview, Tx 75602
rbielling@gmail.com
386-288-3050
Qualifications Brief:
Mechanical Engineer with extensive experience in the industry, working with mechanical, electrical,
and software aspects of various printers. Designed electronic packaging, coordinated testing for UL
and FCC compliance of several devices. Managed a printer development group and a printer service
support group. I have experience in designing mechanical, and electro-mechanical devices, as well
as product development and project management with. I have worked in Development Engineering,
Manufacturing Engineering and in Supplier Quality Engineering.
Attended commercial truck drivers training course.
Employment History:
CCC Transportation LLC Auburndale, FL May 2 2011 to September 10 2011
Delvered containers to port in Savanna GA
US XPRESS INC Chattanooga, TN October 11 2010 to March 29 2011
Drove over the road for US XPRESS Inc
ROAD MASTER DRIVERS SCHOOL Jacksonville, FL July 24 2010 to August 27 2010
Attended commercial truck drivers training course.
One Source Insurance, Metter, GA July 05 2009 to June 25 2010
Issurance Agent selling life insurance products to individuals.
John Deere Seeding Group, Valley City, ND June 03 2008 to May 05 2009
Reported to design group manager in Moline.
Responsible for solving engineering documentation errors working with SAP software.
Worked with Manufacturing Engineers to improve productivity, and quality and cost.
Pegg Paxson and Springer Funeral Home December 2007 to May 2008
Family Service Counselor
Provided Prearranged Furnal Contracts for families
Weston Pontiac Buick GMC, Gresham, OR Feb 2007 to Nov 2007
New car sales
Norm Olson and Associates Insurance Jan 2006 to Jan 2007
Issurance Agent selling life insurance products to individuals.
Lowes Home Improvement , Las Cruces, NM Aug 2005 to December 2005
Sales Associate in Plumbing Department
Norm Olson and Associates Insurance Sept 2002 to Dec 2004
Issurance Agent selling life insurance products to individuals.
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Town and Country Dodge, Wilsonville, OR June 2001 to Aug 2002

2. New car sales
Asyst Technologies, Newberg OR. Oct 2000 Apr 2001
Supplier Performance Manager: Responsible for Quality Control of manufacturing of injected molded plastic
parts and assembly of products used in the silicon wafer manufacturing process. Reported directly to the Vice
President in charge of Quality.
PaineWebber Portland OR. Dec 1999 to Oct 2000
Financial Advisor. Obtained Series 7 and Series 66 licenses
Accumulated over $485,000 under management.
Tektronix Inc. Wilsonville OR. Jun 1994 to Aug 1999
Manufacturing Engineering: Responsible for Mechanical aspects for six different printer products. Worked
with vendors to resolve design and quality issues. Set up new configuration on the manufacturing line.
Work with design engineering on a solution for a wide format printer. Attended ProE Design and ProE
Mechanical classes. Completed Shainin Design of Experiments Course
Supplier Quality Engineer: Responsible for the quality of all vendor supplied components of printers,
including sheet metal, plastics, cables, motors, sensors, gears and various other eletro-mechanical
devices. Quality Control methods include utilization of Statistical Process Control employing Process
Capability Controls such as Cp, Cpk data on all critical to function and critical to process attributes and
dimensions.
Performed Root Cause Analysis using Sahinin DOE methods to find the Red X .Evaluated vendor's ability to
maintain process controls and their ability to measure their products to verify that they always meet our
minimum requirements.
McConnell Automotive, Mobile, AL January 1993 to May 1994
New car sales
Quality Micro Systems Mobile, AL May 1989 to Dec 1992
Senior Mechanical Engineer: Performed thermal analysis, environmental tests, and vibration tests, and
drop tests. Some tests were performed at outside test laboratories, requiring coordination, and
planning with test laboratory personnel. Worked with OEM vendor to solve overheating problem.
Designed enclosure for printer server device using CAD software, performed thermal analysis,
electrostatic discharge protection, UL safety and FCC EMI compatibility test.
Manager: Printer evaluation group. Supervised engineers and technicians, performing tests and evaluation of
printers to insure they meet functional specifications. Coordinated correction and resolution of all problems
and anomalies with the manufacturer or their representative.
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Fujitsu America Inc San, Jose, CA April 1987 MAY 1989
Senior Product Development/Liaison Engineer: Learned new printer products developed by Fujitsu Japan
in order to successfully release printers to the market in the U.S. This entailed a five week training and work
session, with the development engineers, in the final design stage of a new printer in Japan.
Manager: Customer Technical Support Group. Responsible for problem resolution and engineering support
for printer products after they were released in the U.S. Coordinated FCC testing for Class B certification of
printers at an outside laboratory. Insured that unit met UL safety regulatory criteria.
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Data General Corp Austin, TX and Durham, NH March 1984 April 1987
Manager: Managed a printer development group, consisting of five engineers and two technicians, testing
and evaluating printers, manufactured by various companies, to insure that they meet the functional

3. specifications. The position required extensive interfacing with the engineers at the suppliers to resolve
performance and quality issues.
Suzuki Cycle Center Inc Killeen, TX Sept 1981 to Feb 1984
President: Owned and operated a franchised Suzuki motorcycle dealership. Placed 42nd in sales of 1600
dealers nationally.
IBM Corp Austin, TX June 1975 to Sept 1981
Design Engineer/Project Manager. Provided technical direction for the development of an automatic sheet feeder,
used with a word processing system. Designed and procured all model parts, including small gears, shafts, rollers,
motors, clutches, sensors, solenoids other plastic and sheet metal parts for the first feasibility model. Performed
mechanical analysis, dynamic, and acoustic, vibration and shock tests. Performed environmental and electrostatic
discharge tests. Designed enclosure for display unit, which entailed electronic packaging, including a thermal analysis
heat study using convection flow cooling. Project Manager on OEM Printer product, worked extensively with vendor
to resolve design issues.
IBM Corp Kennedy Space Center Florida May 1965 to June 1975
Senior Electronics Laboratory Specialist. Participated in the testing of the ST-124 Stabilized
Platform which was a system component of the Guidance System used on the Saturn Apollo Launch
Vehicle, the Saturn Rocket used for all of the Apollo space missions flown in conjunction with the NASA
lunar landings, and the Apollo Suyoz mission which we linked up with the Russian Suyoz space vehicle. I
was also on all of the Manned Apollo Saturn Launch Teams.
Education:
B.S.M.E. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Graduated 1975
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Graduate Courses in Micro Computer Fundamentals, and Environmental Engineering
Continuing Education course in Project Management using CPM and PERT
Portland State University, Portland, Or
Graduate courses in Strategic Planning and Engineering Statistics