Ray Rangen

Le Claire, IA

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How would you describe your dream job in 10 words or less?

A job that I would love.

Posted @ 01:42PM, January 18, 2008 by Ray Rangen | Permalink
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Work history

John Deere Harvester Product Development September 1977 to December 2007
Instrumentation Technician

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How would you describe your time at John Deere Harvester Produc...?

Instrumentation Test Technician
??? Building electronic circuits that interface test stands to a mainframe computer.
??? Writing computer programs that control test stands.
??? System administration unix mainframe computer that controlled test stands.
??? Setting up equipment such as flow meters, pressure transducers, temperature measurement devices, chart recorders, sound and vibration measurement, load cells and general test equipment used in an engineering shop to take test data with.
??? Installing strain and torque gages to measure strain or torque on a device.
??? Recording data using MDAS and Edaq data acquisition systems
??? Checking the validity of the data after the data was collected.
??? Performing maintenance, repair and calibration on the equipment used.... read more

Education

Computers & Electronics

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How would you describe your time at Western Illinois University...?

Western Illinois University Macomb, IL (May 2002)
Bachelor of Arts degree Board Of Governors
Classes in Management

Black Hawk College Moline, Ill
Associate Degree - Electro-Mechanical Technology (May 1997)

Back Hawk College Moline, Illinois
Associate Degree - Flexible Automation (May 1997)

Black Hawk College Moline, Illinois
Associate Degree - Computer Maintenance (May 1992)

Black Hawk College Moline, Illinois
Associate Degree - Electronics Technology May (1971)

Completed classes in C Programming, Unix, and Unix System Administration. (1996-1997)

Completed an apprentice program for an Instrumentation Test Technician sponsored by John Deere. (1983 ??? 1986)... read more

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Kevin Ehrecke

I would like to take this opportunity to recommend Ray Rangen for employment. In my role as a senior staff engineer for John Deere Harvester Works, I have known and worked with Ray for the past 30 years. In that time, Ray has always been hard working, diligent, motivated, and professional in every sense. In his professional life, Ray has demonstrated a high level of expertise in the field of electronics. Electronics is Ray???s passion and the quality of his work reflects that.

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