Resume of Michael L. Skinner President Skinner Creative, Inc.

• More than 30 years of industrial experience - in composites, filament winding, fiber placement, business startups and management, web design, control system design, machinery design, systems design, product development, sales, business development and strategic planning
• Founder or Co-founder of multiple companies - Composite Machines Company, Composimation, Motomation, Medimation, Skinner Creative
• Profit and loss responsibility for $7 million plus business unit - experience in contract negotiation, customer relations, marketing, sales, employee hiring and development, market and product development, project and production management, lean manufacturing, engineering and software management, scheduling, accounting, finance, cash flow management, MIS and corporate networks, strategic planning, export issues, general business management and other business activities
• Extensive experience in developing and managing sales teams and sales agents throughout the world including developing foreign language support materials and advertising
• Author of many papers and presentations on filament winding, composites, computer control systems and software, economics of composites - some articles: SEMA Show 2005 Coverage, Trends and Advances in Filament Winding
• Innovator in the development of computer controlled filament winding machines, fiber placement machines and pultrusion machines - developer or co-developer of the WiMaX control system, HyperChain control system, MCL machine control language, CMC1 control system, ATPdelta control system, ECM1 control system, Composimate™ control system and many other computer and PLC based control systems
• Pioneered the design of commercial, low cost filament winding machines for high volume part production and many other improvements in the filament winding process
• Design of thermoplastic composite processing machinery - designed automated equipment for creation of oriented long fiber tailored blanks, blank consolidation and thermoforming/molding of the flat blanks
• Experienced in part and process design for many new and unusual composite applications - thermoplastic composites, pipe tees and elbows, large windmill blades, tetra core and isogrid panels and shafts, automated systems for increasing process speeds, chop/spray and sand applicator systems, high tolerance winding machines, integrated process control, process verification and validation systems, and very large and long parts
• Designer of test and fabrication machinery for catheters and other medical products
• Designer of data acquisition and control systems (SCADA) for waste water treatment, fresh water wells and chemical processing plants
• Experience with CNC control and retrofits of CNC machinery
• Developer or co-developer of many dedicated PC Windows based machine control systems, embedded control systems, data acquisition systems, test systems and PLC based control systems
• Software development in C++ for Windows, Object Oriented Design, embedded microprocessor controls, Labview, distributed control and PLC development
• Web based control system design and ethernet distributed control systems
• Design and coding of web sites utilizing PHP, MySQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript
• Designer, editor and publisher of Composites Consultants web site for composite industry professionals
• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering - extensive experience with servo mechanisms, control systems, motion control, data acquisition, multiprocessor computer design, software, and web design
• Member of SAMPE, SPE and IEEE.
• Extensive field experience in sales, contract negotiation, onsite equipment start up, training, installing and servicing machinery - in the USA and worldwide
• Currently President of Skinner Creative, Inc. - Former Senior Engineer, Fiberforge for 1.5 years - Former President and General Manager of Entec Composite Machines, Inc. subsidiary of Zoltek for 2.5 years - Former President, CEO and Chairman of Composite Machines Company, Inc. for 8 years - Founded CMC in 1992 & achieved over 30% annual growth rate - Former President and Vice President of Engineering Technology, Inc. for 2 years starting in 1990 - Manager and engineer for Engineering Technology for 12 years

Last update May 6, 2009