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Richard ColeIndustrial mechanic with electrical and programming experience
Experience

Industrial Equipment Repair

RAFC Group, LLC (self employed)
2021 – present
  • Commisioning and repairing industrial soft goods manufacturing equipment
  • Retiming and tuning class 300 lockstitch, class 400 chainstitch, class 500 overedge machines
  • Power cabinet build/integration for automated work stations
  • AC servo motor install + programming
  • Radio frequency welding for nonwoven composites
  • Pneumatic plumbing, circuitry and sensor design + install
  • PLC and IO control board programming
  • Electrical bus rail install + wiring (Feedrail and Electrorail) for single and three phase
  • Launch School

    Tech bootcamp
    2021 – 2023
  • Learned basic tennets for programming, networking and web infrastructure
  • Completed capstone project with three other students to produce a collaborative computational notebook
  • Outdoor Research

    Sewing Machine Mechanic + Automation Developer
    2019 – 2021
  • Machine repair + commissioning for Seattle, WA and El Monte, CA factories
  • Responsible for electrical and pneumatic systems across the factories
  • Stood up a NIOSH Class II PPE medical mask factory to produce 9,000 N95 respirators per day
  • Standardized C/C++/PLC programming deployment pipeline for all North American production facilities
  • Rapid prototyping and development of eleven proprietary mechatronic units and production work stations
  • Mozilla Firefox

    Open Source Contributor
    2024 – present
  • Refactored node serialization and deserialization helper methods in the BiDirectional WebDriver module
  • Removed obsolete topics within observer notification publisher
  • Bug fixes and patches for the Firefox Front End team using C++ and JavaScript
  • Mentored and onboarded new contributors, providing guidance and support to integrate their contributions to the project and foster their growth within the open-source community
  • Navasota Co

    Owner
    2011 – 2019
  • Custom jeans tailoring and repair
  • Rebuilt 17 vintage industrial sewing and cutting machines
  • Crowdfunded 160% of goal on Kickstarter, raising $29,000 (as Paleo Denim)
  • Special projects with SXSW, The Gap, Fort Lonesome, Levis PRIDE and Bulleit Bourbon
  • Education

    Syracuse University

    Bachelors of Science, Communications
    Syracuse, NY