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 tenets 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