Resume of William J. Kibler

	William J. Kibler
	E-mail: marbil@msn.com
	QUALIFICATIONS
	Wide range of personal skills and experience, including design, repair, and maintenance of complex electronic and electromechanical devices, customer service, manufacturing and service shop management, and various office and shop skills. Experience with computers, hand and machine tools. Extensive reading in many technical fields.
	WORK HISTORY
1998-2000	Maintenance Technician, Time Out on the Court, Forest Park, Ohio A subsidiary of Namco Cybertainment, Bensenville, Illinois Performed maintenance and repair of amusement machines, rides, and other equipment. Resolved customer complaints. Occasionally trained and supervised other employees.
1990-1998	Owner, Bill’s Pinball Works, Loveland, Ohio Provided service and repair of amusement machines for Malibu Grand Prix, other businesses and residential customers. Communicated with customers, suppliers, government agencies. Specialized in restoring classic and antique pinball machines, bowlers, and other electromechanical machines. Searched for replacements for old and obsolete parts, or manufactured them if necessary. Repainted or repaired cabinetry as needed.
1982-1990	Owner, Bill’s Game Repair, Cincinnati, Ohio Same description as previous business, different name and location.
1980-1982	Vice-President of Engineering, Polar Bear Enterprises, Mount Clemens. Michigan Was appointed Director of Research and Development when Polar Bear was acquired by Midwest Coin Machines. Was promoted to Vice-president the following year. Designed electronic circuits, circuit boards, and mechanical assemblies. Supervised design, assembly, and installation of coin-operated remote-control attractions for 20+ amusement parks and other locations across the United States and Canada.
1978-1979	Service Manager, Midwest Coin Machines, Mount Clemens, Michigan Supervised amusement machine maintenance and repair concession at Kings Island amusement park. Was responsible for maintenance of over 150 machines, supervised six other technicians. In fall of 1979, Midwest acquired Polar Bear Enterprises, began using that name for business in 1980.
1973-1978	Erector, G. A. Gray Company, Cincinnati, Ohio Construction of heavy machine tools. Duties included precision assembly, use of all types of machine tools, hand tools, and precision instruments, and occasional supervision and instruction of other employees.
	EDUCATION
1966-1969	Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas - 90 semester credit hours completed, roughly equivalent to 135 quarter credit hours.
1962-1966	Moeller High School, Cincinnati, Ohio - Graduated 1966. SAT verbal 696, math 699.
	COMPUTER SKILLS
	Experience with word processors, spreadsheets, drafting, and drawing programs. Experience with HTML, BASIC, and 1802 machine language programming, DOS, Windows 95, and Windows 98.
	OTHER INTERESTS
	Active in Internet and World Wide Web design since 1998. Presently Web master of four Web sites, and have produced pages for numerous other sites. Active in electronics since 1959. Active in electronic music production since 1969. Designed and assembled studio-type analog music synthesizer 1978-1982.
	REFERENCES on request

Last update November 12, 2000

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