Southwest Manufacturing News • March 19 • Caron Engineering Increases Staff By 33 Percent in 2018

In 2018, Caron Engineering not only saw a substantial growth in size with its move to a brand new 12,000 sq. ft. facility, but also experienced a considerable growth in employees. Caron hired a total of nine new employees including two sales representatives, three service technicians and four engineers. Caron Engineering , a company that develops advanced retrofit solutions for optimizing CNC machines, also recently became an employee owned (ESOP) company in 2018.

Rick Goulter is the new Business Development Manager. Goulter holds an A.A.S. degree in manufacturing engineering technology from the Wentworth Institute of Technology. He has an extensive background in the CNC machine tool industry. “His years of sales experience working as a director of sales for a tooling company, combined with his administrative management experience as president of a tooling and abrasives company, will be valuable for his new position at Caron,” said a company spokesperson. Goulter will be focusing on special assignments in market channel expansion and tool management opportunities, as well as covering sales in the New England area.

Brian Harrigan is from San Clemente, CA, and has joined the team as a Western U.S. Sales Manager. Harrigan has a degree in business administration from California State University, Northridge. He will be working directly with Caron Engineering integrators, machine tool dealers and end users to grow business in the Western U.S. He comes to Caron Engineering from a large workholding company where he spent the last seven years helping manufacturers with CNC process optimization, from the workholding perspective. Mark Fonnemann has joined the engineering department as a Senior Software Engineer. Fonnemann holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College in computer science and mathematics, with a master’s degree in mathematics. Fonnemann comes from a manufacturing metrology company where he spent seven years developing CNC machine tool interface code. At Caron Engineering, Fonnemann writes the interface code that allows its applications to communicate with the CNC controls.

Rob Owens is a recent graduate from the University of Maine with a bachelor ’s in computer science. He started at Caron Engineering upon graduation as its junior software engineer and is currently focusing on front-end development for Caron Engineering’s flagship tool monitoring adaptive control system (TMAC).

As the Product Support Engineer, Joe Martinage will be focused on offering in-house and customer support for Caron Engineering’s RFID tool identification system, ToolConnect. Martinage has a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering technology from the University of Maine. Martinage has previous experience working as a panel technician on a large power distribution project for an engineering company where he wired, tested and installed devices in electrical cabinets. Most recently, he worked at an advanced manufacturing center dedicated to R&D for CNC manufacturing technology, where he worked on wiring CNC machine tool cabinets and assisted in PLC set-up and writing ladder logic code.

Drew Moody is the newest member of the Caron Engineering software engineering team, hired as a Junior Software Engineer. He graduated from Thomas College in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in business management. He comes to Caron after working as a project manager for a school that teaches full stack web development. He will be focusing on web-based software development for Caron Engineering products.

Matt Egan has been hired as a Service Technician. He is a 2018 graduate of the University of Maine, with a Bachelor of Science in biological engineering. Egan’s college internship at a large aerospace manufacturing company provided useful industrial engineering experience, valuable to his new position as service technician at Caron Engineering. Egan will be building Caron Engineering product systems, installing hardware and software at customer manufacturing locations and training customers.

Mike Tirico holds a Bachelor of Science from Full Sail University in Orlando, FL, and has also been hired as a Service Technician. Tirico has previous hands-on experience wiring systems for a large electronics company. He also has customer service and training experience working as a lead sales specialist for the same company. Tirico will be wiring Caron Engineering retrofit systems on CNC machines and training customers in the field.

Silas Clippert is a recent graduate of the University of Maine with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering technology. Clippert has been hired as a Service Technician, responsible for installing and integrating Caron Engineering products on CNC machines. Clippert has previous CNC experience from his former internship as a continuous improvement engineer at an aerospace manufacturing company.