Expert Mold Designer

Expert Mold Designer Glen Hendrickson

Glen is a seasoned Mold Designer, Mold Maker, Business Owner, and Manufacturing Leader with more than 30 years of experience in mold design, building, and repair. He has a proven history of building and leading successful mold manufacturing operations, delivering high-quality tooling solutions, and driving business growth. Glen brings deep expertise across the entire mold lifecycle, from concept and design through build, maintenance, and optimization. His strengths include process improvement, operational efficiency, customer relationship management, and technical sales.
SKILLS
  • Mold Design & Manufacturing
  • Electrode Design
  • CNC Machining & Programming
  • EDM (Sinker)
  • Surface Grinding

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Owner/Mold Designer/Mold Maker - Xpress 7 Inc.
(2013 - present)
  • Design and build molds, Prototype to Class 101
  • Sales, quoting, and customer relations
  • Purchasing and vendor relations
  • Increase productivity through continuous improvements
  • Software: Cimatron and Microsoft Office

President/Co-Owner - AIMMco
(1998 - 2011)
  • Co-founded and grew company to 36 employees
  • Led mold design, build, and repair operations
  • Technical sales and estimating
  • Implemented lean manufacturing to increase throughput
  • Developed software tools using Visual Basic to streamline operations
  • Recommended capital equipment purchases
  • Software: PowerMill, PowerShape, Microsoft Office & Visual Basic

Mold Maker – Weissert Tool & Design
(1995 - 1998)
  • Designed, built, and repaired molds
  • Developed CADkey macros to improve design and programming

Mold Maker - Cascade Mold & Die
(1992 - 1995)
  • CAD/CAM Programming, CNC, EDM, and finishing of Molds

Apprentice Mold Maker - PEC
(1990 - 1992)
  • Gained experience in CNC machining, EDM, CAM programming, and grinding

EDUCATION
Certificate of Proficiency, Machine Tool Trades
St. Cloud Technical College