Bob, Founder and CEO of CVM, graduated from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering in 1972. He held several engineering positions with Clorox, Thiokol, Union Carbide, and Bechtel before beginning his consulting practice in the late 1970’s. In 1991, he founded CVM Inc., quickly finding his calling as a hands on leader, and manager of the company in addition to designing and building custom machines. Bob has stepped out of the day-to-day operations, but still gets his hands dirty with design concepts and council to the team as necessary.

Toby manages day-to-day operations with focus on creating a healthy environment to promote sustainability and growth for the company and it’s employees. He joined CVM after spending over a decade in marketing and business development roles for entertainment and marketing companies and is thrilled to bring that experience to the family run organization and transition it to the next phase of its life cycle.

Ken comes to CVM with over 30 years of design, manufacturing, and automation experience across many diverse automotive and industrial manufacturing companies He graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering and continued his education with an MBA from Ball State University. Ken has held senior engineering management positions managing multiple engineering departments at many companies. He has led the development of first of its kind equipment for manufacturing different high-volume components.

Garrett has 14 years of experience in a broad range of engineering design, manufacturing, and project
management, including 6 years in aerospace and 7 years in industrial machinery prior to joining CVM. He
holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA.

Paul joined CVM with a broad experience base from years of finding solutions to challenging engineering challenges. Proficiencies in automation, manufacturing, process and workflow, product design, controls, etc makes him an integral part of the engineering team.

Doug has over 40 years of experience in the shop environment. He has considerable experience in manual and CNC machining and programming. He has spent the last 10 years managing the Clorox R&D shop, responsible for difficult, unique experimental parts as well as fabrication of parts used in production machines. His duties at CVM include responsibility for the day-to-day management of the machine shop, CNC programming, machining, scheduling, planning and estimating.

Paul is the fabrication shop lead-man: Another multi-talented craftsman with excellent skills in welding, sheet metal and fabrication. He is also skilled in fabrication design; competent in both AutoCAD and SolidWorks. Paul has been with CVM since 1995.

Doreen joined CVM in 2014. She is your first point of contact when walking into CVM. Doreen provides administrative support to the CVM team.

David has over 30 years of mechanical and manufacturing engineering experience in fabrication, tube bending, aerospace, defense, and medical industries.  He enjoys the challenges placed before him in all mechanical engineering platforms, especially incorporating robotics and designing custom-built equipment to expand a company’s capabilities.  David has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Wayne State University and extensive training in tube laser cutting, robotic programming, and lean manufacturing.  He’s also an award-winning homebrewer and looks forward to sharing his talents with CVM co-workers.

Don's broad experience in hands on electrical and mechanical assembly is a perfect fit to building complex custom machinery.  He joined CVM with over 15 years experience as an engineering technician in high-tech organizations ranging from HDD future technologies to an autonomous drone start-up. Always learning, he's currently working to finish an AS in computer science and network information technology. In his free time he's either out riding, 3D printing, or hanging out with the family.

Tyler joined CVM with 6 years of experience designing research equipment for the thin film deposition industry. Working with clients ranging from the medical field to military weapons research. With extensive experience designing complex heating/cooling devices, automated/manual material handling and vacuum research full system design. He has experience as an engineering department lead, working with manufacturing and service to build and maintain complex machinery.

Cory started with CVM in 2006 as a shop helper. He then successfully completed CVM’s machinist apprenticeship program, and was quickly contributing at a journeyman level as an integral part of the shop. His tribal knowledge of our customers, process, and team makes him a terrific asset to CVM, now working as shop supervisor to the machine shop.  He's not an office guy, so he makes sure to still get out and burn hours operating manual and CNC mills and lathes as well as assembling tools and machines.

Growing up in a shop environment, James is another member of our team that’s been automating, machining, fixing things since well before he could drive. He comes to CVM with years of experience assisting manufacturing industries with technical solutions and out of the box problem solving. He’s an asset to CVM with experience from shop to CAD.

Marty has been a metal worker since 1972. He is a fine craftsman with a wide range of skills, including journeyman machinist, welder, fabricator, and woodworker. Marty has been with CVM since 1996.

Craig joined CVM with a background and experience well aligned with CVM's equipment and core competencies.  He's done everything from owning his own shop (15yrs) to starting up and supporting state of the art new shops around the bay.  His broad experience allows him multitask on machines, train junior and apprentice machinists, and solve the complicated day to day problems our customers challenge us with.  As CVM's Sr. Machinist, he welcomes anything we (or you) can throw at him.

Chad began working at CVM in 2012 after over 25 years in the custom motorcycle industry, part of which as owner/operator of his own shop. He now spends time operating and programming CNC & Manual Mills and Lathes as well as assembly of machines, prototypes, and fixtures.  Additionally, Chad's impressive shoe collection is the marvel of any modern day fashionista, and somehow he keeps them clean all day making chips. A true pillar of CVM.

Richard joined CVM with 9 years experience in a CNC shop managing a team of operators, setting up and running equipment. A fast paced and efficient worker, CVM’s variety of work is allowing him to branch out and quickly come up to speed on new equipment, skills, and process. A valuable member of the team willing to jump in on whatever the task.

Art joins CVM with years of balanced fabrication experience spending time jumping from mig and tig welding to forming, rolling, fixturing, and tutoring aspiring minds.  His curiosity in building things helps keep him inspired to constantly learn new things which helps CVM do what we do best, do what's never been done before.

Maeni is a tool maker by trade, with broad shop experience at all levels and in several large and reputable companies.  He's a vital asset at CVM being able to tap extensive experience in: manual and CNC machining, CNC sheet metal forming, design, CAD, and general custom automation.

Dominick joined our team in the spring of 2019 with enthusiasm and and excitement to learn everything he could. He immediately added value with his energy and is fast growing valuable skills allowing him to bounce around the shop assisting wherever needed.