PROTOFAB Management has more than 500 years of combined experience in manufacturing and prototyping parts. Our staff has worked with large and small clients to create a diverse range of products that gives the knowledge and ability to create high quality machined parts with quick turnaround times. PROTOFAB is dedicated to their customers and committed to becoming one of America's great companies.
Biography: Mike Maendl, President/Founder
Mike Maendl, 45, is the president and founder of PROTOFAB, which he started in 1998, after a 15-year career with Schlage Lock Company in San Francisco, now a subsidiary of Ingersoll Rand. Schlage Lock Company, one of the most trusted names in the security industry, moved the company to Colorado in that same year.
He began his career as an apprentice tool and die maker for his first five years at Schlage, while attending college at night. Within nine years, he was involved in R & D and model making. Mike's forward thinking and organizational skills resulted in bringing turnover time for projects from six to eight weeks to just two weeks. He streamlined the paper flow, set up computer systems and improved the inventory, keeping perishable tooling materials in stock, which had not been done before. Maendl credits his last manager at Schlage, who gave him the opportunity to handle much of the business in the model shop including customer relations for putting him on the road to success at PROTOFAB. Mike's experience, dedication to his work and the team he has developed at PROTOFAB, is the reason for the admirable reputation he is earning for his business in CNC machining and tool and die prototyping.
Richard Parchman General Manager
Richard brings 35 years of manufacturing industry related experience to Protofab In. His industry experience began in the family business as a machinist and sales person. After moving to Northern California, Richard began a successful career with Hewlett Packard/Agilent Technologies. During his 22-year tenure, he worked as a machinist and then moved into procurement supporting activities that included the development of Commodity Strategies, Supplier Management, and was strategically involved in Core Competency studies.
Biography: Ferdinand Krall, Senior Programmer/Project Manager
Ferdinand Krall, Senior Programmer and Project Manager, has been a member of the PROTOFAB team since January of 2002. His extensive experience in CNC programming, intensive training in CAD/CAM, and his analytical skills are a tremendous asset for PROTOFAB and for the diversity of projects that PROTOFAB can manufacture.
Biography: Sheryl Eiberg: Purchasing, Project Coordinator
Sheryl came to Protofab with excellent work experience in the areas of customer service, production & logistics planning, purchasing and shipping & receiving. Her experience in manufacturing has been in high tolerance machining, and Powder Coating processes.
Her main role at Protofab is in the activities for Purchasing (Raw Materials, Services, and Supplies), Document and Inventory Control of raw materials and finished goods, the management and function of Protofab’s MRP system JobBOSS™ for general control and project coordination of our current operations.