PERSONAL PROFILE:

Mark T. MacLean-Blevins
B.M.E. Whiting School of Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
 

In the spring of 1993, after the birth of my fifth child Jacob, MacLean-Blevins & Associates was founded.  However, the truth be known, through college and as I worked in corporate America after college, I was always working on one or more side projects, either for myself or “moonlighting” for various clients.  So in one form or another I have been consulting for well over 20 years.

In reverse chronological order, the positions which I held in corporate America were as follows: prior to founding MacLean-Blevins & Associates, I was Vice-President of CPW Development Corporation, before that a Senior Engineer with Catalyst Research Division of Mine Safety Appliances Company, prior to that a Senior Designer with the Business Systems Division of General Instrument Corporation, and finally my first real job in industry was a Mechanical Design Draftsman with the Automaticket and Hurley Screens Divisions of Consolidated Engineering & Manufacturing Corporation.

It was at Automaticket, that I was influenced to begin my college career at JHU.  The Vice President and General Manager, Mr. Gorman White suggested that I had potential and that I should enroll in the Evening College at JHU, the only part-time engineering program available in the area at that time.  I enrolled and attended classes three and four nights per week for the next eight years, all while working full time at Automaticket, General Instrument and Catalyst Research.  My first child Ian was born the spring that I graduated from JHU and I have only recently begun to look into graduate business studies.
 

 
During the course of my working life both as an employee and as an independent consultant, I have designed or directed the design of; electromechanical devices, electrochemical devices and components, high speed paper handling mechanisms, printing mechanisms, paper cutting mechanisms, cases and housing for electronic instrumentation, business machine housings, biomedical processing apparatus, medical diagnostic component parts and assemblies, decorative lighting products, hose end sprayer assemblies, automotive accessory products, industrial fire fighting products, consumer electronic products, restaurant equipment, vending machines, tire pressure sensors, automatic assembly equipment, automatic testing equipment, and the list goes on.

 
Currently I am a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Plastics Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and our local Carroll County Chamber of Commerce.

My greatest accomplishment to date however, is my family.  As of this writing, I have seven wonderful children, six of whom are with us and one, my second son Benjamin, is waiting for us in heaven. 

 
Enough about me, be sure to check out our pages about past projects.  These are a glimpse at some of our experience history and are fun to browse through, if you are a project person like me.