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Philippe Sutton

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Experienced professional medical technologist re-entering the workforce after building my own home, eager to bring strong technological skills, organizational skills, customer support and data entry experience to a dynamic work team. I am heavily involved with technology and have a medical field background. I have also been certified through the FAA to commercially pilot drones. My current goal is to become established in a full time profession once again in northern Michigan. Most recently for the last few years, I have been doing digital drone photography for anyone that needs or wants aerial photographs in my area of their homes. Sometimes it includes storm damages to properties and roofs, agricultural needs or large group photos, mostly in my spare time. During that time I have been building and finishing my log cabin home in northern Michigan doing much of the work myself. Having built my own high-end PC, I used modeling programs Google Sketch-up and CAD at home to design every step of the process, from the spiral staircase to the frame of the cabin. My custom PC also allows me to do almost any work from home that maybe necessary for digital work or assigned projects. Before building my cabin, I was assembling my own drones, programming them and then racing them mostly for fun before I left north Georgia. Through Ross Medical Education Center, I am a certified Medical Assistant and first moved to Georgia in 2012 to work as a bio-neural feedback and X-ray technician to help patients with a variety of ailments ranging from depression, rumination, anger issues, pain therapy and many other problems that neural-feedback helped solve at Dr. Marks office. Business at Dr. Mark’s office was slowing, it was around 2016 I started working at Specialty Appliances Orthopedic Dental Lab as a 3D Orthodontic Digital Reset Technician, digitally shaping and repairing misaligned arches. I learned many useful skills and technologies, receiving digital scans of patient’s teeth and ultimately molding them to form a perfect arch with a handful of 3D modeling programs from Ortho, 3Shape and CAD/CAM. I also learned how to use a variety of 3D printers ranging from Objects, Carbon, Form Labs, Maker-bot and Fusion printers. I worked mostly with Carbon 3D printers and during that time I became an adept 3D printing Technician. I would organize and print hundreds arches daily, then the rest of the lab would make appliances for the patients based off of the printed arch. I offer my skills, knowledge and dedication to whatever project or task my future employer has to challenge me with and look forward to it.
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Sky Way Photography
Sep 2022 – Apr 2025
Atlanta, GA/ North Michigan
Certified Drone Operator-Aerial Photography
In this profession I usually photograph peoples home from around 400 feet up. It makes for a talkative center piece in the home. Until the last decade or so, photographing from above has only been possible with a helicopter or other aircraft. Drones have made aerial photography affordable for most. Now with drone technology it is more practical to regularly check on hard to reach areas, agricultural crops, livestock, real-estate property, over hanging trees for electrical lines, group pictures, coastal scenes or even capturing rare nature shots so that nature doesn't even know a drone is there. For projects requiring a more in-depth control of camera in flights; I use a professional Visual Observer (VO) that is available.
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Specialty Appliances Orthodontic Laboratory
Feb 2016 – Sep 2022
Atlanta, GA
3D Orthodontic Digital Reset Technician, Graphic design, 3D printing Engineer, Data Processing
I started out at the dental lab as a 3D modeler-digital reset technician. My duties included receiving scans from doctors, organizing them into the appropriate work categories and digitally reforming the defective arch into a ideal arch or "perfect arch" sometimes resetting to a Full Arch Restoration depending on the patients alignment. I progressed to head of the carving department where I developed new methods for digital restoration that streamlined the digital production process taking minutes to remove digital artifacts versus hours depending on the severity of the digital scan. The last department I lead at Specialty Appliances was working with high end 3D carbon printers, which at the time was a leading breakthrough of technology we were trying to incorporate into our production line. Working out the kinks and streamlining the production process allowed us to print full arches in less than 20 minutes, where before a full tray of arches would take as long as 4 hours to print. We would use the carbon printers for extremely complex and intricate designs.