sales engineer

Erik **** Privilege Drive, Hilliard, OH *****

aboazu@r.postjobfree.com

Aagard 614-***-****

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/erik-aagard/9/853/177

Profile Enthusiastic, experienced, and hard working designer with a suite of

technical and people skills allowing for cross pollination between both

the hard and soft sides of design. Great competence an instructor,

design researcher, technical writer, and various aspects of both

graphic and mechanical design. Great experience in CAD (Siemens

NX, Solidworks, AutoCAD, Catia, Inventor, ProE, etc.) as well as

medical product, tool, package, and design. Broad range of hand skills

(sketching, prototyping, etc.) as well as considerable experience with

the Adobe CS5 suite.

Experience

Itt Technical Institute

Drafting and Design Instructor Columbus, OH 2010-Present

• Teaching and illustrating principles of graphic design and CAD

(Computer-Aided-Design) including: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign,

CAD (Inventor/AutoCAD), rapid visualization, and prototype

development

• Managing and tutoring in the math lab as well as tutoring technical

writing.

Honda Research and Design Center, Americas

Designer Raymond, OH 2008 – 2010

• Collaborated on multidisciplinary design team to create and design

upper cabin areas for the 2010 Acura ZDX.

• Teamed up with vendors to design production ready parts for ZDX

interior using CATIA CAD system. Consistently met tight deadlines for

production by creating accurately designed parts for large assemblies.

• Creation of numerous sketches to flesh out various design ideas and

variations, vetted robust designs, then translated final designs into

CAD.

The Ohio State University

Graduate Instructor Columbus, OH 2005 - 2008

• Researching and teaching of hands-on courses in color theory with

special focus on the use of color in the medical care industry.

• Demonstrating and teaching of sketching, rendering techniques,

basic design skills, graphic and interior design.

• Consistently received high student reviews for excellence in teaching.

Arctic Cat Snowmobiles

Industrial Designer Thief River Falls, MN 2005

• Siemens NX CAD modeling of plastic injection parts for current model

snowmobile line including: front hood, ports, handlebars, etc.

• Creation of CAD (Siemens NX) designs to consistently meet

difficult design and packaging requirements for aesthetic and design

intent of current snowmobile architecture.

Roger Cleveland Golf

Industrial Designer Cypress, CA 2003-2004

• Production of design and ideation sketches for design studies with

drivers, fairway woods, and putters.

• FEA analysis of club sound characteristics, deflections,

center-of-gravity (CG), moment-of-inertia (MOI) location, and principal

club bending modes to optimize ball flight and club feel.

• Modeling the design of drivers, fairway woods, and irons using CAD

( Siemens NX).

Alsius Corporation

Mechanical Engineer Irvine, CA 2003

• CAD (Solidworks, AutoCAD 2000) modeling of final design and

development of intravenious implant device.

• Production documentation and control part revisions for FDA audit

using CAD (Solidworks, AutoCAD 2000) and the Adobe CS 3 suite.

• Technical writing and part authentication for biomedical pre-patent

submission.

Education MFA Industrial Design

The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 2008

Theis Title: Scrubs: A Pre-Design Color Study

MS Mechanical Engineering

Brigham Young University Provo, UT 1999

Emphasis on design, manufacturing, and Computer Aided Design

(CAD),

BS Mechanical Engineering

Brigham Young University Provo, UT 1995

Focus on design and CAD.

BA Near Eastern Studies

Brigham Young University Provo, UT 1995

Emphasis on Judiasm, Islamic culture, and mideast history.

AS Mathematics

Utah Valley University Orem, UT 1991

Focus on engineering mathematics

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