HANS TRUAX

* **** ***** **** ***, suite ‘I’ ● San Mateo, CA

Cell: 650-***-**** ● Email: acpc3y@r.postjobfree.com

MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Dedicated professional with 14 years of design, manufacturing, and Project Management experience.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Product Design, Modeling and Analysis ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 Compliance

Rapid Product Development Anti-friction Bearing product and applications expert

Root cause investigations, analyses, and reports Engineering support for production environments

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consumer Electronics, Design Engineer San Mateo, CA 8/2014 4/2015

Defined, built and refined a high volume, low cost, ultra low power, IoT consumer device from a concept

Utilized cutting-edge wireless remote data transfer, energy harvesting technology, MEMS sensors

Full documentation, detail drawings, technical references, Failure modes analyses (DFMEA), life cycle management plan,

and change controls (ISO 9001)

Pacific Die Cut Industries, Medical Div. Staff Engineer, - Hayward, CA 2/2013 - 8/2014

Managed the launch of new product through prototype, testing, and production phases

Provided direct support to the production lines, including the clean room assembly line to immediately address possible qual-

ity concerns as they arise, and minimize the effect on the production schedule

Worked in the quality department to ensure FDA compliance, performed intern audits per ISO 13485

Performed root cause analyses of non-conforming products and issued corrective and preventative

Managed the installation of new process equipment (IQ OQ PQ) for use in medical device production

The Barden Corporation, Project Manager Danbury, CT 11/2006 - 1/2012

Generated new annual revenue of $5 million beginning 2010 by launching a family of specialized assemblies for nuclear

reactor fueling machines

Applied advanced materials and designs to solve a major problem within the electric alternator unit of an active military rot or-

craft, greatly extending maintenance intervals, and yielding increased annual sales of $1.5 million

Launched a drilling tool product line for a major oilfield service company generating $4 million annually

Led in the development and patenting of a new technology for next -generation bearing materials

Timken - Torrington, Application Engineer Torrington, CT 6/2002 - 11/2006

Generated solutions for new and existing antifriction bearing positions for aerospace, and automotive customers

Root cause identification through damaged product analyses, and application modeling, issued formal reports

Led technical determinations of new product costs

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

BS Mechanical Engineering - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York - 2001

EIT exam completed, New York - 2004

CAD; -PTC Creo (‘15), Solidworks (‘14), Solidedge (‘12), AutoCAD (‘14), SketchUp ‘15, EagleCAD

Project Management; -SAP, MS Project, HTML, Basic, Unix, Excel,Word,

-NI hardware, LabView, programming in C for embedded controls, Arduino

- Antifriction bearing specific modeling and analysis (Timken, Torrington, INA Barden )

Personal interests; -Aviation; FAA Private Pilot cert, year 2000, USHPA Hang Glider pilot level 3 (2014)

- Elected W.O.R. Club chairperson January 2015

- Sketching, rendering, painting,, antique engines, and aircraft, robotics/mechatronics

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