Daniel Ludwig

I have a proven track record over *5 Years developing products that meet the strictest requirements of major corporations such as Nortel Networks, and Sun Microsystems. Products designs as small as single port standalone modems, or large as multi-cabinet racks. I understand that your product development schedules and the security of your intellectual properties are critical to the success of your business. Product designs are carried from concept to efficient volume production. I can troubleshoot an existing design, or complete and cleanup your CAD documentation. I am interested in working for a company that will challenge and broaden my skill set. Areas of Expertise

Product Design

- Mechanical, Thermal, Power

Design Sustaining

Documentation

Design Verification

Compliance Agency - Test and Qualification

Graphic Artwork

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Daniel E Ludwig

24 Swain Rd.

North Chelmsford

MA 01863

978-***-**** Home

508-***-**** Cellular

Product Design

25+ Years experience developing products in the High Technology field.

Enterasys Networks February 2008 – May 2015 (Sold to Extreme Networks 2013)

SiCortex June 2007- January 2008 (full time contract employer)

Pirus Networks March 2000- May 2007 (Sold to Sun Microsystems)

Aptis Communications July 1997- March 2000 (Sold to Nortel Networks)

Shiva Corporation June 1988 - July 1997

Tekscan Inc. August 1987- May 1988 (Computerized Dental Analysis System)

General Computer March 1982- August 1987 (GCC Technologies) A clearly demonstrated record of developing products that meet the requirements of world class corporations.

Product concept layouts and models are created based on your specific requirements.

Lifelike computer generated renderings and animations early in the design process.

Solid Works 2014 or Pro-Engineer (Wildfire 3.0 now CREO) Mechanical 3D CAD.

Metal and plastic part designs utilizing many manufacturing technologies.

Injection molding or Pressure forming

Extrusions -Metal and Plastic

Machining –Metal and Plastic

Sheet metal soft tool fabrication or stamping (Hard Tooled) for higher volumes.

Metal casting.

Coordination of Fast Product Prototypes using various technologies including 3D printing.

Utilization of off-the-shelf components where possible.

Product Cabling design. Internal and External. Solidworks Routing for accurate lengths and drawings of complex wiring assemblies.

Thermal Design and Simulation using Flotherm 10.1.

- Rack, system, component level, and custom heatsink designs to meet thermal needs.

- PCB Thermal models from scratch or imported directly using IDF files from PC CAD.

- Mechanical Thermal models from scratch or imported directly from 3D CAD.

- PCB artwork import and manipulation for accurate PCB thermal characteristics for simulating discrete DC-DC power supplies on PCBs.

Experienced with PDM software (Solidworks Workgroup PDM, Pro-PDM, Intralink, PDMWorks). User as well as manager of the Solidworks Workgroup PDM tool.

Design products for World Wide EMI and Safety Agency Compliance.

NEBs (Telecom) design.

Design for FIPS 140-2 compliance (Secure Chassis)

Designs targeted at small, medium or high volume production.

Design for easy product Service. Full hotswap and redundant systems are typical.

Design for optimum manufacturability. Low cost, and consistently defect free process.

Specification of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) mechanicals including connectors, switches, ejection systems, sub-modules etc.

Experience with Very Dense Midplane and Backplane systems for slower (single ended), and High Speed (25GB Differential) signaling. Orthogonal system design.

Graphic design of Labels, Overlays, Silk-screens etc. using Adobe Illustrator.

Power System designs- AC-DC, DC-DC, Centralized and distributed regulation etc. I am a highly motivated self starter.

I will take your task and drive it to closure fast and permanently. Design Sustaining

Capable of reverse engineering designs from existing documentation or a sample.

Production or Quality issues will be fixed. For good.

Improve your existing documentation to support outsourcing production or to assure a consistent finished product quality.

Tolerance analysis of existing part designs and assembly process so components fit together correctly every time.

Reduce the cost of Materials and Assembly Processes. Documentation

Existing drawings can be read in most formats and required updates can be made fast.

Outputs can be provided in any soft or hard format that is preferred.

Hard copy only drawings can be scanned in and modified as needed.

Approved part vendor databases can be verified, updated, or created. (AVL)

Data can be directly input into your database systems. Agile etc.

Bills of Materials can be directly input into database systems

Coordination with in-house Manufacturing or with External Contract Manufacturers. Design Verification

Computerized verification of PCB layouts will be done using data directly imported from Electrical CAD to Mechanical CAD to insure connectors are placed correctly and manufacturing placement and height guidelines are adhered to. Solidworks CircuitWorks for IDF input. Bi-Directional IDF sharing with PCB CAD software to automatically place critical parts on PCBs.

FEA (Finite Element Analysis) can be performed on parts to confirm margin in the designs or to safely remove weight or cost. Solidworks Simulation

As appropriate designs can be analyzed for NEBs (Telecom) compliance issues.

Shock, Vibration, Thermal, Humidity and other tests will be performed to assure the reliability of your end product.

Designs will be reviewed for optimum manufacturability working with your internal or external Manufacturing resources.

Preliminary EMI testing and safety compliance reviews can be coordinated with the required agencies.

Tolerance stack-up analysis of mechanical parts to insure high yield assembly processes.

External suppliers and products can be evaluated for any or all of the above topics.

Professional looking test reports can be provided in any preferred format. Graphic artworks

Adobe Illustrator to create artworks for product labels, silk-screen, and pad printing etc.

Most file types can be imported and modified.

Keeping this type of graphic work in house increases flexibility, shortens development cycles, and saves money.

Part drawings and 3D modeling with graphics in assemblies.

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