TROY HEDMAN

MECHANICAL ENGI NEER

281-***-**** – acqos1@r.postjobfree.com – https://www.linkedin.com/in/troyhedman To whom it may concern,

I came across this listing looking for a mechanical engineer and it struck me that it would be a very good fit for me. I wouldn’t consider myself entry level, but I believe I have experience that would fit very well with what you do. My primary job descriptions have involved product development and project based design engineering, but I was involved in a large IT project at my previous job.

After working as a mechanical design engineer on customer projects for about a year, I was given a chance to represent the engineering department in a company-wide project to reimagine business processes and then design a business system to support those needs. I worked on a large multi-disciplinary team to define every major step of order completion from managing the customer relationship, to communicating customer requirements and creating a design to meet them, all the way through shipment of the project. From that point I created business requirement documents for each portion of the process and worked directly with inside and outside developers and consultants to meet our needs. After coordinating user testing and training, we had a completely new system that managed the information flow of approximately 200 engineering content creators and effectively transferred the required information to downstream consumers. Through this process I gained valuable experience about visualizing business processes and designing programs to aid in the collection and delivery of this information.

Once that project was completed, I moved into a role as a research and development engineer where I created designs for parts and assemblies with a focus on design for manufacture and assembly. I also helped write and maintain product guides and procedures for effective change management. I hope you will consider me for the position. I truly believe that I would be a great fit. Sincerely,

Troy Hedman

TROY HEDMAN

MECHANICAL ENGI NEER

281-***-**** – acqos1@r.postjobfree.com – https://www.linkedin.com/in/troyhedman I am looking to make a positive difference at a company with my quality of work. While I have specialized in mechanical design, I also have skills and experience improving business processes and designing information flow through a business system. I excel at seeing a business system at a high level and finding areas for improvement. I hope to be able to grow within a company into a supervisory role in the future.

EXP E R I ENCE S en i o r R&D E ng i nee r : Powell Industries (Houston, TX), Aug 2012 – May 2015 Worked with shop personnel and manufacturing engineers to develop and improve product designs for low and medium voltage switchgear with an eye on manufacturability and cost. Helped create new change control process to maintain BOMs within the business system. Help develop department procedures and policies to ensure a safe high quality product for customers. Worked to develop and implement new engineering process and software for the entire company (see “Project Synergy” below.)

Mechan i ca l E ng i nee r : Powell Industries (Houston, TX), May 2011 – Aug 2012 Modify standard designs to meet customer requirements. Create drawings to instruct fabricators and assemblers. Create detailed mechanical BOM and enter it into the business system. Interface with fabrication and manufacturing to answer any questions and deal with any issues during assembly. Improved onboarding and training plan for engineering department. H I T F T e s t E ng i nee r : GeoControl Systems (Houston, TX), Oct 2008 – Jan 2011 Prepare and present hypervelocity impact test plans. Design and create test samples and fixtures for testing. Analyze and document resulting damage. Travel to test site for high priority tests. Participated in survey of Hubble Space Telescope hardware to determine debris environment.

Man u f ac t u r i ng As s i s t an t : Reynolds and Reynolds (College Station, TX), Oct 2006 – May 2008

Built wiring harness assemblies and electronics for a line of key management systems. Maintained a consistently high level of quality. Worked long hours to meet shipment requirements.

E DUCAT I ON Bache l o r o f S c i ence i n Mechan i ca l E ng i nee r i ng : Texas A&M University (College Station, TX), 2003 – 2008 Focused on material science and computer aided engineering. P ROJ ECT S P r o j ec t S y ne r g y : Powell Industries, 2012-2014 This was a full reimagining of the business system used by the business, starting with Customer Relationship Management and ending with shipment. I worked with engineers and others from across the company to develop a desired business process and then requirements for out of the box, internal and outsourced software development. I worked directly with consultants to make sure they met our requirements. Once the software existed, I helped supervise testing and end user training for the new system.

Hubb l e Space T e l e s cope WF PC - 2 MMOD S u r v ey : NASA, 2012 After the last Hubble servicing mission, I traveled to Goddard Space Flight Center to inspect the exterior radiator of the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 for micrometeoroid and orbital debris impacts. I developed a mount for a three dimensional laser scanner which was used to record the entire surface. This information was used to assess the debris environment at the altitudes where the HST orbits.

S K I L L S SOF TWAR E : Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Vault, Oracle Agile PLM, Oracle EBS R12, Microsoft Office, FileMaker Pro, Radan RadBend, SolidWorks AP P L I CA T I ONS : Parametric Modeling, Technical Writing, Design for Manufacture, Design for Assembly, Sheet Metal Design and Fabrication, Product Lifecycle Management, Process Design and Engineering, CAD Data Management