Manager Engineering

ALAN J. ARENA

ab81qx@r.postjobfree.com

Chino, California 714-***-**** cell

I am an “Engineers’ Engineer” Executive excelling in the concept to commercialization of new

products. With a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a business

minor from Illinois Institute of Technology, and his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering

with a minor in Electronic Engineering from California State University Los Angeles, I am a

medical device executive.

As a team builder and a Pathfinder leading teams to successfully complete never-done-before

projects on time and within budget, I have over 10 years of senior management and P&L

experience, while managing and directing multi-disciplined engineering departments and

integrated product teams designing and productizing precision devices using motors, gear drives,

and batteries. I am also published and hold several patents.

Alan's work Experience is as follows:

• President / CEO, A.K.A. Engineering, Chino, Ca (Medical Devices, Aerospace and Automotive)

• VP Engineering, McFadden Systems Inc, Sante Fe Springs, Ca (Aerospace)

• System Engineering and Integration Manager, Rockwell International Corp, San Bernardino, Ca

and Anaheim, Ca (Aerospace and Defense)

• Division Manager / VP Engineering, Automotive Testing and Development Services Inc., Ontario,

Ca (Automotive)

• Sr. Technical Director, Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, Ca (Theme Parks)

• Director of Engineering, Ride and Show Engineering Inc, San Dimas, CA (Theme Parks)

• System Engineering and Integration Manager, Tamarack Scientific Corp, Corona Ca (Medical

Devices and Lasers)

• Project Engineer, R&D and Test, Signet Scientific Corp, El Monte, Ca (Medical Devices)

• Project Engineer, R&D and Test, Fiat-Allis CMI, Deerfield, Il (Automotive)

Management Experience:

• Budget, schedule, and technical control for the $200M programs

• P & L management with positive revenue stream

ALAN J. ARENA

ab81qx@r.postjobfree.com

Chino, California 714-***-**** cell

• Hire / Fire /Mentor / Performance review of staff and department

• Directed 25 member multi-disciplinary R&D and system engineering team

• Managed multi-tiered 150 person engineering department

• Managed multiple high profile projects concurrently.

• Proposal Management

Medical Device Experience

• Precision micro-flow meters for heart transplant surgery

• Battery powered precision micro-pumps

• Vision system for position confirmation

• Laser ablation systems used in to make nanometer featured medical devices

• Robots and robotic tools

• 10 nanometer servo position systems with +/- 1 nanometer accuracy

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Defense / Aerospace Experience:

• Department Manager, multi level engineering team

• Engineering Management of flight computers for missiles

• Development of Fiber Optic (IFOG) and Laser (RLG) Inertial guidance sets

• Management of Pilot Trainers, motion, force, and cockpit simulator development

• R&D Test Department, Laboratory, Metrology, MatLab / Simulink

• Structural certification for NASA

• Electromechanical, Electro-hydraulic, and mechatronic systems

• Proposal Management

ALAN J. ARENA

ab81qx@r.postjobfree.com

Chino, California 714-***-**** cell

Automotive Experience:

• Multi-site International Division Manager

• Developed EPA and CARB durability protocols

• Management and Engineering of Hybrid vehicles and Electric Vehicles

• Management of Exhaust and evaporative emissions laboratory, including mass and speciation

analyses, including all metrology

• Noise, Vibration, and thermal engineering and testing.

Themed Entertainment Experience:

• Management the engineering, production, installation, testing, and commissioning of major

Ride Systems, show action equipment, and animation for Universal and Disney Parks

• Lead the effort to create 5 of the 13 new rides for Shanghai Disneyland Park

• Created simulator-type rides for Disney, Universal, Iwerks-Simex, Warner Brothers, Caesar's

Palace, and Paramount

• Electromechanical, Electro-hydraulic, and mechatronic systems

System Engineering Experience:

• Skills used in all above capacities

• Provided integrated solutions optimized a the system level without unduly penalizing and

specific subsystem

• System Requirements analysis (SRA), Operational Requirements Analysis (ORA), system

and subsystem specifications, System Qualification and Acceptance

• Design of Experiments and data analysis

• Management and Engineering of glucose sensor design.

• Engineering of flow meter design for heart transplants.

ALAN J. ARENA

ab81qx@r.postjobfree.com

Chino, California 714-***-**** cell

I am seeking an executive engineering role in a surgical medical device company, desiring a

position where I can employ my engineering and managerial skills to aid the growth of the

company bottom line while using my leadership and mentoring skills.

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