Engineer Mechanical

Brandon Balili

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Bayside, NY 11361 720-***-****

Summary

Mechanical engineer with extensive experience in production, manufacturing, and product development . Expertise in

optimizing and managing processes currently in production and in development with intent to manufacture. An

organizational catalyst for productization. A commitment to sustainable growth, technical due diligence, and corporate

social responsibility.

Education

Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO B.S. May 2009

Major: Engineering, Mechanical Specialty Minor: Business

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)

Relevant Experience

WATT Fuel Cell, Corp. – Mechanical Engineer II August 2010 – Present

- Co-designed, constructed, and commissioned 31,000 sq. ft. operations and test facility .

- Designed and optimized 300-500W stack platform. Sourced and managed part and material vendors.

- Designed thermal model for modular stack. Designed tooling, fixtures, and experiments. Processed results to

compare theoretical results with actual run conditions.

- Developed and managed system control and balance of plant (BOP) specifications for external controls house.

- Designed extrusion dies for multiple cell geometries and managed external machine shop to satisfy die design

specifications.

- Responsible for developing processes to transition 1kW system platform from development to production. This

entailed the necessary quality controls, managing ECO’s, and project management tools to ensure cost efficient and

timely delivery of all orders.

Protonex Technology, LLC – Lead SOFC Mechanical Engineer June 2009 – August 2010

- Redesign, construction, and optimization of single cell and multi-stack test facilities.

- Optimized stack design to meet/exceed multiple program requirements for stack lifetime and thermal cycling .

- Redesigned and optimized 250W SOFC stack build, process flow, and test procedures.

- Designed, implemented, and managed successful quality control and production program to transition all 250W

gaseous and liquid fueled programs from development to production status .

- Optimized and managed 250W program physical inventories, vendor location/lead times, production schedules, and

stack specific program deliverables. Created scheduling and planning process for all stack deliverables.

- Assisted and managed design and implementation of production tooling and fixtures ..

- Manager of SOFC engineering technician staff.

General Electric Plastics Co-Op – Production Engineer May 2006 – Aug. 2007

Lexan Resin 1 Production Engineer May 2007 - August 2007

- Responsible for Resin 1 Specials Scheduling, ordering of raw materials, op timization of stable operations,

troubleshooting during specials campaigns, quality, and bi -weekly specials report out to site management.

- Analyzed and revised specials procedures, updated CEOPS, DCS, and operator tools to ensure consistency.

Conducted and evaluated reactor study on ST and Bromine Grades to reduce Phosgene in reaction, resulting in

$75M per year savings.

- Owner of specials grade Isolation to Resin 1 plant.

- Improved BPA Silos and developed a package to remedy rotary valve failure.

May 2006 – Dec. 2006

Specialty Film and Sheet Production Engineer

- Created robust process to ensure proper and timely closure of SFS logged Root Cause Corrective Action Forms.

This project drove $2MM in TCO projects.

- Created and owned LHP forms to track and troubleshoot quality opportunities on extrusion lines.

- Responsible for designing a 500 gal container and SPCC containments walls to satisfy ATS, Site EHS, and ANSI

regulations.

- Responsible for design and implementation of standardized hydraulic skids for all F ilm lines.

Skills/Certifications

Certifications: LEAN Manufacturing Basic Training, Six Sigma Basic Training, Situational Leadership

Mechanical: Machining, CNC Machining, TIG Welding, and Drive Train Manufacture/Design

Computer: Microsoft Office – MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, MS Access, MS Project

SolidWorks/COSMOSworks, Matlab, CATIA V5, C and C++ Programming, Mathcad, Nastr an/Patran,

Minitab, LabVIEW

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