Adrian D. Mendoza
Russellville, AL 35653
********@***.***
U.S. Citizen
Secret Security Clearance
Objective & Seeking position in Mechanical Engineering. Skilled at working
independently,
Summary of multitasking, and a team player. Highly motivated, reliable,
confident and committed to
Qualifications professional standards. Works well with others to produce
profitable results. Possess 6 years of combined drafting
and design experience, and engineering internship
experience.
Education Bachelor of Science Degree: Mechanical Engineering
Graduated: December, 2009
The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
Associate in Science Degree: Pre-Engineering
Graduated: August, 2005
Northwest-Shoals Community College, Muscle Shoals, AL
Associate in Applied Science Degree: Drafting and Design
Technology
Graduated: December, 2003
Northwest-Shoals Community College, Muscle Shoals, AL;
College UAH Senior Design Project: Worked with a group of
engineering students and NASA to develop
Projects a spacecraft design that will service the new ATLAS telescope.
Project focuses on the conceptual spacecraft design that
will be launched in 2020. Our group design competed with 4
other designs from other groups and was selected by NASA to
be the winning design.
Computer Skills Computer Aided Design: AutoCAD 2009; Solid Works; Solid
Edge; Autodesk Inventor 2009;
Autodesk Raster
Design, NX
Finite Element Analysis: ALGOR; ALGOR Pipe Package;
NASTRAN; PATRAN
Other Software Packages: MathCad; MatLab; Adobe Acrobat
8.0; Microsoft Word; Excel;
PowerPoint; ADAMS dynamic simulation
software
Job Experience Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL
August 2004-Present
Mechanical Engineer/Mechanical Design Technician
. Oversee Quality Control/ Quality Assurance of all
parts fabricated in house.
. Developed Depot Maintenance Manuals for the Army's
Explosion Destruction Systems.
. Developed testing procedures for various fabricated
components.
. Assisted on the engineering for the DCD-LITANS System
(Deseret Chemical Depot Large Item Transportable
Access & Neutralization System), a system designed to
neutralize stockpile chemical warfare materiel. Tasks
involved the design of ASME coded reactors, reactor
mixing systems, waste storage tanks, and the heating
and cooling systems for the neutralization process.
. Assisted on the configuration management for the EDS
(Explosive Destruction System) systems units 1, 2,
and 3. Transportable trailer systems designed to
neutralize non-stockpile munitions containing
chemical agents. Assisted on preparing over a
thousand technical drawings for the modifications of
existing systems, and the construction of the new
systems. Assisted in the verification of tolerances
and dimensions to insure proper fitment of parts
being built.
. Created instruction manuals with step by step
instructions which included Inventor generated solid
model pictures depicting the assembly and disassembly
process of the power generating turbine components.
. Prepared Technical Drawings for the construction of
other DOD projects, such as: Hawthorne Army Depot
Demilitarization Project, Pine Bluff Arsenal Heat
Decontamination, and other non DOD projects.
Certifications Hazardous Waste Operations & Emergency Response (HAZWOPER
29 CFR 1910.120); CPR/AED; First Aid; Ammunition and
Explosives Safety Certification; Secret Security Clearance.