Engineer Mechanical
Resume:
BEN MAKHLOUF
San Francisco, CA 94109
***.*****@*****.***
Summary Mechanical Engineer with 10+ years experience in
Thermal system design
utilizing 3D modeling & Analysis. Experience
includes design of air-to-air heat
exchangers, heat pipe assemblies, heat
sinks, airflow, and electronic packaging.
Software: Solidworks, COSMOS Flow, ProE, Icepak
Relevant THERMAL MANAGEMENT ENGINEER
Experience Noren Products, Inc.
Menlo Park, CA
January 2006 - May 2010
. Designed and developed over 250 custom heat sinks, heat
pipes and heat exchangers
. Managed custom design projects division for products in
Medical, Solar, Industrial, Military and Aerospace
. Interface with customers to define thermal and
economical needs
. Provide technical and general thermal engineering
presentations to potential customers
. Developed and tested unique vapor chamber for cooling
high power LEDs
. Interface with manufacturing department to streamline
build time of new products and prototypes
. Optimization of the evaporation and condensation surface
area
. Calculation of input-output thermal resistances
. CFD modeling of heat pipes, heat sinks, and spreaders
. Analysis of thermal test data and made recommendations
THERMAL ENGINEERING CONSULTANT
Dynatron Corporation
Fremont, CA November 2005
. Designed cooling systems for1U and 2U servers.
. Benchmarked existing heatsink designs to improve
performance
THERMAL ENGINEERING CONSULTANT
Ajigo Corporation
Hayward, CA
April 2005 to July 2005
. Scope included initial customer inquiry, concept
generation, detail design using SolidWorks,
calculations, cost and BOM generation, liaison with
suppliers, and fabrication.
. Provided design input and performance evaluation of heat
exchanger used to heat and cool devices-under-test in
Semiconductor burn-in testers.
. Specified and integrated product components including
fans, thermoelectric coolers, thermostats and connectors
. Released heat pipes technical engineering report for a
manufacturing team in Asia.
. Achieved heat sink thermal resistance target of 0.20
degree Celsius per watt.
. Characterized resistance of grease and phase change
thermal interface materials.
THERMAL ENGINEERING CONSULTANT
Radian Heat sinks
Santa Clara, CA October 2004 to February
2005
. Designed and developed custom heat pipe assemblies and
heat sinks for various customers.
. Built testing set up to characterize and evaluated heat
sink thermal resistance.
. Performed hands on testing of various prototypes to
analyze pressure drop, thermal performance
. Educated Engineering staff on heat pipe functionality.
. Released and conducted technical engineering reports in
heat pipe and heat sink applications.
APPLICATIONS ENGINEER
Noren Products, Inc.
Menlo Park, CA December 2002-
September 2004
. Analyzed and designed new and advanced heat pipes and
heat exchangers for various markets.
. Designed air-cooled copper heat sinks with embedded heat
pipes.
. Designed mega-flat copper heat pipes for Boeing
Satellite Systems to maintain isothermal temperature.
. Assisted customers provide quotes and confirm orders.
. Liaison with machine shop, fabrication, testing, and
production of CAD drawings.
MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Schlumberger Semiconductor Solutions, Test & Probe Systems
Group
San Jose, CA May 2000- August 2001
. Responsible for the design of new water to liquid (HFE
7100) heat exchanger for the next generation Low Cost
Structural Tester manufactured for Intel.
. Calculated flow rate, pressure, temperature and pump
size needed to cool 15KW heat load from electronic
boards.
. Selected fluid level sensors, temperature sensors,
pressure control, filter, valves, and connectors.
. Released technical engineering reports in English and
French.
. Selected and coordinated vendors both in the US and in
Europe.
. Traveled to France manufacturing facility for thermal
performance of heat exchanger.
. Provided thermal solutions for critical devices,
measured junction temperature, and junction to case
thermal resistance.
. Designed and tested a high vacuum chamber for a Focused
Ion Beam System, for Hitachi Japan.
. Performed 3D modeling tool ProE to assemble vacuum
chamber and Ion Beam System.
. Worked to perform assembly, leak, and clearance checks
for prototype.
. Wrote technical procedure for field installation of
vacuum chamber.
MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Exponent, Inc. (Formerly Failure Analysis Associates, Inc.)
Menlo Park, CA
1998-1999
. Participated in forensic engineering study of an
explosion at a chemical company.
. Modeled bubble formation, surface tension, viscosity,
and density of accident.
REASEARCH ENGINEER
National Center for Scientific Research Paris, France
University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris, France
1993-1996
. Research thesis, "Interface waves propagation in
stratified media"
. Studied the properties of the Stoneley-Scholte wave at
the boundary between an ideal fluid and a viscoelastic
solid. Developed a mathematical method to determine the
dispersion equation based on the reflection coefficients
in the fluid. Application in non-destructive ultrasonic
testing and geophysical exploration.
Education M.S. Structural Mechanical Engineering
Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
"Prediction and prevention of failure by fracture and
fatigue."
B. S. Mechanical Engineering
Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
"Fluid dynamics including compressible and
incompressible flow."
Professional Aeronautical Engineering
Development University of Paris 8, Paris, France
International Business
University of California Berkeley Extension, CA
SolidWorks CAD Software
Hawkridge Systems Advanced Training, Santa Clara, CA
Thermal Management of Electronics Systems and Packages
Fluent Inc, Santa Clara, CA
Advanced Cooling for Electronics
Fluent Inc, Santa Clara, CA
SmartGD&T
Multi Metrics, Menlo Park, CA
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