Richard W. Howe

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Pleasant View, Utah 84414

home: 801-***-****, cell: 801-***-****, e-mail: abiayj@r.postjobfree.com

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

Project Manager / Senior Mechanical Engineer. Extensive experience in

product design and development, manufacturing process development, product

test and failure analysis, customer and supplier relationships. Seeking

professional position to develop and manufacture electro-mechanical

products and processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

YUREKA ENERGY (Start-up company) Pleasant View, Utah. October 2008 to

present

Developing patentable ideas to make solar energy more cost effective.

Developed prototype parabolic dish mirror and produced multiple watt power

from concentrating light onto 1X1cm cell. Developed unique method for

producing parabolic trough mirrors and set-up research facility to collect

and store heat from troughs built using off the shelf components (pumps,

valves, programmable timers and thermostats)

LIFETIME PRODUCTS Clearfield, Utah Freeport Center October 2003 to 2008

Senior Development Engineer. Completed and introduced three new table

designs to production, two in China in one in the US. Major design work on

Lifetime's innovative garden sheds using blow molded plastic panels

allowing expandable modular construction. Updated folding chair for lower

cost assembly and improved styling. Several patents pending. Mentored

junior engineers and built up their abilities and confidence.

LUMENIS Salt Lake City, Utah October 2002- May 2003

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer (contract). Responsible for manufacturing

improvements to laser head build area. Increase efficiency and error proof

processes by working with assembly workers and developing proper methods

and tooling.

3COM BUSINESS CONNECTIVITY COMPANY West Valley City, Utah 2000-2002

Senior Component and Manufacturing Engineer. Responsible for reviewing all

new mechanical designs for dimensional integrity and manufacturability.

Responsible for specifying and assuring all custom tooling of mechanical

components and assembly equipment is ready for production. Enabled

transfer of production capability to contract manufactures in China and

Mexico. Received Patent for "Surface Mount Stand-off "device.

BOURNS SENSORS / CONTROLS DIVISION Ogden, Utah 1983-85 & 1993-2000

Staff Process Development Engineer / Project Manager

Lead design modifications on sensitive customer issues and enabled Mexican

production plant to continue meeting shipments through quick response and

solutions to design problems. Lead manufacturing process development for

high volume automotive sensors and implemented automation of appropriate

manual assembly operations.

* Brought assembly scrap rate down from 120,000 to 17ppm while ramping up

from 300 units per week to 80,000, by determining and eliminating potential

causes of failure through: failure analysis, designed experiments and

proper interpretation of SPC data. Received the Ford Q1 award for 1995-97.

* Provided manufacturing process development and cost analysis for a

proposed steering sensor project which halted further spending on the

project, saving the company in excess of $2million.

* Developed a complete production assembly system under QS9000 guidelines

for a throttle position sensor which uses a new magnetic field non-

contacting technology.

* Developed and installed production tooling for lead forming and ultra-

sonic lug attachment to ceramic substrates.

* Debugged production tooling to provide on-the-fly cut-off of wire-wound

resistor elements.

* Provided design criteria to enable proper disposition of non-compliant

components and assemblies.

IOMEGA Roy, Utah

Product Design and Test Engineer

Responsible for development of high density removable computer data

products, specializing in: design of plastic and metal components,

developing manufacturing processes, and design verification, shock and

vibration testing.

* Received US Patent for design of a magnetic media stabilizing wiper

system for data cartridges. Used in 5 " data cartridges and similar

concepts used later in the Zip product line.

* Developed new manufacturing process to line data cartridges with fabric

to eliminate handling damage.

* Justified, purchased and installed a complete shock and vibration test

lab. Provided analysis which enabled the company to quickly correct design

flaws relating to structural resonance affecting the drives ability to

track follow.

* Scheduled and supervised design verification testing which enabled early

release of new products.

* Developed courses and trained staff engineers on the use and operation of

mechanical test lab.

* Designed and applied robotic tooling to simulate handling of data

cartridges in and out of disk drives.

IBM Boca Raton, Florida

Co-Op Engineer

Specified work orders for maintenance of plant equipment and provided

manufacturing process input to reduce assembly workmanship problems on high-

speed data line printers.

VALTEK Springville, Utah

Engineering Lab Technician

Conducted engineering flow parameter testing on industrial automatic

control valves. Designed, built and installed test equipment to determine

functionality of valves in dynamic flow, cryogenic and extreme heat

environments.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

BS-Mechanical Engineering: Brigham Young University Provo, Utah Dec.

1982

Company Sponsored Training:

* 4-40 hour courses on Mechanical Design and Product Data Management using

PRO-E w/ excess of 4000 hrs.

* 40 hour course on Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing.

* 3-40 hour courses on shock and vibration testing at Tustin Technical

Institute and Unholz-Dickie Corp.

* 40 hour course by Video Jet on operation and maintenance of ink jet

marking systems.

* SPC, Design of Experiments, Design for Manufacturing, Ford Automotive

PPAP, Design and Process FMEA procedures, Kempner-Tragoe, and Project

Management.

SKILLS

Expertise in: mechanical design using Pro-E and AutoCad, problem solving by

analysis and innovative solution finding. Plastic design and molding.

Thick film and SMT processes. Testing and diagnosis of structural

components in shock and vibration environments. Proficient with: Word,

Excel, Powerpoint and other office productivity software. Operate

electronic test equipment, and various metalworking equipment. Patent

search. German language.

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