JAMES D.
GORFINKEL
**************@*******.***
413-***-**** (cell)
Objective: To obtain a position as Mechanical Design/Manufacturing
Engineer.
Qualification highlights:
. Accomplished, seasoned Design/Manufacturing Engineer with over twenty
years of experience in design, layout, and detail for products,
tooling/fixtures, and progressive stamping dies.
. Over twenty years of experience in International Standards.
. Solid project leading capabilities with a consistent track record of
anticipating consequences of new design, initiating solutions, and
completing projects to specification in the first attempt.
. Detail driven with good communication skills and proven success
interfacing with both customers and co-workers.
. Technically skilled in the following software:
AutoCAD 2000, Solid Edge 14.
Solid Works 2005.
CATIA 4.2
Unigraphics NX4
Professional Experience:
Jan 2010-Present Contractor/ Projects checker, approver. BELCAN Corp.
Windsor Locks, CT
. Check Aircraft parts, assemblies models and drawings for
functionality, machinability,
compliance with UTC military and commercial standards.
. Utilize Unigraphics NX4 Cad system/
May 2007-August 2009 Tool designer. APEX Machine Tool Company,
Farmington, CT
. Design various tools for machining Aircraft components.
. Design various gages for inspection of Aircraft parts.
. Checking tools/gages designs for functionality, compliance with Pratt
& Whitney military and common standards.
. Utilize Unigraphics NX2, NX4 CAD system.
Jan. 2006-May 2007 Design engineer. CDI Corporation, Windsor Locks,
CT
. Design Special fittings for Aircraft engine.
. Design various tubes, brackets using Pratt & Whitney special
programs.
. Utilize Unigraphics NX4 CAD system.
. Utilize Team center Engineering, DDM, DOC Access programs.
Feb. 2005-Dec.2005 Machine/Tool designer. Clarity Imaging Technology,
Springfield, MA
. Designed assembly and detailed drawings of fixtures for assembly
and disassembly cartridges.
. Designed automated machinery for assembly and disassembly
cartridges.
. Performed various reverse engineering jobs using CMM machines.
. Utilized Solid Works 2005 CAD system.
1992-2003 Machine & tool designer/Manufacturing engineer, U.S. Tsubaki,
Holyoke, MA
. Designed and created assembly and detail drawings for:
progressive stamping dies, including blanking piloting, piercing
operations
automated machines for metal forming operations,automated assembly
equipment.
. Designed loading/unloading mechanisms for stamping presses with
pneumatic and electronic equipment.
. Troubleshot machinery and tooling in manufacturing situations.
. Prepared specifications for PLC programs, including timing charts for
electrical circuits.
. Led production cost, down-time reduction projects.
. Led LEAN manufacturing, process improvement projects.
. Solicited feedback from machine operators to develop designs of the
highest quality and cost
effectiveness.
. Used Personal designer, Solid Edge CAD systems.
Before 1991 Project Engineer, Transfer Lines & Special Machine Tool CO,
Minsk, Belarus.
. Designed and developed transfer lines, multiple stations rotary
transfer machines, stationary machine tools, automatic
multispindel machines, boring machines and milling machines.
. Designed step-by-step accumulating conveyors.
. Developed manufacturing processes for metal cutting equipment.
. Supervised assembly, manufacturing and field installation.
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M.S. In Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnical Institute, Minsk,
Belarus.
Solid Works course, Oxford, MA
Basic Electricity, PLC programming, STCC, Springfield, MA
Bilingual: English, Russian.