James Gorfinkel
Email: *********@********.***
Address: ** ******** ****
City: South Hadley
State: MA
Zip: 01075
Country: USA
Phone: 413-***-****
Skill Level: Experienced
Salary Range: $75,000
Primary Skills/Experience:
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Educational Background:
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Job History / Details:
JAMES D. GORFINKEL
22 Carriage Lane
1.South Hadley, MA 01075
413-***-**** *********@********.***
413-***-**** (cell)
Objective: To obtain a position of CAD Designer
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.
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.
Technically skilled in the following software:
AutoCAD 2000, Solid Edge 14.
Solid Works 2005.
Unigraphics NX4, NX6, NX7.5, NX8
Professional Experience:
Oct. 2012 - Present Mechanical designer. Goodrich Co. West Hartford, CT
Make 3D models of mechanical Aircraft components.
Prepare production drawings of mechanical Aircraft components .
Utilize Unigraphics NX8 CAD system.
Oct. 2011- Sept. 2012 Tool designer/ Checker. North Hartland Tool Co. East Hartford, 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 commercial standards.
Utilize Unigraphics NX6 CAD system.
Jan. 2010- Aug 20011 Mechanical Designer/Checker. BELCAN Co. Windsor Locks, CT
Checking mechanical designs of Aircraft components for functionality, compliance with
Hamilton Sunstrand commercial and military standards.
Utilize Unigraphics NX4 CAD system.
Utilize Teamcenter 2007, DDM, DOC Accsess programs.
May 2007-Aug 2009 Tool designer/ Checker. 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 commercial 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.
Used Personal designer, Solid Edge CAD systems.
Before 1992 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. .
Education:
M.S. In Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnical Institute, Minsk, Belarus.
Solid Works course, Oxford, MA, Basic Electricity, PLC programming, STCC, Springfield, MA
Bilingual: English, Russian.