Customer Service Engineer

Daniel Bauen

Current Address: Email: *********@***********.***

Phone: 404-***-****

Atlanta, Georgia Website: visit www.danielbauen.com to view portfolio

EDUCATION Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 2001-2004

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, December 2004 GPA 3.34

CO-OP Certification

EXPERIENCE Function Engineering Inc. 2006-Present

Mechanical design and analysis consultant utilizing Pro-E and Solidworks.

FEA analysis, tolerance stackup, design for manufacturing.

Test fixture designs that implement microcontrollers for automation of tests.

Georgia Institute of Technology Architecture Dept. Volunteer Consulting 2007

Using Solidworks, redesigned the moving shade mechanism for the shade panels on the roof of

the Georgia Tech Solar House, their entry into the international Solar Decathlon Competition.

Fusion Designs Consulting 2005-2006

Create 3D models of silicone kitchen implements using Solidworks Surfacing

Product design incorporating mechanical, electrical and electronics aspects.

Gravity Group LLC Consulting 2005-Present

Mechanical design and 3D modeling of monumental, interactive, steel and stone sculptures

using Pro-E and Solidworks.

Keystone Sculpture at Burning Man 2005 Colossus - 70,000 lbs of interactive stone and steel

Rockspinner A series of 12,000 lb spinning boulders installed in Detroit, Switzerland, and

Atlanta. Some have a solar powered motor drive in the base to spin the stone when no one is

manually spinning it.

Breeze An Interactive Robotic Tree installation for international art show in Switzerland

Proposal writing for art installations and international art shows.

RomanticCabin.com 2003-2006

Luxury vacation cabins in NC mountains - Manager and owner

Demands and enhances management, sales, and customer service skills

Designed custom electronics components to incorporate into home automation devices.

Facet Technologies A Matria Company CO-OP 2002-2004

Research and Development Engineer for innovative medical devices

Worked with a team of mechanical engineers and industrial designers on the design,

innovation, and production of diabetes related medical devices, from conception to production.

Modeled designs using Solidworks and ProE, and created drawings for manufacture.

Developed new testing devices and methods for products.

Quality Control Experience. Setup the QA documentation and supervised the technicians.

Designed, and constructed a custom assembly line machine to streamline the assembly of a

product. The machine was built almost entirely by me, salvaging most of the raw materials

from an out of commission packaging machine. Designed the electronic system to control the

machine, count parts, and provide safety systems. The machine had to conform to OSHA.

RESEARCH University of Alabama at Birmingham 2000

Biomechanical Engineering Research Assistant

Performed stress test on polyethylene implant samples of varying irradiation

Worked with graduate students researching the effects of car side impact accidents on the

pelvis. Created 3D models of pelvis from MRI slices for finite element analysis.

University of West Georgia 1999-2000

Carrollton, GA

Optics research with helium neon lasers lead to published paper.

M Jackson, D Bauen and J E Hasbun, Investigation of laser fundamentals using a helium neon

laser, Eur. J. Phys. 22 (2001) 211 218

Fluent in French

SKILLS

Experienced with tools/machine shop equipment (mills, CNC, lathes, welders, etc).

Have the ability to build what I design. This includes automating mechanical systems with

electronics and microcontrollers and PLC.

Creative Building and Problem Solving Skills experienced gained from participating in many

design competitions, and working as an R&D Engineer

Software: Microsoft Office SolidWorks (CAD package) AutoCAD

Matlab EES IDEAS FEA (Cosmos, etc)

(CAD package)

LabView ProEngineer (CAD package)

Basic Programming Web design software and programming

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