Raul Villa

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Pflugerville, Texas 78660

512-***-****

ac0d3d@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Qualifications:

Mechanical designer with 30 years of experience in a variety of industries including Orthopedic, Aerospace, and Oil Drilling Equipment. 17 years SolidWorks experience, including 7 years of Pro-E. Skilled with engineering design and development of specialized instruments to support spinal fusion products.

Current Experience:

Integrity Spine, Inc., San Antonio February, 2013-Present

Design Engineer

As a Product Designer for Integrity Spine, successfully managed the following responsibilities:

Understand/document project goals; work towards timeline goals.

Design history file creation & maintenance.

Work directly with surgeons & surgical staff in an Operating Room environment.

Work with surgeons, sales, & marketing to reduce concepts into reality.

Solve surgical problems by applying engineering solutions through mechanical hardware.

Create 3-D CAD models & fully detail engineering drawings.

Familiarity with Geometric tolerancing & dimensioning.

Write test protocols, carry out product testing to verify/validate product safety.

Identify/design QC control gages and other fabrication related hardware for project parts.

Work w/suppliers to ensure products are cost effectively designed for manufacturability.

Practical experience w/metallic & non-metallic materials; full understanding of material properties.

Prior Experience:

Zimmer Spine, Inc., Austin, TX September, 2003 – January, 2013

Product Designer

As a Product Designer for Zimmer Spine, successfully managed the following responsibilities:

Assigned to enhancing, redesigning and managing the specialty project of existing spinal fusion instruments for surgeons.

Improving or redesigning existing instruments per the surgeons new user needs.

Responsible for designing, creating assembly drawings, having the instruments manufactured.

Inspected and create any V&V activities before creating a mini DHF for release.

Assisted in writing procedures for the drafting department.

Advanced Aerospace Design, Inc., Round Rock, TX July, 2002 – August 2003

Designer

As a Designer for Advanced Aerospace, successfully managed the following responsibilities:

Assigned to layout drawing, wiring diagram manuals using Auto-Cad.

Created new drawings in accordance with assigned verbal/written work orders per Ansi and Company drafting standards including GD&T.

Made changes to marked up blueprints and updated part models as per approved Document Change Orders.

Demonstrated initiative in the identification and solution of drafting problems.

One Source Mfg., Pflugerville, TX October, 1999 – April, 2002

Supervisor

Assigned to supervise the drafting and design group.

Responsible for reversing engineering parts and fully dimensioning them using PRO-ENGINEER and AutoCad per ANSI standards. Additionally, led the program to fully update department to 9001 ISO standards.

Schlumberger, Austin, TX October, 1997 – September, 1999

Designer

As a Down Hole Tool Designer, I was responsible for creating new product design for the 2-7/8" Flow Control Valve tool to be used in 3 zones. My responsibilities were:

Create the designs for all the components required to assemble the 2-7/8 Flow Control Valve tool.

Assist the technician in the assembly of the 2-7/8" Flow Control Valve tool for testing.

Made modifications to the 3-1/2" Flow Control Valve tool.

U.S. Medical Products, Inc., Austin, TX November, 1995 – October, 1997

Designer

As a Product Designer for U.S. Medical Products, successfully managed the following responsibilities:

Assigned to layout drawing, wiring diagram manuals using Auto-Cad.

Created new drawings in accordance with assigned verbal/written work orders per Ansi and Company drafting standards including GD&T.

Made changes to marked up blueprints and updated part models as per approved Document Change Orders.

Demonstrated initiative in the identification and solution of drafting problems.

Intermedics Orthopedics, Inc., Austin, TX August, 1987 – November, 1995

Designer/Drafter

As a Designer/Drafter for Intermedics, successfully managed the following responsibilities:

Created new drawings in accordance with assigned verbal/written work orders per Ansi and Company drafting standards including GD&T.

Made changes to marked up blueprints and updated part models as per approved Document Change Orders.

Demonstrated initiative in the identification and solution of drafting problems.

Education:

Texas State Technical Institute, Waco, TX

Associate Degree in Applied Science

Major in Drafting and Design

May, 1987

Technical Skills:

Mechanical drafting, documentation and 3-D modeling techniques.

SolidWorks, Creo/Pro-E,

AutoCAD.

Teacher of Blue Print Reading.

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