Thomas Liang

* ***** **** **** ****** MA *****

617-***-**** ac1gb1@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Experience

Partner, RMPC (Renewable Marine Power Corporation), 2006-now, Sedgwick, Maine

Involved conceptual design selection, fundamental research and experiment setups, involved in developing prototype of high efficiency turbines for kinetic tidal energy collecting, reached energy transfer co-efficiency number Cp 43% which was the highest as the time of 2014, be responsible for negotiating with Chinese government agencies and private investors for fundings, communicate with vendors and obtain outsourcing quotes from different factories.

Principal, EPCE (Eastbay Petro Chemical Equipment) 2005-2008 Houston, Texas

Relocated a methanol plant from Houston Texas to Tierra del Fuego Argentina

Involved evaluating petro chemical plants and equipment, visited a few plants in North America ( Houston and Edmonton Canada ); Hired a legal firm to negotiate and sign contracts with Lyondel and Chinese buyer; Signed contracts with local engineering company ( S & B Engineering in Houston) and equipment refurbishing companies; Laser mapped the whole plant to secure the relocating accuracy, participated conceptual design plan for a new site in Tierra del Fuego, successfully transferred the knowledge and project management skills of mechanical engineering and manufacturing into petro chemical industry, especially in negotiating the engineering time and refurbish process time with subcontractors.

Process Engineer, Samtan Engineering Co, 2000-2005 Malden, MA

Samtan Engineering is a deep draw and stamping plant (for both defense and none defense industries)

Managed plant daily production: worked on process control of thousands parts, designed lean work cell production for different product lines, involved quality control of parts from the accepting the order to shipping; Piloted a few products: purchasing the equipment, setting up the work stations, making the first batch of products to customer need and finalized the product line (The chemical cartridge in the airport security check gate was made by Samtan.); Assigned jobs to work floor and generated daily production report to the president; Was responsible for daily job quoting and material purchase, engineering support to all the plant needs; Was involved in equipment and tooling design; Was also involved customer part design when needed; Communicated with customers and vendors for technical requirements; Negotiated price for new products; Maintained ERP and IT systems for the company

Engineering Manager, Elatec Co, 1999-2000 Haverhill, MA

Managed an engineering crew of 6 people; Designed and built 10 vacuum furnaces (temperature up to 3500F )to meet different customer needs; Managed the manufacturing of furnaces; Mornitored the processes of machine shop, fab shop assembly shop and electricians to constantly optimize the shipping plan. ( This job offered a hands on practice of most mechanical engineering theories learnt from class. The major challenge was to optimize the pipeline of production with limited resources. Due to the small size of the company, communicating skills with engineers, customers, vendors and floor workers were well tuned)

Design Engineer, Dynisco Hotrunner System 1997-1999 Gloucester, MA

Dynisco Hotrunner differentiates itself from other manufacturers by applying heat pipes in its manifolds that makes the manifold more temperature uniform. Nevertheless, its runner designs become more complicated by adding the heat pipes.

Designed hot runner systems for injection molding industry utilizing different CAD softwares (Autocad, Solidworks, ProE). Design work included detailing and general assembly. Was familiar with most polymer materials in design perspective; Got familiar with CNC operations and other manual machining processes, non-newtonian fluid dynamics was practically applied from book theories to a simplified pressure drop equation.

SoftwareDeveloper Translation Machine 1992-1994 Beijing, China

Used pro-log language to write code for machine translation; Also exposed to other computer coding languages as well such as C and Basic

Assistant Engineer Information Institute Jiangxi Science Academy 1988-1992 Jiangxi, China

Worked as an IT engineer for the intranet.

Education and Training

Master of Science, Major Material Fabrication, Dept of Mechanical Engineering (formally Dept of Ocean Engineering)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, 1994 -1997

Thesis : Fracture of Welded Structure under Low Cycle Fatigue Load

Courses covered: Mechanics, Hydrodynamics, Vibration and control, Operation System Optimization, Manufacturing Systems, Propeller, Thermal dynamics, Welding Materials, Welding Structural and Stress analyses, Heat Transfer, Fracture Mechanics, Maths, Probability and Statistics etc.

First Level Welding Engineer, trained by JWS (Japan Welding Society) 1991-1991, Japan

Visited and apprenticed as an engineer in training in more than 10 Japanese companies, in Toyota learnt philosophy of JIT (just in time), total quality control, and flexible body line, (JIT is similar as the lean production we taught in the USA and total quality control is similar to GE’s six sigma quality control in the States.) Was trained manual welding skills, at the end passed the exam to be certified as Level 1 Welding Engineer.

Bachelor of Science, Major Welding, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing China, 1984-1988

Thesis: CCD monitored computer control of automatic weld seam control.

Built the foundation of a mechanical engineer, course covered mechanics, maths, electric, control, programming, drafting, machining processes, manufacturing process, materials, metalurgy

Skills

Microsoft office, Autocad, Solidworks, ProE, Abacus, Adina, Openflow, native Chinese, Fluent English and understand Japanese

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