Raymond A. Pontremoli *****************@*****.*** 321-***-****
Melbourne, FL 32935
MECHANICAL DESIGNER / PACKAGING ENGINEER
Seasoned professional with extensive diverse Design and Drafting experience and recognized as an expert on usage of ANSI/ASME-Y14.5-2009 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing that is eager to return to his chosen career and has kept his knowledge and skills up-to-date while on a sabbatical to learn the pros and cons of operating a small business. Significant Packaging Engineer experience includes designing high tolerance enclosures for electronic products. On the Government side, this consists mostly of Aerospace Electronics, Space Electronics, Radio Communications, Weapon Systems, and Digital Mapping Systems. On the Commercial side these skills are mostly employed for Medical Equipment, Consumer Electronics, Commercial Equipment, and Law Enforcement. Additional areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, extensive experience with high tolerance mechanical parts, machined enclosures, tooling fixtures, sheet metal electronic enclosures, rapid prototyping, SLA, FDM, investment casting, complex welded assemblies, and packaging of electronic components.
EDUCATION
Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, New Mexico Graduate: AS, Electro-Mechanical Drafting and Design Bowman Technical School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Graduate: Advanced Watchmaking and Repair
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member in Excellent Standing – American Watch and Clock Masters Institute AWARDS
Received Harris Corporation’s Individual Achievement Award for MIDS Program SPECIALIZED TRAINING
Pro-E Wildfire 3.0 Top Down Design; Pro-E Wildfire Advanced Modeling; CREO and PTC Technologies; Philip Crosby Quality Control System; Six Sigma Training Course; Business Ethics and Conduct Training; Windchill Training Course; Pro Intra-link Training Course; Oracle Software Training; Group Leader Training ; ANSI/ASME Y14.5-2009, GD&T SOFTWARE
Solidworks 2014, 2017, CREO; PTC; Wildfire 5.0; Pro-E V2000i/2; Pro-E V18; Pro-E V17; Power Point Presentations; Intralink; Microsoft Office Suite; Windchill; Oracle; ProPDM; Global Shop PDM, Windows Platform; Solaris Platform
ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE
Owner, Sundial Technologies, Inc., Melbourne, FL: Repaired watches and other timepieces for 5 retail jewelry stores. Handled all aspects of the business from explaining to customers what repairs were needed and giving estimates to interfacing with outside vendor, bookkeeping, etc. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AlumaTower Company Inc., Vero Beach, Florida
Mechanical Engineer/Designer, January 04, 2018 to Present
Mechanical design, models, drawings, documentation to fabricate manufacturing packages for telescoping portable towers. Responsible for high tolerance machine parts, casting models and weldments IAW and ANSI/ASME-Y14.5-2009
Global Engineering Management Services, Melbourne, FL Mechanical Engineer/Designer, August 2010 to December 2012
Mechanical design, models, drawings, documentation to fabricate and package electronic components for test equipment (Circuit Card Assemblies Power Supplies, LCD color displays, etc.) Responsible for high tolerance machine parts, cables, and connector back shell designs.
Produced machine parts and casting for high tolerance mechanical enclosures and chassis parts in accordance with ANSI/ASME-Y14.5-2009 for BAE, New York, F50 Fighter Program. ASRC Aerospace, Inc., NASA Contractor, Titusville, FL Mechanical Designer V, April, 2007 to July, 2012
Created designs, models, drawings for complex mechanical drive and locking mechanism.
Responsible for plate umbilical design and documentation as well as drive arm system. ASRC Aerospace, Inc., NASA Contractor, Titusville, FL (continued) Mechanical Designer V, April, 2007 to July, 2012
Mentored drafters, designers, engineers on ANSI/ASME-Y14.5-2009 Dimensioning and Tolerancing . Used ProE 3.0 Wildfire/Windchill for complex drives and mechanism. DRS - Optronics, Inc., Palm Bay, FL
Mechanical Designer V, Thermal Weapon Scope Program, February, 2003 to April, 2007
Chairperson for (and initiated) Pro-E Users group. Performed Peer Design and Critical Change Reviews and presented to the customer (US Army) via telecom or in person.
Engineering Change Control Specialist (Configuration Management), Thermal Weapon Scope program. Responsibilities ranged from fixture and tooling design for optical equipment and hardware, to optical table design, to thermal chamber internal tooling and documentation. JDS Uniphase, Palm Bay and Melbourne, FL
Design Manager, May 2000 to February, 2003
In charge of supervising and training Mechanical Designers and Engineers in mechanical design processes. Utilized Root Sum Square Value Tolerancing and Pro-E Wildfire.
Designed checking, concept validity, feasibility and repeatability Harris Corporation, Palm Bay, FL
Design Manager, MDS Program, March, 1997 to May, 2000
Responsible for design checking, concept validity, manufacturing feasibility and repeatability.
Company representative. Contacted customers re: PDR and CDR in person or via telecom.
In addition to Individual Achievement Award, received SPOT Award for value added cost savings in manufacturing processes
Subsequently was selected to be one of the Presenter of MIDS Program Design PATENTS
Holds patent for Plane-Mate, an adjustable platform holding both 1 4 scale and giant scale Radio Controlled Aircraft designed to be configured to hold different types of model radio controlled aircraft while concurrently performing maintenance, engine tuning, and keeping operator safe.