DANIEL F. ESTABROOK
Oxnard,CA
ac4qcq@r.postjobfree.com
MECHANICAL DESIGNER, DRAFTER 4
Over 17 years in the Microwave Industry as a designer working with Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Familiar with achievable machining practices, acceptable tolerances and standards.
Proficiency in material library creation and modification. Expertise with creating fixtures and prototypes. Skilled with reverse engineering and redesigning of highly complex mechanical equipment. Skilled 2d and 3d Drafter.
Areas of Expertise:
CMM Programming PCB Fabrication
2D Layering and Wire Diagrams Digital and 3D CAD
Workmanship and Solder Standards File Conversions
Engineering Change Orders Bill of Materials
Prototyping
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Design and Development: Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, Autodesk Vault, MIC Amplifier Product Design, Layout, and Assemblies
Standards: MIL-STD-883, NASA-STD-8739.3, IPC/EIA J-STD-001, IPC-A-600
and 610 workmanship and solder standards.
File Conversion Methods: PCB Manufacturing Processes, iges, .dxf, .sat, .dwg, .ipt.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MERCURY SYSTEMS (Formerly Delta Microwave), Oxnard CA 2000 to 2017
Mechanical Design Engineer
Design and draft bandpass, lowpass, highpass, band reject filters, diplexers, and multiplexers using comb line, lumped element, micro strip, ceramic resonators, wave guide, and cross coupling structures. Also low noise amplifiers, multipliers and integrated microwave filter amplifier products in cooperation with Electrical Engineer. Produced Inspection reports.
●Managed the flow-down of material and process requirements through Bill of Materials.PCB design from schematics for amplifier and filter design.
●Managed and maintained large complicated 100+ part assemblies by cataloging and vaulting 3D CAD files according to implemented policies.
●Developed and integrated digital CAD file management system and correlating electronic, .pdf file management system used by the production team.
●Created, approved and released full drawing packages to production or for engineering prototyping.
●Updated drawings and maintained Engineering Change Orders (ECO documentation).
●Developed and upgraded drafting policies and processes reducing the amount of resources required when releasing projects from engineering.
●Programed CMM inspection routines from .dxf file formats using PCDIMAS.
●Programed and fabricated prototype and small run printed circuit boards using Circuit PRO 1.5 and LPKF S103 board routing machine.
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ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Mechanical Design Engineer, Delta Microwave
EDUCATION
Coursework in Engineering, for Associate of Science
Oxnard Community College Oxnard CA.
CERTIFICATIONS
Certificate ANSI Y14.5 - Drawing Standards and GD&T Practices, 2009
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PCDIMAS 101,102,103, Hexagon Metrology, 2014
Solid Works, Ventura Adult Education, Currently