Gary Watts ***** Via Nasca San Diego, CA ***** 360-***-**** acaapo@r.postjobfree.com

Senior Mechanical Engineer with 26+ years of experience covering all areas from product architecture to final

production.

Emphasis on Industrial Design, Model & Prototype Making, advanced 3D CAD Design/Modeling and Product

Development for mechanical/electro-mechanical devices. Ranked in the top 5% of HP Engineers for 15+

years.

Skills

Product Design

Industrial Design innovative concepts, renderings, models, prototypes, presentations

User Human factors, ergonomics, touch & feel, functionality

Injection molded plastic Single shot, overmolding, insert molding, advanced materials.

Vacuum formed plastic sheet material

Precision Sheet Metal cold rolled steel, stainless steel, aluminum, beryllium copper

Machined milled, turned, ground, laser cut, waterjet, EDM,

Material Conversion overlays, ultra-thin films, laminates, plastic sheet, rubber, label stock.

2D Drafting-GD & T

Product Testing

Environmental--temperature/humidity, shock, vibration, life, drop, shipping, emitted/conductive &

acoustics.

Design Validation

Costing, tolerance analysis, DFM, DFA, FEA, Measurement Data

Manufacturing

Tooling, jigs & fixtures, process development, high speed automated mechanical assembly

Production Support

Statistical process control, analytical troubleshooting, root cause analysis

Interact with procurement, engineers, technicians, operators and vendors

Change process management, corrective action processing

Computer Skills

PTC Creo 3D Modeling & 2D Drafting, ANSI/ASTM Y14.5 Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

Solidworks Professional 2012

MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, OneNote, Visio, Publisher, Project, UNIX.

Career History

Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, OR, Vancouver, WA & San Diego, CA, (25 years, early retirement)

Lund Performance Solutions, Albany, Oregon, 2004-2005 (2 yrs)

Education

Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon

B.S. Manufacturing Engineering 1981

A.S. Machining Technology 1979

Patents

United States Patent #6,227,651, Lead Frame-Mounted Ink Jet Print Head Module

United States Patent #6,663,235, Polymer Coverlayer

European Patent #03252208.8-2304, Filter for an Ink Jet Print Cartridge

European Patent #04251627.8-, Pump and Fuel Cell

United States 6,917,099, Die Carrier for Fluidic MEMS Device

European Patent #04255119.2- Die Carrier

United States #7198474, Pump Having Shape Memory Actuator And Fuel Cell System

United States #6,986,571, Filter for a Print Cartridge

Projects & Groups

R & D for products

Commercial Ink Jet Photo Printer for Retail

Designed dozens of plastic and sheet metal parts for high speed (2500 prints/hour) photo processing

Provided project management, design review, concepts and workload monitoring to mechanical

engineering team

Engineering responsibility for 4500 unique mechanical parts and subsystems.

Reliability tests for mechanisms, paper handling, & scratch reduction in environmental chambers over

millions of sheets of media.

New Markets of Interest, Investigated, designed and assembled products for:

Ink jet based inhaler for asthma, smoking cessation and other medical applications

Portable digital projector with built in sound system for home movies

Prototype cleaning machine for removing support material from 3D printers

Home health monitoring network and hardware for home bound individuals

Custom light engine with fluidic sealing for digital projectors

Fluidic test system for nanotechnology sensors

All-in-One Ink Jet Printer Group

Designed and prototyped new concepts for carriages, pen latching and auto-deploy output tray

Designed injection molded case parts for scan feed assembly, printer base and top case parts for new

products

Ink Jet Pen Cost Reduction Group

Reduced direct material and production costs of the product by 40% in less than 12 months

Developed custom hermetic 5 layer films to reduce air transmission

Technical Leadership and Management

Provided senior technical leadership to solve line down, yield, and uptime production issues

Provided technical leadership within engineering teams for mentoring, analysis, project management

and hiring.

Managed 15 offshore developers for ongoing software projects.

High Volume Mechanical Assembly, Prototype Tooling and Production Engineering

Standardization Automated Tooling Group

Reduced system build time 50% to 9 months, reduced system cost 50% to $30M, and system size 30% to

14,000 sq. ft.

Enabled reuse of major components for reconfiguration for next gener ation products

Production Line Replication Group

Responsible for system specifications, system debug and buyoff, teardown, shipment, reinstall ation, and

production ramp startup.

Systems ranged from $6M to $60M with up to 200 unique processes running at 30-60 parts per minute.

Ink Jet R & D test tooling Group

Developed test methodology and tooling for liquid adhesives and adhesive interface surface

enhancements.

New Product Tooling-Ink Jet Pen

Created hand tooling for the first HP Ink Jet Pen.

Simple assembly tooling produced 175,000 pens per month

Designed and implemented hermetic product packaging for pen shipping container

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