Engineer Design

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OBJECTIVE: Mechanical engineering position in product design,

development, or manufacturing support engineering.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY: Extensive experience in product design and tooling

design in the aerospace,

consumer electronic products and toy industries. More then 6 years of

drafting room supervisory experience.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

. Mechanical/Manufacturing: Designed and developed complex mechanical &

electronic products and provided liaison

with over-seas and domestic production facilities for debug and

production start-up, involving plastic injection molding,

blow molding, roto-casting, die-casting and other related processes.

Supervised designers and drafters, performing production support

engineering and generating production drawings to

ANSI Y14.5 for various air borne radar systems.

Designed electronic packaging, connection systems, test fixtures,

component racks, production tooling,

mechanisms, tolerance control equipment, sheet metal products, electronic

push button switches, plastic injection

moulds using G D & T and created flow diagrams. Also coordinated the

creation of Stereo-lithographic prototypes.

Researched, developed and directed implementation of the first paper-less

engineering change system at Hughes Aircraft.

. Electronics: Generated schematics, wiring diagrams and printed circuit

board layouts.

. Software: Familiar with AutoCAD, Mechanical Desktop, Catia &

Unigraphics, Pro-Engineer, Solid Works,

and most popular Windows & Mac OS applications.

. Patents: 4364619 Interconnection system for flexible circuit board

devices (Mattel).

. Business: Owned & managed a cellular phone business (5 years).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1/'13 to 11/'13: Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA.

Supplier of satellites and aerospace components

for NASA and other aerospace agencies. Tooling Design Engineer

(Consultant), in the Mechanical Ground Systems

Equipment engineering group, designing tools, handling equipment &

fixtures for integration, transportation & testing.

5/'11 to 7/'12: Aerojet General Corp., Sacramento, CA. Supplier of rocket

engines to the NASA and other aerospace agencies.

Tooling Design Engineer (Consultant), in the tooling engineering

group, designing tools, handling equipment & fixtures

for integration, transportation & testing.

10/'08 to 2/'11: Space Exploration Technologies, Hawthorne, CA

This start-up company designs & builds commercial space rockets and a

space capsule for NASA and various

other space agencies. Tooling Design Engineer in the tooling group,

designing & coordinating

construction of production tooling and handling equipment

manufacturing, testing and launching of the

company's F9 rocket and Falcon spacecraft.

6/'03 to 10/'08: Boeing Satellite Development Center (formally Boeing

Space Systems), El Segundo, CA

This division of Boeing designs & builds commercial & military

communications satellites and other types of

spacecraft. Design Engineer (Consultant), in the Ground Support Systems

group, designing &

managing construction of production tooling and handling equipment used

for satellite integration, and testing.

Also performed electronic packaging design for the RF and Digital

Electronics Payload Systems groups.

7/'02 to 6/'03: Malibu Research Associates, Calabasas, CA

This small Aerospace Company designs and builds radar and telemetry

antennas and associated systems.

Design/Drafting Department Supervisor. Organized and supervised a

drafting/design team

engaged in the creation of all production drawings for radar &

telemetry antenna systems and transitioning

the company from 2D to 3D parametric design procedures.

4/'98 to 7/'02: Boeing Space Systems (formally Hughes Space &

Communications), El Segundo, CA

This division of Boeing designs & builds commercial & military

communications satellites and other types of

spacecraft. Design Engineer (Consultant), then hired in as Staff

Engineer in the Ground Support

Systems group, designing & managing construction of production tooling

and handling equipment for satellite

integration. Transferred in '01 to RF electronic product design group,

designing high precision RF receiver

packaging and test fixtures for high frequency micro miniature

integrated circuits used in the commercial and

military communication satellites.

12/'97 to 4/'98: Educational Insights, Carson, CA

A medium size toy company specializing in the development and

distribution of educational toys and

electronic learning aids. Design Engineer (Consultant). Responsible for

new product development using

AutoCAD and the establishment of CAD documentation standards.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CONT'D

3/'97 to 12/'97: Measurement Technology International, Santa Fe Springs,

CA

A small research and development partnership with American Meter Co.

engaged in the development of an

electronic gas meter for the natural gas industry. Mechanical Engineer.

Supporting the Chief Engineer

in all aspects of product development, management and vendor liaison.

Developed a reliable gas sensing device,

upgraded the project documentation system and provided electronic and

mechanical design support.

3/'96 to 3/'97: Lanard Toy Co., Oxnard, CA

A medium sized toy company with a line of mechanical, electronic and

water toys, based in China with a

Design and development facility in the US. Project Engineer.

Responsible for developing new

products using AutoCAD, liaison with manufacturing engineering

department and model shop.

1/'91 to 3/'96: California Cellular Phones, Los Angeles, CA

Owner/Manager. Generated sales and provided service and activation

support for a large customer base.

Also managed accounting, customer service, purchasing and staffing

functions.

4/'84 to 1/'91: Hughes Aircraft Co. (Radar Systems Group), El Segundo, CA

An aerospace/electronics company. The Radar Systems Group (now

Raytheon) specializes in the design and manufacture

of airborne and mobile ground based radar systems. Started as

Engineering Design Specialist, then promoted

in '85 to Design Engineering Department Supervisor. Responsible for

supervision, staffing and quality for

approximately 55 designers performing product design and manufacturing

support engineering.

8/'83 to 4/'84: California. R & D Center, Culver City, CA

A research & development firm engaged in the development of toys and

consumer electronic products for

several large manufacturing companies. Design Engineer. Responsible for

the design and development of

mechanisms and the making of layouts and preliminary drawings of new

products. Checked drawings and design

concepts for accuracy, produceability and cost. Supervised and

coordinated creation of prototypes for marketing

presentations.

8/'82 to 8/'83: GCE Inc., Santa Monica, CA

Manufacturer of video games, personal computers, calculators, and game

watches.

Project Engineer (Product Development). Responsible for new product

design and manufacturing liaison as

well as creation of ANSI documentation for products originally

developed overseas. Made circuit board layouts,

tool drawings and provided manufacturing support & liaison for

Taiwan and Hong Kong based production facilities.

8/'81 to 8/'82: IXO Inc., Culver City, CA

Manufacturer of a line of micro computer terminals and peripherals and

provider of on-line services.

Project Engineer (Product Development). Created design layouts and

production drawings for the "Telecomputer"

system and its peripherals. Also provided project management and

production start-up engineering support.

4/'73 to 8/'81: MATTEL Inc., Hawthorne, CA

Manufacturer of toys and electronic consumer products. Started as Sr.

Drafter, promoted to Designer,

Design Engineer and Sr. Design Engineer. Created layouts, assembly and

detail production drawings.

Performed project management and provided liaison with other

departments (model shop, tooling engineering,

purchasing and manufacturing engineering ) for toys, electronic games

and the "Intellivision" video game and its peripherals.

Also designed circuit board layouts for handheld electronic games.

While loaned to tooling engineering and manufacturing engineering

departments during slow periods in the product design department

designed plastic injection moulds and

tooling & coordinated mold build with vendors.

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

7/'65 to 10/'70: US AIR FORCE

Assigned to ATC 3700 Civil Engineering Group (Lackland AFB) as Air

Conditioning & Refrigeration Specialist,

then cross-trained into electronics and was reassigned to MATC (Dover

AFB) as Radar & Inertial Navigation

Systems Repairman. Honorably discharged with the rank of Staff

Sergeant.

EDUCATION

CA. State University Dominguez Hills: BS Degree, Industrial Management.

Santa Monica City College: AA Degree, Pre Engineering.

PERSONAL DATA

Citizenship: Naturalized US citizen (1967). Held security clearance

while in the USAF: Secret, 4 Th. District OSI

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