Mechanical Engineering Manager

Gary Tang

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Phone: 804-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***

SUMMARY

• Master’s degree in Engineering (Metallurgy/Mechanical Engineering);

• Hands-on experience in heat treating, metallurgical testing and analysis

• Expert in failure analysis of ferrous parts under fatigue, corrosion, welding, heat treating, and more

EXPERIENCE

8/2004 – present, Owner, Nova Health Products, Midlothian, VA

• Invented portable wheelchair ramps and portable wheelchair-accessible showers (U.S. Patent No. 8302219)

• Founded company and achieved profits in the first year. Remained profitable ever since

• Retiring from business adventure

3/2003 – 8/2004, Metallurgist, Beckton Dickenson (NYSE: BDX), Franklin Lakes, NJ

• Evaluated company’s worldwide steel suppliers for hypodermic needle production

• Served as technical leader in laser welded thin-gauge (<0.0025”) tube production. Eliminated edge trimming, which accounts for 33% of total material used. Largely eliminated the need for multiple draw/anneal/sink passes in traditional tube manufacturing

• Re-configured the entire electrical polishing process of needles

8/1998-5/2002, Metallurgy Manager, INA Bearing, Cheraw, SC

• Evaluated company’s worldwide steel suppliers for bearing production (needle, roller, and ball bearings)

• Managed the metallurgical lab and chemical lab of 9 people and a zinc phosphate coating line of flat rolled steel

• Conducted failure analysis for bearings and bearing components. Utilized conventional techniques (visual, hardness and micro-hardness, optical microscope, metallograph, spectrograph, tensile) and advanced techniques (SEM/EDX, ICP, XPS, X-ray diffraction, Auger, IR)

• Served as metal working expert for company’s 6 production sites in the US. Provided technical support for heat-treating (through hardening, carburizing, carbonitriding, induction hardening, austempering, thermal-mechanical treating), welding, grinding, turning, hot forging,

6/1993-8/1998, Metallurgist, Accutech Inc., Las Vegas, NV

• Meanaged metallurgical testing lab and heat-treating department

• Performed failure analysis for ASME Section III B&PV components (nuclear reactors)

• Hands-on experience on metallographic examination of micro structures, tensile & Charpy impact testing, hardness/microhardness testing, NDT testing (UT, MP, LP)

EDUCATION

5/1992, MS Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada

8/1990, MS Physics, Tsinghua University, China

8/1988, BS Physics, Tsinghua University, China

PATENT

U.S. Pat. No. 8302219 Portable and Handicap Accessible Shower Stall

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