Engineer Mechanical

Daniel M. Sutherland **** N Nopal St #B

Senior Product Development & Manufacturing Engineer Santa Barbara, CA 93103

*************@*******.*** 651-***-****

Objective:

Senior Product Development & Manufacturing Engineer specializing in generating product and environmental specifications,

product feasibility through development, part design & analysis and mechanical assemblies, coordinating and interfacing

directly with manufacturing, along with agency certification coordination and support, manufacturing and assembly process

development, scale-up and continuation throughout production.

Expertise:

Product design and development while working within cross-functional teams from conception to product launch. Thirty

plus years’ experience within the product design and development environment delivering high-tech and superior

quality products on time.

Perform design engineering utilizing CAD software (presently using SolidWorks 2012, with several years of past

experience using ProE) for new product development.

Incorporating best-practice processes into functional designs to address business needs such as end-users, marketing-

VOC, sales, service improvement, manufacturability, and cost reduction.

Strong communication and leadership skills while working within business and product development teams, customer

service and operations.

Project development team leader and product coordination on several products.

Identifying, coordinating, supply chain, process development and scale-up with the manufacturer into and beyond

commercial release of the product.

Work History:

Phillips Medisize DDC (Prime Staff), Manufacturing Engineer, 12/12 to 6/13

Manufacturing Engineer involved with, injection molding and assembly process development, DFM, design and coordination

of Automated Assembly Equipment and working directly with supply chains.

SEMS (Volt Technical Resources), 3M ESPE, Product Dev. & Manufacturing Engineer, 07/11 to 07/12

Mechanical engineer involved with product development and design engineering of a Dental Product, digital oral scanner for

dental operatory. Primary responsibilities are overall electro-mechanical design, agency testing, design and engineering

CAD databases, prototyping, coordinated and working directly with contract manufacturing, process development and

supply chains into scale-up and commercial release.

Volt Technical Resources, 3M Track and Trace Solutions, Product Dev. Engineer, 04/08 to 07/11

Mechanical engineer involved with product development and design engineering of material handling systems for libraries.

Primary responsibilities are plastic and sheet metal part design, environmental testing, design and engineering CAD

databases, prototyping, and detailed documentation and working directly with manufacturing and outside suppliers.

International Technidyne Corporation, Senior Staff Engineer, 12/05 to 04/08

Mechanical engineer involved with product development and design engineering of medical devices. Primary responsibilities

are plastic and machined part design of engineering CAD databases, prototyping, and detailed documentation and working

directly with manufacturing and outside suppliers.

Solid Design & Prototype, Inc., Project Engineer, 03/05 to 12/05

Project engineer involved with product teams to assist in design, development and manufacturing support to successfully

commercialize products; including project planning, developing design specifications, and agency certification coordination.

ses & associates, l.l.c., Project Management and Engineering Consultant, 09/98 to 03/05

Independent consultant for small and large companies working with business teams and project planning, process

development, product research and engineering. Developing and implementing project plans, maintaining schedules and

budgets and supporting project teams.

Logic Product Development (formerly PLD), Principal Engineer/Project Leader, 08/91 - 09/98

Project engineering for small and large companies. Managed product development teams to commercialize products and

then at completion gave clients complete control of the project; including product specifications and design documentation.

NCR Network Products Division, Mechanical Engineer/CAD Manager, 06/84 - 07/91.

Designed and developed mainframe computers, implemented and managed engineering CAD software tools for product

development and DFM.

Several Other Companies, Mechanical Design, 06/79 - 05/84.

Mechanical design, detailing, analog printed circuit board layout and support into manufacturing.

Entrepreneurial

Several products developed, patented, prototyped, market research with focus groups with success.

Education:

University of St. Thomas, Project Management

University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering

North Dakota State University, Architecture

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