Engineer Design

David A. Krause

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Lexington, NC 27295

Mobil Phone: 336-***-****

E-mail: *****.*.******@*****.***

Experience: A senior level Mechanical / Electro Mechanical Design Engineer

Specialist with over 35 years of diversified experience with a variety of

government, commercial and R&D projects - Confident and resourceful in the

face of challenges, purposeful and urgent. Very creative, proactive and

self-directed.- Highly flexible to new situations.

OEM Automated Machinery

Heavy Duty Construction Machinery - Excavators

Medical

Disposable Hand Held Surgical Devices

3D CAD human anatomy

Procedural Animations

Consumer Products

Insulin Delivery Systems (Consumer Products)

Injection Molded Parts

Diagnostic Machinery

Design and Development of Medical Lab Testing Machinery

Aerospace

RF Antenna Shaped Beam Antenna/Component

Civilian / Military / Communication Spacecraft Design

Spacecraft Integration and Test

Plasma Etch/Deposition Technology [PVD]

Optical Remote Sensing Assemblies

Material Handling Systems

Electronic Packaging - Telemetry and Guidance Systems

C Band Antennae Dish Design and Testing

High Speed Production Equipment

CAD Software Experience:

Fast Track Training - Pro-e Wildfire 3.0

Fast Track Training SDRC to NX6 Migration

SDRC - Master Series 12 [Ideas VI

40,000+ Hours

Solidworks - Solid Modeling 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012 9,000+

Hours

Solidedge - v19

1,500+ Hours

AutoCAD 2007 - 08

1,000+ Hours

AutoCAD R10, 11, 12, 13, 14

8,000+ Hours.

Prime Medusa 6.0, 12.0

8,000+ Hours.

Software Experience Other: Moldflow - Part Adviser, SAP, Team Center,

Smart Team

Other: ANSI - Y14.5 Tolerance Standards

Work History:

Jan 2005 - May 2007; Jan 2009 - June 2011; April 2013 - Jan 2014

Deere-Hitachi, Kernersville NC Design Engineer - Design

Engineer CAD

Third contract assignment: lead design of heavy duty excavators for the new

Brazilian market. Model classes include 350, 240, 210, 180 and 160.

Previous assignments included assistance to manufacturing/assembly

engineering in the design of assembly fixtures for sub-component weld

fabrication.

Work History: David A. Krause Page 2

Mar 2012 - Apr 2013 - Carlson Engineering, Reidsville NC

Project Design Engineer - Design Engineer CAD

Project lead of a multi-station, automated, High Definition print/mag-

strip encode/UV cure process assembly for credit and gift cards, photo ids;

including print process validation fixtures.

June 2008 to Jan 2009 - Levelor / Kirsch, High Point NC

Design Engineer CAD

Lead significant design portions of new product development for point of

sale items. Included were the formations of cost cutting measures to

current and proposed new products. Moderated FMEA, focus group interaction

and staff idea sessions

Oct 2007 to June 2008 - Keller Technology Inc, Huntersville NC

Design Engineer CAD

Lead significant design portions of various OEM automated machine

installations. Included are pick and place, escapements and pneumatic sub-

assemblies used to interface customer product development.

2002 - 2004 Ethicon J&J, Somerville NJ Gynecare Consumer Products

Research Design Engineer - CAD Specialist

Lead R&D design team member developing new medical/surgical devices and

procedures used in repairing women's gynecological healthcare issues.

Pioneered efforts to establish a 3D, cross CAD platform, interactive human

anatomical library of the female pelvis. Developed hand held devices used

in restoring pelvic floor defects and female urinary incontinence.

2001 - 2002 Veeco Instruments, Deposition Design Team Member, Plainview NY

Design Engineer - CAD Specialist

Lead R&D design team member of new cryogenic chambers used in plasma

deposition [PVD].

2000 - 2001 Bayside Automation, Labcell R&D, Canonsburg Pa

Design Engineer - CAD

Contributing R&D design team member of new robotic material handling

systems used in laboratory environments. Responsible to formulate, evaluate

and implement current and suggested configurations of mechanical component

assemblies.

1998 - 2000: Becton-Dickinson, Consumer Products R&D, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Principal Designer - CAD Specialist

Contributing R&D design team member of new hand held consumer products.

Contributed in the development of an insulin pen & glucose meter package

for insulin maintenance & injections

1987 - 1998: Lockheed/Martin Missile Systems, Princeton, NJ

GE/Martin Marietta Astro-Space; RCA/GE Astro-

Space - Mechanical Design Specialist

Lead design of various assemblies and components of government, civilian

and commercial spacecraft. Evaluated alternate launch configurations as

pertaining to changing customer payloads

1994 - 1995 Kulick & Soffa, Willowgrove, PA - Mechanical Designer Lead

Lead development efforts of a remote optical monitoring system used in IC

substrate handling in wire-bonding machines. [CPU manufacturing]

1984 - 1985 McLean Engineering, Princeton, NJ - Mechanical Designer

Design and fabrication of production and proto-type forced air computer

cooling units. (Sheet metal layout, packaging, and new process

implementation).

1982 - 1984 Microcom Corporation, Warminster, PA - Mechanical Designer

Black box packaging of components used in military telemetry and guidance

systems

1979 - 1982 MACOM/Prodeline, Hightstown, NJ - Mechanical Designer Project

Responsible for designing, detailing and testing a 10-meter ground based

earth station

1978 - Western Electric Engineering Research Ctr, Hopewell, NJ - Mech

Designer Provided design assistance of a semi-automated hot air soldering,

reflow apparatus.

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