Mechanical Engineer

Edwin D. Jones

**** ***** ****, *** *****, CA ***26

858-***-**** *****.*.*****@*****.***

Profile

Mechanical Engineer with fifteen years of design & engineering experience. Demonstrated ability to work across multiple disciplines from research, electrical, software and others for successful project delivery. Strongly focused on good design and documentation practices. Currently pursuing a Professional Certificate in Project Management through UCSD.

Key Skills

Pro/Engineer Wildfire & Creo

Design Documentation

Windchill/ProIntralink/PDMLink

New Product Introduction

Solidworks & PDM

Sheet Metal

Microsoft Office

Electronic Packaging

Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing

Plastic Injection Molding Design

Design for Assembly

Design for Manufacturing

Professional Experience

Principal Engineer

Edwin Jones Consulting Aug. 2013 - Present

Currently conducting preliminary design engineering to approximate production cost for small rackmount chassis that uses standard motherboard sizes (mITX, uATX, ATX) instead of proprietary & expensive formats.

Design a retrofit remote window opening & closing mechanism, create BoM & estimated costing and provide CAD models for promotional materials.

Search Engine Optimization for sole-practitioner attorney’s website.

Buildout online shopping cart for Sail Making Company.

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Cummins Allison Corp. July 2008 - Aug. 2013

Sole Mechanical Engineer for small advanced currency sensor R&D group. Work closely with Optical & Magnetic physicists to develop production ready high speed currency sensor systems. Support multiple projects concurrently in pre-production, from developing requirements, conceptualization, 3D CAD design, prototype testing, part & assembly drawings with BOMs and documentation release.

Project Manage assigned projects.

Transfer Production Projects to primary facility in Chicago after NPI process completed. Improve new & existing designs to reduce cost & part count as well as simplify assembly.

Design, build & maintain lab test systems for coin & bill sensor testing.

Develop rapid prototyping capabilities. Create new designs for plastic injection molding; redesign existing products for cost savings.

Conduct Project status or Technical presentations to the entire group on a regular basis.

Design Engineer

Lockheed Martin July 2007 - July 2008

Support ongoing operation of DSRV (Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle) Mystic for NAVSEA. Ensure documentation was up-to-date per USN SUBSAFE program. Travel to Mystic as needed.

Technical disposition for factory level repairs to critical hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

Inspect SRC (Submarine Rescue Chamber) support systems and design recommended changes for Navy planning yard approval.

Provide on-site expertise and support for special NAVSEA projects. Required on-call work with short notice at NAVSEA locations.

Secret Security Clearance (currently inactive)

Mechanical Design Engineer

Pentair Electronic Packaging April 2004 - Feb. 2007

Design innovative sheet metal cPCI, VME64 & ATCA chassis (electronic packaging) conforming to IEEE 1101.10 & 1101. Systems designed for safety (UL/TUV etc.) and EMI/EMC; testing as required. Support prototype introduction (NPI) via DFM & DFA process.

Project Manage pre-production phase. Work closely with customers to identify requirements, create 3D CAD models, part & assembly drawings, BOM prior to release for manufacturing. Support

Chassis thermal analysis per customer request.

Design RETMA/EIA-310 cabinet and test per Belcore GR-63, NEBS seismic standard.

Support RMA department; review customer returns and make required changes.

Junior Project Engineer

Hydraulics International, Inc. Feb. 2003 - Sept. 2003

Re-design pump system to lower cost of endcaps and reduce part count.

Conduct research for new Department of Defense contracts requiring the use of Commercial off the Shelf equipment in hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

Design air-driven hydraulic and pneumatic pump systems to customer specifications in coordination with the Sales group.

Integration Engineer

NANOmetrics, Inc. Aug. 2001- Jan. 2002

Integrate automated semiconductor wafer metrology equipment and handling robots into customers’ product. Wafer inspection tools used to check lot numbers and measure film layer thickness. Designs tested per UL and SEMI-S2 standards.

Travel to customers’ sites to ensure successful integration, troubleshoot problems and perform hardware & software upgrades.

Process ECR/ECOs for production parts. Design test fixture for aligning optical read head mirrors. Design reduced alignment time by 75%.

Mechanical CAD Designer

Schumacher, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Oct. 2000- Aug. 2001

Design, test and document new chemical cabinet air heater in Pro-E. Directed Purchasing to acquire parts for prototype boxes. Tested heater assembly for UL certification and recertified cabinet for SEMI-S2.

Process Engineering Change Requests and create Engineering Change Orders on existing automated chemical storage and dispensing systems.

Senior Engineering Aide UCSD FERP (Fusion Energy Research Program), June 1999-Aug 2000

Manufacturing Engineer AT/EP, Summer Intern Solar Turbines International, July 1997-Sept. 1997

Table Operator Hobie Cat Company, May 1995-July 1997

Education

University of California, San Diego

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Dec. 1999

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)

Provost’s Honors

University of California, San Diego

Professional Certificate, Project Management (Completion Expected Late-2016)

UCSD Extension

Activities

Volunteer Exhibits Floor Manager, Comic-Con International; 2007-Present.

UCSD Society of Automotive Engineers Formula SAE Racing Team: 1998-1999.

Boy Scouts of America: Eagle Scout, Awarded February 1995.

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