Mechanical Engineer Power Plant
Resume:
Patrick W. Truitt Jr.
Hudson, OH 44236
acrpun@r.postjobfree.com
Cell: 412-***-****
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
TTI Floor Care North America
February 2015-present
Manager, Electrical Engineering Technologies
Managed a team of electrical test engineers and battery engineers in the Advanced Development group (R&D) for multiple projects key to strategic growth of the company.
Sr. R&D Scientist, Engineer
March 2014-February 2015
Was tasked with building a working proof of concept robot vacuum cleaner in less than 100 days and to exhibit the working model to the Global CEO/President of TTI. Completed project in less than 100 days and project was moved into production. Added key IP inventions to company portfolio and are currently being filed by TTI.
Bayer Health Care
February 2013-December 2013
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Lead engineer on particulate filter design (25 micron) for single patient medical disposable, in addition mechanical engineering representative for converting packaging from sterile barrier to sterile fluid path for syringe disposables.
Vocollect (Honeywell)
April 2009 to December 2012
Lead Mechanical Engineer, MTS IV
Technical Lead on the T1 Vocollect voice enabled wearable computer for warehouse logistics. Vocollect wearable computers are designed to operate in harsh environments from -30C to +50 C; units must also be IP67 and withstand multiple drops from 6ft to concrete.
Considered by peers as the lead technical advisor on all injection mold part designs and FEA analysis for NPD and sustaining projects.
Responsibilities include all management of mechanical aspects of new product development projects including detailed design, analysis, prototyping and documentation.
Starr Life Sciences Corp.
October 2006 to February 2009
Electro-Mechanical Project Engineer (New Product Development)
Lead the full design verification of our MouseOx™ Rev 3,4 and 5 product line.
Lead a new product development project to commercialize an implantable sensor for the MouseOx™ which included interfacing with researchers at the University of Wisconsin, National Institute of Health and Case Western Reserve University. Responsibilities encompassed all aspects of product development from concept feasibility through product release including documentation, design testing and validation.
Renal Solutions Inc (Fresenius Medical)
May 2005 to October 2006
Lead Mechanical Engineer (NPD)
Lead mechanical engineer on project to design and build a kidney dialysis machine for home use. The kidney dialysis machine consisted of Sorbent technology and Patented disposable blood pump and many peristaltic stepper motor driven pumps.
Design included pneumatics, sheet metal, machining, castings and injection molded parts. As lead ME, responsible for over 300 parts and assembly drawings on project and over 1,000 parts required to assemble the machine.
Design team used Pro Engineer Wildfire 3.0 with Intralink software.
FEA simulations performed using ANSYS.
Respironics Inc. (Philips)
February 1996 to May 2005
Senior Mechanical Engineer (NPD)
Lead mechanical engineer on several new product development projects. Projects consisted of high volume medical devices for consumer and hospital use. Specifically designed: High speed fan blades for CPAP and Ventilators, fluid sensors, air flow valves and the plastics associated housings.
Responsible for all aspects of mechanical design for new product development including overseeing designers, technicians and document control personal.
Performed detailed part analysis using such tools as FEA in disciplines of stress, modal and CFD, also geometric dimensioning and tolerance stack up.
Headed the acoustical research for product development:
Implemented 16.8 dBA background anechoic chamber with state of the art test equipment for development of new quite product lines to meet customer needs.
L.V.R. Inc.
January 1994 to February 1996
Refractory Sales Engineer
Estimated and designed refractory installation projects for the Power, Cement, and Steel making industries. Oversaw on sight installations and maintained a customer portfolio covering three states.
United States Navy
August 1988 to August 1992 Nuclear Operator Mechanical Plant
Selected as staff instructor, responsible for operating a 100 Mega Watt nuclear reactor for purposes of training students to operate fleet nuclear reactors.
EDUCATION
2000 Bridgewater University
BSME Mechanical Engineering
Transferred 92 credits from Penn State University to finish online while working as full time engineer.
1993-1994 Allegheny Community College, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
A.S. Environmental Science Technologies
1988-1992 United States Navy: Naval Nuclear Power School, Orlando, Florida
Naval Nuclear Prototype School Ballston Spa, New York.
Graduated top 3 in class of 2000, naval and DOE certification in Nuclear Engineering, mechanical plant.
Mechanical Operators License for Nuclear Power Plant issued by D.O.E.
Societies American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) member since 1998.
Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) member since 2000
SPECIFIC ENGINEERING SKILLS
Measurement Possess knowledge in the use of many engineering measurement tools such as: oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, fluid, pressure, acceleration, force, torque, stress, radiation, and many other measuring devices.
Computer Proficient in all window applications, MathCad, MatLab also many electronic document systems (SAP, ORACLE) also trained and fluent in Pro-Engineer (Wildfire 5.0 and PDM Link), ANSYS 13.0, Computational Fluid Dynamics (Blue Ridge Numeric’s), B&K Pulse System and LabView graphical programming.
Electronic Proficient in soldering circuit boards, Bread boarding circuits, circuit board trouble shooting, theoretical circuit analysis and design. Have designed and built prototype circuits such as: PID controllers, analog filters, Hall Effect sensors and solenoid controllers for lab investigation.
Mechanical Capable of performing detailed stress analysis by way of mathematical modeling and finite element analysis. Specifically skilled in fluid mechanics, turbine design, failure analysis, injection mold tooling, brushless DC motor design, sheet metal, pneumatics and instrumentation design.
U.S Patents 13 US Patents held: (6,269,811), (6,431,170), (6,581,596), (6,615,831), (6,622,724), (6,644,311), (6,915,705), (6,968,842), (7,134,434), (7,165,547), (7,229,427),(7,255,246),(7,448,382), many pending.
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