Engineer Design

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DESIGN ENGINEER

Conscientious, detail-oriented, analytical, mechanical design engineer. Vast experience in fast-paced, high technology environments. A self-starter who operates with minimal direction. Excellent communicator. A motivating team player who can help keep a calm environment in high-pressure, competitive situations.

KEY SKILLS

High level of CAD proficiency using ProE Wildfire / Creo 2.0 and SolidWorks

Fully competent with MS Office Suite (Excel / Powerpoint / Word)

Design experience with machined, fabricated, cast, molded, sheet metal and composite components

Fully conversant with GD & T, tolerance stack-ups, limits & fits

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NISMO / BEN BOWLBY RACING, Indianapolis, IN 10/2015 – 12/2015

DESIGN ENGINEER

Funded by Nissan, the Nismo race team were in the process of a complete re-design of their Le Mans race car. Nissan Japan unexpectedly closed the project down on December 22.

AUTO RESEARCH CENTER, LLC, Indianapolis, IN 9/2010 – 10/2015

PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR / R & D DEPARTMENT HEAD / SENIOR DESIGNER

Co-ordinated two year FORD aero development program. This entailed one year spent on site at Dearborn and extensive travel to Europe to attend tests and manufacturer meetings. The focus of this project was on the use of CFD as an advanced design tool to improve the aerodynamic performance of vehicles currently in the design phase.

Headed R & D department designing and developing new wind tunnel test technologies, (model motion system, quasi-pneumatic tires, bike rig, rolling road tunnel insert, etc.). The quasi-pneumatic tire system was a two year design and development program. It resulted in the first commercially available pneumatic tires for wind tunnel testing available worldwide. This technology is now the subject of a worldwide patent application with several F1 teams already interested.

Ran company intern program, for BSc graduate students, in the drawing office acquainting them with design principles and practice.

SPIRIT of DAYTONA Grand Am Daytona Prototype 1/2008 - 5/2010

MAZDA MOTORSPORTS ALMS 1/2008 – 10/2009

FINLAY MOTORSPORTS Grand Am Daytona Prototype 11/2005 – 11/2007

TARGET CHIP GANASSI RACING Grand Am Daytona Prototype 12/2004 – 11/2005

WALKER RACING IRL and Champcar 3/2001 – 6/2004

PROJECT RACING GROUP Champcar 3/2000 – 3/2001

TASMAN MOTORSPORTS Indy Lights and Champcar 12/1998 – 3/2000

CONQUEST RACING Indy Lights 12/1997 – 12/1998

RACE / DESIGN ENGINEER

Responsible for developmental design of the race car to improve performance.

Provide design input, based on this development, to chassis manufacturers on how to improve their cars from season to season.

Car set up / data analysis / race strategy at tests and races.

Diverse experience in different championships – road courses and ovals.

Race engineer to Eddie Cheever, Michel Jourdain, Felipe Giaffone, Guy Smith, Christian Danner, Sarah Fisher, Darren Manning, Al Unser Jr., Stefan Johansson, Cort Wagner, Michael Valiante, Ben Devlin, Guy Cosmo, Antonio Garcia.

Extensive experience of 7-post shaker rig suspension tuning and development.

Conducted aero development and design at TCGR’s real car tunnel facility.

Race engineered four Indy 500 qualifiers.

LOLA CARS Ltd., Huntingdon, England 3/1992 - 11/1997

DESIGN ENGINEER / INDYCAR SERIES LIAISON ENGINEER

Design engineer on the Lola T9210 Group C car of all types of components.

Senior design engineer on the Indycar program for five years. Oversaw Indycar chassis design and production, (including jigging and hard points, etc.). Original designer of the single-blade anti-roll bar system which originated on 1996 Indycar.

Extensive design experience from concept to detailing of all parts of the car - machined, fabricated, cast, and composite components. Designed cast components ranging in size from gearbox casings to suspension uprights, and composite components and molds from chassis to electronics boxes. Familiar with all aspects of techniques related to production - jigging, machining, welding, pattern making, mold design and manufacture, heat treatments, stress relieving, surface finishes, etc.

Travelled extensively to the US, (during early season before the new car design phase began), as customer liaison engineer to Project Indy, Payton Coyne Racing, Galles Racing, AJ Foyt Enterprises.

BRITISH AEROSPACE / deHAVILLAND AIRCRAFT /

BRITISH HOVERCRAFT / BRITAVIA / B.I.D. / M.I.D. UK & Canada 6/1979 – 3/1992

CONTRACT AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES DESIGN ENGINEER / SEMI-PROFESSIONAL RACE CAR DRIVER

Trained as a design draughtsman at Bae

Worked as a contract structures designer in the aerospace industry on numerous projects, including the MRCA Tornado, Bae 146, DeHavilland Dash 8 and Airbus A310 aircraft.

Gained experience of all aspects of aircraft construction – sheet metal, three and five axis NC machine design, composite structures, and super-plastic aluminum forming.

Learned the technique of full-scale layout drafting, which entails the production of very accurate, non-dimensioned, flat-developed, template drawings of sheet metal components – including compound curvature panels such as wing skins.

During this period, I actively pursued a career as a race driver.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Academic qualifications: 7 GCE ‘O’ level passes (Bristol Grammar School, England)

O.N.D. in Engineering (Brunel Technical College, Bristol, England)

[Comparable academic level to US qualification BSc Mech. Eng.]

Other interests / activities: Youth soccer coaching, (Zionsville Youth Soccer Association / Zionsville Community High School / Westfield Youth Soccer Association)

Vintage car restoration

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