Frank J. Powell, P.E.

*** ****** ******, *********, ** 93010 805-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Engineering and Business experience:

New product development, existing product improvements, manufacturing and business systems improvements, worldwide customer support, value engineering, electrical control systems design, product troubleshooting, product testing

Computer experience:

AutoCAD Mechanical & Electrical, AutoDesk Inventor, Inventor F.E.A., SolidWorks, SolidWorks F.E.A., Ansys F.E.A., MS Office

Education:

California Professional Engineering License Number: M32589

Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering - Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Membership:

SAE International

Hobbies:

Travel, photography, British sports cars

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Applications Design Engineer 07/14 ? 04/16

Kinetic Traction Systems, Inc.; Chatsworth, CA

Energy efficient systems design including flywheel energy storage system, low temperature waste heat recovery power generator, and high speed high efficiency turbo aerator for waste water treatment system air supply

Responsibilities include: Design and build control system for WHRG, Work with existing products including helping customers, facility design and maintenance

Projects/Accomplishments

Managed final assembly of $500k Waste Heat Recovery Power Generator skid with grid tie inverter, generator, and control system

Design $70k control system for Waste Heat Generator

Managed final assembly of skid with flywheel, controller, grid tie inverter and transformer

Design Flywheel Bake-Out heater controls and vacuum system

Layout and manage the building of the Flywheel Assembly Room

Engineering Manager 11/12 ? 07/14

JetAir Technologies, LLC; Ventura, CA

Container Drying Systems manufacturer for the Consumer Goods Industry, building blowers, drying systems, and custom conveyor line equipment

Responsibilities include: Prepare mechanical and electrical drawing packages and BoM?s for custom systems; manage technical aspects of projects, manage R&D projects

Projects/Accomplishments

$6.0M of Drying Systems orders designed and built (including a company record year)

New Drying Tunnel design completed and built

New Blower Enclosure design

Updated Drying Tunnel products

R&D on Bottle Dryness Sensor for Tunnels

Developed conveyor standard designs

Updated company electrical schematic standards

Set up models for complete 3D panel layouts

Developed basic PLC architecture

Senior Applications Design Engineer 9/00 ? 10/12

Energy Absorption Systems, Inc.; Rocklin, CA

Roadside Safety manufacturer ? Build highway crash cushions, truck mounted attenuators and Safety Barrier Gate Arms for Railroad and Security Installations

Responsibilities include: StopGate Installations from sales drawings through to commissioning, customer crash cushion applications; bring products to market by creating manufacturing & customer documentation; developing and documenting systems; improve product design and improve product reliability

Projects/Accomplishments

Work with customers, manufacturing, and sales to specify, design, modify, build and test complex electro-mechanical products for security and safety applications

Travel for commissioning and/or troubleshooting of products

Value engineer StopGate System cost from $40,000 to $32,000

Improve reliability of StopGate System from 3,000 raise/lower cycles to 260,000 cycles

Design, build, and test StopGate Barrier Gate to Department of Defense standards K4 & K8 security gate levels in less than 8 months

Lead projects to install 25 StopGate systems with a total installed value of $6.2 million

Lead team of 25 people to bring Vorteq TMA Trailer to market

Develop solution for customer to automatically direct traffic into and out of HOV lanes

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