Engineer Mechanical

Robert Mirviss

SR. MECHANICAL ENGINEER 303-***-****

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“Sr. Mechanical Engineer passionate about design, analysis, and development”

Innovative engineer with strong analytical skills and experience working with a variety of mechanical systems.

Expert knowledge of polymers, composites, hydraulics, seals, solid modeling, detailed design, failure analysis and testing.

Proven ability to communicate well with researchers, suppliers, customers, R&D, manufacturing, and high level management.

Created customized sealing solutions in difficult applications and working directly with customers to develop such solutions.

Industry experience: Allternative Energy, Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Construction, Medical/Healthcare, and Manufacturing.

Areas of Expertise:

Materials (Plastics, Composites, Metals) Seals & Bushings New Product Development Product Design & Improvement

Design for Manufacturing GD&T Tolerance Stack-up Analysis Failure Analysis Prototype Testing Finite Element Analysis

Communications Presentations Customer Interface International Relations Mentoring Leadership Vault SAP JDE

Solid Modeling SolidWorks Autodesk Inventor PTC (Pro/E) Unigraphics NX Abaqus Microsoft Office Suite

EXPERIENCE

TROSTEL LTD.

Sr. Design Engineer, 6/2016 - Present

Designed rubber seals for high volume applications such as automotive and consumer products. Managed projects from costing to full production. Worked with production, quality, and manufacturing to reduce design costs and optimize performance.

Designed reverse-rotating propeller shaft seals for high-end motorboats using a combination of rubber and PTFE seals.

Developed seal designs, and created test procedures to determine pressure and fluid loss in automotive gas spring seals.

Conducted FEA using Abaqus to determine stresses and deflections on pressure relief seals.

GARDNER DENVER

Design Engineer III, 11/2014 – 1/2016

Designed next-generation high-pressure (10-15,000 Psi) hydraulic packing seals for shale fracturing and drilling pumps. Specialist for polymer material selection. Monitored testing in-field and on-site at rebuild facility.

Redesigned high-pressure rubber-composite hydraulic packing seals for shale fracturing and drilling pumps.

Developed and conducted prototype testing; evaluated and presented results to team members by reports and presentations.

Worked directly with customers to evaluate and improve existing pump and drilling equipment.

Wrote test specifications and reports. Conducted design reviews for high-pressure sealing systems, pumps, valves, and seats.

TRELLEBORG SEALING SOLUTIONS / BUSAK + SHAMBAN

Senior Applications Engineer, 6/1993 – 5/2014

Designed sealing systems and recommend seals for various applications (aerospace, energy, construction, manufacturing, medical, food & beverage, bike & motorcycle). Kept abreast of polymer and composite materials, manufacturing techniques, and sealing

and bushing concepts. Attended joint calls with sales engineers to understand customer requirements and develop customized solutions for every project and application.

Résumé – Page 2 of 2

Developed over-molded blood centrifuge diaphragm from prototype to production, improving reliability from ~10% to 100%.

Worked with manufacturing to develop 3-meter rotary wiper for Vestas wind turbines from prototype to production. Our new design reduced the replacement time from a full day to under a half hour.

Documented engineering procedures, opened and oversaw departments in Colorado, Asia Pacific, Mexico, and South America.

Oversaw 20+ Applications Engineers in Asia & South America as we from one to 15 marketing companies from 1993-2004.

Supported 5 Sales Engineers helping TSS Mountain (Colorado) grow from $3.5 million to $12 million in ten years.

Worked on international committee to understand, categorize, develop, and standardize forensic seal failure analysis methods.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION - Engineer II

Designed optical astro-inertial navigational system components and assemblies for high-altitude aircraft and satellites. .

Performed additional design and drafting on other defense programs.

RAYTHEON MISSILE SYSTEMS DIVISION - Member of Technical Staff

Reviewed mechanical design changes for Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) program.

Designed test equipment and electronic packaging for SM-2 high-frequency circuit boards.

TODDCO GENERAL – Mechanical Engineer

Designed mechanical components for reflow soldering machine for circuitboard assembly.

EDUCATION

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) / Material Sciences

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME)

Major: Mechanical Engineering Minor: German Linguistics & Culture

Studied math & physics for one year at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Germany.

Additional Coursework: American Management Association, Paul Monroe Fluid Dynamics, Dale Carnegie Sales

OF NOTE

Language skills: German (fluent), Spanish (basic), and Mandarin Chinese (elementary)

Familiar with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), FDA, & FAA Regulations

Secret Clearance

US Citizen

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