Mechanical Engineer Engineering

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Summary of Qualifications

PE – Professional Engineer

MSME – Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in heat transfer and fluid dynamics

19 years engineering experience

MBA –Master of Business Administration

I lead high performance teams and call on every resource available to enable the best possible results.

I am responsible for the design of numerous successful parts, mechanisms, and systems that utilize a wide range of manufacturing techniques.

I have managed numerous outsourced projects on various scales.

I am expert in SolidWorks and Creo Elements. I know Pro E and Mechanica but haven’t used recently. I also have experience with ANSYS and Autocad.

Objective

To pursue a challenging leadership career utilizing my business and mechanical engineering background.

Professional Experience

April 2015 to present SMART Technologies, Seattle, WA

Sr. Mechanical Engineer

Co-led the design of a new Kapp interactive white board.

Sept 2014 to Apr 2015 Stratos Product Development, Seattle, WA

Sr. Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical design of an enclosure for a laboratory device with significant operator interfaces. These interfaces and other design constraints drove the need for various door mechanisms.

Feb 2013 to Sept 2014 Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA

Sr. Mechanical Engineer

I led the mechanical design of a high volume wearable device. This project started with me and a few industrial designers and progressed rapidly as the ME team grew to 18 members. Starting from scratch, I architected a highly functional, reliable, sleek and appealing wearable that has many capabilities the competition wishes they knew how to package. Through this entire design experience I maintained contact with every detail of design, part manufacture, assembly, molding, procurement, and test. This creation required the utmost efforts from industrial design, project managers, safety, manufacturing, EE, RF, firmware, human factors, apps designers, and many other experts and vendors. The ME team was a leader and a team player in all of this.

Mar 2004 to Feb 2013 Hewlett-Packard Co., Vancouver, WA

Mechanical Design Engineer

I led the design of the job separator on a finisher project from concept to manufacturing release. This feature rich mechanism emphasized speed, reliability, and capability over cost. Working with other design engineers, we incorporated elements of industrial design, electronics for paper handling and user safety, heavy duty sheet metal, and functional as well as cosmetic plastic parts to form a machine that blended well with the finisher and printer. Although I did a substantial amount of design myself, I relied on the efforts of many others for electrical engineering, motor control, firmware, part design, industrial design, testing, manufacturing, and implementation.

In a subsequent project, I supported the development of an ink delivery system. This system involved the invention and implementation of a novel ink supply and I worked closely with outside vendors and engineers from other HP sites to create this user friendly and cost effective system. Customer interfaces and defensive marketing played a big role in our design choices. This project which was created in a framework of high performance teamwork left a wake of intellectual property and value for HP.

I led the design of a pen capping system and print bar suspension system. These systems directly impact printer reliability and print quality and deliver pen health. This is a metric with high customer reward, its importance cannot be over-emphasized. Because of this, these efforts are joined by team members from four HP sites that span nearly every engineering endeavor. I have directly influenced critical system design and orchestrated broad scale testing to achieve superior print reliability that HP’s customers see every time they print. The level of performance and teamwork needed to obtain this is a hallmark of HP’s key resources.

I took on a supplier management role where I managed the suppliers for all of HP’s pick rollers and clutches. In this role I designed and implemented pick roller test devices which ensured that the various international pick roller suppliers were shipping product that met specifications and would reliably work. Collecting and analyzing data from these devices had historically been a difficult task; however, I implemented a system to automate the process. As a supplier manager, I took an active part in negotiating lower costs for the parts I managed. I also led the design and implementation of a cost reduced one-way clutch design. This effort resulted in substantial cost savings for HP.

Apr 2003 Apr 2004 Flextronics, Inc., Vancouver, WA

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical design of various ink jet printer parts, testing apparatus, and high volume assembly tools. During this tenure as a contract engineer working at the HP Vancouver site I designed one tool that used ultrasonics to install a gear onto a peristaltic pump and another that assembled a peristaltic pump rotor. I also worked with a vendor to develop a machine that tested the complete ink delivery system for this printer platform. My liaison role then took me to Flextronics, Singapore where I oversaw the implementation of this tool on the printer assembly line.

Dec 2001 Mar 2003 H2O Technologies, Ltd., Portland, OR

Director of Applications Engineering

At this innovative company I created and managed a multi-disciplined team that developed products centered on a dissolved oxygen technology. I worked directly with customers to understand their needs and how to adapt H2O’s fundamentals to create products that met customer needs. Among these customers were breweries, ground water remediators, chicken farmers, dentists, water treatment manufacturers, and grocers. The key to selling to this diverse group was how dissolved oxygen in water benefits non-pathogenic bacteria which perform various beneficial functions. This meld of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering was achieved via focused teamwork. This was a very flexible role for me as I found myself negotiating sales, defining engineering requirements, procuring parts and manufacturing, generating market enthusiasm, inventing, and directing the efforts of a small team of professionals.

Sept 2000 to Dec 2001 Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR

Hardware Design Engineer

Design and development of ink delivery systems for thermal ink jet printers. These designs involved developing micro-scale check valves and ink jet pen pressure regulators. I worked directly with a small team of design engineers and vendor consultants to conceptualize, prototype, test, and qualify parts and system level components.

Jan 2000 to Aug 2000 SCP Global Technologies, Boise, ID

Mechanical Engineer

Design of Si wafer cleaning systems.

Jan 1996 Dec 1999 Tektronix, Wilsonville, OR

Mechanical Engineer

Design and development of thermal, fluid, and mechanical subsystems in phase change printers. My engineering duties with this unique printing process included the design of ink melters, ink melting algorithms, drum heaters, and paper pre-heaters.

Education

Dec 2011

Washington State University

Master of Business Administration

Vancouver, WA

3.71/4.00 GPA

1995

University of Idaho

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Moscow, ID

4.00/4.00 GPA

1994

University of Idaho

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Moscow, ID

3.29/4.00 GPA

Patents and Publications

“Characterizing Oscillating Flow through a Sudden Expansion”, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Flow Visualization, 1995

“The Fluid Dynamics of Oscillating Flow in an Axisymmetric Sudden Expansion”, Proceedings of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division, Summer Meeting, 1996

Method for Suppying Ink to an Ink Jet Printer, filed 5/28/1997, US patent number 6,089,686

“Using an Ultrasonic Welding Process to Attach a Drive Gear to a Peristaltic Pump Rotor”, Disclosure Magazine, 2004

“Media Output Debursting for a Printer”, Disclosure Magazine, 2004

“Dual Position Offset Mechanism for a Print Job”, Disclosure Magazine, 2005

“Break-Away Output Trays”, Disclosure Magazine, 2005

Printing Device Fluid Reservoir, filed 6/30/2005, US patent number 7,762,651

Apparatus and Methods for Purging Air from a Fluid Conveying Tube, filed 1/31/2008, US patent number 8,770,217

Ink Delivery System, filed 2/27/2009, US patent number 8,113,612

Fluid Circulation System, published 4/1/2010, application # 201********

Carriage for Carrying a Fluid Ejector Cartridge, filed 10/3/2010, US patent number 8,360,552

Fluid Handling System, published 1/12/2012, application #201********

Printhead Cap Assembly, filed 10/25/2011, US patent number 8,434,853

Print Head Capping Device and Printer, published 8/22/2013, application #201********

Wearable Electronic Device (MS# 341720.01, filed 5/30/2014)

Optical Pulse-Rate Sensor Pillow Assembly (MS# 341588.01, filed 5/30/2014)

Ring-Shaped Skin Sensor (MS# 341447.01, filed 5/30/2014)

Optical Pulse-Rate Sensing (MS# 341718.01, filed 5/30/2014)

Battery Compartments for Wearable Electronic Device (MS# 341593.01, filed 5/30/2014)

Antenna for Electronic Device (MS# 355127.01, filed 7/15/2014)

Band Adjustment Mechanism for a Wrist Worn Device with a Heart Rate Sensor

6 technical publications

6 patents

Over 40 Invention Disclosures

References

Dr. Don Elger, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843, 208-***-****

Scott Williams, 15101 NE 40th St., Redmond, WA 98052, 425-***-****

Robert Beale, 1115 SE 164th Ave., Vancouver, WA 98683, 360-***-****

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