Mechanical Engineer Project

SUMMARY OF CAPABILITIES (**+ years):

Mechanical Engineer experienced with product development and industrial design of products using SolidWorks, creation of 2D drawings with and without BOMs and consultation on best DFM and DFA methods for existing and new products. Liaison between vendors to assure parts and sub-assemblies are compliant to requirements

** Experienced in the following:

** Design/re-design using commercial/industry available parts for any application

** Electro-mechanical and optical-mechanical assemblies

** Design and use of carbon fiber composite wet lay-up and prepreg, injection and transfer

molded plastics

** Heat treatment, welding, machining and sheet metal fabrications methods

** Use and knowledge of rapid prototype using SLS and FDM parts

** Management of project and team members

** Investment and precision sand casting of aluminum

** Hand held portable electronics mechanical antenna design.

** Knowledge of and design experience for products that are compliant to IPxx standard.

** RF shielding and packaging

** Personal computer (PC) mechanical packaging and layout

** Expert (more than 20000hrs) with SolidWorks and use of Workgroups and Enterprise PDM

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering,

University of Louisville (1992)

EMPLOYMENT:

Hartzell Engine Technologies

CAD operator, SolidWorks (Temp Contractor)

Montgomery Alabama

Nov 2016 to present/contract end

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Incorporate drawings and create model files per ECO and engineering direction using SolidWorks.

Vizco

Plant Engineer (Temp Contractor)

Monticello, Florida

Sep 2016 to Nov 2016

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support the daily manufacture and to assist with conversion of facility to automation of vacuum forming. Solved issue with pans sticking when stacked. Measured and created drawing of current facility floor plan. Solved automated problem of attaching bulkhead fitting to the hot water pans and will be fully automated by a robot.

VT Miltope

Mechanical Engineer

Hope Hull, Alabama

2012 to April 2016

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Effectively confer with management, production, and marketing staff to determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness and customer demand for new and existing products. Select correct design concepts and fundamental technology used for new products or improvement for existing ones. Successfully plan and formulate aspects of research and development proposals such as objective or purpose of project, applications that can be utilized from findings, costs of project, and equipment. Generate estimates for proposals which include estimate labor and material cost for new business development. Create non-functional mock-ups for presentation for new business development. Sustainment Engineering: dialogistic of issues of products in production and the writing of ECNs to correct existing drawings and ECNs.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Completed and production released the technical data package for the RTHD-2 (Rugged Tactical Handheld Device), a rugged handheld 5.0” Windows Mobile/Linux device. Lead

qualification testing and wrote test report for the RHTD-2. Managed design and drawing issues with G5 engineering the design contractor for the RTHD-2. Designed and created assembly aids

and test equipment for initial production of RTHD-2. Was the sole designer for vehicle isolation mount and 1553 add-on module for the RHTU (Rugged Handheld Tactical Unit). Completed and production released the technical data package for SRNC (Semi-Rugged Notebook Computer. Managed issues via e-mail and video conference with vendor with manufacturing facilities in China for the SRNC mechanical parts and sub-assemblies.

Elbit Systems of America

Sr. Mechanical Engineer

Fort Worth, Texas/Tallahassee, Florida

2004 to 2012

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Effectively confer with management, production, and marketing staff to determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness and customer demand for new and existing products. Select correct design concepts and fundamental technology used for new products or improvement for existing ones. Successfully plan and formulate aspects of research and development proposals such as objective or purpose of project, applications that can be utilized from findings, costs of project, and equipment.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Designed and supported the Super “C”, a dual PCMCIA slot expansion assembly with an embedded Li-Ion battery and integrated GPS. The Super “C” is the company’s first universal expansion back assembly used on multiple military projects. A rugged removable Li-Ion battery package that is compliant to the MIL-STD-810F or IP68 standard. Designed and supported an expansion back assembly using the guts of an Iridium satellite phone combined with the rugged removable battery package. Designed and supported a special retractable antenna used in conjunction with the Iridium expansion back assembly. Co-engineered and supported production of the next generation RPDA (hand-held computer). Designed and worked with canvas vendor for canvas back-pack for Mobile Modular Command and Control (M2C2) Staff Kits.

Contract Mechanical Engineer

Dallas/Fort Worth Texas

2002 to 2004

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Have degree will travel. Worked short-term contracts for companies listed below either as independent or sub-contract thru contracting firm. Contracts consisted of utilizing my diverse background in manufacture and production to support a project/project engineer(s) either for document creation using SolidWorks and or providing recommendations for simple/low cost of manufacture.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Due to the non-disclosure agreement only a brief description is provided the exact details can’t be disclosed. With each contract with the companies listed below in addition to providing my experience I gained knowledge of (non-proprietary) terminology and methods of manufacture.

TALLA-TECH; Company specializes in rugged repackaging of PDAs for military customers. Company is a subsidiary of TALLA-COM and TADIRAN COMMUNICATIONS. Contract primarily consisted of mechanical engineer support, which included but not limited to industrial design of products using SolidWorks, creation of 2D drawings with and without BOMs and consultation on best DFM and DFA methods for existing and new products.

DAVIS TECHNOLGY; Company specializes in patent pending truck and automotive suspension systems. Contract primarily consisted of CAD support for two “short term” military projects for the company. Support included not only 3D model generation of concepts but also creation of animations using these model files.

VERTEX RSI; Company is known for the world leader in radar and satellite communication antennas both base station, shipboard and man portable/mobile products. Contract primarily consisted of compiling documents from multiple sources generating 2D assembly drawings and creating BOMs for such drawings.

ENFORA

Sr. Mechanical Engineer

Plano, TX

2000 to 2002

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Used SolidWorks to generate concepts based from marketing and sales input. The later concepts were typically refined and manufactured. Provided Market team with animations, rendered photos and in some cases Z-corp plaster 3D mock-ups based from SolidWorks CAD files. Mechanical lead in development team developing varies products from the concept phase to the initial production phase.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Acquired first US patent ever for non-metallic (plastic) self-tapping screw. Sole mechanical project engineer in development teams for the Pocket Spider, Pocket Spider IIc and Wireless Portfolio programs. The Pocket Spider was the first patented wireless modem designed for use in ANY compact flash device. The Pocket Spider IIc was the next generation wireless modem again using the compact flash slot but redesigned for look and appeal. The Wireless Portfolio was an integrated modem placed into a leather binder. Developed slim low cost Nitinol based antenna for use with PC Card Modem. Created hybrid sheet metal and injection molded housings to reduce overall packaging size.

SOLIDIFORM

Assistant Engineer

Fort Worth, Texas

1999 to 2000

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS DEFENSE SEGMENT /

RAYTHEON SYSTEMS COMPANY

STRIKE WEAPONS DIVISION, Lewisville, TX.

Mechanical Engineer

Lewisville, Texas/Denison, Texas

1996 to 1999

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER CRANE DIVISION, Louisville, Ky.

Mechanical Engineer

Louisville, Kentucky

1990 to 1996

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