Professional Qualifications

Mechanical Design/Project Engineer with over Thirty years of experience in all areas of Engineering/ management including:

All types of mechanical design using software tools such as; CREO, SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor Professional, Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Plant 3D, CADWorx, and Navisworks.

Over 10 years’ experience in Engineering design using CREO/Windchill.

Large/Small Extrusion enclosures, including sheetmetal enclosure designs.

Over 25 years’ experience designing with parametric software as a design tool.

Proficient in Multi-cad Environment and Visualization/Rendering software.

Coordinated design drawings and communicated with Fabrication Shops, to ensure design intent.

Vault Administrator including SolidWorks PDM, Autodesk Vault Professional, and Windchill.

Advanced design of Mechanical design Assemblies.

CAD/DATA Document control/storage using SolidWorks PDM and Autodesk Vault professional (UCOR SME/Administrator and Windchill)

SolidWorks all versions, SolidWorks PDM Professional Vault Administrator.

In-depth knowledge of engineering procedures, testing practices, manufacturing procedures, plant operations, safety procedures, and production requirements.

Skillful in ASME Y14.5 GD&T standards and DOD mil-spec 1000 standard.

Education, Certifications and Military Service

Bachelors in Software Engineering, Valedictorian 08/2012

AutoCAD® 02//2008 and Inventor® Professional Certification 04/2008

Application Engineer Autodesk AutoCAD® Certification 04/2002

Application Engineer Autodesk Vault Professional Certification 06/2002

SolidWorks Parts, Assemblies, and Drawings Training 05/2009

Trained in SolidWorks PDM, Autodesk Vault Professional, and Windchill 02/2018

USAF Honorable Discharge- Veteran

Security clearance - DOD - Secret inactive 2018

Professional Career Accomplishments

Responsible for Additive Manufacturing assuring Materials, 3D Printers, and printed parts are as designed.

Designed and detailed Vacuum Transport Tubes for ORNL Fusion Energy Division MPEX project.

Developed new components, and products from concept to finished product, managing the complete product life cycle (PLC) along with managing product data collaboration with internal workgroups and external fabrication shops.

Reversed Engineered Glovebox units for Salt Reactor ORNL (Oak Ridge National Lab). (UCOR).

Engineered, designed, and developed material handling system for a Radioactive Liquid Abrasive Blasting Mobile Trailer for Bechtel National, Inc. All engineering specifications and drawings for this project had to be compliant with ASME Y14.5M-1994 drawing standards. This design project was constructed entirely with stainless steel and aluminum. Managed on-site construction, installations, and inspections.

Coordinated efforts/supervised millwright personnel in plant shutdowns to re-engineer/design structural mezzanines, extrusion lines, and production pathways.

Employment Profile:

ORNL- (MPEX) Fusion Energy – (Material Plasma Exposure Project) / 10/25/2021 - 11/1/2023

. Design Lead Engineer/specialist

Responsible for detailed design activities including the preparation of component, sub-assembly, and main assembly using CREO models; creating detailed fabrication drawing packages; evaluating and selecting purchased components; creating detailed Bills of Materials and completing equipment datasets.

Provided Vacuum Tube Transport Systems /Re-fueling Ring designs and created fabrication drawings using CREO Parametric.

Designed Cooling Water Manifolds (CREO Piping Module) for client machines, pressure reducing station, and Vacuum Transport Vessels for Fusion Energy.

Provided detailed design drawings, including GT&D, which included checking tolerance stack-ups on all drawings in CREO for fabrication on all designs.

UCOR / URS CH2M 5/18/2020 – 10/11/2021

. Design Lead Engineer/Specialty Engineer/Vault Administrator

Hired as Specialty Engineer, design lead, and Autodesk Vault SME.

Provide Glovebox design and GD&T fabrication drawings using CREO Parametric. Provided access ports for Glovebox designs

Created CADWorx AutoCAD Plant 3D Piping Design.

Supervised Workflow for all Drafters/Designers at UCOR.

Created Training Modules (Autodesk Vault) for UCOR Training Center

Served as the coordinator for drawing management; revision management; and worked closely with Document/Configuration Control (DOC) Manager.

Manager of UCOR's Autodesk Vault Data storage system.

TELEDYNE BROWN ENGINEERING / Martin Federal 09/09/2019 - 05/05/2020

. Packaging Design Engineer

Design packaging to ship complex Secret machines all over the world, in any Climate.

Provided complete drawing package of design drawings using SolidWorks, CREO, and AutoCAD Plant 3D.

Provide 3D Prints for design intent and ECO compliance, as well as jigs and fixtures for manufacturing.

Provided tolerancing Standards for manufacturing and fabrication shops.

SCAPA HEALTHCARE / AEROTEK 07/05/2019 - 09/09/2019

. Product Development Engineer

Design new product configurations that are cost effective, creative, and will meet customer end user requirements using Autodesk Inventor Professional and AutoCAD Plant 3D for equipment layout.

Manually produce prototypes to demonstrate design concepts.

Source and select materials compatible with product design, regulatory requirements, and process capabilities.

Trained in cGMP requirements and Cleanroom regulations.

In charge of start-up and deceleration phase adjustments for the Herrmann Ultrasonic perforating machine. (This machine was used to create holes in the foam-based wound dressings.)

Support operations team in continuous improvement initiatives and customer complaint investigations.

Perceptics LLC 02/17/2015 - 09/09/2019

Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsible in assuring the drawing formats are dimensionally correct on the part prints issued to fabricators, manufacturing, and customers.

Responsible for developing designs and drawings for various products while maintaining and updating the design standards.

Provide development, implementation, GD&T training, Industry Standards, AutoCAD administration SolidWorks PDM profession administrator and support for SolidWorks 3D design software.

(Cost savings) Designed Extrusion enclosure designs for next generation Cameras.

Provide complex equipment part and assembly design using 3D Parametric Software

Provide 3D Prints for design intent and DCN compliance, as well as jigs and fixtures for manufacturing.

Provided GD&T standards for manufacturing and fabrication shops.

Provided Over highway Gantry Structure design and concept drawings for camera systems.

PDM Professional administrator and support.

Implemented Additive Manufacturing for new designs and existing 3D printed Parts.

Alstom Power/ GE 02/07/2012 - 1/06/2015

Design Engineer / Tendering / Plant Layout

Provide development, implementation, training, Industry Standards, CAD administration and support for SolidWorks 3D design software.

Provide 3D Plant layout design using SmartPlant® 3D, Pro-Structure, Tekla Structures, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Autodesk Inventor, 3D studio MAX, and Navisworks Manage, while providing Tendering support for new proposals.

Provide complex equipment part and assembly design using SolidWorks. Provide custom Programming support, including Scripting and Lisp routines to utilize design tools for increase productivity.

Started Degree Program Fulltime-- Software Engineering 09/22/2008 - 1/20/2012

Degree Includes:

At the time I was attending school – ITT Technical Knoxville was fully accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. (ACICS) a recognized accrediting agency by the Department of Education at the before 2015.

Application design and development

Database Management and Web Applications

Data Structures and Algorithms

Software quality assurance, design, testing and debugging programs

Carlisle tire and wheel 01/25/2005 – 10/20/2007

Mechanical Engineer/Designer

Primary duties include Mechanical Engineering and reducing the cost of projects using 3D models as the design tool. In-charge of millwright personnel to replace main extrusion line – Project price = $750,000 Completed and on-time.

Key Achievements:

Utilizing AutoCAD, Inventor Professional, and Navisworks software to craft conceptual designs for tire building equipment.

Lead weekly sign reviews with internal clients and customers.

Produced shop drawings and interacted with fabrication shop throughout design.

Setup Autodesk Vault to keep track of drawings and reduce the amount of drawing duplication.

Provided engineering for new conveyor systems and Logic programs to interact with the existing conveyor systems. I have also re-engineered the brake systems and let-off systems for fabric rewind machines. This prove to save thousands of dollars over a period of months because continuous operation and no down time. Also supervised the Millwright personal in replacing the Extrusion Line and rebuilding the mezzanine above the extrusion line. Large equipment design using AutoCAD Plant 3D and Inventor Professional.

Designed hold-down roller system to make sure rubber Tread will get correct coverage of clue before going to cooling.

Consultant/owner - OneGuyDesign & AcadTraining.Net, 1998 – 2007

Owner - Consultant-Designer

CAD consulting services as well as supporting his teaching schedules. With the use of industry leading software, such as Flash® MX Professional, Coldfusion® MX, C#, VB, and Photoshop®, and well over a year of programming, I successfully developed an idea from concept through conclusion. The online AutoCAD® lessons ended in 2005 with other interest in GIS, Design and Data management,

Key Achievements:

Constructed and linked data to base maps for Sevierville TN county gas, using AutoCAD Plant 3D.

Over eighteen years teaching AutoCAD®, CAD standards and AutoCAD® procedures.

Hands-on experience leading in all stages of web site development, including concept, design, programming, testing and support.

Created parametric assembly models from existing 2D part drawings.

Provide GIS consulting for Mapping and Facilities Management.

Consultant – STEP Inc, 1994 – 1998

Visual Computing Specialist/Senior Designer

Administrator of Silicon Graphics UNIX Workstations and to strengthen marketing capabilities for generating parametrically linked 3-Dimensional models of all categories as well as managed GIS/CIVIL/CADD projects and personnel. Created company wide CADD standards and procedures governing the handling of internal drawings and drawings accepted from outside sources. Supervise daily activities of GIS/CIVIL/CADD projects and performed duties as web site administrator.

Key Achievements:

Provided 3D Models of over fourteen groundwater contaminated plumes for Hazardous Waste Remedial Action Program – Massachusetts Military Reservation and Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Developed and produced complex animation of fluid pulse jet mixer system, which removes contaminated

Sludge from underground storage tanks – Snapshot Images of the animation where published in the TFA Tanks Focus publication for the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge, TN (Figure 1B)

Enhanced aerial photo for DOE site, to show 10 year growth plan after remediation of site buildings: software included World Construction Set for landscaping the terrain model and 3ds max for camera matching the aerial photo to vector geometry.

professional Presentations, Papers, and Hobbies

Author or Co-Author

“The Art of 3D Modeling in Dynamic Graphics” - Dynamic Graphics Southeast Users group meeting - 1993

“3D Visualization and GIS” - Environmental Computing and Information Technology - 1994

“Case Study of Sandwich area of Cape Cod Mass” - co-author - 1993

“Using earthVision to Create Animation” - Eastern Dynamic Graphics Inc. Users Group - 1996

“FOCUS ON … Applying Technology to Solve U.S. Problems” – Technical publication for U.S. Department of Energy’s Richland Operations Office Snapshot Images of Animation of Underground Gunite Tanks process cleaning – 1998

Hobbies include music (5-String Banjo, Fiddle, Mandolin, Bass, Guitar), and Golf.

Pellissippi State College part-time adjunct Autodesk instructor CEU Classes (Contract) 1986 - 2012

Roane State College part-time adjunct instructor teaching AMTEC/ORNL(Contract) 2009 – 2012

University of Tennessee School of Architecture adjunct professor “how to use AutoCAD for architectural design” 1990 – 1996

Illustration: Alstom/GE power

Plant layout and Design:

Responsible for the Proposal/Project Master 3D Model Coordinate model file data between multiple software packages, while preparing, providing BIM and delivering work packages related to plant layout to the Discipline Engineer and/or Project Engineer on schedule. Generate 2D Design documents from SmartPlant 3D and AutoCAD Plant 3D Models as required (general arrangements, mechanical arrangements, etc.). Coordinate site and plant layout design with other major engineering disciplines.

Well versed in fabrication procedures, and machining operations, along with knowing material properties and hardening procedures. Proficient in Sheetmetal design for enclosures, using CREO, AutoCAD, AutoDesk Inventor, and SolidWorks.

Panasonic Corporation (contract) 02/02/2008 – 10/30/2008

Mechanical Engineer/Designer

Key Achievements:

Designed and engineered pneumatic Pick & Place units for Panasonic Corp. constructed of aluminum, using air actuators, PLC controllers, and step-motor conveyors for movement of parts on assembly line.

Primary duties include Mechanical Engineering and reducing the cost of projects using 3D models as the design tool. In-charge of millwright personnel to replace main extrusion line * Project price = $750,000 Completed and on-time.

Utilizing AutoCAD, Inventor Professional, and Navisworks software to craft conceptual designs for tire building equipment.

Lead weekly sign reviews with internal clients and customers.

Produced shop drawings and interacted with fabrication shop throughout design.

Setup Autodesk Vault to keep track of drawings and reduce the amount of drawing duplication.

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