Mechanical Engineer Production Support

Nadine Menjuga

Cell: 818-***-**** E-mail: ********@*****.***

WORK EXPERIENCE

Core Systems

Senior Mechanical Engineer May 2024 - Present

• Servers, Rugged computers, Routers, Switches Design and Packaging

• Design and analysis of 1U, 2U and 3U servers

• Design for manufacturing, sheet metal ferrite cages, coats and environmental testing, RH shielding, EMI conditions

• Production support for new hardware, manufacturing instructions Contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne

Operations Integrator/Manufacturing Specialists - 6 months

• EVMS for an ongoing program

• Supplier technical exchange/ new supplier audits

• Established baselines using actuals and timeline for future bids

• Worked with manufacturing and union workers to establish timelines and priorities

• Rough order of Magnitude, Basis of Estimate and Proposal Work Raytheon Technology

Sr. Eng. Sr Mechanical II- July 2020 - Jan. 2023

• Supplier technical exchange/ new supplier audits

• Supplier and on-site manufacturing support

• Troubleshooting non-conforming electrical and mechanical hardware

• Production Support, work instruction, and time/ cost analysis

• FRACAS, DFMpro software, Redesign and retrofit for new and existing hardware

• The lead between Manufacturing and Design Engineering

*SECRET CLEARANCE*

General Atomics

Mechanical Engineer IV- Oct 2016- July 2020

• Worked on Turbo-machinery, Pressure Vessels, and Actuation

• Current Project- Mechanical and Structure design of a Weather Satellite

• A water brake that absorbs 70% of the system's energy caused by an aircraft arrestment.

• FRACAS investigation Lead working systems engineers and multiple disciplines for corrective action and implementation of fixes to current and new hardware

• Creating engineering Basis of estimates for work currently outside of scope

• Generating procedures, test plans, as well as addressing manufacturing Out Of Tolerance (OOT). • Manufacturing support for non-conforming hardware and acceptance criteria to salvage usable hardware. • Traveling in support of testing and on-site support during down equipment repair (2019 -49 days of travel/19.8%) Volt Contractor for General Atomics

Mechanical Engineer Component Design - July 2016- Oct 2016

• Design components for Accelerating Testing of hardware

• Creating engineering rough order of magnitude for costing purposes

• Working with other engineers to generate a test plan for material testing for component requirements and analysis • Generating procedures for teardown and maintenance for current hardware in the field as well as replacement of hardware as needed. • Generating Engineering Change Requests (ECR) and Engineering Change Notifications (ECN) • Working with engineers on Incident Report System (IRs) to determine root cause and implement corrective actions

Arrowhead Products

Project Engineer II- July 2015- July 2016

• Lead Engineer on an ongoing program. Worked to validate the design, shock/vibration testing, and integration of hardware that failed safety of flight testing the previous year.

• Working with analysts and designers to redesign solutions for the current configuration and increasing the scope for testing following the failure.

• Reviewing analysis for proposed redesign effort as well as a retrofit solution to reduce the impact of design changes to parts in the field.

• Working with designers to develop fixtures and instrumented ducts needed for the safety of flight qualification. Design required high pressure and high-temperature duct and anti-ice solutions.

• Writing Qualification documents, Test Procedure, Acceptance Test Procedures and developmental test procedures to validate design changes for both retro-fit and production configurations.

• Maintaining engineering schedules and tracking deliverables to the customer. Nadine Menjuga - Page 1 of 2

Crane Aerospace and Electronics

Mechanical Engineer 1 - Cabin (Seat Actuation), Oct. 2012- July 2015

• Develop a new actuator from concept to production.

• Gear train analysis, life, fatigue, duty cycle calculations for a range of temperatures.

• Finite element analysis at component level through full assembly to withstand 16G crash load.

• Leading a team of 3 mechanical engineers, while working with system and electrical engineers. • Completing development of two separate actuators to push into production with the same time deadline. • Risk mitigation strategies to improve repeatability and increase production rates.

• Use DFMEA (Design/Process for Failure Mode and Effect Analysis.

• Linear, Rotary, and Translational Actuators for aircraft (First class and Business class seating) Mechanical Engineer Intern, June 18- Oct.19, 2012

• Disposition sheets, Engineering change orders (ECO), Redesign to reduce weight and increase performance, Sales Drawings, Assembly Drawings, Stress and Fatigue Analysis –Both Computational and FEA, GDT Practices and ISO standards, Oracle, Actuators – Linear, Rotary, and Thru shaft, brush and brushless motors. • Companies: Contour AA, Boeing Airbus, B/E Diamond, and ANZ seat actuators. KEY SKILLS

Strong teamwork and leadership abilities, time management skills, strong fundamental calculation skills, ability to design to a factor of safety, lean manufacturing and easy of machining always considered, strong desire to succeed. CAD Software:

● Solid Works –Very Proficient

● SolidWorks Electrical- Basic

● Creo- Moderate

● Uni-Graphics- Basics

● Catia- Moderate

● ESPRIT/ MasterCAM – Moderate (over 425 hours)

Analysis Software:

● Femap-Nastran- basic complexity

● Ansys- Moderate to complex analysis

● Standard CAD Simulation

● DFM Pro

Other Software:

LABVIEW, Microsoft- PowerPoint, Visual Basic- VBA, Microsoft Excel, Word and Publisher, P-SPIC, Microsoft Project, PDM Pro, Teamcenter, Windchill, MathCad, MATHLAB Oracle Machines:

Desktop CNC (5ft*4ft) – 120 hours, Sheet Metal work, CT Catalyst, Drill Press, Manual Lathe, Grinder/ Belt sanders, Manual Mill, Hand tools, Programmed code for CNC Lathe, CNC Mill, and Wire E.D.M. EDUCATION

California State University Northridge

Bachelors of Science, Major Mechanical Engineering, 2016 Nadine Menjuga - Page 2 of 2

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