Paul Graham

Address: *** **** *****, *******, ** 48017, USA

Phone: 1-586-***-**** (cell)

Email: addwsz@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

I am a professional with 20 years of experience in engineering. This experience includes developing laser systems applications, such as laser micromachining and welding; product manager of short-pulse laser products; automotive component testing and testing machine applications experience. Most of this experience has been in inside sales and application technical support.

Experience and Abilities:

Application Engineer: (Apr 2016 –Present)

MTS Systems, Inc.; Swartz Creek, MI

•Meet with customers to discuss and manage application requirements and specifications.

•Concept and sketch testing systems design to meet realistic specifications and application needs.

•Provide technical knowledge for application projects, including customer contact(s) and field sales engineer.

•Projects worked on typically include mechanical, electrical and/or servo-hydraulic or servo-electric components/systems, as well as machine controller hardware and software.

•Develop semi-custom system concepts, utilizing MTS and vendor components and work on costing sheets, quotes and develop other technical/business tools for projects and sales.

•Support sales personnel and customer communication for projects.

•Track application activities, including a quote log and maintain a quick turn-around to deliver quotations.

Mechatronics Test Engineer; (Apr 2012- Apr 2016)

AAM, Rochester Hills, MI, USA

• Perform and manage clutch system validation testing for disconnecting driveline systems.

•Collaborate with internal clutch group to draw up test specifications.

•Assign test orders to test stands, depending on test specifications.

•Work with Instrumentation to develop test data acquisition and controls.

•Perform data analysis for customer (ECC clutch group) and write test reports.

•Write test scripts in Canape and LabView.

•Work with designers for fixturing and machine interface.

•Support clutch group activities and provide data and reports for internal and external presentations.

Product Manager; (Feb 2009 – Mar 2012)

Trumpf, Inc., Farmington, CT, USA

•Support internal sales and customer projects using short-pulse (ns and ps) micro-processing lasers.

•Lead new product introduction (NPI) process for national sales of new laser systems, for NA market.

•Liaise with corporate management to update technical knowledge and reach financial goals.

•Provide updated product knowledge and interfacing for customers, new and existing.

•Confirm product performance and educate clients on product efficiency.

•Perform process validation experiments on sample material.

•Training and leading regional sales managers, to support and grow sales.

•Develop financial tools for sales process including calculating total cost of ownership (TCO) figures as a sales argument.

•Create financial sheets, based on quotes from home office, to update pricing and generate customer quotes.

•Research existing and emerging markets and potential customers, for laser sources.

•Present technical product and customer project information internally, from RSMs to executive management.

•Attend international conferences and tradeshows, such as Photonics West and Laser World.

•Ensuring support capabilities of parts and service departments for national laser sources.

Adjunct Professor; (August 2009 – Dec 2009)

Macomb College, Warren, MI

•Taught Engineering Technology (class, tutorials and lab work)

•Prepared class syllabus and exam papers

Laser Applications Development Engineer; (June 2006 – Nov 2008)

Rofin-Sinar, Plymouth, MI, USA

•Responsible for validating laser-sources, optics and photonics and systems and for developing applications to drive sales, to meet customer application requirements and sales targets.

•Developed experiments and lab-application procedures (Design of Experiments), to prove laser source suitability.

•Interfaced multiple laser systems to motion control systems, performed validation experiments and designed fixturing.

•Managed multi laser systems lab including YAG, fiber, and diode lasers while overseeing multiple projects and engineers/technicians within scheduled timeframes.

•Addressed Client needs and training for successful project completion and providing application reports to support engineering for customized designs.

•Expertise in laser cutting, scribing, etching, marking and welding as well as NC coding and multi-axis control systems.

Education:

Lawrence Technological University

Southfield MI, USA 04/2006-05/2009

• Masters in Mechatronic Systems Engineering (MSMSE)

•GPA: 3.940

•Research Project: Adaptive Control of 1-DOF Mechatronic System

University of Glasgow

Glasgow, Scotland, UK 09/1997-12/2000

•Ph.D Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

•Publication in peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations

•Ph.D Thesis: “Trace Chemical analysis and molecular dynamics utilizing ultra intense femtosecond lasers”

Coventry University

Coventry, England, UK 09/1992-06/1996

• Bachelors of Science with Honours in Physics and Mathematics

•Project: LED-based thin-film NOx sensor

Professional Development:

•Modelling and Visualization Training, Altair Engineering, Troy, MI 06/2009

•LabView Basics Training, National Instruments, Livonia, MI 06/2009

•Multi-Body Dynamics Simulation, Altair Engineering, Troy, MI 05/2009

•Comsol Multiphysics workshop, Southfield, MI 05/2009

•LabView FPGA, National Instruments, Livonia, MI 05/2009

•LabView Developer Day, National Instruments, Livonia, MI 04/2009

•Advance Engineering Seminar, Laboratory of Mechatronic Systems, Southfield, MI 03/2009

Select Publications:

•The angular distributions of fragment ions arising from tetrahedral CH3I P. Graham, et al.; 2001 Journal of Physics B 34-20-401*-****

•Angular distributions of fragment ions arising from tetrahedral CH3I and isomer identification using intense laser fields P. Graham, et al.; ULIA-2 conference proceedings, Crete, 1999/ Pisa 2000, published in Laser and Particle Beams, 19, (2) 187-193

•The angular distributions of fragment ions from labelled and unlabelled N2O in intense laser fields P. Graham, et al.; 2000 J. Phys. B, 33, 3779

•Technical advantages of disk laser technology in short and ultrashort pulse processes; P. Graham and J. Stollhof; Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2011

•Unusual fragmentation patterns from the dissociation of some small molecules; P. Graham, et al., Laser and Particle Beams, 2001

Professional Affiliations:

•Full Corporate member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP)

•Chartered Physicist (CPhys) status

•Member of Laser Institute of America (LIA)

•Member of ASME

•Member of SAE

Contact this candidate