Design Engineer Solidworks
Resume:
Thomas R. Bajek
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Professional Summary:
Experience in consumer, housewares, commercial, industrial, and DIY product design. SolidWorks, SolidWorks Sheetmetal, SolidWorks Visualize. Awarded ten design and mechanical patents. More patents pending. Direct contact with clients and vendors and sales and marketing teams. Extensive plastic part design experience. Designed products currently being sold at leading retailers and big box hardware stores. 2016 Chicago Innovation Awards winner.
2013 to 2020: Danco/ NCH Corporation Shorewood, IL. Corporate product design development group headquartered in Irving, TX.
Senior Product Design Engineer.
Sketching and 3D modeling simple to complex products and bringing them to production. Building mockups with Stratasys Object 30 Pro 3D printer and F170 FDM printers. Providing engineering drawings and bills of material for manufacture. SolidWorks super user. Compose custom labels and graphics with Adobe Illustrator. Produce presentations for design for manufacture reviews.
2005 to 2013: TEAMS Design Chicago, IL. An international industrial design consultancy founded in Esslingen, Germany.
Senior Production Designer.
Senior product design position, creating final 3D modeling and drawings for clients. Received surface training at German office headquarters. Works with customers to achieve product design goals. Sources prototype builds. Clients served include O Cedar (FHP), Siemens, System Sensor (Honeywell), Peerless, Pyrex, Jarden (Sunbeam), Bosch,and start up companies. Sourced, installed and maintains Pro/E and SolidWorks licenses in Chicago location. Mentors junior staff members.
2002 to 2005: Packer Technologies International, Inc. Warrenville, IL A start-up product design and development consultancy with an emphasis on mechanical engineering, industrial design and prototyping.
Senior Industrial Designer.
Developed medical, commercial, office products and consumer products. Brought a
$1,000,000 medical program to market. Created designs for Kohler Power, Copco and Tenex Corporation. Supplied drawing detailing support for government and military projects. Sourced rapid prototype models. Worked with consulting engineers. Extensive 3D solid modeling with SolidWorks and Pro/E. 2001 to 2002 Product Design Services, Inc. Aurora, IL. Product design and development consultancy with an emphasis on mechanical engineering. Senior Industrial Designer.
Concentrated on developing a hand-held medical device, simplifying the mechanism, identifying the materials, establishing the assembly methods, building prototypes and finding part vendors. Designing for injection moldings, blow moldings, minicell foam die cut gaskets, stainless steel and paper tubing. Refining the aesthetics as well as the internal function of the unit. Developed preliminary cost of manufactured and purchased parts. Worked on a commercial milk shake machine, making part translations from steel stampings to injection molded parts. Designed vacuum formed internal parts and overflow tray.
Education: Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL. Bachelor of Science in Design with Honors
Morton Community College, Cicero, IL. Associate in Art with Honors
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