Employee Relations Mechanical Engineer

RUSSELL MITCHELL

P: 858-***-**** E: ************@*****.*** San Diego, CA

SUMMARY

Accomplished and motivated leader with 17 years of experience leading engineering development, operations, and business development in numerous industries. Notable success in innovative product development, technical program execution, customer management, program budgeting and manufacturing while building rapport, identifying talent, and growing a technical team.

Driver of full program life cycle. Lead generation, customer contact, identifying customer need, creating the system architecture, assembling program costs, schedule, and technical approach to generate a winning proposal. Upon award then changing focus to lead the program technically and programmatically byway of project kickoff, team accountability, customer and program management while being a key technical contributor, and responsible for successful program execution to the delivery of design and manufacture of product hardware.

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

Leadership and Professional Development • P&L Accountability • Leading Multidisciplinary Teams • Lead System Architect • Program Management • Strategic Planning • Technical Contributor • Automation • Coaching and Mentoring • Developing Culture • Visual Servoing • Customer Relationships • Process Improvement • ERP Implementation • CAD Design

WORK EXPERIENCE

Independent Contractor • San Diego CA

Program Manager & Senior Engineer 8/19-Present

Responsible for program management and technical contribution to projects in Medical Device, DoD, Aerospace, and Consumer industries. Create new relationships with potential Aerospace, Commercial, and Medical customers to produce technical proposals and successful project execution.

•Led multiple projects for two simultaneous clients, Parry Labs & Smart Medical Devices

•Developed manufacturing strategy and implementation plan for consumables

•Managed teams of engineers in daily technical development

•Designed DoD special projects for various branches of US Military

•Developed new equipment for Smart Medical Device Orthopedic Bone Drill

•ISO 14971 based FMEA of Devices

•V&V test planning and oversight

•Responsible for Quality and supported Regulatory affairs

•Leveraged ISO 13485, ISO 14971, and 21 CFR for medical device design

Parry Labs • San Diego CA

Director of Advanced Systems 8/19-1/2021

Responsible for all engineering and business functions of the Advanced System group. Provide technical project oversight and project management for DoD and commercial projects. Develop cutting edge solutions for the US Military customers. Make decisions regarding resource planning, hiring, terminations, employee relations and training. Manage and develop staff to optimize productivity, profit and moral. Build and establish a wide network of clients and partners across multiple industries.

•Lead system architect for aerospace, commercial and industrial related programs

•Provide comprehensive personnel management of a team of 6 engineers

•Responsible for the profit and loss of the Advanced System Group

•Generate and report cost, schedule, and technical updates to customers

•Provide Program management for multiple programs while simultaneously supervising other project managers

•Direct project teams to execute to customer requirements as senior project manager

•Developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell power systems for SUAS and tactical ground applications

•Identify IRAD opportunities and execute to develop new products for generate Parry Labs IP

•Generate IRAD budget and technical architecture and drive development to that budget for a marketable product

•Decipher government regulations and protocol for accurate program execution and abide by to government requirements

•Fabricate prototypes and production equipment against project requirements

•Top-Secret security clearance

Quartus Engineering • San Diego CA

Director of Engineering 6/16-8/19

Responsible for all engineering operation functions of the Aerospace and Mechanical Systems (AMS) sector. Provided comprehensive program management, technical mentoring, and simultaneous personnel management. Responsible for resource planning, hiring, terminations, employee relations and training. Managed and developed staff to optimize productivity, profit and moral. Build and establish a network of clients across multiple industries to facilitate the capture and execution of programs.

•Provided comprehensive personnel management of a team of 32 mechanical engineers, 5 technicians and 2 machinists

•Achieved year after year growth of the Aerospace & Mechanical Systems group; 2016 $6.4M, 2017 $8.6M, 2018 $11.1M

•Senior system architect across multiple programs; Medical Devices, Automation, Commercial, Industrial and Aerospace

•Follow industry regulations to successfully execute programs, FDA Medical Device, Aerospace, FDA food processing

•Led resource planning, hiring, terminations, employee relations, and training; > 95% retention rate

•Led the development and implementation of ISO 13485 Quality System

•Led a multidisciplinary team in the development, build, test and certify orthopedic bone drill from concept to low rate production; https://smartmeddevices.com/

•Drove FDA compliance and certification of the Class 1 medical device, smart orthopedic bone drill, 60601-1 & -2 testing

•Responsible for the profit and loss of the Aerospace & Mechanical Systems group

•Oversea, mentor and manage project managers to ensure successful execution of projects

•Planned and grew manufacturing capabilities with key hires and capital equipment purchase of machining equipment

•Responsible for existing ISO 9001 Quality Management System and implemented new ISO 13485 QMS

Senior Engineering Manager 7/11-6/16

Responsible for the business capture, proposal creation and successful execution of projects. Provided for the technical and career growth of direct reports for the improvement and growth business development support.

•Provided technical program management, programmatic support, personnel mentoring, and guidance to 11 direct reports

•Responsible for writing and quoting programs ranging from $5k to $1.3M

•Project Manager of Aerospace, consumer, commercial and medical device projects

•Led multidiscipline project teams, mechanical, electrical, and software

•Developed point of care laser florescence device for biomarker identification

•Successfully developed high speed Automation program following FDA food processing regulations

Mechanical Engineer Project Engineer 9/06-7/11

Responsible for the design of mechanical components and systems across a wide range of industries and engineering disciplines.

•Responsible for the design of mechanical components across a wide range of industries

•Designed and built a point of care prototype utilizing laser fluorescence and microfluidics to identify biomarkers

•Led 6 mechanical engineers in the design of a composite business jet, Spectrum S33 & S40

•Developed composite aircraft structural design; MQ-9 V-Tail, L3 Mobius wing & Strake, Aurora Orion UAV components

Pulse Engineering • San Diego, CA

Mechanical Engineer 3/05-9/06

Responsible for the design of mechanical enclosures for electronics packaging. Designed fixtures to allow for high test and tuning the finished goods for high volume Chinese manufacturing.

•Designed electronics enclosures for high volume telecommunication systems

•Designed test stations for RF component assembly and tuning using SolidWorks

Ichor Medical Systems • San Diego, CA

Engineering Lab Tech 1/05-3/05

Temporary Position to build, test and optimize drug delivery medical device. Assist in the build out of prototype lab.

•Fabricate and test electroporation prototype clinical trial equipment

•Design tooling for production of test equipment using SolidWorks

EDUCATION

University of Arizona Tucson, AZ

Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering, Marketing Interest May 2003

SKILLS

•Design: SolidWorks (+9,000hrs), CATIA (~1,000hrs), NX, Creo, Inventor and AutoCAD, MS Office Products, MS Project, Jira, SAP Business By Design ERP, Green Light Guru, Product Center, PDM Works, Oracle

•Interests: General machining & Fabrication, 3-D Printing, Woodworking, Soldering, Dirt Bikes, Motorcycle Restoration, Suring, Skiing, Snowboarding, Camping, Hiking, General Adventure and Parenting

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