Ryan Holbrook

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Mechanical Engineer with a large theoretical and applicable focus on Metal Additive Manufacturing (MAM), resulting in great foundation knowledge in Structural Failure and Heat Transfer. This focus in MAM and design for additive manufacturing requires strong background in traditional manufacturing techniques and design for manufacturing, as well as a cost based approach to all manufacturing and design processes. Skills

CAD/CAE

Solidworks (5 years), 3DE (2 years), Creo (2 years), CATIA (1 year) o 2D/3D (Drawings/Modeling, CSWA Certified, GD&T Experience) o Simulation (Static/Acceleration, Dynamic, Frequency, Topology) o Flow Sim (Thermal SS/Transient, CFD External/Internal, Electronics Cooling) Additive Manufacturing Workflow

Topology Optimization (Weight Reduction and Stress Optimization)

Residual Strain Compensation

Lattice Optimization (Strain Target, Weight/Safety Balance)

Post Processing of Metal AM Parts

Manufacturing

Metal Powder Printing (1 year)

Fiber Reinforced Printing (2 years)

Additive Manufacturing (Prototyping, Fixture/Tooling, and Functional Parts)

4-Axis CNC Machining (3 years)

Manual Mill and Lathe (4 years)

Waterjet and Laser Cutting Machines (1 year)

Investment/Sand Casting (1 year)

Numeric Analysis/Data Processing

Matlab (6 years), Python (1 year)

ODE/PDE Solver (Heat Transfer, Orbital Trajectory, 3D Aerospace Structures)

Data Parsing/Optimizing Visualization

PID Optimization

Scientific Communication

Technical Translation of Results to the Public (Verbal and Written)

Optimized Data Visualization Practice

Communicating Expected Uncertainty

Work Experience

Associate Mechanical Engineer Northrop Grumman July 2020 - Present

Global Hawk Zone Responsible Engineer

o Presenting to Customer/Engineering Management on Risk Progress/Analysis o Tracking and Communicating Change in Cost, Schedule, and Design o Environmental Analysis of Zone (Thermal, Shock, Random Vibration, Structural) o Customer and Supplier Requirement/Contractual Compliance o Approximating Risk and Reward from possible changes in Design and Timeline

Hardware Design and Testing for Government Contracts

Drawing Creation IAW ASME Y14.5-2004

Thermal Analysis & Verification of Large Assembly Models for Airworthy Hardware

Offsite Antenna Structural Analysis

Mechanical Engineering Intern Sierra Nevada Corporation May 2019 - Feb. 2020

Contracted projects with the United States Navy under the Electronic & Information Sensor, Systems and Technology Unit

Assembling sensor system hardware using ESD safe practices

Creating and Revising Engineering Drawings and System Requirement documents in the context of a business unit wide workgroup manager (Windchill)

Environmental Testing for MIL Standard requirement validation (Vibration, Humidity, Temperature)

Graduate Teaching Assistant Dynamics Intro FEA Course Aug. 2018 - May 2020

Teaching Assistant in ME Department’s FEA/CAE and Dynamics courses

Office Hours and Lecture assistance in Solidworks Finite Element Analysis

Basic Theory to FEA as well as best practice for Simulation Verification

Teaching in 3D-kinematics/kinetics, 3D Rotation Reference Frames and Intro Vibration Mechanics

Education

Colorado School of Mines Bachelors of Science, 2020

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Focus: Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace, Scientific Communication

GPA: 3.0 (Major)

Project Work

Additive Manufacturing University Sponsored Project’s in the Public

Hands on operation of EOS Powder Bed Fusion machine and HP Material Jetting/Fusion printer

Titanium Iron Man suit featured on Discovery Channel’s premier episode of “Savage Builds”, with host Adam Savage (MythBuster) and flying capabilities provided by Gravity Industries.

Post Processing for PBF and Energy Deposition Parts

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