Engineer Design

ROBERT PATTERSON 918-***-****

Tulsa, OK

************@*****.***

Innovative mechanical engineer including a strong background in product design, cost reduction, sustaining engineering, and project management. Listed inventor on multiple patents with delivered state-of-the-art products.

Extensive experience in:

•Product Design

•Innovation

•Injection Molding

•SolidWorks

•Sustaining Engineering

•Sheet Metal Design

•Photopia Optical Design Software

•Cost Reduction

•Aluminum and Plastic Extrusions

•Project Management

•Motors, Fans, Flex Circuits

•Die Castings

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Curtiss-Wright, Santa Clarita, CA 2019-2021

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Contract

Designed and supported ruggedized electronic enclosures for the aerospace industry including documentation, testing, customer interface, vendor interface, and manufacturing support.

The Realtime Group, Plano, TX 2018-2019

Mechanical Design Engineer, Contract

Designed a medical smartwatch band with embedded electronics and custom mechanical locking device for identifying location of assisted living residents.

XtraLight, Houston, TX 2017-2018

Senior Product Development Engineer

Designed a low-profile strip light that can be transformed into an architectural fixture, allowing two markets with the same design. http://www.xtralight.com/products/sas-led/

Developed and designed highly aesthetic architectural linear suspended fixture http://www.xtralight.com/products/ves-led/

H.E. Williams, Carthage, Missouri 2011-2017

Senior Design Engineer

Developed and designed first in class, high ambient, modular, industrial, high bay LED fixture. https://www.hew.com/products/gp

Designed high volume, high efficiency lighting fixture in 6-month development which generated $12.0 million in first-year revenue https://www.hew.com/products/lt .

Developed and designed highly aesthetic architectural lighting fixtures with multiple design options unique to the industry. https://www.hew.com/products/at

Designed LED strip fixtures, medical fixtures, and architectural troffers.

Pertech Resources, Riverton, Wyoming 2010-2011

Lead Engineer-Contract

Developed and designed the first fully integrated batch document scanner and receipt printer in the industry. The smallest All-in-One device in the industry.

Zebra Technologies Corporation, Camarillo, California (Card printers and photo printers) 2006-2007

Sustaining Engineering Manager

•Managed team of engineers and project managers to eliminate product defects, perform product enhancements, and cost reductions of card and photo printers.

•Interfaced with customers resolving complaints and directed team, enhancing products and reduced product defects.

•Initiated cost reduction plan and managed multifunctional team, generating $2.5 million in first-year savings.

Encad, a Kodak Company, San Diego, California (Wide format printers) 1999-2006

Staff Design Engineer/Project Management

•Initiated and managed cost reductions and quality improvements by changes in design (SolidWorks and Pro-E), manufacturing processes, vendor optimization (U.S., Asian, and European), material selection and price negotiation. Annual savings was $1,100,000 to $1,400,000.

•Managed commodity team to reduce cost and optimize product quality including sourcing.

•Designed low-cost plastic and sheet metal printer dryer, saving $90 on each assembly, and improving air flow consistency. (Patent # 6,863,393)

•Designed portable priming devise utilizing innovative over molded plastic (ABS and Santoprene) suction piece.

Seagate Technology, Longmont, Colorado 1998-1999

Principal Engineer

•Directed optimization of load ramp technologies used in new drive products.

•Designed actuated load ramp with crash stop that can be used to maximize usable disk space and eliminate shock damage (Patent # 6,424,498)

Iomega Corporation, Roy, Utah 1986-1998

Senior Design Engineer

•Designed head suspension for low profile product with unique mounting and shock limiting feature (Patent# 6,104,573).

•Designed miniature plastic load ramps to accommodate low profile, flexible disk cartridge (Patent # 5,995,332).

•Awarded $10,000 for initiating and managing low-cost head design development project. Resulting design reduced cost of magnetic head by 50%.

•Designed die cast aluminum chassis and sealing for contamination control, for award winning Jaz Drive.

•Designed crush resistant cartridge case used for Jaz cartridge (Patents # 5,971,145 and #5,850,914).

•Reduced contamination in disk drive subsystem with redesign of seals, chassis, and airflow. Resulting design reduced part cost and eliminated a replaceable filter.

•Project manager for OEM magneto optical subsystem.

•Patent awarded for unique filtration system used in removable media cartridge. Product life increased by two times and data reliability increased by ten times (Patent # 4,969,061).

EDUCATION

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

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