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Fatih Yasin ELAGÖZ Mechanical Engineer MSc.

Location: Massachusetts

Telephone: 857-***-**-**

Email: adn4g5@r.postjobfree.com

Linkedin: in/fatihyasinelagoz/

Professional Profile

Mechanical Engineer with 6 years of experience in aerospace, automotive and white goods industry. Made design and verification studies for different components of a wide range such as landing gear systems and automotive wheel components. Participated in improvement projects through different companies, worked individually as well as in teams for specialized projects such as writing a plugin to automatize Ansys simulations. Directed a Lean 6Sigma project titled “Optimization of Product Development as a Process” to improve product development times and as a result decreased design and simulation times by 45%. Currently working for Turkish Aerospace Industries as mechanical system designer for unmanned aerial vehicles products.

Career Summary

01/2021-Ongoing

Mechanical System Designer

Turkish Aerospace Industries

Turkey

Responsibilities

• Design and improvement of landing gear and other actuator systems in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

• Responsibility of design and improvement of electro-mechanical, mechanical and hydraulical systems and mechanisms.

• Design and follow up responsibility for test benches and qualification procedures of designed systems according to EASA and other agencies.

• Technical support about actuation systems and landing gear operations for field operations. 07/2019 – 04/2020

Project Leader (FCA)

CMS Group

Turkey

Responsibilities

• Been responsible for the product development and engineering processes for different international wheel projects of FCA Group customers (Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Maserati)

• Lead cross functional project team members (had +10 direct reports from sales, mold, production, quality, laboratory, planning, logistics and technical representative located in Italy) for new product phase-in projects of FCA Group customers Page 2

• Preparation of project schedules in line with vehicle projects and followed the project milestones

(Proposal, kickoff, design freeze, tooling release and production, sample production, diagnosis/action, part validation, sample/ramp-up/pre-series deliveries, customer approvals, customer process/VDA system audits in accordance with APQP/PPAP/IATF 16949), coordinating different plants and teams to cooperate

• Organized regular and crash customer visits and audits

• Been a technical representative, interface and first contact person for the customer

• Executed 5+ projects for FCA group costumers (Fiat 500 Electrical, 500, 500L, Doblo, Tipo, Alfa Romeo Quadrifoglio, Giulia, Stelvio)

• Took part in developing and implementing PLM system for the follow up of project plans and milestones

11/2016 – 07-2019

Senior Product Design Engineer

CMS Group / İzmir

Responsibilities

• Designed 3D models of aluminum alloy wheels for passenger cars. Completed 50+ different wheel projects for different customer groups (Porsche, VW, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Renault)

• FEA calculations for wheel projects to ensure no safety risks for passengers including structural safety, NVH (passenger comfort) using Ansys mechanical package and Abaqus FEA software

• Been design and FEA representative and customer interface for FCA group customers

• Been in charge of preparation and verbal presentation of feasibility reports to customers for quotation and development projects

• Took part in new analysis correlations and development of error proofing methods for FEA analysis, completed an FEA development project decreasing mistake percentage by 90% and simulation times by 40%

• Organized analysis prioritization and prepared CAD&FEA license budgets 05/2015 – 11/2016

Project Engineer

Vestel White Goods

Turkey

Responsibilities

• Design responsibility for new washing machine platform such as washer&dryer and high capacity washing machines of washer group (aluminum spider assembly, tub, aluminum pulley assembly)

• Structural and NVH FEA verifications of new parts (spider assembly, tub, pulley, springs, damper connections)

• Kinematic analysis of whole washer group (assembled tub, springs, dampers, motor agitation, concrete weights) using Adams software

• Cost & Quality improvement projects for mass production models

• Quality assurance and sampling and approving of new molds

• PLM System Administration, improving process flows within PLM software and implementing new Page 3

processes into the system such as sample management system, BOM management Career Achievements

• Presentation at International CAE Conference in Vicenza, Italy. Paper topic: Optimization of Design and FEA processes within product development team by 6Sigma approaches

• Reduced simulation time by 8 hours with self-written Python scripts for Abaqus FEA program

• Reduced mistake rates and simulation times with custom written Ansys ACT extension for standard simulations.

• Led a development project about FEA times and errors during FEA setup resulting decrease in simulation times by %40 and errors by %90

• Designed and assembled a life test machine for washing machine drum spider component Skill Set

• Ansys Mechanical (FEA Software)

o Workbench Mechanical Modules

o Mechanical APDL

• Abaqus (FEA Software)

o Explicit Methods

o Abaqus Scripting Using Python

• Catia V5 (3D CAD Software)

• Siemens NX (3D CAE Software)

o CAD, FEA and Motion modules

• Siemens Teamcenter (PLM Software)

• MSC. Adams (Kinematic and Dynamic Analysis Software)

• PTC Creo 2.0 (3D CAD Software)

• PTC Windchill (PLM Software)

• MS. Office Suite (Excel, Powerpoint and Word)

• MS. Project (Project Planning Program)

• Programming

o Python

• Minitab Statistics Program

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Language Skills

• English: Reading: Advanced, Writing: Advanced, Speaking: Advanced

• German: Reading: Beginner, Writing: Beginner, Speaking: Beginner

• Turkish: Native speaker

Education

• Manisa Celal Bayar University, M.Sc.

o Thesis Subject: FEA Package Development using Python for Functionally Graded Carbon Nano Tubes using Euler-Bernouilli Beam Hypothesis

• 10/2009 – 01/2015 Istanbul Technical University, B.Sc. o Thesis Subject: Design of a 5 DOF Robotic Arm

Additional Education

• Lean 6 Sigma (4 Weeks)

• APQP&PPAP (3 Days)

• Ansys Mechanical Suite: Implicit and Explicit Theory (1 Week)

• Abaqus FEA Software: Explicit Theory (1 Week)

• Msc.Adams Software (1 week)

• Catia V5 3D CAD Software (1 Week)

• Catia V5 3D Surfacing Technics (1 Week)

• Siemens NX 3D CAE Software (2 Weeks)

• Siemens NX Motion Simulation Module (2 Days)

• German Language Education (4 Months)

*References are available upon request.

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