Mechanical Engineer Design

NATHAN NELSON

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Professional Profile

Highly experienced design engineer that can execute detailed design work while also driving technical depth into an organization through expertise in engineering design, coupled with Finite Element Analysis capabilities to minimize design cycle time to successfully hit launch dates of innovative products that meet and exceed customer requirements while continually cultivating technical excellence throughout an organization.

Specialized Skills

Extensive experience with ANSYS Workbench and ABAQUS

Ability to identify specific development needs in junior engineers and to mentor and develop their capabilities to meet those needs.

Six Sigma design

Design for manufacturability and cost

Failure root cause analysis

Prototyping and fabrication

Applied experience with GD&T

Extensive experience with machined, plastic and sheet metal part design

Highly proficient with PTC Creo and other CAD softwares

Work Experience

GE Appliances, Principal Design Engineer – Louisville, KY

August ’19 – Present

Manage and direct team responsible for delivering overarching structural design strategy for GE cooking ranges.

Drive innovative, detailed design engineering efforts of plastic, machined and formed sheet metal parts to meet fabrication and factory assembly bill of process allocations.

Cut iterative testing requirements by driving technical direction of structural predictive modeling efforts, including static structural, hyper-elastic and dynamic finite element modeling.

Drive early integration of product structural design with packaging engineering to avoid late product cost adds due to late development cycle failures.

Midea American Corporation, Senior Structural Design Engineer – Louisville, KY

Aug ’16 – Aug ‘19

Managed technical direction, and was participating member of engineering team that executed design and engineering of Midea’s first ever kitchen range introduced to the US market.

Developed cost conscious and robust packaging systems for new platform.

Authored and enforced internal shipping and handling test schedule requirements for North American cooking products.

Spearheaded root cause and solution of thermal, structural and shipping and handling failures identified in developmental testing.

Ensured engineering team met finished product cost requirements by driving designs that met or exceeded fabrication and manufacturing assembly labor cost requirements.

GE Appliances, Lead Design Engineer – Louisville, KY

Dec ‘10 – Aug ‘16

Invented and launched production of industry first modular appliance structure that supports GE Appliances wall oven fleet.

Part and system level design of structural and consumer facing parts optimized to meet model cost and appearance requirements of low, mid, and high EAU product.

Worked closely with Product Management, manufacturing, and sourcing teams to ensure products meet consumer and model cost requirements on GE cooking products.

Routinely participated in major prototype builds, competitor tear downs, testing schedules and design reviews from design conceptualization up through mass production of GE Appliances products.

Novatek, Mechanical Engineer – Provo, UT – June ‘06 – May ‘10

Designed and engineered patented logging while drilling tool architectures which minimized product fabrication and maintenance costs in the oil and gas industry.

Optimized structural components to handle high pressure, torque, and bending loads through use of mechanical design and fatigue calculations, and Finite Element Analysis in ANSYS Workbench

Demonstrated feasibility of new designs through prototype builds and evaluation.

Education

Brigham Young University

oBachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

oEmphasis in design and structural analysis

Utah Valley State College

oAssociate of Applied Science in Drafting Technology

oEmphasis in Mechanical Drafting

Awards and Accomplishments

Inventor on 18 US patents

GE Appliances Technical Expert – Structural Design Engineering & Analysis

General Electric Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

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