Tony Ata

978-***-**** *** Parker Rd. Dracut, MA *1826 adw9wl@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

L3Harris, Ayer, MA

Senior Mechanical Engineer 2/2012-Present

• Technical and engineering lead, managing multimillion-dollar projects, providing leadership and mentoring to the mechanical engineering team 10+ engineers and designers.

• Successfully completing new design projects on time and within the allocated budget.

• Managed reviewing and approving ECRs as a member of the ECR board team.

• Supporting and solving manufacturing problems and assembly issues by providing training, work instructions and fixture designs to facilitate and improve workflow.

• Worked with vendors, to develop new EMI shielding material locally so we didn’t have to import the EMI shielding material from outside the USA.

• Work closely with the machine shop and outside vendors to improve drawings and material selections and promote best practices to improve quality, yield and overall production.

• Follow through with purchasing on new parts and components for on time delivery to meet schedule.

• Work with quality to find solutions on dispositioned parts.

• work closely with the sale’s and system’s teams to develop accurate bid proposals according to the customer’s specifications and military standards. Warner Power, Warner, NH

Mechanical Designer 8/2011-2/2012

• Designed sheet metal panels, enclosures, control panels, brackets, supported mechanical and electrical engineers as well as manufacturing in designing and documenting the mechanical aspects of high voltage/current three phase transformers. Assurance Technology Corporation, Carlisle, Ma

Mechanical Designer 9/2009-4/2011

Modeled and detailed electromechanical parts, MIL-STD Connectors, fixtures, assemblies and enclosures of satellite modules. Material, paint, coatings and surface finish for space environment use.

BTU International, Billerica, MA

Sr. Mechanical Designer 9/2008-4/2009

• Machine design and customization of new fabricated parts, aluminum and S.S. Designed Wire feeders for heat sensors to monitor the temperatures inside the oven. Designed transition table that transitioned coated wafers to oven. Designed air and water cooling assemblies, fan boxes and air ducts for heat distribution of conveyor ovens. Designed sheet metal panels, chassis and tables of main idle and transition drives. Managed and created large cad assemblies in modeling and detailing the ovens.

(ProE WildFire 3)

Tony Ata

978-***-**** 340 Parker Rd. Dracut, MA 01826 adw9wl@r.postjobfree.com DEKA Research and Development, Manchester, NH

Mechanical Engineer 9/2007-8/2008

Designed and modified parts and assemblies of medical equipment. Medical parts included molded outer clamshell housing and gears for counting usage and locking unit for maintenance. Transitioned products from development stage to prototypes then to manufacturing trials.

Machine Design, designed and operated fixtures involving pneumatics, linear actuators, ball screws, encoders, electric motors, cams, fork sensors and compression springs. PerkinElmer Inc., Salem, MA

Mechanical Designer 1997-2006

Worked on electromechanical parts, assemblies, chassis, sheet metal covers and boxes for the medical industry.

Worked and brought to production prototype projects involving gas testing equipment through the use of light rays filters and sensors.

Designed jigs and fixtures using Mechanical Desktop, Autodesk Inventor and Pro E. Fixtures used to facilitate and ease manufacturing process while maintaining consistency and repeatability in achieving customers’ specifications.

Designed quartz envelopes and tungsten electrodes for various xenon filled lamps.

Worked on parts and assemblies of cesium atomic clocks, gap triggers and thyratrons that involved braze materials, ceramic tubes and envelopes. Stack up tolerance calculations between anodes and cathodes.

Created animated cad files of complex assemblies as visual guidance to assembly workers in production.

Initiated and revised BOM’s, routings and ECN’s.

All work and drawings were created to scale according to ANSI or ISO standards.

Excellent experience in geometric tolerances, fitting tolerances and stack up tolerances. Diamond Semiconductor Corp., Gloucester, MA 1996-1997 Drafter

Worked on parts, schematics and assemblies of semiconductor production equipment. EDUCATION:

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA. Mechanical engineering labs and courses at Wentworth Institute of Tech., Boston, MA. Associate degree in Architecture, Boston Architectural Center, Boston MA. RELATED COURSEWORK:

Trained and certified in Inventor, 3D Mechanical Desktop and 3Dmax. Trained and certified in fast track to Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0 and in creating production drawings with Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 and Intralink from Parametric Corp. Six Sigma training, green belt certified.

Trained in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point.

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