Design Engineer

TODD WOOD

**** *. ********* ***** • Alvarado, Texas 76009 • 972-***-**** • ****.****.**@*****.***

www.linkedin.com/in/todd-wood-26032934

Experience

Bell Helicopter with Cyient, Fort Worth, TX

Airframe Design Engineer – December 2023 to January 2024

• Worked engineering change orders until Bell Helicopter was notified by the Army of a financial reduction

• My work was to be a liaison for the 525 helicopter built in Amarillo

• Scheduled to take Catia V6 courses through Textron University during January 2024, when the contract ended

Equipment Depot, EQ Solutions Division Fort Worth, TX

Solutions Design Engineer – Sept 2021 to July 2022

• Communicated working closely with solution sales individuals along with vendors to generate customer warehouse and product solution workflows

• Worked within AutoCAD creating system solutions using Daifuku systems layout software

• Designed sortation systems for carton sorting ranging from 1.5 million to 3.5 million projects

• Investigated engineering change request involving BOM

Slate River Systems Inc. (SRSI) Irving, TX

Systems Solutions Engineer – April 2020 to August 2021

• Communicated with multiple vendors to generate customer warehouse and product solution workflows

• Received and placed project quotes and purchase orders for various project stages

• Worked within AutoCAD creating system solutions using Interroll, standard conveyor, racking systems and some robotics

• Worked closely with specialized bottling equipment vendors for a multiple packaging output for vendor products

• Investigated AMR and AGV for customer warehouse solutions

• Created the first SRSI professional system solutions drawing standards

Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics LLC with Acara Solution, Irving, TX

Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer – October 2016 to January 2020

• Amazon Decanter. A machine that separates twelve totes into in a single line of totes for Amazon production lines

• High Speed Polaris carton sortation equipment for UPS, Amazon and other high volume facilities

• Applying European CE safety design requirements increased global profits for system solutions

• Mechanically repackaged address change service components for USPS high speed sorting machines

• Development for an optical character reader module increased mail processes at local Post Office with more than 6000 modules sold

• Engineering modeling for the Advanced Letter Processing System provided sound R&D machine results

• Preformed SAP engineering functions as well as NX 10 modeling and drawing file management in Team Center 10 along with engineering releases

• All project work was controlled by Teamcenter PLM system either prototype or production design work

Bell Helicopter with Cyient, Hurst, TX

Airframe Design Engineer – January 2013 to October 2016

• Airframe Design Engineer direct employment with Cyient onsite at Bell Helicopter

• Airframe design in Unigrapics NX5 and NX6; assigned to military project is the cabin for the AH-1Z Viper a variant of the Cobra helicopter

• Interfaced closely with, stress engineering, DCMA, hard contact model engineering, manufacturing, planning departments and military sales

• Experience with composite materials, compounds, composite parts, 7000/6000 series aluminum, alternate manufacturing, sheet metal contoured parts, Mil-Spec hardware, among other aspects

• Investigated engineering change request involving BOM, specification, model, and drawing changes

• Updated or added new requirements to Enovia for EBOM, supersession and manufacturing specification

Siemens Energy, Houston, TX

Sr. Mechanical Designer – July 2011 to January 2013

• Mechanical Designer and contractor through CDI Corporation, July 2011 to January 2012, then fulltime

• Lead Houston facility during a global Teamcenter PLM integration, training of NX6, interfacing with Germany, The Netherlands and England with 25% travel

• Power generation turbine packaging and piping for offshore/onshore drilling platforms and pumping stations

• Experience with P&ID interpretation, steel framing structures, sound enclosures, intake and exhaust, customer relations and piping designs

• Interfaced with engineering management, sales, international standards departments and FCC regulations concerning electronic data transfer

• All project work was controlled by Teamcenter PLM system

Glidepath LLC, Grand Prairie, TX

Systems Estimator - July 2010 to April 2011

• Identified multi-million dollar conveyor systems for airline baggage customers using On Screen Takeoff software

• Prepared Excel spreadsheets of conveyor equipment and motor manifest for pricing

• Created 3D AutoCAD baggage handling conveyor systems for airline customers

• Created Autodesk Navisworks 3D rendered JPG files, animation, AVI files, TimeLiner, 4D Scheduling and Clash Detective for airline customers

Siemens Energy & Automation Inc., Arlington, TX

Sr. Product Engineer - February 1997 to September 2009

• Held different titles over the length of employment progressing from Design Engineer, to Project Engineer, to Sr. Design Engineer, to Sr. Product Engineer

• Preformed mechanical design with Siemens NX3 and NX6 and Unigraphics 13

• Preformed sheet metal design of guides, doors, covers, machine frames

• Excelled in free form modeling while designing a hand held scanner

• Proficient with Siemens NX 3D software both in advanced modeling and drafting

• Conducted TDP creation including specifications, drawing validation, SAP document input and BOM creation and verification

• Project work was controlled by Teamcenter system either prototype or production design work

• Managed and designed biohazard detection and vacuum ventilation system installations for 280 USPS (United States Postal Service) facilities with 1060 machine installations

• Contributed to development and prototyping design of the Stacker Module for the DBCS 7 at the USPS

• Designed mail paths within many different mail processing machines for the USPS

• Inventor and U.S. Patent holder for Hand Held Scanner with Rotating Head. Patent number 7,370,802

Cad Creations Corporation, Arlington, TX

Engineering Consultant, Owner - September 1995 to February 1997

• Consultant to Electrocom Automation which was later acquired by Siemens

• Managed projects site equipment and managed five design engineers for TriConâ conveyor products used in the Tray Management Systems for the USPS

• Coordinated TriConâ engineering drawings for manufacturing, configuration management, engineering and purchasing

• Calculated conveyor loading for system layouts and structural steel installation drawings for the USPS

• Managed software development for automated CAD systems and CAD stations

Stearns Airport Equipment, Fort Worth, TX

Project Engineer - February 1995 to September 1995

• Developed, coordinated system layout installation and fabrication drawings for customer projects

• Calculated power transmission requirements for conveyor drive units

• Calculated structural loading for airport terminals

Oil States Industries - Offshore Marine Division, Arlington, TX

Contract Designer - October 1994 to February 1995

• Prepared sales and fabrication drawings for offshore oil drilling equipment

• Maintained drawing files and drawing procedures

CCC Conveyors Inc., Dallas, TX

Project Engineer - November 1990 to October 1994

• Developed, coordinated system layout installation and fabrication drawings for customer projects

• Calculated power transmission requirements for conveyor drive units

• Interfaced with customer and consultants for system project installations

• Prepared U.S. Postal Service and airline baggage handling drawings and developed component standards

• Designed and developed prototypes of new equipment

Education

American Trades Institute, Dallas, TX

• Associates Degree • 1989 – Computer Aided Design

Education Training

Siemens Energy & Automation Inc., Arlington, TX

• GD&T • Geometric Dimension and Tolerancing

• AWS • American Welding Society welding inspection technology

• Siemens NX 3D modeling and drafting course

Siemens PLM Software Education, Carrollton, TX

• Siemens PLM Unigraphics certified Professional NX designer

D C CADD Autodesk Training Center, Irving, TX

• Autodesk Navisworks certified

Inceptra

• Catia 3DExperience Mechanical Design – Nov. 17, 2023 completing

Skills

• Software: Solidworks, Siemens NX10, NX6, NX5, NX3, Unigraphics 13, Teamcenter, Enovia, Inventor, AutoCAD, Navisworks, SAP, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Power Point

References: Available on request

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