Senior Electro-Mechanical Design Engineer with 35+ Years

JAMES F. ROBINSON

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Wolcott, CT 06716

C: 203-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Design Engineering position with a progressive manufacturing or design firm. 3/25 to 2/26

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SUMMARY

35+ years of Electro-Mechanical design engineering experience in both military and commercial manufacturing environments; including 5 years in a supervisory capacity. Working expertise of ASME Y14.5. Expert knowledge of metal materials/manufacturing processes. Advanced CAD skills with 8 yrs. of MDT/Inventor, 10 years SolidWorks modeling/FEA and 5 years of Creo/Windchill/Simulate software usage. Inventor status with multiple U.S. Patents. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HarcoSemco LLC, Branford, CT. (Contract assignment completed) DESIGN ENGINEER - Aircraft Harnesses and associated tooling, Thermocouple Probe and sensor design used in Aerospace applications with Solidworks 2024/PDM. Product development compliance and regulatory requirements via CDR process, FMEA, QSAR, CM and ECM documents per customer milestones. Thermal, vibrational, torque and electrical validation testing of products and associated Test Reports. Performed Xray inspections of TC probes.

HyAxiom Fuel Cells Inc, East Hartford, CT. (companywide mass layoff of 70 people) SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER – Lead Engineer/vendor liaison for PEM Electrolyzer enclosure. Design/oversight of PEM system components, system enclosure per functional requirements. Supporting documentation including Trade Study presentations, PFMEA, TPR, and Retrofit service instructions within the Creo 9/Windchill CN process. Provide Design/FEA guidance and training to offshore team members. Component analysis with Simulate FEA for seismic, wind, transportation loads per ASCE-22. Stanley Access Technologies, Farmington, CT.

DESIGN ENGINEER – Lead Engineer for Dura-Storm hurricane rated automatic door systems project. Project development including: Procurement of related build items ($75K+) for prototype door test units through local/overseas vendors for machined, cast and fabricated parts. Lab. Testing of completed prototype door units (Pressure, cyclic and impact) in Miami, FL. Engineering witness to verify, record and recommend product design changes to ensure certification. Responsible for Prototype through Production door units utilizing the Stanley mfg. cut-sheet build system and design input using Creo/Windchill software within the CR/CN release process. Provide mechanical solutions and verification through hand calculations, Creo Simulate FEA and in-house Testing with subsequent Eng. test reports. Configuration Logic creation with SAP and WBS implementation for external project resources. Oversight of 4 person Eng. team (Actalent) as external resource for project. 6/19 to 3/21

11/10 to 6/19

Carpin Mfg., Waterbury, CT.

ENGINEER - Visual Mfg. ERP Engineering master/new part number creation and implementation. Customer quote costing and outside factory/supplier liaison. Design of stamped and injection molded products using NPD process with Creo 5.0.4. Q.C. testing (Rockwell Hardness), PPAP and inspection of production parts. Part/Mfg. process improvement via tooling design and modifications. Music People Inc., Berlin, CT.

PRODUCT DESIGN ENGINEER – Development of mechanisms for patent and consumer product design for the music industry using SolidWorks 18 Premium and Simulation Works FEA. Creation of SLA and in-house prototypes for validation/ pre-production testing. Product improvement and DFM. Component materials include molded plastics, wood, extrusions, machined, cast and stamp formed metals. Multiple Patent awards recipient for novel mechanism designs. 3/09 to 11/10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE continued

Macton Corp..,Oxford, CT. (Company lay-off)

MECHANICAL DESIGNER – Design and shop support of linear/rotating motion machinery used in transport and railcar repair systems with SolidWorks Premium 2010 and PDM Works. Simulation Works FEA usage, MRP BOM entry and Operation & Maintenance manual creation. 2/08 to 11/08

ALSTOM Power Inc.,Windsor, CT. (Business unit reorganization) DESIGN GRAPHICS SUPERVISOR – Established project workload scheduling and group resource assignment with MS Project. Engineering support of combustion equipment fabrication and related group coordination. Devised Inventor design methodologies for product specific applications 2/06 to 2/08

Hamworthy Peabody Combustion Inc.,Shelton, CT.

CAD DESIGN SUPERVISOR – Implementation of Inventor 12 Pro. Series/Vault PDM system. Design of industrial burner packages, fuel train piping skids and development of new low NOx technology products. Provided technical guidance, 3D training, project scheduling and assignment to design drafting group. Mechanical component stress analysis using Ansys FEA Solver. 2004 to 2006 Fuel Cell Energy Corp.,Danbury, CT.

MECHANICAL DESIGNER – 3D Parametric modeling and supporting documentation of PEM Fuel Cell products with Inventor 9 Series. Prototype design lead for manufacturing cost reduction program of pressure vessel module and related mechanical systems including fabrication estimating. Production tooling fixture design for Cell Stacking/Final Assembly. Peer drawing/model checking per ASME. 7/0l to 7/02 Food Automation Service Techniques, Inc., Stratford, CT. (Fabrication shop closing) SENIOR ELECTRO/MECHANICAL DESIGNER - Mechanical packaging of food service equipment controller products with Mech. Desktop 6.0/Acad 2002. Design and checking of sheet metal, membrane keypads, wire harnesses and interface probes. Prototype unit development and fabrication liaison. 12/99 to 4/01

Microwave Tower Service, Inc., Waterbury, CT. (Engineering staff reduction lay-off) CAD DESIGN SUPERVISOR - Start up and oversight of CAD design group; including project design management, design checking, Product Management interface for design and improvement of stamped metal, injection molded plastic and EPDM rubber coaxial cable support products for telecommunications. Identified customer design requirements and created 3D antenna mounting structure models with Mechanical Desktop 5.0 for microwave/transmission tower applications. Assisted Engineering Mgr. in design feasibility studies and deflection/moment stress calculations utilizing resident FEA software. 1992 to 12/99 Bristol Babcock, Inc., Watertown, CT. SYSTEMS DESIGNER - Design of process control systems; including transmitter interface packaging, structural assemblies, custom NEMA enclosures, wiring diagrams and support geometry using AutoCad l4 for the oil, gas and water treatment industries. Other duties included design checking, CAD program customization and Mechanical Desktop 4.0 solid modeling software introduction. Promoted to Systems CAD SERVICES SUPERVISOR in 7/97; Developed electronic documentation system, coordinated/supervised design projects and fabricated part manufacturing with vendors. 1990 to 1992 Dynamic Controls Corp., South Windsor, CT SENIOR MECHANICAL DRAFTER - Produced layouts and design documentation (DOD-D-1000) of cast and machined parts for aircraft armament and avionic control units. 1988 to 1990 Contract Position @ Unisys Corp., Bloomfield, CT. LAYOUT DESIGNER - Provided design layouts and dimensional studies of defense/weather radar system components per MIL Specs and EMI/RFI requirements. Programs: NEXRAD & MATCALS. 1987 Westech Gear Corp., Lynwood, CA.

PACKAGING DESIGNER - Packaging of industrial and naval shipboard electronics. Used Unigrahics

(UG II) 5.0 software to create mechanical assemblies and design proposals per DOD-100-STD. 1986 Contract Position @ United Technologies Corp. (Hamilton Standard Division) Farmington, CT. E/M DESIGN DRAFTER - Development of sheet metal packaging and mechanical interface of black box avionics to production test equipment for military aircraft flight control systems. Assisted Mfg. engineering in design and improvement of test fixtures and tooling. Programs: FA 18 and Blackhawk. EDUCATION

NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology; Associates Degree Program. QUINEBAUG VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Business Administration A.S. program; 42 credits earned. STANLEY COURSES: Six Sigma, RSS and DFMEA. Tech-Ease: Tolerance Stack-up, vector analysis. HarcoSemco: GD&T courses.

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