STEVEN DURAN 972-***-****
***************@*****.***
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/steven-duran/1b/913/46a
Summary
• Senior Mechanical Engineer with an active Secret Clearance.
• Electronic enclosure design, thermal analysis and systems engineering.
• Produced detailed CAD drawings, models and assemblies of electro mechanical equipment.
• Root cause analysis used to improve quality and meet requirements.
• Applied Flow Simulation analysis for cooling techniques of electro mechanical equipment.
• Sheet metal, weldments, and plastic enclosure design using SolidWorks.
Experience
L-3 Communications, Grand Prairie, TX (contract) 2011 - 2012
Mechanical Engineer
Provided thermal analysis and design solutions using SolidWorks Flow Simulation and SolidWorks Professional.
• Electronic equipment and sheet metal design and computational fluid dynamics using Flow Simulation and SolidWorks.
Flextronics, Plano, TX (contract) 2010 – 2011
Mechanical Engineer
• Electronics packaging design, analysis and development of medical electronics display systems using SolidWorks.
• Thermal analysis of electronic equipment that was under research and development. Provided advice regarding special conditions that this equipment was subject to as thermal data of this equipment was limited and specific assumptions were made.
NEI, Plano TX (contract) 2010 – 2010
Mechanical Engineer
• Managed an aggressive timeline for the design, testing and documentation and implementation of numerous new shipping containers.
• Created and released vibration test reports (documentation) using Agile.
Raytheon, Dallas, TX. 2006 – 2010
Principal Mechanical Engineer
• Initiated and managed the creation and configuration control of engineering enablers and work products to align with the Raytheon Integrated Product Design Plan.
• Designed, developed and tested aircraft electronics equipment - used to test F-18 airborne surveillance equipment using Pro Engineer.
• Effectively worked projects in an established compressed schedule environment.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Ft. Worth, TX. 2003 – 2006
Mechanical Systems Engineer, Senior Staff
• Lead the effort in performance, integration and analysis of tests that were used to validate and verify that aircraft electronic mission systems equipment met structural and dynamic environmental requirements and specifications.
• Determined the integrity of supplier development requirements lists (structural analysis) regarding aircraft electronic systems equipment and coordinated with suppliers to optimize their designs and to comply with aircraft structural environmental requirements.
• Accepted or rejected technical data submitted by manufactures regarding being in compliance or not with structural and dynamic environmental criteria established by design changes and installations proposed.
General Dynamics Land Systems (contract). 2002 – 2003
Mechanical Design Engineer
Created a Switch Control Prototype Electronics Assembly for an armored vehicle.
• Developed, designed and built prototypes of a Switch Storage Unit. Performed a thermal analysis, thermal testing and designed it using Pro Engineer.
Navini Cisco, Richardson, TX. 2001 – 2002
Mechanical Design Engineeer
• Developed designs (SDRC), thermal analysis and prototypes of a Base Station Assembly in an environment of rapid engineering research, development and prototyping.
Alcatel Lucent 1997 – 2001
Member of Technical Staff
• Lead in the effort of expanding a Switching System that included the detail design, development and GR 63 Network Equipment Building Systems Seismic testing of this system. Used and applied Pro Engineer for all the parts, assemblies and drawings of this equipment.
L3 Communications, Alpharetta, GA 1995 – 1997
Principal Mechanical Engineeer
• Created an Aircraft electronic information display assembly as a Solid Model. Performed a thermal airflow and conduction analysis of the parts and assembly. Designed and developed a heat sink that was configured to my analysis results and used as a cooling solution.
Boeing Company, Seattle, WA. 1984 – 1995
Senior Engineer
• Created, developed and designed numerous forms of aircraft electronics equipment used on the family of Boeing Aircraft that included two information display systems. Designed secondary structures that were used on aircraft jet engine casings and cowlings.
TOOLS / SKILLS / EDUCATION
• BS Mechanical Engineering. California State University, Los Angeles.
• Six Sigma experience.
• ProEngineer.
• SolidWorks.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics.