Mechanical Engineer Design

MICHAEL A. ASHER

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STAFF MECHANICAL ENGINEER – PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Objective

Seeking a career opportunity with a solid and stable organization offering challenge within a strong team oriented environment, where I will be empowered to be productive in a position that requires creativity, problem solving challenges, attention to detail, and the ability to utilize my skills and experience to help: develop, procure, present, support and sell superior products and services.

Summary of Experience

• 20+ years mechanical engineering in the design and development of products including designing: parts, assemblies and products.

• Integration of concepts, designed components, sub-assemblies and assemblies within complex multi-disciplinary systems. Team involvement with test, validation and verification of finished product.

• Experience with rapid prototyping, outsourcing, tooling, in-house final assembly, and low to high volume production.

• Experience with all phases of product development: concept, mock-up, prototype, Test & Evaluation, pre-production, pilot and production.

• Customer POC: Experienced at training customers and professionals in the safe care and use of high tech capital equipment & software.

• Analysis & Modeling: FMEA, Risk Analysis, Hazard Analysis, Design of Experiments (DOE), FEA, Loads, Stress/Deflection, Modes and Shapes, COSMOS, visualNASTRAN 4D, CADRE Pro (Loads), Amperes (electromagnetic analysis), Kidasa Milestones, Microsoft Office, SolidWorks (3D Solid Modeling) & SolidWorks/COSMOS - CAD/CAM.

• Mechanical design and product development experience in Aerospace, Automotive, Commercial, and Consumer Product industries.

Experience

MAC Services, Oceanside, CA 03/05 to 01/11

Principal Engineer - Specialist

Projects are broad and diverse, including all facets of; prototype, pilot and production phases of new product development. Responsible for mechanical design, 3D models, analysis, and drawing generation utilizing SolidWorks and Cosmos. Design of Experiment methodologies – Red X hunt and Problem Solving / Troubleshooting. Pre and post-sales support, installation, repair, and customer training for a capital equipment product line. Responsible for meeting project schedule and budget. Responsible for designing products which will pass product testing & achieve the look and feel of Industrial Design concepts. Installation, repair, support and customer training for capital equipment product line.

MagneVu, Carlsbad, CA 07/97 to 02/05

Sr. Mechanical Engineer – Product Development

Broad and diverse responsibilities as a Key Mechanical Engineering member of a 7 person R&D - product development team. Responsible for new product development: mechanical design, analysis, prototyping, design evaluation, testing and design refinement. Responsible for the selection of metal alloys and elastomers based upon cost and design requirements. Material contributor in Risk Management, Hazard Analysis, Risk Analysis, and Mitigation Assessments per ISO 14971. Responsible for the requirements, analysis, design, prototyping and development of the mechanisms, primary and secondary structure, assemblies and components. Responsible for mechanical requirements generation by evaluation and compliance with IEC 60601 and applicable UL specifications. Responsible for designing to and verifying compliance with all governmental agency requirements. Responsible for engineering calculations: FEA, overbalance, FMEA and stability requirements, analysis and compliance testing. Responsible for design of magnet support & articulation mechanisms and secondary structure. Problem solving and design troubleshooting utilizing Design of Experiment techniques (DOE) – design refinement and DOE analysis, RED X hunt, and testing of a one liter, closed loop, LN2 cryo-cooler for low noise RF Antennas. Contributor to the FDA 510K application process.

DESIGNED & ANALYZED: Single shaft input, dual shaft, counter rotating output, anti-backlash, flat-pack-compound-gear train, plastic enclosures, sheet metal enclosures and bracketry, articulating support carts and conveyances, 0.2 Tesla permanent magnet containment structure, LN2 cryogenic dewar assembly utilizing SolidWorks and Cosmos.

WINNER: 2001 UCSD’s Most Innovative Product Award – Medical Device Category (Team Member).

MICHAEL A. ASHER

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Studio Arts Multimedia Inc., Carlsbad, CA 02/96 to 01/97

Business Unit Manager

Responsible for managing PC game development of the following titles: Madison Jaxx, Terry Bradshaw Football, Sinbad, King Arthur, WWII Ace, and Sargasso. Responsible for negotiation and inking of all supplier and talent contracts. Responsible for overseeing the creation of and successful completion of project budgets & scheduling. Reported to the CEO all: budget, personnel, facilities, project, customer and contract related issues. Successfully negotiated dozens of talent contracts with legal and C-level oversight.

Teradyne (STD) Corp., Agoura Hills, CA 05/94 to 12/95

Contract Mechanical Engineer

Valued member of a crack product development team responsible for meeting demanding customer requirements. Designed machined parts, weldments and sheet metal enclosures for semi-conductor test equipment.

GM-Hughes (Delco), Kokomo, IN 05/93 to 04/94

Contract Project Engineer (Lead)

Support production by solving critical product/manufacturing problems utilizing Design of Experiment methodologies. Directed a design and prototyping team in the troubleshooting and solution development of air control components and assemblies suffering from design and production maladies. Responsible for the design, testing, qualification and support of prototype and production automotive, mechanical air control components. Supported the Nissan Altima and GM truck line air controls.

Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., Hornell, NY 04/92 to 04/93

Contract Mechanical Engineer

Responsible for Transit Car: ventilation/heater system design, layout and drawing package creation. Responsible for thermal hand calculations and successful compliance with strict customer requirements. Responsible for thermal and acoustic insulation material selection, and material specification development and utilization to meet strict customer requirements. Directed designers and draftsmen in the creation of drawing packages and Bill of Materials (BOM). Responsible for drawing sign-off and drawing package approval processing.

GM-Hughes (Delco), Kokomo, IN 10/90 to 03/92

Contract Project Engineer (Lead)

Directed a 5 person design team in the development of a low cost, high volume product design. Responsible for the design, testing, qualification and support of prototype and production automotive, mechanical HVAC controls. Designed/Developed the Chevy L car air control, supported the Pontiac N car air control, troubleshooting design correction of the primary mechanical vacuum switch and rotary temperature mechanisms.

Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co., Santa Clarita, CA 01/89 to 10/90

Mechanical Engineer – Mechanical Design, Ordinance Integration

Recruited directly from TAI by Lockheed. Responsible for the contract compliant outfitting of the P-7A weapons bay-armament per Naval Contract utilizing the Aircraft Stores Interface Manuals (ASIM), layout drawings, and some ingenuity. Layout and detailed design of P-7A Weapons Bay secondary structure; adjusting sway braces, struts, fittings and supporting structure to accommodate standard weapons pylons. Responsible for weapons system integration, drawings and layout documents in support of the P-7A Design Reviews.

Technology Applications Inc., Camarillo, CA 02/86 to 01/89

Mechanical Engineer – Naval Aviation Ordinance Support

Responsible for solving a critical Sidewinder missile trap landing failure by isolating the root cause and improving the LAU-7, Sidewinder missile launcher, detent mechanism - material and reliability. Liaison between prime contractor, Naval Air Systems Command and Pacific Missile Test Center on several naval armament/missile launcher programs.

MICHAEL A. ASHER

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Education

BS Applied Physics, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA. 1986

Completed Courses and Additional Training

• American Skill Path Inc. Project Mgmt., Time Mgmt., Personnel Development Training, 1992-1997

• Lockheed Technical Institute, Burbank, CA. Advanced design courses toward Systems Engineering Specialist.

• General Motors Institute, Kokomo, IN. Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing I & II.

• General Motors Institute, Kokomo, IN. Quality Assurance, Design of Experiments (DOE) by Dorian Shainin.

Software Tools

• 3D Solid Modeling: SolidWorks, Intergraph EMS, Engineering Design Graphics (EDG), CADAM, CircuitWorks.

• Finite Element Analysis (FEA): Cosmos, MSC visualNastran 4D.

• Finite Difference Analysis: Amperes (Electromagnetic)

• Loads Determination: CADRE Pro, Hand Calculations and MS Excel.

• Kinematic Analysis: Dynamic Designer (mechanisms).

• Data Management: PDM Works, MS SourceSafe.

• General: Windows XP, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Kidasa Milestones, Oracle (online tools), Adobe Acrobat.

• Web Development: Kompozer (HTML), WebLog Expert, Adobe Photoshop.

Awards and Honors

Awarded the Most Innovative Product Award (team member), Medical Device Category, 2001.

Awarded the Alvada Trautmann Scholarship.

Patents and Patents pending.

Memberships

National Auto Sport Association (NASA), Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) regional.

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