Mechanical Design Engineer

Accomplished Project/Design Engineer with a solid background in product design, development, & production. Solid management capabilities with a consistent track record of anticipating consequences of new designs, initiating solutions, and completing projects to specification. Detail driven with outstanding communication skills and proven success interfacing both with customers, vendors and co-workers. Assumes mentor role and interacts well with diverse personalities. Technically skilled in the following software: MS Visual Basic 6, MS Visual C++, AutoCAD, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power Point, Visual Basic for Applications. Experienced with Pro-E, MATHCAD, imbedded systems, and Linux

Processes Experience:

Manufacturing of small precise parts and assemblies, weldments, castings, forgings, milling, drilling, EDM, heat treating, forming, sheet metal fabrication, FRC, wood, injection molding, compression molding, SPC.

Materials Experience:

Aluminum, alloy steels, low carbon steels, fiberglass – hand lay-up & prepreg.

Skills:

Manufacturing;

Strong problem solving skills, strong interpersonal cross-functional skills, strong manufacturing processing, fixture design, process design and control

Design;

Product design from specification to finished product, load analysis, fatigue studies, project management, product development from prototype to production

Software:

AutoCAD, Pro-E, Ideas, MATHCAD, Linux, Excel, MS Access, Power Point, Basic, Fortran, MS C++, Pascal, PIC Microcontrollers

Things for fun:

Skiing, Woodworking, Blacksmithing, meddling with micro electronics and sensors, arguing with computers.

Military: US Navy 12/1969-09/1975 E5

Education:

Western New England College MS Engineering Management 05/22/92

Western New England College BS Mechanical Engineering 05/23/86

Tidewater Community College AS Mechanical Engineering 05/19/78

GDATP Principal Design Engineer Williston, VT 12/2001-08/2011

Hamilton Sundstrand Design/Project Engineer Windsor Locks, CT 07/1997-12/2001

Trijicon, Inc. Chief Engineer Wixom, MI 02/1996-07/1997

Marlin Firearms Project Engineer North Haven, CT 03/1992-02/1996

Hamilton Standard Project Engineer Windsor Locks, CT 03/1990-03/1992

Colt Firearms Project Engineer Hartford, CT 09/1978-03/1990

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