Senior Mechanical Engineer

WALTER TAM

**** *. ****** ** *** ***, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274

Phone: 360-***-**** or 310-***-****

Email: ******@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/wtam88

CAREER OBJECTIVE: With 30 plus years of mechanical design experiences in electro-mechanical products. I am pursuing a senior position with rewarding challenges.

EDUCATION and TRAINING:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering Management with Arizona College of Engineering (Tucson, Arizona)

• Solidworks, Pro-Engineer wildfire 4.0 with Advance Part design & Assembly, G2 Surface training with Design Engine, Pro-drawing, Intralink, MS products, Agile, Lotus Notes 7, GD&T ASME Y14.5-1994

• Plastic part design training by Glenn Beal, BCID

EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Principal Mechanical Engineer (2011-2012)

Western Digital Inc., Irvine, CA

• Lead project development, program and vendor management

• Problem solving, trouble shooting for design/manufacturing

• Detail mechanical design for HDD enclosure, with EMI/ESD, shock and vibe, thermal management

• Liasion between USA and Asia, cross functional team collaboration

Sr. Mechanical Engineer (2009-2011)

Belkin International, Los Angeles, CA

• Project and program management

• Detail mechanical design for plastic and sheet metal parts, trouble shooting and tooling approval on site

• Collaboration with cross functional team, ID team

Sr. Mechanical Engineer (2005-2009)

Logitech Inc., Vancouver, USA

• Mechanical design and development for wooden speaker box, headset, acoustic enclosure for iPod

• Collaboration with cross functional team, Asia vendors, manufacturers

• Create FDM prototypes for design and function evaluation

• RFQ for new project, tooling scheduling, project management

Consultant

Mycanh Design House, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2003-2005)

• Project and design consultant in consumer product and interior design

Mechanical Engineer (1998-2003)

Polycom Canada Ltd., Vancouver BC, Canada

• Responsible mechanical design for VOIP phones with PCBa assembly with Pro-E

• Problem solving and trouble shooting for injection molding and manufacturing

• Vendor and project management in Asia

• Innovated new wall mount bracket fits all sizes wall plates, which was used in Smartphone

Mechanical Manager (1995-1998)

dba Communication, Vancouver BC, Canada

• Using Pro-E surface to redesign Smartalk NRG mechanism

• Managed vendors in China and Malaysia for tooling, projects, communications

• Packaging design by using paper material for green environment

Sr. Mechanical Designer (1994-1995)

Advanced Gravis, Burnaby BC, Canada

• Advanced Gravis is a leading designer and manufacturer of high quality entertainment devices for personal computers including joysticks, PC game pad etc.

• Tooling follow up, liaisons with mold maker including off-shore manufacturing in China, trouble shooting for production and moldings.

• Used Pro-E to create surface model with scanned datas

Mechanical Designer (1992-1993)

Xinex Labs Inc., Annacis Island BC, Canada

• The Mindset telephone is programmable with DSP, Voice, Fax, Data, computer

• Re-designed the LCD bezel mechanism for DFMA, cost improve

• Assisted in component sourcing, evaluation, liaison with Asia vendors

• Scheduling for injection molding, progress control, trouble shooting of plastic parts

Technician to Manager-Mechanical Engineering (1971-1992)

Various electronics industries, Hong Kong

• Started my career with United Far East Electronics Co. Ltd in 1971-76 as a technician

• Mechanical Manager in 1982-84 for Elec&Eltek, leading a group of 6 engineers

• Joined U.D.I. (an Eisenberg, Austria company) in 1985 as China trade engineer, install and test run the twin-screw extrusion (Cincinnati Milacron) at a PVC profile factory in Shanghai for a month

• Designed sprinkler system for Suncast, USA

• Designed and developed 46/49 cordless phone, wall mount, trim line and feature phones

• On job training for Manager with Hong Kong Management Association

• Principle Mechanical Engineer with Musical Electronics Ltd, design and develop first CD/cassette/radio boom box, joint design with Tohei (a Japanese company)

• Relocated to Vancouver BC, Canada in 1992 with my family from Hong Kong, China

BILINGUAL: Fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, (read, write, speak)

Working VISA: I am Canadian working in USA with transferable H-1B visa

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