Senior Mechanical Engineer

SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER

Accomplished, result oriented, and extremely focused Senior Mechanical Engineer with over 20 progressive years of teaching experience and 6 years of engineering expertise, with proven track record of successfully completing projects. Demonstrated aptitude for synthesizing, designing, analyzing, and executing a wide variety of product designs. Highly motivated, creative, and performance-driven individual with in-depth experience in designing mechanical systems, gear analysis, troubleshooting, client relations, and problem resolution. Enthusiastic in working with students and associates from all learning levels and socioeconomic backgrounds. Persistent in accomplishing objectives by focusing on business goals and utilizing effective communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills. Upholds a very unusual blend of broad range engineering skills and hands on, common sense, application of engineering methods. Registered P.E. in Utah.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

- Strong oral, written communication, and presentations skills

- Advanced engineering design and analysis

- Project management using earned value

- General management and operations management

- Strategic business planning and development

- Design and development of manufacturing processes

- Statistical quality control and six sigma methods

- Troubleshooting and repair of mechanical systems including gear and bearing failure analysis

CORE COMPETENCIES

- Excellent knowledge of materials, static failure analysis, fatigue failure analysis, and materials testing

- Proven expertise in basic manufacturing processes, statistical quality control, process design, lean production management methods CAD and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

- Thorough understanding of how engineering design affects manufacturing

- Proven project engineering, project management, and engineering management expertise

- Outstanding mechanical design, analysis, and hands on skills

- Extensive experience in working with rolling bearing design, installation, failure analysis, machinery vibration analysis and failure prevention, gear design and failure analysis, and some lubrication background

- Structural analysis using finite element methods

- Extensive instrumentation, data acquisition, and data analysis background

- Ability to teach, mentor, and guide personnel in delivering high quality engineering services

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

- Designed many mechanical systems ranging from large mobile robots to amusement park rides to small satellite mechanisms utilizing extensive design and manufacturing expertise

- Functioned as lead project engineer on numerous engineering projects including $8 Million Pteranodon Flyer ride installed at Islands of Adventure at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Senior Mechanical Engineer - Clipper Windpower, Cedar Rapids, IA 2008-Present

- Conduct extensive gear analysis using Kisssoft, LVR, and AGMA and ISO standards

- Execute bearing installation analysis

- Methodically reengineer high speed gears to extend operating life

Owner - Vintage Transmissions, Logan, UT 2005-2008

- Started the business including concept and original business plan

- Strategically designed and built the production system using lean production principles

- Facilitated the rebuilding, redesigning, and adapting 4-speed truck transmissions to install in four wheel drive Jeep conversions

INSTRUCTOR SPECIALIST-MAE DEPARTMENT - Utah State University, Logan, UT 2004-2008

- Deployed innovative undergraduate and graduate level teaching in the MAE Department

- Taught diverse subjects, including senior design, junior design, manufacturing processes, statistical quality control, machine design, advanced machine design, fluids thermal laboratory, and design for manufacturability

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR - Utah State University, Logan, UT 1999-2004

- Functioned as Mechanical Engineering Manager for USU-TACOM Intelligent Mobility Program in the Center for Self-Organizing and Intelligent Systems (CSOIS)

- Managed, trained, and monitored a team of six engineers responsible for mechanical design, fabrication, and integration of Omni-directional vehicles

EARLIER EXPERIENCE

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING - Setpoint Engineered Systems, Ogden, UT 1997-1999

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR- MMET DEPARTMENT - Weber State University, Ogden, UT 1988-1997

SENIOR ENGINEER - Allied Signal Aerospace Company, Phoenix, AZ 1985-1988

EDUCATION

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(Ph.D.) Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering

(M.S.) Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering

(B.S.) Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, Provo, UT

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