Mechanical Designer-Engineer

JOSEPH G DECKER

** ***** ****** **********, *** York 14469

h:585-***-**** c:585-***-**** ******@***********.***

CAREER SUMMARY

Mechanical Designer with extensive experience in a variety of product and machine component design applications. A competent and productive team player with an expertise in mechanical design, detail and assembly. Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written. Obtained a US Government SSBI Clearance (single scope background investigation).

Key technical knowledge and expertise include:

•Pro-Engineer CAD (Wildfire 3.0 modeling basics)

•Unigraphics CAD (UG NX-4) •Die Cast Design

•Intergraph CAD •Injection Molded Part Design

•Anvil 5000 CAD •Prismatic Part Design

•DFM and DFA •Rotational Part Design

•TEAM CENTER data base •Sheet Metal Design

•GD&T (ASME Y14.5-M-1994) •Welded Assembly Design

WORK EXPERIENCE

ITT INDUSTRIES, SPACE SYSTEMS DWISION, Rochester, NY

Mechanical Designer-Electronic Packaging 2004- present

Electronics Packaging Design and Detail of Test and Flight Equipment

•Design and detail of electronic flight and test hardware packaging resulting in the passing of both flight vibe and EMI compliance in the first test run.

•Redesign of production and test optical installation equipment resulting in repeatability and ease of application for assembly engineers.

•Supported a development team with assembly tooling design for optical sensor installation. The result was to qualify the division for production of flight assemblies for prime contractors.

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester, NY

Mechanical Designer-Digital Imagining Division 1988-2004

Design and Detail of Production Mechanical Parts for Commercial Scanner

•Development of large and small injection molded plastic parts resulting in the industry’s first “dock able platen” on a low volume digital scanner.

•Implemented a new design of miniature injection molded plastic parts for electro/mechanical double document detection feature.

•Creation of vacuum molded plastic cabinetry parts for the high volume scanners.

•Updated existing product with cost reduction designs of sheet metal and machined component parts for the Optical Disc Storage Library equipment.

JOSEPH G DECKER h:585-***-**** c:585-***-**** ******@***********.***

Mechanical Designer-Machine Process Engineering Division

Design and Detail of Industrial Production Wide Web Conveyance Machinery

•Developed a complete sheet metal dryer section for a production machine. Customer used that design for a second dryer section in another machine resulting in operations cost savings.

•Created numerous designs of mechanical devices for process machines. Upgrades to process equipment, mechanical devices created for in process adjustments to prevent machine shutdowns.

•Design and Detail of prototype equipment on pilot research development machines.

•Conducted field work site review and design concepts to developed cost estimates for capital projects.

•Generated parts list and work order releases to the company’s shops division for parts fabrication of capital equipment.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

•Sheet metal fabrication shop designer of pressure vessels.

Prepared welded design assembly drawings and parts list for in house shops manufacturing.

•Product designer/drafter of porcelain electrical insulators.

Maintained customer product design files, generated shop inspection drawings and machine control templates for process part production.

EDUCATION

Rochester Institute of Techno1ogy Henrietta, NY

A.A.S. in Mechanical Industrial Technology

Eastman Kodak Company Rochester, NY

•Drafting Apprentice Program Graduate

•Design for Manufacturing and Design

•Diversity Awareness Seminar

•Effective Listening Skills

•Ergonomics Awareness Seminar

•Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing

•Time Management Seminar

AFFILIATIONS

•Boy Scouts of America (Cub Scout Assistant Den Leader, Boy Scout Troop

Chairman, Advancement Chairman)

•Parish Council (Past Council Member and Chairman)

•East Bloomfield Historical Society

•East Bloomfield Rotary (2009 Citizen of the year) sheet 2 of 2

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