Project manager, Mechanical Design Engineer

GORDON ROBERTS Cell: 917-***-****

** *** *** ****, **** Hiawatha, NJ 07034 Email: **************@*****.***

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TECHNOLOGY/ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL

PRODUCT DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT – MANUFACTURING – PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

Decisive project management and leadership experience with an extensive product, process, and systems development background. Skilled in specialty projects, manufacturing engineering and start-up operations. Knowledgeable in industrial automation and information management systems. Well versed in competitive fixed price bidding, budgeting, system design and development. Strong skills in process integration management systems, spreadsheets and most popular applications.

• Awarded Bell Labs President’s Silver Award

• Awarded Bell Labs President’s Gold Award

• Led radio equipment, amplifier and digital equipment projects for wireless base stations

• Methodology Development Team for 3 Dimensional Blade Volume Design at NASA R&D.

• NASA’s GEM Master’s Fellowship

Professional Experience

GREENFLEET SERVICE LLC, Roselle, NJ 2008 to Present

General Manager, Business Strategies

Manage the day-to-day activities of a startup “green” ground transportation company. Responsible for procuring new business, resolving customer service issues, supervising office personnel, scheduling fleet service, etc.

ALCATEL-LUCENT, Whippany, NJ 1998 – 2007

Member of Technical Staff

Team leader of several cross-functional teams working from system requirements, developed physical architecture, design concept and detailed design for circuit packs/equipment. Ensured that technical data and specifications accurately defined the quality aspects of the design. Provided sufficient information to enable procurement, manufacturing and subsequent verification that products conformed to requirements. Managed prototype/models schedule and builds for New Product Introduction. Ensured continuity of supply chain, tracked to improve delivery issues. Ensured that the design met safety, environmental and all applicable code requirements and customer requirements.

• Awarded Bell Labs President’s Silver Award for the outstanding level of innovation and technical excellence, demonstrated by the Flexent Modcell project.

• Awarded Bell Labs President’s Gold Award for outstanding level of innovation, technical excellence and business impact demonstrated by the OneBTS common platform project.

• Led radio equipment, amplifier and digital equipment projects for wireless base stations where the team had to gather resources, complete design and submit to manufacturing on time and within budget. Consistently met all criteria with successful designs.

• Managed all mechanical design activities including design, prototype model build, material selection, material procurement, testing, etc.

• Communicate with domestic and international manufacturing teams to resolve any manufacturing issues.

• Coordinate all qualification agencies testing such as UL and FCC.

• Managed scheduling by ensuring that team met all design milestones.

• Technology transfer of a product from R&D into production.

• Design Verification and Process & Design Validation experience.

• Processed Engineering Change Orders (ECO).

• Led cost reduction teams in which legacy designs were cost reduced without negatively impacting the quality aspects of the design.

• Work concurrently on several projects with aggressive schedules within scheduled timeframes.

NASA LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER, Cleveland, OH 1997

GEM Fellow / Intern, High Speed Research Branch

Conducted engine cycle analysis on a supersonic jet engine by using Design Optimization Synthesis System (DOSS).

• Assisted in developing the methodology for a Three Dimensional Blade Volume Design.

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, GA 1997

Research Assistant, Aerospace Systems Design Lab

• Conducted research into feasibility of a High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT), the next generation of supersonic aircrafts to replace the aging Concord as part of the Aerodynamic Team.

• Worked on generating Drag Polar Response Surface Equations for the entire operational flight envelope, including a range of Mach numbers, takeoff and landing, for a wide variety of HSCT geometries.

• Presented findings at a symposium of government and Aerospace industry companies.

NASA LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER, Cleveland, OH 1996

GEM Fellow / Intern, Electrical Propulsion Research Branch

Test Assistant of a plasma contactor for the International Space Station.

• Assisted in the drafting of a Hollow Cathode Assembly.

• Assisted in the research and development of a NASA small ion engine

• Developed computer software to model the electron-positron interaction in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY 1995

Student Intern, REU Physics Program

• Developed computer software to model the electron-positron interaction in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology – Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, 1998

CUNY-City College – Bachelor of Enginerring in Mechanical Engineering, 1996

Honors / Awards

GEM Master’s Fellowship

NASA-OAI Collaborative Internship and Fellowship Program

Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities Honorable Mention

NASA Space Grant Scholarship

NASA Lewis Scholars Program, 1997

Engineering/Science Scholarship

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