Engineer Mechanical

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mechanical Design Engineer

Force Protection Industries Inc., Ladson, SC 2010-2012

Contracted to design armored trucks with upgrades for the Buffalo and Cougar variants utilizing SolidWorks CAD along with PTC's Windchill PDM system, and Design Reviews.

Completed Cougar Front Door Upgrade Project with hydraulic assist.

Researched and completed problem reports, and provided ASME compliant drawings.

Developed Install Models and drawings for assembly of truck modules including electrical routing.

Drafter II

Scientific Applications International Corp., North Charleston, SC 2009-2009

Designed and prototyped metalwork to locate electronic equipment in armored trucks for the military, utilizing SolidWorks CAD.

Developed armored truck and equipment CAD models for government review.

Manufacturing Engineer II

Force Protection Industries Inc., Ladson, SC 2006-2008

Design aluminum/steel fixtures and templates utilizing SolidWorks CAD for manufacture of military armored trucks, including FMEA.

Developed System and Process Flow Diagrams for Manufacturing to support the ERP system, including FMEA.

Designed and built the first FPI assembly line for fabrication of military armored trucks.

SolidWorks 06 Essentials & Routing (40 hrs training)

GD&T (ASME 14.5M) (24 hrs training)

Mechanical Engineer

Quantum Resources/Olsten Staffing (contract work), Florence, SC 2002-2006

ESAB: review project drawings (Quantum Resources).

ABB: Drawings for Circuit Breaker design utilizing SolidWorks CAD (Olsten Staffing).

GE Healthcare Systems: MRI coil winding (Olsten Staffing).

Installation Engineer

ESAB Inc., Florence, SC 1989-2001

Design the installation of steel mill equipment for foreign and domestic customers with CAD drawings (2-D) utilizing GTWorks (Windows O/S) and AutoTROL (Unix O/S).

Provided machine technical information and project scheduling to customers before and after machine order acquisition, and attend all customer technical meetings.

Developed machine specifications according to customer requirements.

Developed Spare Parts Bill of Material with cost according to customer budget specifications.

Managed Spare Parts and Maintenance Manual preparation at the end of the project.

Interfaced between engineering and customer throughout the project to ensure proper site preparation and/or modifications for operation of equipment.

Special Projects:

Provided stress analysis at machine wheels for customer documentation of wheel strength.

Developed documentation for CE certification of equipment to meet European Union (EU) requirements.

Designed a computer program written in Fortran and later converted to Basic for machine fluid consumption which reduced calculation time by 80%.

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