SUMMARY:

• Senior electromechanical engineer supporting design and manufacturing of high volume and one of kind products into ISO 13485, ISO 9001, ISO 9002, TS16949, FDA medical device process validation, QA organizations and defense.
• Provide improved component designs and manufacturing processes industries include: medical devices, scientific instruments, x - ray tubes, automotive air bag, semiconductor, energetic materials, and marine propulsion and navigation and defense components.
• Utilize engineering and PMP project skills using Microsoft projects to work with marketing and sales to provide productions drawings per ASME Y14.5M from CAD models using Solidworks and Pro E for release to manufacturing.
• Brazing and diffusion bonded high vacuum assemblies. Aluminum brazing.
• Vacuum components and subsystems
• Design glass to metal seals
• Electromagnets
• Hydraulic, Pneumatic System Design
• Sheet metal
• Welded structures
• Machined components
• ASME pressure vessels and power piping
• Tooling design, electro mechanical design
• Knowledgeable in material selection
• Manufacturing of ion lasers and x-ray tubes (Industrial, Medical Device Industry)
• Energetic assemblies, manual loading tools
• Plastic injection over molded metal assemblies
• Optic mounting laser diodes, beam splitters, lens, cylindrical lens, mirrors, Brewster windows, prisms
• Operate PLC equipment
• Lab view GUI interface and data acquisition equipment
• Select sensors and instrumentation for signal conditioning systems for data acquisition
• Designed and manufactured first article next generation Kidney Dialysis sheetmetal panels and UL labels for Bluestar.
• Designed and manufactured sheetmetal formed flat/narrow flow channel for application in condenser industry using high temperature aluminum brazing technology to assemble cooling fins. Provided project schedule.
• Implemented new industrial cutting edge digital x-ray inspection method for medical industry to screen for Confidential windows used in medical device equipment as mammogram windows.
• Project Leader for Stage 2 Air Bag Initiator, a single item.
• Designed NPI 1 ohm inert blue body plastic air bag initiator to prevent supplying live initiators to suppliers which are not authorized to handle live products for equipment qualifications in the automotive industry.
• Designed K63 Quick Clamp design to meet the production utilization for operator handling of high temperature assembly/disassembly for semiconductor operations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Computer Skills: Solid Works, Solidworks Simulation, Pro-E, AutoCAD, Lab View, C, Magnetics, Nastran, Mathcad

Software: MS Office Suite, MS Projects, Minitab, Adobe Professional

Database: SAP, Pointman, Agile, Intuitive, Access, Oracle, Vantive, 4D, Brio, AS400

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Mechanical Engineer

Confidential, Concord, CA

Responsibilities:

• Re-designed and fabricated four production sheet metal components using Solidworks 2014.
• Created 4 mylar color labels and released to production with sheet metal and label suppliers.
• Conducted design reviews with cross-functional team including United Labs.
• Performed reliability accelerated life testing calculations.
• Wrote test protocol for chemical wiping labels and panels for durability testing in accelerated environmental temperature chamber.
• Test evaluated legibility and bonding of labels to plastic cabinet for equipment 7 year life.
• Wrote Engineering Test Reports evaluating polypropylene material grade substitutions for product handles and 10 Liter container.
• Provided project schedule in Microsoft projects

Mechanical Engineer

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design NPI Surfscan7 Rotary Frame Tool using 80-20 members and machined components to rotate 500 lb. assembly to provide manufacturing support.
• Provided design reviews.
• Used Solidworks 2014 released into EPDM.

Sr. Manufacturing Development Engineer

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for NPI “Button Gen1”pressure sensor MEM fabrication using eutectic brazing, wire bonding, soldering and adhesive production equipment.
• Designed and subcontract manufactured assembly tooling of ceramic, and graphite materials using Solidworks 2015.
• Performed final assembly electrical and pressure acceptance testing using data acquisition station.
• Created manufacturing methods.
• Released production cost report to management.
• Developed new graphite supplier source to increase capacity.
• Supplier provided an improved machinable high temperature graphite for the braze ceramic to MEM eutectic joint process for next generation ceramic pressure sensor.
• Performed sterilization cleaning and bakeout.

Mechanical Engineer

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop manufacturing process for Confidential Cooling project.
• Identified Confidential mill as manufacturer.
• Purchased blanked sheetmetal from Confidential .
• Designed sheet metal obround tube using Solidworks 2013.
• Developed and qualified sheetmetal manufacturer for fabrication.
• Specified fluro-potassium flux to braze aluminum fins to fabricated sheetmetal tubes.
• Subcontracted condenser welding.
• Provided project schedule in Microsoft Projects.

Mechanical Engineer

Confidential, Concord, CA

Responsibilities:

• Subcontract Mechanical Engineer providing design and design reviews for Confidential.
• Obtained cost to manufacture 4 configurations in trade-off cost vs function comparison.
• Developed 2 drive systems Confidential and Confidential Drive both using Rail and Guides for translation mechanism.
• Supported RF TRVO project group with two designs and manufacture for Ka, Ku band adapters to support OMT Interface Range testing.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Materion Electrofusion, Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote next generation IS-50M-AF Confidential Specification principally used in the mammogram breast examination medical device to eliminate false positive readings.
• Establish industry standards implementing ASTM E1742 to inspect beryllium window developed from radiographic digital inspection research.
• Established engineering procedure to inspect beryllium window with state of the art digital x-ray equipment.
• Represented engineering as a key team member along with Sales, Marketing and Development group to work with customers to upgrade in-house inspection.
• Developed and delivered beryllium (Be) customer special window assemblies used in commercial x-ray instruments, national and international synchrotron facilities and other scientific instruments. Interfaced with principal scientist obtaining customer approval for the design of high vacuum window assemblies and vacuum vessel to test windows assemblies using Solidworks 2010.
• Successfully conducted DOE on diffusion bonding process on long standing high volume product lines. Improvements reduced scrap for 3 Varian product families improving yields from 70% to 95%. Applied Minitab DOE analysis to establish operating process setting to eliminate bead formation and leaks in diffusion bonding processes
• Performed equipment Installation Qualification (IQ) testing and performance operations, Performance Qualification (OQ) testing to yield control plan settings in performance qualifications (PQ).

Confidential, Hollister, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented automotive industry FMEA and DFMEA procedures for GTMS design history changes and NPI Stage 2 initiators.
• Conduct design reviews capturing design history for new processes.
• Prepared and managed capital expenditure budget. Provided project schedule.

Confidential, Hollister, CA

Research & Development Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• New product for the industry which eliminated mixing 2 ohm live initiators produced on production equipment using Solidworks.
• Championed PPAP (Production Parts Approval Process) to qualify Sylvania Tungsten using DOE analysis.
• Applied Anova hypothesis testing to reduce final electrical test TTT rejection rates to less than 2%.
• Incorporated supplier recommended GTMS geometry changes with no impact on the component function and their manufacturing on the high volume automated equipment, maintaining automated equipment 1.33 Cpk.
• Optimized production resistance weld settings based on results of DOE study.
• Designed Micro Gas Generator test station using Labview.
• Designed and manufactured customer engineering samples.
• Designed R&D tooling: Radius Electrode Tool, Pin Straightener, Horizon Blade Removal Tool and others tools.
• Interfaced with world class glass to metal seal (GTMS) manufactures performing process audits of Indept Safety Systems Vesitin, Schott GTMS, Lanscron Czech Republic, and Electrovac GTMS facility in Selswig Germany.

Confidential, Scotts Valley, CA

Manufacturing Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• X-Ray tube manufacturing support for densiometer measurements used in medical device industry.
• Designed RF vacuum braze tooling and lead shield alignment station to increase production rates using Solidworks.
• Released new micro focus Anova x-ray gun manufacturing assembly methods and trained operator.

Confidential, Hollister, CA

Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for lean manufacturing implementation of high volume assembly of bridge wire initiated energetic devices.
• Release ISO 9002 assembly methods.
• Designed an upgrade to PAC 3 pneumatic loading station autoloader increasing production capacity 5 times to meet production demand.
• Used Pro-E. Designed hand loading tooling for BBU43 product line.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Sr. Manufacturing Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sustained manufacturing of ion lasers for commercial, scientific and eye surgery unit for medical device industry.
• Support production for ion lasers with 90% first pass yields. Managed process cleaning of components ultrasonic bath, nitrogen purge and drying processes for the facility.
• Managed four high vacuum brazing active braze alloy to ceramic stations. Managed four burn- in cryogenic vacuum temperature gas fill stations processing ion laser tubes. Inspected for contaminations to maintain sterile conditions.
• Reviewed optics receiving transmission and reflectance QA reports. Supported bake-out of brewster window flange mounting and mirror and optic bellows flange mounting.
• Supported cathode activation runs and thermal measurements. Performed optical pyrometer temperature and emissivity corrections measurements in high temperature and vacuum environment.
• Manufacturing representative on marketing team for NPI for Model 308 and 322 Lasers with production responsibility.
• Supported ECO releases and provided manufacturing signoff.
• Designed tooling using ProE Cad.