SUMMARY

• Senior Mechanical Design Engineer with extensive history working in the industrial automation and high - speed rotating OEM industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD, castings, weld fabrications, sheet metal, GD&T, Root Cause Analysis, DFMA, and Continuous Improvement.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed fixtures to locate bent tubular components during forming operations utilizing Inventor 2018.
• Fixtures featured light weight, quick-change style design, allowing for maximum adjustability while ensuring precise tolerance requirements were maintained.
• Engineered light curtain and machine safety guarding.

Confidential

Senior Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support of industrial mixing equipment product lines. The Dayton facility is the flagship factory for NOV’s Mixing Technologies product brands which include ChemineerTM rotating mixers and ProchemTM belt driven mixers.
• Design modification utilizing SolidWorks 2016, 2017 and AutoCAD Mechanical Desktop design software.
• Responsible for the mechanical design and detailing of mixing products with emphasis on customer needs quality, budget, safety, and on-time delivery.
• Design and detailing of industrial mixing equipment, Bill of Material management, and general engineering order processing using Confidential PLM software.

Confidential

Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Integration of industrial robots with aluminum die casting machinery.
• Design and modification of trim presses, fixtures, jigs, laser markers, and deburring cells using Inventor 2015 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2015 software.
• Repurposing and retrofit of existing die cast machine cells.
• Development of End of Arm Tooling, chutes and other conveyance systems, design of perimeter and machine guarding.

Confidential

Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Integration of industrial robots with machine tools; lathes, machining centers, and grinders.
• Design software used included SolidWorks 2014, 2015, and 2016. Retrofit of existing machining cells with robotics and development of new robot cells.
• Design of End of Arm Tooling, conveyance systems used to transfer finished and semi-finished machined components to other machine tools, inspection equipment, and audit stations contained within an automated robot cell.
• Design of perimeter and machine guarding.

Confidential

Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design of structural steel machined weldments serving as a base/frame for prototype equipment using Inventor 2008 solid modeling software.
• This project involved extensive use of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing.
• Additional responsibilities include design of pneumatic supply, vacuum manifold and safety guarding of prototype machine which is used to produce differentiated metal packaging.

Confidential

Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Engineering of structural steel frame weldment as used in Parker Hannifin RunWise® hydraulic hybrid technology program on Class 8 trucks.
• Optimize existing prototype design; Design for Manufacture/Design for Assembly.
• During this process, a discrepancy was discovered between prototype design material selection/specification and actual fabrication.

Confidential

Product Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design of centrifuges used in sugar processing and chemical/pharmaceutical separation. Primarily responsible for the creation of a prototype kilo lab centrifuge using Inventor 2008 & 2009 and AutoCAD 2008 & 2009.
• This centrifuge is used to process small batches of material for the purpose of process development prior to large-scale production processing.
• Project management responsibilities included prime orders and rebuilds of used equipment.
• Other tasks included cost reduction initiatives on existing machine lines.

Confidential

Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design of OEM equipment used in the process of metal ore refinement. Engineered spherical shape forging machine components.
• Inventor used for all solid modeling, assembly and detail drawings.
• Design of web-handling equipment used in the cast film and coating/laminating industry. Engineered extrusion coating/laminating stations and S-wrap pull roll stations. Involved in the design of turret unwind and winding stations. Designed extruder bases and extrusion drying systems, developed necessary supporting platforms, mezzanines, and walkways.
• Tasks also included the creation of support/structure and machine line assembly drawings. AutoCAD 2004 used for layout, assembly, and detail drawings.