SUMMARY

• Engineering professional with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and 10+ years experience in semiconductor, drive engineering, transportation, biotechnology, nano technology, high tech, storage systems, and commercial lighting manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated success in a variety of roles including Mechanical Design Engineer, Applications and Project Engineer.
• Proficiencies include: Solidworks, Creo, Microsoft Office, Windchill, TeamCenter, SAP, Arena, AutoCAD, AS400 and Visio.
• Proven track record supporting internal, offshore engineering and production groups driving new products to commercialization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - San Jose, CA

Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing major components of semiconductor equipment including vacuum exhaust systems, chemical delivery systems, vacuum chambers, robotics and environmental control systems. Defining overall systems layouts.
• Creation of bill of material, assembly drawings/procedures and other related information. Working with Agile/Oracle and suppliers and well as manufacturing engineers to address issues such as design for manufacturability and cost effectiveness. Proficient in Solidworks, and AutoCAD.

Confidential - Milpitas, CA

Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creating original drawings of tool subsystems, such as liquid conveying equipment and general layouts and the tool enclosure area. Preparing 2D drawings of equipment components that are ready for fabrication and execute designs for complex communication systems backed by thorough analysis. Recreation 3D model of vacuum chamber, glove box. Doing facility layout of gas and liquid system.
• Knowledge of semiconductor capital equipment, including vacuum and high pressure compression fittings, standard O-ring designs, gas delivery systems, Mass Flow Controllers, and vacuum pumps.

Confidential - Mountain View, CA

Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute designs for complex communication systems backed by thorough analysis
• Deliver robust solutions for tasks such as blind mating of high density interconnects, inject/eject mechanism and larger server racks.
• Take responsibility for the productizing of large scaled network and/or computer systems - including requirements gathering, concepts generation and detailed design analysis.
• Be a technical resource in multiple areas of product design such as thermal, structural, manufacturability, serviceability and reliability.

Confidential - Vallejo, CA

Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as a consultant for a global leader in the world of power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure as a Mechanical Design Engineer.
• Develop technical specifications for rolling stock mechanical systems like coupler/draft gear system, water and waste system, etc., based on customer requirements.
• Design, test and commission rolling stock mechanical systems that meet/exceed customer expectation on performance, quality, safety and reliability.
• Develop component specification and provide technical assistance to sourcing for procurement of major components.
• Develop a complete technical Scope of Work (Work Breakdown Structure) for rolling stock renovation and overhaul projects based on customer technical specification and train system requirements and specification.

Confidential - South San Francisco, CA

Associate Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Apply engineering principles and technical expertise in supporting manufacturing and production needs for compliant spare part analysis and review.
• Create or update material master records in Computerized Maintenance Management System to maintain the accuracy and completeness of records.
• Work with engineering groups, Inventory Control, and vendors regarding spare part information and conduct technical like for like assessment.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Quality groups involved in cGMP manufacturing to ensure and maintain compliance with company and cGMP standards.

Confidential - Hayward, CA

Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performs complex and varied tasks requiring the operation of computer aided design equipment (Solidworks).
• Draft substantially difficult and varied layout and detail schematic drawings and prepare bills of materials.
• Utilizes knowledge CAD design techniques, equipment capabilities, application techniques, and design limitations to prepare standard and non-standard functional designs.
• Understand equipment function and design requirements and applies to a variety of complex tasks. Resolves most design questions and problems and serves as a resource to others in the resolution of design problem and issues.
• Develop manufacturing drawings and models for machine components and assemblies. Develop drawings and bill of materials for commercialize products.
• Provide support to the project for developing and implementing a document management system. Develop and implement standard drawing template for all standard and project specific to company.

Confidential - San Jose, CA

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Offer onsite support serving as a Consultant for Lam Research, a major supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry.
• Interact daily with Lam engineers offering technical support focused on updating legacy products.
• Prioritize, delegate and review engineering service requests, create and analyze ECO’s and review and correct additional documentation as necessary.
• Manage offshore team ensuring service requests are completed in a timely manner.
• Process Quality notifications in SAP regarding obsolete mechanical and electro-mechanical components, supplier requests for deviation, manufacturing defects and maintain BOM’s.
• Design, procure and retrofit tooling/kits for replacement of obsolete parts and tool upgrades.
• Create and revise engineering drawings, cable schematics and system interconnects using PDMLink and Creo within GD&T standards.

Confidential - Redwood City, CA

Mechanical Design Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided engineering services in the design and manufacture of premium LED fixtures for commercial applications.
• Utilized Solidworks to design sheet metal, extrusions, injection molded and CNC parts.
• Augmented services with quick turn prototyping instrumental to success within this fast-track product development cycle environment.
• Implemented engineering review processes and managed necessary revisions.
• Created and managed all BOM’s using Arena Software.

Confidential - Hayward, CA

Mechanical Applications Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted SEW Sales Engineers and customers both on site and through phone support.
• Reviewed requests for quotes and orders on non-standard product assemblies/modifications to ensure technical acceptance and minimal risk of failure.
• Provided assurance for technical compliance by reviewing drive specifications and job requirements supplied by customers.
• Handled complaints on defective materials/workmanship per RGA and warranty policies.
• Evaluated return units for cause of failure or nonconformance and documented inspections and complaints.
• Generated sketches/assemblies for part modifications using Solidworks and AutoCAD.
• Developed wiring diagrams, layout drawings and engineering specifications per customer application requirements.

Confidential - Scotts Valley, CA

Junior Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Monitored production, installation, operation maintenance, repair and development of new, modified and/or existing systems.
• Interfaced with all engineering groups to obtain optimum designs.
• Prepared completed layouts for final product design from rough sketches and prepared layouts for detailing.
• Implemented required changes to resolve field problems and improved overall product performance and reliability. Assisted in analyzing problem areas and recommending solutions.

Confidential - Richmond, CA

Junior Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote, updated and coordinated procedures for laboratory and diagnostic equipment.
• Collaborated with engineering teams and production personnel to obtain information.
• Interfaced with production team, at times in a hand on role, to understand packaging operations.