SUMMARY:

Hands on engineer with 20 years experience in design, manufacturing, quality control and management. Skilled in transitioning new products from concept to production phase. Proficient in process improvement through teamwork.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE SKILLS: I - DEAS 12 NX series including Simulation Package, Pro-E2001, ANSYS 5.6, Interlink 3.0, AutoCAD 2008, MS Office 2003, Microsoft Project, Working knowledge of Mechanical Desktop version 4.0

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SR. Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of product development team.
• Provided engineering support for three major product line (Dialysate delivery unit, water purification/dialysate preparation unit and disposables.
• Resolve product related reliability issues including re - design, product performance improvement, cost saving.
• Activity includes designing in a new pressure sensors, temperature sensor, new high torque pump motors, Heater and heat exchanger.
• Leveraged heavily using flow simulation, FEA analysis (linear and nonlinear analysis, thermal, vibration, noise) and plastic mold flow and Minitab (statistical analysis tool) during different stages of design and validation activity.
• Redesigned water purification/dialysate preparation module to meet IEC 60601 3RD Edition directives.

Confidential, Peabody, MA

Lead Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed design and development of two new products, “Fluorescence Molecular Tomography” research and development laboratory machine for drug study on small animals with cancer tumor.
• Transitioned the products from design to development/ production phase. Wrote and monitored project plans for design, Conducted design reviews.
• Interacted with program manager, Quality, Reliability, Software, Purchasing and Production groups. Successfully built, tested and delivered six prototypes to Beta sites before releasing the product to production.
• Ensured that the supporting engineering and manufacturing documents were complete and released in a timely manner.

Confidential, Needham, MA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Writing and monitoring project plans for design, procuring, building and testing.
• Ensuring the supporting engineering and manufacturing documents are complete and released.
• Set/identify project priorities and ensure they are executed.
• Actively involved in resolving design, performance and manufacturing related issues through teamwork and design review meetings.
• Identify appropriate suppliers, which are critical for success of the project. Identify and select appropriate testing agency in testing and certifying both products as CE approved.
• Provide support to Beta site customers during the transition period. Identify and procure required equipments and tooling to support the project.
• Establish a SPC database to capture design variables during the build and test process for future improvements.
• Implemented CAR (corrective action request) process to capture and report design and manufacturing related issues during the build and test process.
• Familiar with Ozone delivery and monitoring system.
• Provide support to Beta site customers during the weekly conference calls.
• Provided daily routine support to manufacturing on released products.

Confidential, Chelmsford, MA

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed customer specific sales order projects from proposal drawing to finished products by utilizing pool of engineers and designers.
• Ensured all supporting engineering documents are complete and released to production.
• Provided weekly status report to program managers. Instrumental in resolving manufacturability problems of the new inter-floor micro stocker XT product during market introduction.
• Instrumental in setting up the manufacturing floor to support the volume of the activities.
• Trained the manufacturing personnel in building and testing the product.
• Designed tooling and fixturing for manufacturing.
• Created and released supporting manufacturing assembly procedures and roadmaps.
• Completed lean manufacturing workshop.

Manufacturing Process Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of four manufacturing engineers to transition new 200mm and 300mm vacuum wafer handling robots from Beta phase to production.
• Interface with design engineers in reviewing and evaluating design integrity for manufacturability and ultimately releasing to production.
• Responsible for configuring, releasing and maintaining manufacturing documents on new and existing vacuum robots.
• Responsible for reviewing manufacturing quality data and establishing root cause and corrective action plan.
• Provided support for production, RMA, quality control and marketing departments on manufacturing and quality related issues.
• Interface with customers (internal and external) and suppliers on manufacturing and quality related issues.

Confidential, Canton, MA

Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed small team of engineers two technicians and three machinists for domestically made bicycle locks.
• Designed and released new bicycle New-York lock to mass market.
• Improved fabrication and assembly efficiency by 40% through implementation of new holding fixtures before heat treating and using punching operation.