SUMMARY

• A seasoned Mechanical Designer / Project Manager with extensive experience with diverse team functions, across various industries.
• The industries I have worked in are eclectic and include: autonomous vehicles, aerospace product and tooling, automotive manufacturing, turbine engine design, military vehicle design, and machine design.
• The types of design include: mechanical, electro - mechanical, opto-mechanical, mechanical packaging, tooling and fixturing design, manufacturing, and systems engineering.
• Have also worked as a Team Leader. Formely held three Top Secret security clearances: TS-SSBI, TS-DOD, and TS Special Projects.
• Advanced CATIA, CREO, and NX expertise including: Surfacing, Skeleton and Master Models, Top-Down Design, Large Assembly Management, regular use of Confidential, SmarTeam, and Teamcenter PDM systems.
• Part design expertise includes: sensor packaging for autonomous vehicles, electronic packaging for communications equipment, super plastic forming dies, test fixtures, mechanisms, machining, sheet metal, and weldments, as well as stampings and castings.
• Proven track record of product development success, including project management, mechanical design lead, and as an individual contributor.
• Proven ability to define robust, yet cost-effective solutions, for challenging mechanical design problems, while simultaneously addressing manufacturability and serviceability.
• Demonstrated ability to work and communicate effectively in a variety of team environments.
• Strong ability to develop expertise quickly with regards to subject matter, projects, technologies, and engineering design tools.
• Advanced product design expertise includes: mechanical concepting and system layout design. Creative problem solving skills and design optimization.
• Substantial experience with ASME Y14.5 GD&T and tolerance analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Pro-Engineer-25
• 000 hours
• CATIA-27
• 000 hours
• Confidential NX9-4
• 000 hours
• ASME Y14.5M
• Teamcenter
• Confidential
• SmarTeam
• Solidworks
• MS Excel
• MS Project
• MS Access
• 3DS Max
• Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Senior Product Designer

Responsibilities:

• Designer on two different sensor suite assemblies using CATIA V6 (3DExperience), which will be integrated into autonomous vehicles.
• Coordinate designs with other Responsible Design Engineers (RDE) to create or update portions of new or existing design packages.
• Also maintain the top-level assembly structure for an entire sensor suite in Confidential .
• Tasked with designing test fixtures for verifying subassemblies are fully functional prior to final top-level assembly into existing vehicles.

Confidential, Rancho Carmel, CA

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed electro-mechanical enclosure assemblies for military aircraft communications equipment, using CATIA V5.
• Worked closely with the electrical engineering design lead by transferring circuit board assemblies back and forth from/to CATIA and Mentor.
• Performed X, Y, and Z tolerance studies, Worked with suppliers for ordering connectors and ensure proper fits of components, and fits for my assemblies into military aircraft.
• Also designed small test fixtures for PCB assemblies.
• Worked on 19” rack test equipment CAD models, while closely interacting with Systems Engineers.

Confidential, El Cajon, CA

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in the aerospace engine components group, designing mechanisms and fixtures to position and hold small to large, mostly cylindrical, components for machining operations.
• Mechanical design work was done on Confidential NX 7.5 and NX 9.

Confidential, Auburn, WA

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in the Advanced Metal Structures group, designing complex mechanisms, tooling, fixtures, and dies to fabricate titanium and aluminum components for various aircraft programs.
• Designed water jet tools, forming dies, joggle dies, assembly fixtures, automated drill fixtures, large transport carts, and trim tools.
• Regular and very close interaction with Manufacturing Engineering and Quality Engineering.
• Design of large super-plastic forming dies (SPFD), utilizing extensive production part surfacing manipulation and creation.
• Extensive use of surfacing, solid modeling, part and assembly creation, and drawing creation using GD&T, CATIA V5R20.

Confidential, Rancho Bernardo, CA

Business Case Development, Financial Projections, RFI & RFP Development

Responsibilities:

• Worked on developing financial estimates (ROI, ROS, NPV, and IRR) for determining training costs and pricing, along with additional business cases to justify funding for the development of a new training system pricing model.
• Formerly worked on a response to an RFP for the Euro Hawk program.
• Used Rational Doors to develop requirements and formalize system specifications for an initial statement of work.
• Coordinated the effort for a response to an RFI for a weapons systems trainer program as a co-Project Manager.

Confidential

Senior Engineer / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked on installations, structures, and subsystems design on the KQ-X (Global Hawk-to-Global Hawk tanker program).
• Worked as a Responsible Engineer on the Advanced Technology Development Center-installations (Black Program).
• Lead an installation project for a new aircraft antenna system on the Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle program.
• Coordinated the integration and mechanical design on a ground station for the Fire Scout unmanned helicopter.
• Helped to develop a statement of work for the Fire Scout ground station. Regularly interfaced with suppliers.
• Worked on installations of LRU’s and secondary structural components. Developed composite parts, to be used for shielding on an antenna installation. Designed SLS and roto-mold fabricated ducting components and assemblies.
• Designed primary and secondary structural components for the UCAS unmanned fighter jet.

Confidential, Carlsbad, CA

Senior Mechanical Designer

Responsibilities:

• Developed fixturing for the fabrication of head mounted displays for military applications. Involved in product design of head mounted displays and peripheral equipment utilizing PTC Wildfire 2.0.
• Designed electro-mechanical enclosures of controllers for heads-up displays. Designed tooling fixtures for test and assy.
• Designed and created prototypes, instructed production personnel on the assembly procedures to streamline building of electronics enclosures. Worked on designing portions of heads-up displays for military applications.

Confidential, Seal Beach, CA

Engineer / Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Produced animations for the business development department using 3DS Max, Pro-Engineer, CATIA V5, Solidworks, and various other applications.
• Translated CAD models to create realistic animations for senior management to present to customers.
• Modeled complicated part and assembly CAD models, which were then translated into 3DS Max.
• Created complex animations and renderings depicting overall project level scenes of Top Secret programs for the military.

Confidential, California

Senior Designer

Responsibilities:

• Designed subsystems tube and hose routing assemblies, with Pro Piping, for the Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle program while working in the Mechanical Subsystems group.

Confidential, Torrance, California

Senior Designer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design, layout, and detail of opto-mechanical infrared sights for military vehicles.
• Managed prototype production - from concept through fabrication.
• Designed a large portion of an opto-mechanical turret, interfacing to an unmanned, rugged terrain vehicle.
• Packaged opto-mechanical and electro-mechanical projects with Pro-Engineer 2001, also used Intralink 3.1.
• Collaborated with senior management on the development of new designs.
• Coordinated manufacturing with external suppliers to fabricate complex machined parts.
• Organized and coordinated designs with the optical engineer regularly.