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Design tooling for direct drive, inertia and low force rotary friction welding machines.

Designed a new refrigerator cabinet foam injection port that eliminated foam leaks, more than one million pounds of unnecessary operator lifting and 200 hours of tooling cleanup annually.Process control and automation support through mechanical/industrial design.Facilitate custom tube bending with die, pressure die and bend clamp design/modification.Design/detail check fixtures for bent/welded tube assemblies.Design/detail weld fixtures for tube weldments.Workstation design/modification for new and existing product lines.Design or reverse engineer custom machine components that can no longer be sourced.Liaison for production part alterations between designers and local machine shops.Promote process improvements through mechanical design.Aid product design/cost by suggesting more capable or less expensive manufacturing processes.

Determine manufacturing feasibility of customer products at quote stage.Consult on design changes for manufacturability with current and prospective customers. Provide practical customer solutions in areas of design, research, and manufacturing by incorporating DFM, reverse engineering, DOE, FMEA, CAD data output, tolerance stackups and layouts. Advanced knowledge of GD&T.

Process development, cost reduction, tool design.

Process development, tool/fixture design, cnc programming.

Tool Room management, progressive die design, weld fixture design.

Programmed/Machined hydraulic manifolds and subplates on Mazak VMCs.

Repaired and maintained engines and fuel systems on EA-6B jet aircraft.