Andy Thistle Email & Phone Number

Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area

Advising on technology development services and sustainability. mdottechnologies.com

Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area

Ensuring continuity of service while growing capabilities and access to knowledge and tools to make things!

I manage the Metal shop at the Rochester Makerspace. The goal of the space is to provide training and equipment to the community to make anything. I coordinate curriculum for equipment and skill training. Maintain layout, manage equipment donations, equipment repairs and improvements. The makerspace has an open house Thursdays and Saturdays, please stop by.

Rochester NY

Lead the development of technology and guidelines for mechanical design, supporting Mixing products. Drive design value from principals of advanced manufacturing, fluid diagnostics, dispersed flows and rotating equipment. Develop business cases targeted at 10% revenue growth.

Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area

Program management of mechanical research topics across a large industrial conglomerate. Reporting out on technical viability and business opportunity so leadership could make informed investment decisions. Direct local teams in a staged risk reduction process. The variety of project ideas received forced me to take a high level approach to most problems.

Rochester, New York Area

Developing 'smart' fluid controls, sprays and electromechanical/electrofluidic systems. Developed a natural gas control valve algorithm and test plan. System used 3 valves to maintain a 5% tolerance on mass flow in a range from 10 g/min to 1 kg/min. Developed a lessons learned database and implemented an agile type of project management that had not been.

Rochester, New York Area

Identified core competencies and developed engineering guidelines to streamline design practices. Used DMAIC process to identify issues in aerospace solenoid valve production and proposed solutions. Developed databases for material properties in order to ensure design decisions were based on best available data. Provided customer support by processing on.

Clyde New York

Design authority on fuel injectors for turbine engines. Design process focuses on balancing low cycle thermal fatigue with high vibratory stresses. Main achievement was the GEnX Program, which can be found on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the new Boeing 747. Previously developed the LMS100 Dry Low Emissions (DLE) natural gas and low wobbe number injector.

Master'S Degree, Experimental Fluidics

Experimental fluids: Measuring flow fields in a fuel nozzle for a jet engine! http://scholarworks.rit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10410.

B.S., Mechanical Engineering: Aerospace

Activities and Societies: ASME, Rugby