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Brentwood, Ca, Us

Self-employed providing Mechanical Design Engineering for R&D, Manufacturing Engineering, machining/fabricating businesses of various industries in the Bay Area. Product, devices, assemblies/parts, tooling, fixtures, and drawings. Available periodically, temporarily, or when necessary at clients locations or field site. 13yrs Solidworks experience and PDM usage. Please see summary and experiences for additional detailed information.Periodically consulting for Halt Medical, Mononi/Tru-Form Metals, Startups, and other midsize companies in the SF Bay Area.

Brentwood, Ca

Manufacturing Engineering: Laser Shield Enclosure design; sheetmetal box hinged to support plate assembly with magnetic latch, enclosing laser welding opening, fixture, and sub-assembly part. Inspection fixtures: creating and implementing standards and features for various part inspection applications. UV shielding fixture design. Various cable design, mechanical brackets, part/assembly, and tooling modifications. Use of SolidWorks, Word, and Excel performed.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Created manufacturing drawings of complex cubes, plates, mounts, and supports. Designed MuMetal shielding and Electronic, RF, Laser, Power Supply, Control System rack mounted enclosures. Exposure to electrical, optical, and laser components and assemblies.

Employed various periods between 1995 - 2006. Consultant between 2006 - 2013.R&D: Teamed, developing Ventricular Assist Devices. Inventor/Co-Inventor of VAD-Myocardium attachment device. Performed lab tests, protocols, validation, and data recording. Procured parts, build prototypes, tooling, and fixtures. Created assembly models, tolerance stack-up, preliminary stress analysis, drawings, fabrication procedures, documentation, and releases. Performed R&D Design Control, Document Control, and ECO/ECC requirements and standards. Followed company’s R&D/Manufacturing procedures and standards per FDA, ISO, and GMP requirements and guidelines for medical devices. Daily use of SolidWorks, Word, and Excel performed.Manufacturing/QA Engineering: Designed tooling and fixtures for product assembly, QA, and incoming dimensional inspections. Revised inspection, assembly/fabrication procedures, and re-trained technicians and assemblers. Performed documentation procedures and standards of all improvements, revisions, changes, modifications to procedures, drawings, inspections, and tests following FDA, ISO, ISO, and GMP requirements and guidelines. Daily use of SolidWorks, Word, and Excel performed.

Oakland, Ca

Managed, scheduled, and conducted purchasing of parts, materials, vendor selection, manufacturing, assembly, quality, shipping, and receiving. Involved with new product design, mechanical/electrical/software engineering, prototyping, and testing. Attended and managed field/site installations, service, and repair.

Fremont, Ca

Designed and developed Thermave’s Wafer Handling Module to couple to their new Wafer Analyzer Module. Procured parts/materials, vendor selection, and managed manufacturing, fabrication, and assembly of module. Involved in the testing and improvements of prototype module. Release drawings and documentation. WHM was successfully completed with minimal resolutions and within the 9 month scheduled project.

San Jose, Ca

Developed aluminum noise frequency isolation enclosures and PCB shields. Modify sheetmetal chassis/enclosures for resizing and part replacements. Worked with sheetmetal and coating vendors in the manufacturing and procurement of parts.

Livermore, Ca

Involved in the development, design, and the modifying of supports, brackets, and hangers. Created drawings for cable routing and connections. Created and modified electrical component arrangements and control panels. Revised mechanical and electrical drawings.

Vallejo, Ca

Teamed with Engineers and customers in creating/developing customized life support systems, defensive equipment, environmental devices, fluid, air, gas processing systems, controllers, ammunition handling systems, fire fighting systems, and many others systems for deep submerging and surface vessels. Created mechanical, sheetmetal, structural, electrical parts, components, assemblies, drawings, and BOMs. Worked with Engineers, customers, machinist, prototyping a 200ft submarine section addition. ComputerVision CAD System Administrator managing and maintaining system, backups, and software/hardware upgrades. Lead Designer, assigning and managing 3-4 drafters. Top Secret Clearance.

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