Benjamin Snyder Email & Phone Number

Katy, Texas, United States

In this position I manage a team of 10, including engineers, CAD designers, and a rapid response coordinator, while regularly reporting to top leadership at the technology center, and sometimes segment and geounit leaders.My team supports manufacturing, rapid response projects, failure analysis, product sustaining, sevice functions, and customer requests.

Katy, TX

In this position I manage a group of eleven engineers, CAD designers, and rapid response coordinator.I support manufacturing, rapid response projects, failure analysis, product sustaining, and customer requests and client meetings.

Katy, TX

• Currently working at the Katy Technology Center, Motor Center of Excellence (MCE).
• New product design, sustaining engineering, field testing, cradle-to-grave technology product line development
• Assisted in successfully building and testing a novel CNC machine designed to manufacture thin-walled Moineau motors (mud motors)
• Produced numerous CAD models and 2D manufacturing drawings and released to machine shops for production of parts related to the CNC machine
• Redesigned a complex tool assembly to retrofit the CNC machine for producing an alternate size mud motor stator
• Developed kinematic solution and procedural cutting algorithms to be used by the CNC Fanuc controller to produce the desired mud motor stator ID profile and produced simulations in Matlab to test the code

Houston, Texas

• Led the refinement and optimization of a new subsea wellhead annulus seal design
• Shared responsibility of conducting functional tests on two new subsea wellhead systems in the R&D lab, which required overseeing technicians, understanding complex new systems with many interfacing subsystems, &.
• Acted as lead engineer on subsea wellhead system annulus seal qualification testing while working with the Brazil engineering team.
• Created and released many part specifications, design verification packages (calculations), wrote test specifications, procedures, facilitated tests in the lab and wrote reports
• Delegated test procedure, BOM, drawing, and design calculation package creation tasks to other groups and oversaw their work
• Received greenbelt level training in Lean/SixSigma and Design for Six Sigma. Also attended courses in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing and TRIZ.

Burtonsville & Columbia Maryland

• Mechanical design of 1/20 scale automated ramp for moving heavy vehicles and personnel between two ships at sea – SBIR project for ONR
• Conceptual design, kinematics analysis, and 3D simulation of an at-sea robotic launch & recovery system for medium-sized UAVs during high sea states as part of an ONR-sponsored project called “Stable Platform”. It is a.
• Part of an extensive team to develop Simulink simulations, kinematics analyses, and control system algorithms for at-sea ship-to-ship cargo transfer during high sea states for the Navy using combined serial/parallel.
• Assisted in conceptual design of DARPA-sponsored at-sea robotic launch & recovery system called “SeaCatcher” for large fixed-wing UAVs. It is a ship-mounted serial robotic arm, inertially stabilized against sea motion..
• Assisted in Mechanical design and CONOPS of Ship-based mobile RoboCrane for ship-to-ship cargo transfer during high sea states. This was a RoboCrane mounted on the end of a SCARA-type robotic arm attached to a mobile.

• Mechanical and control system design and analysis for a cable-based parallel robotic system for sculpting, duplicating, and enlarging maquettes (small sculptures) in real-time. Required extensive use of Solid Edge.
• Conducted testing of control system for 6 DOF large-scale Cable-Suspended Robot at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD
• Designed 7 DOF cable-suspended robot hardware and software control system – Thesis project under Dr. Williams
• Research Assistant for Dr. Bob Williams of Mechanical Engineering Dept.
• Teaching Assistant for Kinematics/Dynamics (ME 301) and Classical Controls (ME 401) from June, 2003 to June, 2004

• Member of Aeromobile (Flying Car) design team-Rolling chassis design for entry in NASA Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) competition, 2002 & 2003-Team goal - to develop semi-autonomous personal land/air vehicle

Mansfield, Ohio

• Drew and revised detailed 2D engineering drawings and BOM’s of industrial and civil pump systems
• Extensive use of Microstation CAD software for generating 2D layouts
• Revised hand-drawn mechanical design drawings to CAD format

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tao Beta Pi engineering honor society, Pi Tao Sigma mechanical engineering honor society, Shotokan karate club.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: ASME, Tao Beta Pi, Pi Tao Sigma, Aeromobile Flying Car Team (R&D), Shotokan karate club, Chinese language.