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Kennedy Space Center, Fl

Palm Bay, Fl

Clifton Park, Ny

Wear multiple hats on behalf of small business delivering on large-scale projects: Engineering Interface, General Contractor, and Property Manager. Negotiate contracts and leases. Key contact with customers and vendors. • Mechanical Engineering: Provide technical direction for onsite hardware installations and support, with oversight for the design and development of multi-building site drawings; and modifications of existing drawings meeting customer and regulatory requirements. Perform Mechanical Engineering review of new building installations, customer fit-ups, and construction activities; validate compliance with contract documents and regulatory requirements. In working with numerous steel buildings and similar projects, hire and collaborate with structural and civil engineers on federal, state, and municipal building codes. • Project Management: Oversee site development planning, creation of construction drawings, and approval with local and state regulatory entities. Manage through all construction process cycles, including ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery. Simultaneously manage multiple projects with owned buildings and their maintenance. • Process Improvement: Streamlined operations, transitioning company from paper to automated processes. Moved paper construction drawings into CAD drawings using Chief Architect software, switched financials into spreadsheets, and converted old paper leases into searchable PDF documents. • Manage P&L and operational/project budgets in the millions of dollars. Conduct financial analyses on initiatives, and secure financing from banking representatives to complete construction projects. • Hire and supervise an average of 10-15 different subcontractors for site work, footing/foundations/slabs, steel work, electrical, plumbing etc., as well as property maintenance subcontractors.

Melbourne, Fl

As Design Support Mechanical Engineer, partnered with Operations to support manufacturing of Flight Control modules and Display modules used as part of Rockwell Collins’ Avionics Suite. Supported all issues related to producibility, manufacturing, quality, and recurring cost after design release. Served as Mechanical Engineering liaison between remotely-located Design Engineers and local Factory Operations for commercial flight control products. Served as “expert on call”.Participated as integral part of early design and development phases and product startup by providing product line design and manufacturability knowledge. Design and development included circuit card assemblies, cable harnesses and wiring, packaging and hardware, environmental testing, final production testing, and quality inspections. • Collaborated and interfaced across the business, including Application Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, New Product Introduction (NPI) Teams, Quality, Test, Purchasing, Material Planning, Field Service Engineering, Drafting, PC Design, Operators, Process Engineers, Material Review Board (MRB), and Suppliers. • Provided design engineering support for commercial and government flight control product: flight control panels, interface displays, flight control surface servo motors, power supplies, and e* Supported design and manufacturing of new Pro Line Fusion Avionics Suite, with multiple displays and flight control modules. A major expenditure by the company to compete with both Honeywell and upcoming Garmin, product was selected for installation on many new and retrofit aircraft. • Team earned high satisfaction customer ratings by reducing manufacturing-related-error returns by 75%. • Key player in resolving problem that took customer returns to zero for mechanical issues. nits were being returned by customers due to push-button activation issue, ► Led team fixing problem high on Rockwell/Boeing leadership''s radar. Delivered on time/budget.

Melbourne, Fl

As sole Mechanical Engineer, worked with multiple groups on design and development of pioneering, cost-effective, robust electromechanical packaging for on-board locomotive and track-side signal electronics, and rail communication devices, including enclosures, mechanical structures, cable harnesses, and circuit card layout. Created new designs, led design reviews, worked with vendors (parts creation) and manufacturing (assembly, troubleshooting), and documented designs using 2D and 3D CAD programs, creating BOMs in PLM software. Involved with installation, cost reduction, and Engineering Change Orders. Served internal and external customers. • Developed electronic modules for installation on new or old GE locomotives and new/old locomotives from competitors, including Locotrol to cut brake/rail wear-related replacements; Locomotive retrofit system (Remote Controlled Locomotive – RCL) significantly reducing rail companies’ costs; and wayside (track-side) products, i.e., remote control track switching machines, solar panels, train yard track switching controls, track signals, etc. • Fixed legacy product line (Hydraswitch) to move from high-cost to lower-cost suppliers. Completed a year’s worth of documentation in 4 months. Created metric version to be marketed and sold on foreign markets. Product was sourced at other suppliers, slashing costs by 30%. • Led Design Reviews, Root Cause Analysis Reviews, Engineering Change Order (ECO) Reviews, and other internal presentations. Presented designs to external customers, including Statewide and Foreign Rail companies. ► Earned Finland customer business ($20M initial order and repetitive business) with Mechanical Design for RCL product. Put RCL product line in European market for other customers’ awareness.► Mentored local and remotely-located engineers and drafters, including 3 off-shore (China) Mechanical Engineers.

Melbourne, Florida Area

Performed same role with GE as above. As Temp-to-Hire through Adecco, hired full time prior to exam, based on performance. - Designed and developed innovative, cost effective, and robust electromechanical packaging for on-board locomotive electronics, track-side signal electronics, and rail communication devices. Responsibilities of packaging design include enclosures, mechanical structures, cable harnesses, and circuit card layout. - Performed concept development, detailed design, prototype build and evaluation, qualification testing, factory transition, manufacturing support, field installation, and customer support.- Executed development, implementation, and troubleshooting of designs in a high profile and time-critical environment while meeting schedule, cost constraints, and customer specifications.- Provided existing product line support in design activities and modification of hardware in production.- Exercised technical authority and expertise for the configuration management of electro-mechanical packaging assemblies, cable harnesses, circuit board layouts, and generation of Engineering Change Orders. - Mentored local and remotely located engineers including off-shore Mechanical Engineers and Drafters.

Melbourne, Florida Area

• Worked within Engineering to draft synthetic fiber extrusion machinery for new product designs and international standardization designs. Generated fabrication and installation drawings of company’s core products.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: • Senior Project / SAE International Baja Competition: Designed, built, tested performance, and delivered final.

General Studies

Activities and Societies: Wake Forest Football