Christopher Frank Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas Area

-Manage a team of mechanical engineers; Planning out resources and team tasking across multiple projects -Collaborate on a cross functional team to plan and execute projects through developing requirements, design, testing, integration, and support of operations and maintenance-Act as lead mechanical engineer reviewing engineering designs, drawings, test plans, and technical reports-Create detailed engineering plans, processes, and procedures to decrease design time and provide quality results-Collaborate with project managers to identify technical and schedule risks for current and future projects

Austin, Texas Area

-Utilized SolidWorks to create 3D models and engineering drawings for manufacturing-Utilized GD&T and DFMA practices to establish manufacturing requirements-Conducted trade studies on components, analyzing cost and performance trade-offs-Performed drag analysis on unmanned surface vehicles to decrease drag, reducing power consumption and increase battery life of system-Performed Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of components to determine factor of safety prior to production-Worked with a team to create, update, and maintain a technical drawing package consisting of over 450+ custom assembly and manufacturing drawings-Created and conducted test plans to verify design performance and system requirements-Worked with fabrication shops for manufacturing of custom parts including cables, weldments, electronic enclosures, and sheet metal parts

Peoria, Illinois Area

-Worked in small groups to research and develop new medical simulation devices-Designed models and prototypes for 3D printing via Mimics and Solidworks software -Utilized Solidworks to run CFD analysis on prototypes-Tested and evaluated prototypes to be developed into final product used in clinical simulations

-Setup labs for students to perform-Monitored and advised students during lab-Graded students lab reports

Peoria, Illinois Area

-Refined a medical simulator by incorporating a data acquisition system, first using LabVIEW program and then reducing cost and making the system wireless by replacing it with Arduino hardware -Programmed Arduinos in C++ to acquire data from a pressure transducer and created an Android Application, coding in Java, to control and communicate with Arduino wirelessly Rebuilt the medical simulator to make it more aesthetically pleasing and functional to allow other spinal simulations to be run on the simulator -Analyzed and scored medical students, residents, and doctors performance on the simulator to identify differences and improvements in surgical techniques over a career

Bachelor'S Of Applied Science, Software Development

Completed Coursework Towards Master Of Science (Ms), Mechnical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Bradley University Cross Country and Track, Society of Automotive Engineers