Daniel Koelker Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Technical lead and project manager of a team of 3-8 engineers at a time. Responsible for budget, schedule, client interfacing, and ensuring all project deliverables from Function’s engineers meet the highest standards and all specifications. • Lead thermal and fluid mechanics engineer for the entire company.• Managed and worked on a wide variety of projects, including thermal design and analysis, large mobile robots, and consumer electronics. Involved in all project aspects, from initial concept to technical design and manufacturing.• Office lead responsible for managing all engineers in the San Francisco office, mentoring new engineers, and performing annual reviews.

Wisconsin, United States

Fremont, California, United States

Head of Mechanical Engineering• Solely responsible for all mechanical engineering at Cobalt Robotics, including the design and maintenance of robots that each have a BOM of more than 300 unique parts. These included more than 150 custom designed sheet metal, cast aluminum, CNC-machined, cast-urethane, and injection molded parts.• Led the team at Function Engineering that designed the first-generation robot and then performed all follow-on sustaining engineering at Cobalt Robotics. This included purchasing of components and design improvements/fixes for various issues encountered with the more than 200 production fielded robots.• Clean-sheet design through initial production bring-up of the second-generation robot, which was designed for medium volume production. Included both the mobile robot with all sensors as well as a high performance 7-DOF arm.

San Francisco Bay Area

Product and project management• Technical lead and project manager that successfully oversaw and delivered several large 8+ person robotics and electronics projects.• Responsible for ensuring all client technical specifications and goals were met as well managing budget and schedule.Office Management• Responsible for the smooth operation of the 10 person Function Engineering San Francisco Office• Mentoring and oversight of engineers• Annual performance reviews for all engineers in the officeRobotics hardware design• Served as project manager and technical lead on several robotics projects.• Bearing, shafting, and motion component specification• Motor and gearbox sizing and selection• Structures design and analysis• Dynamics analysis• Weight and CG analysis• Design For Manufacture for production rampThermal Analysis and CFD• The lead thermal and CFD engineer at Function Engineering responsible for overseeing and running most thermal projects in the company as well as mentoring new thermal engineers• Selection of fans and cooling components• CFD analysis of small and large scale cooling problems• Electronics Cooling and Industrial thermal analysis• Convection, conduction, and radiation• Flotherm XT and Solidworks Flow SimulationStress Analysis• Both linear and non-linear analysis of components and assemblies• Stress and Strain• Contact Analysis• Modal AnalysisConsumer Electronics Product Design• Both small and large scale products• Tolerance analysis• Design for Manufacturing• Plastic Injection Molding• Metal casting• Sheet metal• MachiningPrototyping• Assembly, testing, and debugging of prototype parts• Basic machining skills to create and modify parts

Certified Principal Engineer for Satellite Mechanisms.Interface with suppliers.Specification DevelopmentCreate and update drawings and I-DEAS models.Certified Test Conductor for Satellite Mechanisms.Create and conduct test procedures for high-value hardware.Responsible for all aspects of testing from design, to execution, to reporting.Rapidly design and assemble test fixtures.

Space Shuttle Main Engine Ducts Team:Material Review Dispositions and RepairsPro/E CAD modeling and drawing releaseJ-2X Engine Systems Team:Flexible Duct sizing, routing, and CAD modeling.Trade Studies

Mse, Aero/Astro Engineering, Aerodynamics

Activities and Societies: Men's Volleyball Club Team Stanford Solar Car Team Lead Aerodynamicist for the 2011 Stanford Solar Car team.

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Physics

Activities and Societies: Men's Volleyball Club Team Golden Key Honor Society