Darin Thompson Email & Phone Number

Monroe, NC, US

• Lead Advanced development team / Coordinate efforts with Corporate R&D labs.
• Utilize Internal and external resources to reach goals
• Forecast & Manage budgetary spend for the Advanced Development Team & Projects
• Work with and develop technology partnerships.
• System Architect / Engineer for the Vision C5 Facepiece platform
• Technical Lead for New Technology Introduction and Intellectual Property generation and evaluation.

Monroe, NC, US

• Forecast & Manage budgetary spend for the APR / Communications R & D group.
• Manage thirteen direct reports located in the US / UK and external engineering resources (Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical, Acoustic, Programmers (Embedded, App, iOS, Windows), testing and Certification) to meet.
• Participate in internal technology summits to discuss new technologies and define company roadmaps.
• Drove significant investment to increase lab capabilities: P25 Radio network, LRPL chamber, Radiant heat test panel, Hemi-Anechoic chamber/Acoustic Equipment (HATS, STI & PESQ), Taber abrader/Light, and Facepiece.
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to collect valuable VOC/VOB, create Product Road Maps and develop product / project specifications. Once defined I create technical and test specifications.
• Research, develop and maintain engineering and technology partnerships.

Monroe, NC, US

• Lead Engineer and Project Manager for the EPIC 3 Communications product line.
• Worked with Marketing to Architect the system.
• Utilizing the EPIC 3 project for DFSS Black Belt Certification.
• Utilized Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks and ProE Creo2 CAD software.

Monroe, NC, US

• R & D - Detection Solutions Group:
• Lead Engineer for development of the Eagle Attack Thermal Imaging Camera.
• Team member working on the Eagle 320 & Eagle 320 TIC with Pak Tracker
• Team member developing the SEMS II tracking system.
• Team member developing Communication devices for the Firefighting Industry (EPIC & EPIC RI)
• Team member on fixed and portable gas & flame detectors projects.

• Reinvented the engineering department and led the company’s transformation from being “shop run” to become an engineering driven company.
• Developed standards to increase engineering and tool room’s productivity. Implemented processes to eliminate paper prints on the shop floor (utilizing CAD/CAM only).
• Managed three in house designers and all outsourced engineering services. Supported two manufacturing facilities and multiple external manufacturing partners.
• Collaborated with customers to create concepts and manufacturable part designs while concurrently designing and building plastic injection molds for the automotive industry. (Tier II supplier to Ford, Jeep.
• Mold designs included Servo controls, PLC controls, hydraulic/pneumatic systems, automatic dating systems and various mechanical actions (Lifters, side actions, rack and pinion, two-stage ejector systems).
• Plastics Processing: Injection molding, 2 shot, over-molding, Insert molding, Blow molding & Thermoforming.

• Assisted part and product development while designing prototype and production plastic injection molds for consumer markets (Bosch/Dremel, Liqui-box, Eaton, Master Molded Products).
• Managed Engineering projects, assisted mold quotation and purchased mold components/materials.
• Created 3D CAD / Utilized CAM for toolpath generation for high speed milling of steel and carbon.
• Tooling designs included collapsible cores, hand load inserts and MUD units.
• Utilized SolidWorks, AutoCAD and Surfcam CAD/CAM Software.

• Managed reverse engineering projects
• Designed die cast tooling. (Aftermarket Toyota 4 cylinder head & water pump/timing chain cover)
• Utilized AutoCAD, SolidWorks and Surfcam CAD/CAM software.

• Designed and built plastic injection molds for the Consumer product markets. (Motorola, Fellowes, Suncast, WCI/Frigidaire, Black and Decker, Ryobi, Bissell, GE Fanuc, Molex, Tripp Lite, and Riddell)
• Managed/Led design projects for internal and outsourced engineering and manufacturing services.
• Transformed company to state of the art Engineering and manufacturing facility by implementing and utilizing 3D CAD/CAM/DNC systems.
• Developed custom post processors to translate generic machine code to controller specific G & M code.
• Created CNC tool paths for CNC machines (CAM) and utilized conversational & G-code programming.
• Utilized CMM and laser point cloud data to reverse engineer part and mold data.

• Designed parts and assemblies of valves and gas/oil burners for industry. Launched: OVENPAK II.
• Created engineering and manufacturing drawings for machining, sand casting, and sheet metal stamping.

Westminster, Colorado, US

• Detailed changes to components of Vacuum Forming equipment.
• Sponsor of College Senior Research Project I and II (1991-1992). Found sponsor, identified problem in their manufacturing facility, researched solutions, and resolved the issues. Presented the findings / resolution to.

Bs, Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Plastics

As, Manufacturing Design, Cad

Nfpa 1403 Training / Certification

Firefighter Training