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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Perform Requirements Analysis, Mechanical Design, Project Management and Component and System Test as an independent Contractor for companies as required.Legacy Fitness - Blaine, MN (2017-present)Design and produce specialized exercise equipment for use at Legacy Fitness in Blaine and for sale to customers by Legacy Fitness. Master Machine Inc. - Blaine, MN (2014 - Jan 2018)- Perform Concept and Design Engineering support of new brake products for ATV / Off Road use and assist with production start-up of those products.- Develop the concept for and perform technical design of a brake test stand (brake dynamometer) to document all aspects (both static and dynamic parameters) of ATV / Off Road disk brake calipers. Assist in construction and start-up of test stand. - Provide technical interface to customers and suppliers for new products and current production problem resolution and support sales in technical discussions with customers as required.Minnesota Wire & Cable Inc - St. Paul, MN (2012 - 2016)Provide Project Engineering and Mechanical Design Engineer support for a variety of wire and cabling projects for the defense and medical industries :- Design custom metal and fiber-optic wires- Design custom multi-conductor cables - Create cable assemblies with connectors (both installed and molded) and molded strain reliefs- Design molds for connectors and strain reliefs - work with mold tooling house directly

Ham Lake, Mn

Project Engineer supporting the design and development of disk brake calipers and related brake products for the ATV / Off Road market. Participate in design improvements to Brake Test Stand (brake dynamometer) to improve test stand durability and accuracy of test results in order to achieve better correlation to on-vehicle testing.

Thermo King Corp, Bloomington, Mn

Manage the design of climate control systems (air conditioning, heating and air circulation). System must be adaptable to a wide variety of shuttle buses, commercial vans and school buses with different roof constructions and radii.

Fridley, Mn

VEE Windows. - Manage development of removable ballistic windows for military vehicles. - Minimize design and prototype time (4 wks design / 6 wks for prototype mfg and test fit).Cannon Safety System Development - Manage the development of hydraulic / pneumatic safety systems.

Fridley, Mn

- Led team in the redesign of extreme high-pressure seals (60k psi pneumatic).- Managed the development of hydraulic / pneumatic safety system to extinguish burning debris in the chamber of a cannon between shots.

Fridley, Mn

o Managed assembly and test of the turret and auto-loading system as well as other systems as req'd. o Cannon Test - Developed and facilitated an effective test evaluation process that greatly reduced the time required and the cost for completing initial testing of a new cannon. o Material Handling System - Developed a low cost, convertible, automated, material handling system to load ammunition into test cannons at rate to perform live fire testing on a test range.

Fridley, Mn

o Manage Trade Study to Select Between Solid and Liquid Propellant (LP). - LP was being pushed but was too unstable for use in a fielded weapon. o Test Engineering - Create test plans for and support testing including live fire testing. - Lead root-cause analysis for failed systems and coordinate redesign of systems. o Hardware Integration Lead - Managed integration of Crusader Turret and Loader systems. - Engineering liaison to assembly for all design teams. - Perform hardware assembly as necessary to maintain schedule.

Fridley, Mn

Mk 75 Naval Guns - Designed and prototyped a firing safety interlock system. - Optimized hydraulic tubing and create accurate documentation to manufacture tubing on an automated tubing bender). - Redesigned high pressure hydraulic cylinders for reliability and high temp operation. - Manufacturing support for final acceptance testing. o Mk 45 Advanced Naval Gun Prototype - Designed a high pressure hydraulic system for prototype Naval gun. - Developed and received a patent for a material handling mechanism. - Designed and implemented a project data tracking system based on the product BOM. o Light Weight Towed Howitzer. - Design a hydraulic system powered by energy recovered from gun recoil motion during firing. - Managed the production of a 1/16th scale model of howitzer by an outside modeling firm.

Bachelor Of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Worked for the Mechanical Engineering Department collecting data on soil moisture content in the ground around.

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Pre-Engineering

6 Sigma Blackbelt Certification