David Rathburn Email & Phone Number

Oxford MA

Facilities expert on gas & steam turbine design and requirements. Responsible for component validation for new and existing OEM parts and assemblies. This included: Weld qualification, Heat Treatment qualification, Dimensional qualification, Air Flow qualification, Method Procedures, and Statistical Analysis of inspection data. Designed a new flow bench.

Responsible for day-to-day operations, and for all company civil, mechanical, instrumentation, & electrical: conceptual designs, final designs, & implementation of designs.Expert witness hired to consult with US Justice Department regarding power plant energy uses & efficiencies. Testified under videotaped deposition why the defendant’s reports to the EPA.

GE Fitchburg MAResponsible for the day-to-day operations of the Production Engineering & Drafting department and the supervision and management of the engineers, coops, and draftsman assigned to my department along with our production schedules. Responsible for the reporting, disposition, and corrective action for all engineering, drafting, and production.

Initiated and completed a Lean 6-Sigma project that changed GE special hardware (nuts, bolts, washers, pins, etc.) specified with special GE material and or drawings to industry standard material and drawings. The industry standard hardware, material, and quality is equivalent and in some cases exceeded the GE special hardware specification at a fraction.

GE Fitchburg MA Responsible for technical dispositions of all design and manufacturing issues associated with the sale of GE’s Navy product line to Dresser-Rand.

GE Fitchburg MA, concurrent to Design and Production engineering positions.Lead Engineer for hardware cost reduction / producibility projects, design reviews.Instrumental in the ISO9000 certification of the GE Fitchburg facility through specification consolidation.

GE Fitchburg MA Responsible for the mechanical and thermodynamic design, and the schedule for steam turbine contracts assigned to me. Interfaced with customers on contract, design, and test issues as required. Designed 16 steam turbines with significant cost saving for a variety of GE customers including Shell Oil, Mobil, Destec, Monsanto, Hess Oil.

GE Fitchburg MA, concurrent to engineering positions. Taught basic PC operations, DOS, IBM COPICS, Interleaf word processing and Technical Writing, ProEngineering 3D modeling, MS Word, MS Excel, and MathCAD. Proficient with computer hardware and software including but not limited to: MS Office including MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, MathCAD, SolidWorks.

GE Fitchburg MA Responsible for design and analysis of turbine and compressor components.

GE Fitchburg MA Responsible for mechanical and electrical assembly of commercial and navy steam turbines generator sets and compressors trains.

GE Fitchburg MA Responsible for machining of precision components for turbines and compressors.

GE Schenectady NYInstructor in the apprentice machine shop.Detail Draftsman at GE’s Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory working on reactor assembly drawings, Department of Defense secret clearance.Design Draftsman working on jig and fixture designs.Machinist manufacturing turbine and electric motor / generator components.Methods Specialist for Large Motor and.

Working foreman in charge of second shift machine shop for a medium size, plastic injection factory. Plant manufactured refrigerator components to FDA standards.

Aas, Management Engineering

Dean's List 1982,1983, & 1984 Was able to succeed in surpassing the programming capabilities (results) of the school Prime mainframe.

Small Arms Processes Technology / Manufacturing / Machining

New York State Regents High School Diploma