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Los Angeles, CA, US

Camarillo, CA

• Electro-mechanical engineering, leadership, design, development, project engineering, design reviews, FMEA, documentation and patent applications.
• Designed, documented and applied Solid Works CAD software, accomplishing more than 30 improvements to robotic mechanisms in automated tape library data storage systems, power supplies and specifications for a petroleum.
• Proofread invention applications for medical devices resulting in the granting of patents.
• Conducted a product evaluation of the mechanics, firmware, software, down loads, web site, installation instructions and packaging.
• Innovations were created in the fields of disordered breathing, disk drives, material handling equipment, appliances and sports resulting in being granted 70 patents.
• Conducted data analysis for a non-profit organization resulting in providing gifts to over 1,300 children and many families on 4 projects in the Thousand Oaks, CA area.

Chatsworth, CA

• Manufacturer of miniature brushless DC (BLDC) motorized blowers and actuators for medical devices, mass memory equipment, manufacturing processes and military applications. RMT is wholly owned by ResMed (RMD), maker of.
• Lead technology and development planning and determined project cost and resource requirements with a $5 million budget. Maintained a macro schedule to manage and monitor technology, development projects, test.
• Developed 5 products for design centers in Australia, Germany and France. Established design requirements, instituted technologies and determined measurement criteria for verification and validation.
• Conducted failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and statistical analysis of prototype and preproduction test data.
• Evaluated staffing requirements and recruited a team of 14 PhD's, senior engineers, consultants, and supporting personnel by establishing skills necessary to expand technology, department's productivity and meet.
• Integrated data acquisition systems to monitor parameters and identify performance variations during validation of hardware.

San Jose, CA

• WDC is a world leader in designing and manufacturing hard disk drives for desktop computers, portable and enterprise markets.
• Directed the Advanced Mechanical Platform Staging and Material Science departments with a $12 million budget and a staff of 84, creating the first successful enterprise and mobile hard disk drive products as well as.
• Interfaced with cross-functional teams and product teams concurrently supporting 11-products in phases of technology, development, verification, validation and production.
• Structured design center to be a leader in finite element modeling, computational fluid dynamics and self-acting fluid dynamic bearing spindles.
• Truncated the qualification of fluid dynamic bearing spindles from nine months to 20 minutes by employing a creative test method.
• Condensed the transition time-to-launch by three months by interfacing directly with Asian suppliers for prototype parts, production parts and assemblies.

Master Of Science In Applied Mechanics, (Structural Analysis, Control Systems And Jet And Rocket Propulsion)

Bachelor Of Science In Mechanical Engineering, (Dynamics, Mathematics And Patent Law)