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North Andover, MA, US

Acton, Massachusetts, United States

Acton, Massachusetts, United States

Merrimack NH

Mechanical Engineering Section Lead facing the FAST Labs (formerly Technology Solutions) business area. Providing engineering support to the R&D pipeline, from basic research or initial concept development, through prototyping and testing, to program transitions that subsequently form product portfolios across the organization. Responsible for all aspects.

Hardware Engineering Section Lead for Imaging and Aiming Solutions business area. Promote execution of engineering discipline, career development and training of engineering staff. Plan and assign staffing to programs and estimate work scope of proposed programs. Continue making technical contributions to programs.

Involved in the design, build and integration of EO sensor systems for airborne and ground based DoD applications in support of the Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) business area. Provide technical leadership to multi-disciplined design teams particularly for quick response contract efforts. Generate creative design concepts and detailed.

• Provide contract technology development and implementation services that produce innovative robotics, custom machinery and unique devices for various clients in military, medical device and food processing industries..
• Several patented operator directed and semi-automatic trimming machines for butchering and packaging of irregularly shaped meat products.
• Fully automatic pick-and-place of heavy boxes in a multi-product warehouse.
• Automatic packaging machines for irregularly shaped objects.
• A pipe crawling robotic system that can change shape in order to navigate various obstacles. Program manager and lead engineer in technology development program resulting in patented device that eliminates very small.

Bilerica MA

Lead mechanical / project engineer in development of new product material handling robots for clean room environments in the semiconductor industry. Designed and built prototype systems and maintained involvement through formal production release. Provided technical guidance and design team leadership.

Cambridge, MA

• Participated in the design and production of both flight and ground support hardware for a high resolution X-ray camera that is now functioning on the earth-orbiting Chandra X-ray observatory.
• Designed and packaged flight card racks and high voltage power supplies, a plastic scintillator based particle detector, thermally compliant photomultiplier tubes, and an automatically controlled vacuum pumping and.
• Administered subcontracts for custom space flight and ground support equipment.

Cambridge, MA

• Product development of X-ray inspection equipment for commercial and government security markets.
• Lead mechanical team in development of bomb detection machine for automatic airport luggage screening system.
• Designed personnel body search machine and contributed to design of large scale truck screening system.

Teterboro, NJ

• Produced avionics test equipment for the F-15 aircraft radar. Gained experience in hydraulic and liquid cooling systems. Composed design specifications, work statements and test plans, performed installations at USAF.
• Build Engineer for GPS satellite control gyros. Investigated production problems and assured adherence to flight hardware procedures and test regimes.