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Gatesville, Tx, Us

Gatesville, Texas

Gatesville, Texas, United States

Jackson, Minnesota

Spearheaded the design of the new snowblower program. Designed various new features on existing products. Aided production in assembly. Guide a draftsman on print creation. Process ECR/ECOs as needed. Initiated a PDM vaulting system. Revised and created weldments, electrical layouts, and hydraulic circuits. Worked independently on R&D and prototyping. I wear many hats at the job, everything from design – purchasing- manufacturing feasibility - machinging – welding - testing and final release, including all documentation. Technology utilized: SolidWorks, CAMWorks, MS Office, Internet Services

Gatesville, Tx

Built multiple 3D printers based on RepRap technology that could create accurate plastic prototype pieces. Trained the technicians how to utilize the machinery and maintain it. Utilizing additive manufacturing technology, I created physical samples of 3D objects for prototyping purposes. Working closely with customers to produce usable plastic objects and meet demanding deadlines. I have worked on various home appliances, oil field and medical device prototyping. Technology utilized: FDM, Various 3D Mesh (.stl) software, GCODE, MS Office, Internet Services

Killeen/Temple, Texas Area

Created engineering documents for processes and weldment drawings. Worked closely with a lead engineer to create new products for the food handling industry. Technology utilized: AutoCAD, Inventor 2012, MS Office, Internet Services

Lake Crystal, Mn

Created an automated design workflow using SolidWorks API for DriveWorks design automation. Sales can drive designs and have estimates made from automated CAD information as well as enter new products into the production pipeline avoiding new product design. Designed the 1-800-GOT JUNK truck.Technology utilized: SolidWorks 2010, Pro/E 2001, DriveWorks, VB.NET, C#.NET, MS Office, Internet Services

Anoka, Mn

Floating contractor between RMS Surgical and JunoPacific that specialized in medial device design. Worked with 3rd party doctor oriented parties to develop new “trials” and medical devices for trauma surgery. Design of the surgical tools was initiated at RMS and the sterilization encasing was designed at JunoPacific completing an end to end product design and delivery system. Leading drafting/design department with 4 subordinates. Created a CAD vaulting or database system based on PDMWorks. Initiated a part numbering/revision scheme. Released drafting standards document as well as designed custom part properties and drawing population techniques to speed up drafting and improve quality. Manage over 20 projects concurrently across a team electronically. Built the design group up from one person to five individuals. Load balanced work as well as mentored younger CAD drafters. Initiated several company wide improvements that affect our yearly profit margin. Improved design/quote to production times by 4 weeks. Technology utilized: SolidWorks, PDMWorks, MS Access, VB.NET, C#.NET, MS Office, Internet Services

Anoka, Mn

Designed stainless steel enclosures working closely with customers design criteria. Released prints to shop floor and followed custom jobs to ensure customer received a quality product. Technology utilized: SolidWorks, IDEAS, Citrix, Enovia, JD Edwards

Fridley, Mn

Utilized Solidworks on a daily basis to create detail drawings and custom assemblies as well as a company product catalog. Assisted design on medical implant connectors. Technology utilized: SolidWorks, Workwise TCM

Plymouth, Mn

Utilized VisualBasic based RuleStream and corporate information to design a system that would automate the production of a new system that had gone straight from prototype to product. Custom large air conditioning systems for the Freedom Tower in NYC and the NY Public Library. Technology utilized: SolidWorks, RuleStream, team based rules engineering

Houston, Tx

Modified current designs and created detailed drawings of complex deep sea weld elements. Custom ROV tooling and oil field applications. Technology utilized: SolidWorks weldments and advanced large assemblies, design assisted by FEA from Cosmos and engineering advice.

Houston, Tx

Modified current designs on LARS (Launch and Recovery Systems) and other overboarding oil field launch platforms for small ROV manipulation. Created different configurations of existing equipment. Detailed and designed hot-stab high/low pressure hydraulics that would be used in a deep sea oil intervention. Technology utilized: SolidWorks weldments and advanced large assemblies, design assisted by FEA from Cosmos and engineering advice. AutoCAD conversion for customer prints and large scale weldment production. EMatrix part numbering and cataloging system.

Houston, Tx

Designed and modified oil field electrical connectors. Reviewed product manufacturability. Completed part design and started production runs of parts. Medical PEEK implant design and mold production. Finalized ESRs (engineering service requests), PNAs (part number adds), ECNs (engineering change notices). Technology utilized: SolidWorks small part design, FEA through Cosmos for temp/pressure stresses of specific quantities of proprietary materials. Lotus Business Suite to track current part numbers and change notices. PDMWorks for part creation and revision tracking.

Eden Prairie, Mn

Designed several new prototype machines. Worked closely with engineers to design complex solutions to complex machines. Improved some existing product design. Typical testing equipment was for medical devices and implants. The primary test for industrial products was to find the modal values of new materials vibrated at specific frequencies. Followed all prototype machines to a marketable form. Streamlined product creation and utilization across the board. Created and released ECOs (engineering change orders). Technology utilized: SolidWorks large assemblies, sheet metal, Cosmos FEA, AutoCAD, Abacus FEA, PDMWorks.

Plymouth, Mn

Built several pieces of prototype automation machinery for medical implant testing. Created company drafting and modeling standards according to ANSI Standards taught in school. SolidWorks and PDMWorks Vault administrator for the company. Programmed several macros for company wide use that result in hundreds of saved man hours. Kept all versions of SolidWorks up to date on all workstations. Created and filled DCOs (design change orders). Built all machines I designed by hand after the parts were fabricated. Technology utilized: SolidWorks large assemblies, sheet metal, Cosmos FEA, AutoCAD, PDMWorks, Parts&Vendors 5.0.