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Louisville, TN, US

Mechanical Design Excellence and SolidWorks Wizardry with a touch of Bedazzlement.

Design wakeboard arches t-tops and other accessories for the marine/watersport industry. These designs typically feature CNC and bent aluminum pipe weldments, machined billet parts, and cast bases and “legs”. Often these designs incorporate fiberglass cover panels and biminis. Design and develop new products from concept through production. Partner with.

Lenoir City, TN, US

Design process piping for biomass gasification. Design various support structures, mechanisms and equipment enclosures. Implement and manage a data management vault (PDM). Coordinate with field crews to resolve installation issues.

Design wakeboard arches t-tops and other accessories for the marine/watersport industry. These designs typically feature CNC and bent aluminum pipe weldments, machined billet parts, and cast bases and “legs”. Often these designs incorporate fiberglass cover panels and biminis. Design and develop new products from concept through production. Partner with.

Utilize a FaroArm scanner to translate forms, trims, etc. into reliable 3D CAD data.(contract position)

Atlanta, GA, US

Reverse engineered broken and worn parts for Sharpie automated injection molding and assembly lines. Inventoried, ordered and received raw materials to support the tooling department. Cross referenced designs and worked directly with machine shop to meet customer specifications. Made necessary design improvements for existing and new machine builds..

Designed wakeboard arches and accessories for the marine/watersport industry. These designs typically featured CNC and bent aluminum pipe weldments, machined billet parts, and cast bases and “legs”. Often these designs incorporated fiberglass cover panels and biminis. Designed and developed new products from concept through production. Partnered with.

Assisted with research and development of new products. Designed plastic parts for rotational molding and thermoform. Designed sheet metal weldments and mechanisms. Designed parts for aluminum casting. (contract position)

Pleasant Ridge, MI, US

Provided technical support for all SolidWorks products and ancillary applications. Lead training classes. Aggressively supported the sales team via pre-sales demonstrations and post-sales integration into client process.

Designed heavy truck assemblies with cranes and custom cabinet design, including bills of material. Began the implementation of a secure project documentation vault.

Wausau, WI, US

Taught an evening SolidWorks class, 4.5 hours each week.(part time position)

Lead Designer for the Mammoth Rotor® Aerator and ZIMPRO™ Screw Pump product lines. Create custom layout of brush aeration rotors, adjustable baffles, screw pumps and effluent weirs, for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment applications. Draft project proposal, submittal and fabrication drawings in compliance with project engineering specifications.

Assist Project Managers by soliciting outside detailing bids, coordinating detailing start-up issues and expediting drawing submittal schedules. Resolve shop fabrication and erection problems caused by detailer error or design omissions. Create erection plans, shop fabrication drawings and gather sheets from structural design drawings and project.

Participate in the design of a regenerative moisture trap, for natural gas regeneration, at the well head. Check fit-up and draft all the engineering documents, drawings and specifications.(contract position)

Incorporate monthly annexations into the Knoxville City Map. Maintain Knoxville GIS and Ward Maps including new subdivision plots and annexed properties. Update Knoxville Storm Water Maps including new drainage installation.

Provide CAD Support for an environmental contamination survey. This project involved the statistical sampling of all interior walls and equipment. Paint samples were taken from locations randomly selected from interior wall elevation grids and coupons were cut from all abandoned equipment. These were sent to independent labs for analysis. Create all.

Provide CAD support for engineers and designers in civil, structural, HVAC, electrical and piping. Assist in training CAD users in transition from CADAM to MicroStation.(contract position)

PCB contamination remediation project, US DOE Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Portsmouth, OH: Routed manifold piping for leaking HVAC exhaust duct gaskets.