Mechanical design engineer with 25 years of daily mechanical engineering / design experience using Solidworks. 18 years of full-time consulting / contract engineering work as Precision Mechanical Design, LLC.I love to design machines / devices / tooling / mechanical assemblies for my customers. I enjoy the entire process, from initial problem definition, “what is it we’re really wanting to design here…?”, to high level design concepts (brainstorming with the customer), to detailed 3D cad models / drawings for fabrication, to Bills of Materials (The BOMs are extremely important!), to vendor / fabricator quotes, to physically assembled prototypes / first runs when desired.Sometimes my customers know exactly what they want, and are designing to a spec from their customer. These are great projects as well! Every project has its own set of challenges / rewards. This is why design engineering will always be interesting for me.Specialties include:- precision machinery / mechanisms / tooling- medical devices and instruments- medical robotics- aerospace / defense products and instrumentation- infrared imaging mechanics- optical-mechanical systems- electro-mechanical systems- magnetic related mechanical design, (including basic magnetic analysis / calculations - actuators / motors / generators)
Listed skills include Solidworks, Mechanical Engineering, Strategic Partnerships, Finite Element Analysis, and 22 others.