Jeff Belval Email & Phone Number

Fort Collins, CO

Longmont, Colorado

• New product design for high volume industrial-grade LED light fixtures
• Latest product launch (ABC1* contractor grade - Dec ‘19): 20% cost-out and 2x reduction in labor (from previous gen)
• Provide direction and guidance to supporting engineers, allocating tasks to most efficiently move program forward
• Emphasize cost-out and manufacturability of products, executing on designs that can be assembled safely and quickly
• Comprehensive product development and implementation, including electrical and mechanical design, validation testing, documentation, and regulatory approval (UL and EMC)
• Fast-paced energetic manufacturing environment with aggressive timelines (<1 year new product development cycle)

Longmont, CO

• Engineering design support for new LED light products
• Created detailed system modeling software (Excel VBA) to predict and analyze light fixture performance
• Wrote LabVIEW code to automate electrical component testing
• Developed complex documentation system (including automated BOM creation) - for highly configurable, made-to-order products
• Thermal, EMI, load, vibration testing
• Tolerance analysis and 2D drawings

Boulder, CO

• Contractor, Manufacturing and Quality Engineering (Boulder, CO)
• Provided mechanical engineering support in the design, fabrication and maintenance of automated test systems for use in design verification and manufacturing testing.
• Designed tooling for testing and assembling medical devices on production line.
• Created detailed documentation packages in compliance with standard operating procedures and quality standards.
• Drafted numerous parts in “Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 5.0” and “Solid Works 2012”.
• Hand-built and 3D-printed design verification test fixtures in shop environment using milling machine, lathe, vertical band saw and other assorted machine tools.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Assisted “Military Marine Group” in assembly and testing of gas turbine control systems to be used on Navy ships.
• Debugged malfunctioning equipment in metal “cabinets” housing control systems.
• Conducted tests using oscilloscopes, digital multi-meters and other electrical tools.
• Refined endurance read/write software to test hard drives.
• Learned “Graphical Applications Programmer” software during 3 week training course.
• Submitted written test reports and presented progress to team and managers.