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Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States

Franklin Park

• Provided on site manufacturing and engineering support to global supplier base• ​Led and managed the design of a new upright exercise bike through production launch on time and under budget• ​Designed new products for high volume production• ​Managed engineering design of new walking treadmill desk• ​Managed engineering and manufacturing aspects of contract manufacturing outsourced projects• Assumed engineering lead role for in process projects during merger and led projects successfully through production launch• Designed components within the following categories for high volume productionMachining | Turning | Casting | Injection molding | Sheet metal processes | Stampings | Powder metal | Weldments |Extrusions | Overmolding | Laser cutting | Tube bending | Self-skinning foam molding |• ​Led DFMEA• Designed products to meet biomechanics specs to accommodate required range of known product users• Designed user interaction points on exercise equipment using data from biomechanical engineers and user studies• Developed new and innovative designs for patent application• ​Developed prototypes to validate design concepts• ​Wrote test plans for product validation• Performed cost reduction• Designed and implemented high volume manufacturing assembly fixtures• Led platforming initiatives to reduce product line part count, simplify product assembly and improve manufacturability• ​Provided manufacturing support for high volume production lines• Mentored coops, interns and entry level mechanical engineers• Performed 3D part scanning for inspection and reverse engineering

• Provided on site manufacturing support• Managed development of locomotive cab platform design• Conducted first article inspections of new vendor supplied products• Led change monitoring initiative to track and implement changes on a cab platform design• Identified and resolved manufacturing and quality issues to reduce production delays and ensure customer satisfaction and on time delivery• Developed technical specifications for various locomotive systems• Designed customer specific locomotive cab structures to meet various customer requirements• Analyzed FEA analysis to optimize structural designs for inertial, fatigue and modal requirements• Developed cab equipping configurations for optimal ergonomics for improved customer satisfaction• Developed and performed ventilation system validation testing• Designed custom ventilation testing systems to validate and confirm prototype designs• Designed locomotive ventilation systems for various environmental conditions• Provided on site validation testing for current and new locomotive ventilation systems• Analyzed CFD analysis to optimize ventilation system designs

• Create pipe stress models for various plants including power plants and oil refineries• Analyze piping systems for locations of high stress using various analysis programs and hand calculations • Redesign piping systems to reduce stress levels, vibrations, and deflections within system • Design piping hangers and supports to properly support piping systems• Perform walk-downs of piping systems for inspection and troubleshooting and report recommendations• Design of new piping systems for various plants and operating system

• Facilitated Mesh geometry utilizing various meshing programs for use in FEA• Setup, run and analyze casting simulations for various engine and structural components • Created material databases based on material properties for use in casting simulations• Designed riser and gating configurations for various castings

• Creation of Routing and Bill of Material, entry into system, develop standardized operations• Rewrote process sheets to reduce setup time, reduce errors, decrease training time, and standardize work • Perishable tooling studies, comparisons to standards• Participated in Ford Lean Training and Northern Illinois University Lean Training• Implemented lean in problematic cells of high precision, high volume gears for the automotive industry which included time studies, process mapping and documentation, and constraint identification and elimination

Master Of Project Management, Project Management

Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering