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Falls Church, Va, Us

Falls Church, Va, Us

Falls Church, Va, Us

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Review Engineering drawings for GD&T tolerance guidelines. Review CAD drawings using Pro-E/Creo. • Perform document checking functions for mechanical, electrical, and electronic packaging engineering drawings and specifications.• Perform all functions associated with the checking process which include but are not limited to format, specification compliance, completeness, accuracy, design soundness, ANSI Y 14.5 Geometric Dimension and Tolerance standards (GD&T), fabrication, assembly, installation, and interface validity, tolerance analysis, Bill of Materials (BOM) verification, data management, and Engineering Change Requests (ECRs).• Maintain BOM structures of mechanical detail parts, schematics, layout, and assembly drawings using PTC Windchill software.• Act as a manufacturing liaison between the design team, test team, and manufacturing team.

Falls Church, Va, Us

• Review Engineering designs for accuracy and manufacturability. Provide feedback to the Engineering team.• Maintain Bill of Materials for Manufacturing (MBOM) and Engineering (EBOM).• Liaison between Engineering and the Manufacturing floor.• Created work instructions for the technicians to properly assemble the hardware according to compliance and engineering requirements.• Analyze and inspect build packages. Discover any possible problems/issues that may occur during the building phase.• Provide liaison support for the technicians in interpreting Engineering drawings in order to build products to specifications. Troubleshoot any errors found.• Understand the full impact of any changes and how they would affect the business and develop recommendations.• Identify improvement opportunities to Manufacturing Processes in areas that require a productivity boost and affordability initiatives.• Dispositioned repair and rework instructions for non-compliant hardware.• Keep track of analytics using spreadsheets and statistical/graphic software. Keep upper management and leadership informed of work log.• Worked in a fast-paced, rapid development and/or production environment while maintaining quality of work.

Titusville, Fl, Us

• Perform engineering project management tasks from concept to manufacturing. Ensure project milestones are met.• Complete projects within budget and scheduling restraints provided by the Engineering Manager.• Work with Marketing department in the creation and updating of product specification sheets.• Develop new creative products and provide detailed assembly instructions utilizing SolidWorks 3D CAD.• Create conceptual models, renderings and 2D Drawings as needed for New Product Development, Marketing and Commercial Sales.• Responsible for design changes and improvements to existing products and implements changes based on approval from the Engineering Manager.• Supports manufacturing with design changes and supporting documentation.• Responsible for all new product and custom fixture budgeting and costing. Communicate with outside suppliers.• Develops product assembly instructions for manufacturing/plant.• Participate in continuous process improvement brainstorming sessions.• Provide training to Manufacturing department as it relates to product identification and manufacturing.• Manage/report on tasks and projects utilizing Microsoft Office 365 Planner.• Works closely with Purchasing Department as it relates to costing, prototypes, procurement and vendor/product selection.

Miami Lakes, Florida, Us

• Direct contact with several of Biorep’s clients, including Miami Instruments Inc. for operational/planning support.• Improve the productivity process by creating more efficient inspection plans/methods.• Turned existing products and tools into 3D CAD models using SolidWorks with Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) principles.• Responsible for having drawings and bill of materials updated in accordance to industry safety standards such as ANSI, ISO, SAE, and GD&T tolerance guidelines.• Assist in design and product validations for existing and future, state-of-the-art, products. • Conduct and document design verification tests and reports.• Design mechanical and pneumatic production tools to be used for outsourced assembly. Created the assembly instructions/manuals for several of the products. • Designed tooling and fixtures to achieve consistent and accurate results while machining/assembling products.• Assist in trouble shooting manufactured products and provide feedback to the Engineering Director.• Analyze tolerance stack-ups in complex mechanical assemblies.• Aid the Quality and Regulatory Department with Non Conformance and Corrective/Preventive Action investigations (NCM and CAPA) which include testing, analysis, and documentation.• Practice DHF requirement procedures for workflow such as ECO’s and DCO’s.• Maintain accurate document filling for Data Management Systems (EPDM and IQMS).• Developed relationship with several departments including Quality, Regulatory, Purchasing, Field Service, and Manufacturing.• Developed relationships with machine shop/manufacturing technicians with varying expertise such as machining, laser marking, CAD/CAM, and 3D printing.

Washington, Dc, Us

• MICEHAB is a conceptual design study with the goal of understanding mammalian reproduction in a partial gravity environment using mice.• Designed and built a prototype structure for the MICEHAB project. Completed structural analysis using Pro-Engineer.• Designed, built and tested a robotic arm for the habitat design, while interacting with a large group of multidisciplinary engineers and scientists to refine the modeling of the system, and mission concept.• Participated in determining possible system malfunctions. Recommended design modifications on how to solve them.• Designed the robotic arm to complete tasks such as move the mice enclosure to desired location, and replace the food and water. Used SoidWorks and Pro-E/Creo to design robot arm for greater visualization and simulations.• Created a user friendly program to access important information using a PC database (Microsoft Access).• Created spreadsheets to determine the cost efficiency of the project.• The mice habitat will be used to prove and test systems that will be directly applicable to future human missions to Mars.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Designed and built a robotic arm controlled by a Leap Motion controller.• Developed system requirements and specifications in order to meet our mentor’s requirements for the project.• Managed a team of two to complete the project on schedule and under budget. Saved the branch $2,000 from the intern budget to use on other projects. Met all design deadlines.• Ensured project was cost-effective and functionally sound.• Used SolidWorks to design the arm and run analysis simulations. Used SolidWorks to draft technical drawings and schematics.• Gained experience in several manufacturing techniques including milling, welding, and water jetting.• Technical presentations, both written and verbal, were given to branch managers. Specially geared presentations for non-engineers were given to others in the branch.

Master Of Science - Ms, Industrial Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering