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Bolingbrook, Il, Us

Bolingbrook, Illinois, United States

Lead small design teams in support of larger development programs.Proficient in thermal and structural analysis of isolated and non-isolated electronic assemblies.Mentored younger engineers in standard design practices and processes. - Quoted engineering documentation update effort for contract negotiations regarding technical documentation package of complex electronics assembly and advised management on program impact. - Directed 5-person mechanical team in generating product documentation, which allowed test equipment designed for internal manufacturing test use to be sold to external customer. - Coordinated with supply chain group, shipping / receiving department, and local equipment-rental company for rental, delivery, and return of support equipment. - Oversaw 3-person mechanical team in re-architecting major system components during preliminary design phase of high-visibility program, delivering revised architecture that fit space allocation and power-thermal requirements, which enabled program to proceed. - Modeled transient thermal analysis, evaluating impact of differences in coefficient of thermal expansion between adjacent materials in an assembly. - Proposed alternate dimensioning scheme for large equipment mounting rack, improving manufacturability and increasing pass rate in final inspection.

Rolling Meadows, Illinois, United States

Plan, design, and develop mechanical products and systems for the RF Countermeasures business area. Contributed to technical volume for major proposals to the customer, including preliminary CAD layout, and plans for addressing environmental qualification requirements. Participated in Corporate Additive Manufacturing Consortium meetings 2014 - 2015 - Wrote sections of technical volume for major customer proposals, including addressing environmental qualification plans / approach and preliminary CAD layout work, resulting in on-schedule delivery of proposals with all parts of RFQs addressed. - Facilitated collaboration between engineers in 2 different business areas to share a fine position adjustment technique used in optics with RF group. - Mentored engineers new to the department, providing general guidance, advising on department standard practices and clarifying company procedures. - Built relationships with internal and external customers / stakeholders, ensuring program expectations were met. Collaborated with colleagues at other sites and in other sectors of corporation. - Implemented redesign of RF shield, replacing several shields with single pocketed metal cover across entire circuit card, as part of incorporating Additive Manufacturing techniques into standard design. - Submitted intellectual property disclosure that was awarded trade secret status by company’s review board.

Rolling Meadows, Illinois, United States

Designed, analyzed, and performed proposal work for programs in Targeting and Surveillance business area. - Developed hand-held test unit, allowing error-code data to be downloaded by flight-line technicians, instead of shop-level personnel, which reduced maintenance time. - Led 2-person mechanical team for packaging and mounting optical components and high-power fiber optic cables in rack-mounted flight demonstration unit. - Collaborated with colleagues at 2 different company sites, assisting optical design while transitioning from PTC Creo to Siemens NX CAD software. - Collected evidence as part of site CMMI Level 5 certification team, contributing to site achieving business-critical CMMI certification. - Designed mass-and-CG equivalent maximum-volume mockup to support fit check and balancing of a gimbal-mounted assembly; maximum-volume shell was designed for 3-D printing in ABS.

Rolling Meadows, Illinois, United States

Supported large R&D program from initial concept review through design, procurement, assembly, test and integration, including design documentation and customer reviews. - Performed structural and thermal analysis on several assemblies, producing viable designs to present at critical design reviews. - Generated environmental test procedures and supported qualification testing of first article, ensuring alignment with MIL-STD-810 testing standard. - Automated mass-balancing process for large rotating assembly, reducing assembly time by several hours per unit.

Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

Supported environmental qualification testing of military communications equipment.Updated mechanical documentation for design improvements to hardware in production.Interacted with purchasing, logistics, and internal machine shops.