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Technical lead on technology development project - stack hardware, plus developing manufacturing methods & equipment, developing DFMEA, planning and executing ex-situ tests.air cooled stacks - hardware development, DFMEA, part owner, shock & vibration testing, semi-crystalline plastic part development, design review, documentation release. unit cell - sealed MEAVW program - part owner for two rounds of DV. present to customers in Germany, Design reviews, documentation release.

• Electrochemical modeling (applied Gibbs, Ficks, Butler Volmer, Nearnst) & correlation to Prudent performance results; internal resistance vs. voltage.• Organized & managed development cycle to test & implement low cost membrane into stack design.• Senior Mechanical engineer organized and remotely managed development of multi sub-stack design with higher power density & lower cost, including battery performance test planning & review, component & test apparatus design.• Investigated & resolved numerous corrosion & leak problems, including electro-active components, stack components and seals.• Analysis of system capacity after cycling and correlating to Prudent performance results. • Addressed numerous quality issues with manufacturing in China, including engineering training, creating manufacturing requirements, process audits.• Patent applications for novel shunt breaking method & stack manufacturing method.• Primary contributor to stack DFMEA, and created the majority of reports detailing the stack mechanical development.• Competitor research, patent research, analysis research.• Analysis of plastic creep in stack cells and spring components.• Principal engineer responsible for reducing risk of stack failure & advising senior management of issues.

• Designed stack end hardware and built 18 stacks in record time, 6 weeks, after 1 year development period, 90% success rate, achieved higher pressures and lower costs.• Solved multiple problems associated with unit cell; internal flow bypass, flow distribution, seals• Initial stack end hardware components, internal shunt piping, external seals & structural compression system for VRB’s stacks.• Analysis of the shunt & pressure drop models. • Analysis and design of cooling system for kW class systems.

• sub system designer primarily focused on prototype building, instrumenting & testing taking advantage of the unique shop and environmental chambers. ( It was a great place to really understand and apply heat transfer, cooling systems & vibrations).• Cooling system design, validation, feasibility study for heat exchanger, peltier & refrigerant systems • Vibrations analysis on precision imaging engine, root cause analysis• Temperature gradients analysis on precision machine design & production calibration machinery

• Tool and mold designer, injection, pour, nickel vapor deposition (NVD).• Designed mold to create nickel shells for largest injection mold in the world at the time.