Design vehicle accessories for the mobile workforce.

General Responsibilities- Design small caliber rifle parts and accessories for commercial and military applications, extensive injection molding experience.- Create and manage project schedules to track key company initiatives and coordinate tasks from product development to low-run initial production.- Support Quality via hands-on inspection, drawing interpretation, fixturing design, and metrology techniques.- Construct test procedures outlining set-up, execution, and data consolidation for product development.- Develop assembly work instructions and conducted training per AS9100 standards.- Collaborate with suppliers and vendors on new part manufacturing and support of existing products.- Create and maintain drawings and BOM’s for multiple business areas in ERP system.- Design, assemble, and test precision machined, high temperature, high pressure fiber optics for the Oil and Gas industry.- Lead engineer for composites business area with bid creation, tooling design, and production support.Project Highlights- Designed a new mounting system for a carbon fiber/epoxy handguard using Solidworks which reduced costs by 34% and weight by 52% as compared to the original design. Empirical load tests were conducted to generate data required for subsequent FEA analysis to refine design.- Led BMI composite handguard development project for SURG government contract. Prototype parts were shipped on schedule, 3 weeks from order to ship date. Responsibilities included creating the bid proposal, overseeing junior engineers’ drawings, and coordinating manufacturing and quality requirements with the internal team. - Automated shipment decisions, in two days, for operations manager using Excel and VBA. This improvement reduced errors and shortened the process from 8+ hours to 45 min.