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Greater Colorado Springs Area

Natural gas mid-stream processing. Process Modeling. LNG Plant Design. Process Economics. FEED and FEL studies. Detailed design and analysis of natural gas liquids recovery.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Performed thermal analysis of PWB assemblies, and provided formal reports documenting results to reliability engineers after each design iteration.Test lead for a major risk-reduction thermal vacuum test to demonstrate a specific thermal control design. Directed and coordinated the mechanical design of the test configuration, manufacturing support, thermal vacuum test facilities, and data collection systems.Provided thermal vacuum test support for a major top-level assembly. Worked closely with Systems Engineering to interpret changes to requirements and evaluate the impact to the hardware.Test lead for a thermal vacuum bake-out and functional verification of heaters on a composite panel sub-assembly prior to integration to next higher level assembly and provided formal documentation of test results.Provided test support for numerous other thermal vacuum tests working off-hours shifts including acceptance testing for a line of deliverable space-qualified cryocoolers.Performed transient thermal analysis for a reference blackbody designed to operate over a 160K temperature range. Analysis included material trade studies and showed compliance to gradient requirements and provided transition times to test planners

Greater Boston

Lead Mechanical Engineer for the mechanical engineering group.Provided mentorship to several younger engineers, both new grads and summer interns.Provided task assignments and delegated work as needed based on program priority and available staff.Performed multiple mechanical design improvements and new designs for Radio Power Adapters (RPAs) for portable military radios. Design improvements addressed EMI performance, immersion performance, thermal management, and PCBA failures.Designed a custom latch paddle for the RPAs to permit true battery hot-swap capability and coordinated with supplier to refine and improve the design.Contributed to the design effort to leverage the RPA designs to create dedicated battery chargers of nearly identical form factor with about 95% design reuse.Performed mechanical design of machined and sheet metal enclosures for power electronics.Involved from the inception in the design of several configurations of LCCE (Low Cost Cryocooler Electronics) for space flight applications. Provided the mechanical design, and thermal and structural analysis either directly or by providing guidance to other mechanical engineers.Design, assembly, and instrumentation of fixtures and tooling to support functional testing of electronics.Utilized rapid prototyping suppliers to create mock-ups of several new product ideas to support sales team at trade shows and attended trade shows to provide technical support. Involved in finding and developing relationships with new vendors, machine shops, etc.Served as primary POC for suppliers/machine shops when mechanical issues come up.