Michael Giordano Email & Phone Number

Kennedy Space Center, FL

Ormond Beach, FL

• Responsible for the design and/or selection of flexible braid electrical grounding connectors to meet customerrequirements and specifications. Responsible for all aspects of product creation, including design, testing.
• Developed a Visual Basic design tool to help optimize design, reduce quotation time, improve cost accuracy and productivity, and help design for manufacturability, as well as interface with current work order/planning.
• Designed production and scheduling tools/spreadsheets for data analysis to allow for more accurate work load tracking and employee accountability.
• Worked with Sales team to improve product quotation time and cost.
• Teamed with others to develop process enhancements to reduce cost and improve quality.
• Provided summary analysis and data reports to customer, sales and manufacturing teams.

NASA Shuttle Logistics Depot Cape Canaveral, Florida

• Applied test engineering and other technical principles/concepts such as Root Cause Analysis to perform maintenance test and diagnostics. Generated shop orders, work orders, test plans/procedures and related.
• Directly interfaced with Design Engineering and Quality Engineering teams.
• Directly responsible for the maintenance and updates to the Engineering Evaluation and Acceptance Test Procedures which ensured verification and validation of hardware requirements.
• Applied expertise in Design of Experiments (DOE) and test plan development and validation.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Instructor for Precision Cleaning.
• Experience with various manufacturing, assembly and finishing techniques.

Melbourne, Florida Area

Responsible for teaching freshman mechanical engineering majors in engineering drawing techniques, Pro/Engineer, and Matlab. Other responsibilities included management of classroom, grading, generating lesson plans/lectures, and working with Professor and other teaching assistants.

Melbourne, Florida Area

• Modeled delamination in composite materials using LS-Dyna software. Responsible for reviewing scientific papers, generating computer models, and reproducing published results. Project was joint collaboration with.
• Successfully able to model delamination using LS-Dyna based on prior test results.
• Work led to published paper, “Finite Element Simulation of Delamination with Application to Crashworthy Design” (David Fleming, Clint Morrow)

Melbourne, Florida Area

Part of feasibility study to determine potential for wind power generation in Florida for Florida Power and Light. Responsibilities included retrieval and formatting of data, and then processing.

Ms, Space Systems

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Research Assistant, Teaching AssistantSpecialized in Dynamic Systems, Robotics and Controls

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Florida Tech Crimson, Student Ambassadors

High School Diploma