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Responsible for designing, building, and documenting Data Acquisition Systems for the Navy’s small scale model.

• Site product test engineer responsible for defining the system architecture and documenting the electrical and mechanical requirements and software interfaces for test equipment. Responsible for the design of cable.
• Reduced test equipment schedule time by simplifying and standardizing the design and leading a team that simplified the build process. Achieved a thirty-five percent reduction in schedule for producing test equipment.
• Lead mechanical engineer for space single-board flight computers, responsible for the mechanical design and printed circuit board layout. Two of the flight computers went in the Mars Curiosity Rover, which successfully.
• Led a mechanical and electrical design team, in different states, to design a large complex high power water-cooled dense power supply assembly and a servo amplifier and power supply assembly for military application..

• Lead engineer for site printed circuit board design group. Responsible for mechanical layout, component lead form definition, thermal and structural features, board layers, trace width and spacing, and safety and.
• Designed and assisted in setting company guidelines for high speed, high density, multilayer printed circuit boards, active backplanes, passive backplanes, and flex circuits, using through-hole, blind-via, layer-via.
• Established printed circuit board electromagnetic interference guidelines to control crosstalk and noise in high speed electronics. Guidelines eliminated board noise.
• Led a team creating the site standard for electrical and printed circuit board library parts. Libraries streamlined the design process and reduced errors leading to a better product.
• Lead designer for printed circuit boards, responsible for mechanical designs, component symbols, layouts, routings, and manufacturing documents and data. Printed circuit boards were successfully built without any board.
• Created site measuring process by researching equipment, recommending, implementing, programing, and running the site Coordinate-Measuring Machine (CMM) to verify the dimensions on deliverable parts. This process.

• Responsible for printed circuit board designs, mechanical designs, and cable designs.
• Mechanical engineer for the Navy’s Acoustic Rapid Commercial-off-the-shelf Insertion (A-RCI) Multi-Purpose Processor (MPP). Responsible for designing the cable harnesses and the mechanical packaging of the electronics.
• Designed complex cable harnesses for a unit in the Navy’s Virginia class (SSN 774) new-attack submarine. Cable worked without any fit or noise problems.

Responsible for designing printed circuit boards for space and Navy systems. Responsible for creating printed circuit board guidelines for the mechanical, electrical, and printed circuit board design groups. Developed printed circuit board layout and routing procedures for high-speed digital signals. Developed board layout guidelines for analog board.

• Lead mechanical designer responsible for the mechanical design of the Acoustic Transmitter Unit (ATU) used on sonar system AN/BSY-2 for the Seawolf class (SSN 21) fast-attack submarine.
• Created the design concept for the ATU and led a design team in the design and documentation of the unit. The ATU was finished on schedule.
• Developed a new EMI / environmental gasket working with a gasket vendor. ATU past the spray test and drip test on the first pass.
• Designed the ATU structure, cold plates, and piping. Assisted in designing noise isolation to prevent transformer acoustical noise. Fit and design checked all detail parts and cables from team members. ATU went.
• Designed installation fixtures and presented a presentation to the Navy on how to install the ATU onboard a submarine. The ATU was installed without any problems.

• Lead mechanical designer responsible for creating and supporting the mechanical design and build of units that makeup the Navy’s AN/BQQ-5, AN/BQQ-6, and AN/BSY-1 submarine sonar programs.
• Responsible for the mechanical design and cable harness design for two units in the AN/BSY-1 sonar system. Also support the build process through to qualification testing. Units were built and qualified successfully.
• Responsible for implementing the updates in the mechanical design with each upgrade to the baseline of the AN/BQQ-5 system. Mechanical design of the system was updated to make hardware changes on the submarine easier.
• Responsible for creating the mechanical design and instructions for sonar upgrade kits, refurbish kits, and retrofit kits to maintain sonar units on the following classes of submarines, Sturgeon class (SSN 637).
• Responsible for the design and build support of the water-cooled and air-cooled versions of the AN/UYS-1 Advanced Signal Processor (ASP). The ASP is used on the USAF Mobile Ground Terminal (MGT), the P-3 Orion, Light.

Responsible for designing and documenting ASME pressure vessels, piping, heat exchanges, and tanks used in chemical plants and oil refineries. Assisted in setting up the x-ray machine, x-raying, developing x-ray films, and interpretation of film. Supported fabrication through to final delivery.

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Associate Of Applied Science, Mechanical Design Drafting

Associate Of Applied Science, Mechanical Engineering Technology