Patrick Donaghy Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA

I'm an independent mechanical engineer with skill and experience designing custom automation solutions and consumer products.I have an inspired and compassionate personality and easily integrate into multidisciplinary design teams.I've designed automation and products for a wide range of industries including automotive, aerospace, outdoor, and consumer.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Worked with high profile clients on multidisciplinary projects (ME, EE, ID, FW, SW) designing consumer products utilizing skills including injection molded plastic design, plastic and metal gearing design, FEA, motion analysis, and PCB component layout.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Mechanical and electrical design of robotics systems and infrastructure.

Seattle, WA

The manufacturing division at Cascade Designs needed a machine and process to apply a new instructional decal and install a new valve in their 2020 line of camping pads. Concepted, prototyped, tested, and designed a machine and process that integrates with the clients existing manufacturing workflow, works across all product lines, and improves product.

Everett, WA

Designed an automated material handling system consisting of automated rotating hoists, part fixturing frames, and part loading/transport carts to pass aircraft parts through an existing shot peening machine.The system increased peening machine utilization by 50% and increased operator safety by eliminating the need for operators to work at height.

Seattle. WA

MSR Global Health needed to integrate three different water purification technologies that had never before been used together into an automated device for the treatment of blackwater. The device needed to have aesthetic appeal and look like a refined consumer product to be displayed at the Gates Foundation funded 2018 Reinvent the Toilet Expo in Beijing.

Seattle, WA

Designed custom 500,000 lb. die cutting presses, hydraulic manifolds, and hydraulic power units to cut shapes out of scrap carpet.

Auburn, WA

IMI needed single-operator assembly and test stations to manufacture a new magnetically latching solenoid valve for semi truck brake actuation.Designed three single-operator stations for use on this lean, single-part-flow manufacturing line. Operator safety, efficiency, ergonomics, and machine reliability were top design priorities as hundreds of thousands.

Seattle, WA

Worked on a multi-disciplinary team tasked with supplying a reference design of a trackable object and handheld controller attachment that was supplied to participants in a Steam VR developer course for Valve Corporation.Performed two-shot injection molded part design, "Master Model" creation and management, PCB mechanical layout design, Flexible Printed.

Seattle, WA

MSR had contracted an Asian manufacturing company to design and manufacture the pressure regulator in their new MSR WindBurner stove that was under development, but the pressure regulator prototypes that were supplied were performing poorly with unpredictable pressure response and large amounts of hysteresis. I was tasked with solving these issues and.

Mukilteo, WA

Designed multi-axis CNC riveting and carbon fiber placement machines and tooling for the commercial aerospace industry. Designed a large portion of the machine structure and drives on the E6000 riveting machine (see link) which became the fastest commercial wing riveter in existence at the time of commissioning. This was achieved through an innovative axis.