Christopher "Andy" Pelzmann, Phd Email & Phone Number

Boulder, CO, US

• Mechanical engineer specializing in machine design, material analysis, industrial ceramics, composites, robotics, and manufacturing for aerospace, nanotech, and biomedical industries. Capabilities and/or services.
• Design of robotic systems: equations of motion; kinematic and dynamic analysis; control; extreme operating environments including high temperature, vacuum, and zero-gravity; extreme operating scales including.
• Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) using the Solidworks family of products.
• Machine and mechatronic design: prototyping, design for manufacture, and design for assembly
• Design of Experiments (DOE), execution of experiments, and analysis of experiments.
• Exceptional-quality presentations, proposals, and reports on engineering projects.Clients Include:

Boulder, Colorado, US

• Direct the technical development of a novel commercial digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) instrument. Assembled, guided, and mentored a multidisciplinary team focused on the instrument’s electromechanical.
• Managed the technical teams owning the product development of electromechanical, fluidic, optical, and structural subsystems.
• Managed system Assembly Integration & Test (AI&T) for beta instruments.
• Instituted subsystem and system-level design of experiments to solve active problem statements addressing fundamental instrument design issues.
• Created and managed the strategic road map for product development, including technical demonstration goals, timelines, and resource management.
• Managed the Product Requirements Document (PRD) review and update.

Boulder, Colorado, US

• Led the technical development of multiple electromechanical, fluidic, and structural subsystems in the pursuit of a novel commercial digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) instrument for research use.
• Owned the interface, assembly, integration, and documentation of the instrument.
• Led the redesign and development of the syringe pump subassembly, achieving industry-leading performance combining high volume with high-precision flow rates.
• Instituted design review schedules for subsystem product development, mirroring aerospace industry standards.
• Instituted system-level documentation capturing critical information such as concept of operations (CONOPS), mirroring aerospace industry practices.
• Created the company’s part numbering and serial numbering infrastructure.

• Led programmatic and technical execution of various projects, including large deployable mechanisms and structures and custom attitude control actuators for micro- and nano-scale satellites.
• Managed Internal Research & Development (IRAD) effort to bring the design, fabrication, and qualification of a suite of actuators in-house for micro- and nano-scale satellites. Achieved schedule, budget, and technical.
• Led the creation of custom BLDC motors to meet aggressive size, weight, power, torque, and momentum budgets for RWA.
• Nano-scale RWAs achieved best-in-class performance for mechanical noise and balance.
• Led the technical design and development of deployment mechanisms for micro-scale high aspect ratio antennas.

• Proposed, managed, and executed a broad range of projects utilizing robotics and general automation to solve some of the unique scientific and industrial challenges of space operations.
• Principal Investigator (PI) on a NASA Phase I SBIR grant researching unique robotic manipulators for use with Assistive Free Flyers (AFF) on the International Space Station (ISS).
• Led the investigation of dexterous autonomous and telerobotic systems for remote execution of scientific experiments aboard orbital and suborbital platforms.
• Continued development of an under-actuated robotic grasper for extracting a boulder from the surface of an asteroid; project begun while contracting for Altius under Pelzmann Industries, LLC.

Broomfield, Colorado, US

• Led the formation, design, and operation of the Advanced Materials Division while supporting company development through numerous additional activities.
• Developed the fabrication and analysis capability for manufacturing Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC) via Polymer Infiltration and Pyrolysis (PIP) for use with Three-Dimensional Textile Reinforcement Architecture (3D.
• Aided in the design, analysis, and manufacturing of a microwave thermal rocket engine.
• Led the Design of Experiments (DOE), experiment execution, and analysis
• Operated analysis equipment including: optical stereo microscope, scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscope (EDS), electromagnetic network analyzer (NA), and forward-looking infrared.
• Designed and fabricated manufacturing and experimental equipment utilizing computer-aided design (CAD), finite element analysis (FEA), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), manual tooling, and computer numeric control.

Chicago, IL, US

Worked as a member of the Microsystems and Devices Laboratory, specializing in contact-based micro-/nano-manufacturing research. This included the conceptualization, design, modelings, fabrication, and testing of various methods for the manufacturing of structures and mechanisms constructed from micro-/nano-scale components (MEMS, NEMS). Emphasis on.

• Designed, manufactured, and analyzed biomedical devices for the delivery of vaccines to remote populations without the use of needles or cold storage.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

B.S. (Pursued), Engineering Physics