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Austin, Texas Area

Creating award winning products that power the casino floor!

Austin, Texas Area

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Design and development of commercial grade, high output LED fixtures and modules.Lead engineer for 8” 10K lumen down light & Industrial High Bay luminaire family.Narrow beam reflector design using Photopia optical software.Competitive analysis and concept design of LED volumetric retrofit assemblies.RESPONSIBILITIES:Electro/mechanical design of LED modules and fixtures using Solidworks.Design of plastic injection molded, sheet metal, extruded, and machined parts for LED fixtures.Performed Finite Element Analysis during development of module retention methods.Assisted with DFMEA and FMEA for new products.Wire harness design and creation during prototype development.Fabrication and assembly of initial prototypes for design verification.Created assembly documentation and installation instructions.Multiple visits to production facility in Matamoros, MX for pilot builds and operator training.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Lead engineer for the Cyberlight 2.0 and LED based Trackspot Bolt moving mirror lights. Owned global project from conception through to production. Market-ready products delivered within schedule and on budget.Cyberlight 2.0 voted Best LED/Lighting Product of 2010 by Rental and Staging Systems.RESPONSIBILITIES:Electro/mechanical design of lighting fixtures for the global entertainment industry while optimizing cost/performance of parts design via vendor supplier management.Create plastic injection and metal extrusion parts for various lighting fixtures.Design and verification of cooling systems for high wattage fixtures.Develop sheet metal chassis and components for structural and industrial design.Gear, pulley and liner motion mechanism design.Fabrication and assembly of initial prototypes for design verification.Create assembly documentation and work instructions.Provide training to in house production staff for all new product launches.System Admin for Pro Engineer and Intralink.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Global process development established starting from mechanical aspect to design to develop high efficiency power supplies for a venture-funded startup. Management of contract manufacturing along with supervision of MVT builds and streamlining assembly processes to build and ship 5000+ power supplies a month.RESPONSIBILITIES:Sheet metal chassis and heatsink design for high efficiency power supplies.Custom machining/fabrication of sheet metal and heatsinks for prototypes.Built initial prototypes for both mechanical and electrical design verification.Performed thermal analysis, characterization and report generation of prototypes.Drove BOM cost reduction by working with local and Chinese suppliers.Created all manufacturing drawings and assembly instructions.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Development of several power management products, leading cross-functional effort in recently established program.Projects delivered within requested schedule and budget.RESPONSIBILITIES:Produced Pro/E models of electronic/mechanical assemblies for prototype development.Prototype fabrication including sheet metal and circuit board assembly using surface mount and through-hole technology.Worked with electrical engineers on PCB layout to optimize layout and thermal designs.Performed testing and verification of thermal design.Created and maintained the MCAD/ECAD library for all design drawings.Provided system administration of all CAD tools and servers as well as assisted corporate IT with network administration.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENT: Document control system covering engineering and process documentation for new R&D division of Lucent Technologies was created, deployed and maintained.RESPONSIBILITIES:Created MCAD/ECAD models using Pro/E, Cadence, and AutoCAD.System administration of all CAD tools and servers.Verified and released MCAD/ECAD library components into master library.Assisted electrical engineers with product development.Performed network administration duties as needed.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENT: Migration of all existing 2D drawings to 3D solid models using Pro/E was completed.RESPONSIBILITIES:Created and maintained fabrication drawings from customer specifications using a combination of AutoCAD and Pro/E.Fixture and Tool design for fabrication of quartzware products.Coordinated with on-site fabrication shop to produce drawings for the release of work orders.Edited and revised all standard operating procedures for ISO 9000 certification.Material master part number creation using SAP R/3.SKILLS