Rich Ducar Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, United States

● Active Department of Defense Secret Clearance● Currently working at General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works in planning yard design activities as a Sr Designer/liaison role for DDG program.● Performed ship checks to support design developments at request from planning yard offices in Maine. Ship checks included hull, mechanical and electrical disciplines of all types.● Assisted in on-site representative activities to support all types of functions aboard DDG class vessels.● Very proficient at training co-workers and newer personnel for their positions as On-Site Representatives in all aspects of design, ship integration and ship safety.● Extensive LIDAR training.● Provided ongoing audits, reviews, improvements and markups to engineering drawings, ship installation drawings and technical documents by utilizing programs like AutoCAD to verify products and designs.▪ Worked in an ever-changing environment with a wide variety of situations in which to troubleshoot and problem solve.▪ Performed duties onboard the DDG 51 class destroyers in San Diego and various international ports.▪ Performed checking duties for co-workers/newer employees by redlining their designs and layouts of all types for proper installation and form, fit and function.Current CAC and active clearance

Temecula, Ca

Seal Cooler designs to meet customer specifications, Mechanical Seal designs for different fluids/gases and conditions. Work with application engineers, sales team, and technical services to provide best solution to internal and external customers. Also, designs made with Lean Manufacturing tools. (AutoCAD 2016)

Carlsbad, Ca

Responsible for the extensive new laboratory product designs for many new heating/chilling dry baths, and of many types of chilling/heating EchoTherm incubators incorporating Peltier units, shaker chilling/heating dry baths, analog and digital hot plates, rotating mixers and various custom products with an assortment of assay plates. (AutoCAD 2014)

San Marcos, Ca

Responsible for the design of mass flow meters, flow switches, level switches, temperature and pressure sensors, nuclear power level switches and flow conditioners for use in the process measurement, aerospace, OEM and nuclear environments utilizing extensive electro-mechanical packaging. In addition, checked drawings and assemblies with tolerance stack-ups for appropriate form, fit and function along with working directly with MRB to rectify manufacturing/assembly/testing issues as needed and made ECN’s to incorporate additional necessary changes. Also, I worked with Continuous Improvement programs to develop CPAR’s to update processes of all types to better streamline and prevent non-conformance problems, reduce waste and excessive costs. Lastly, I worked as an ISO9001 auditor to help keep the company ISO9001 certified. (AutoCAD 2014/AutoCAD 2000/some Solidworks use)