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Akron, Oh, Us

Akron, Oh, Us

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

Designed fixtures and resolved connection issues primarily for Low Profile photonic Mast for the USN. Used GD&T concepts to prove or disprove issues with current design.Assisted with signal issues with anaechoic chamber.Ran vibration and temperature cycling tests.

Reston, Va, Us

Assemble, troubleshoot and design Conventional Prompt Strike Missile within Strategic System Programs USN.

South Euclid, Oh, Us

Responsibilities: Manage product development, design, testing writing proposals, QTP’s, ATP’s, FMEA’s, FRACAS’s, Corrective Actions. Disposition of discrepant material. Duties/Accomplishments: Wrote QTP, ATP, Drawings, Circuit Diagrams, and designed drawings for fuel valves for Korean Air Industry’s KFX Fighter. Process involved many calls after midnight. Rolls Royce: Wrote Compliance matrix and proposal for new $10M butterfly valve. Used SolidWorks tools including SmarTeam and SolidWorks Simulator to make drawings and develop FEA reports for similarity reports. ATP’s and QTP’s met requirements of RTCA/DO-160 & MIL-STD-810: Vibration, Temperature Shock, Contamination, Sand and Dust, Explosive Atmosphere, Shock, Emission and Susceptibility and Lightning Strike Brought Cessna’s Laditude PRSOV for de-icing back on online after previous attempts floundered. Involving trips to vendor, test facility.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Responsibilities: Delegate and prioritize tasks in Quality Assurance Department in investigation of root causes and repairs of discrepancies in the manufacturing of valves and fittings for US defense contracts. Duties/Accomplishments: • Planned repairs following NAVSEA and GIB’s guidelines • Ran manufacturing review board meetings and oversaw corrective action and preventive action operations. • Instructed inspectors on the use of GD&T guidelines. • Set up and ran database for Pareto charts. Also utilized them to guide quality improvements. • Setup non-conforming material database. • Reviewed new casting and forging designs. • Met with vendors over non-conformance issues and returns. • Wrote waivers for Nuclear and Level One contracts.

Lynchburg, Virginia, Us

Manufacturing Engineer, Babcock & Wilcox, Nuclear Operations GroupResponsibilities: Write Processes in the construction of US Navy Nuclear Power Plants.Duties/Accomplishments:• Worked with SAP to write manufacturing processes following NAVSEA guidelines• Department of Energy Government Clearance• Lead HPET groups to improve the Quality and Safety among the office and shop floor• Resolved manufacturing problems in welding, machining and assembly navigating through the guidelines of NAVSEA• Wrote new processes to streamline new design of pressurizers and steam generators.. Proposed and followed through on restructuring plans of pressurizer to achieve goals of consolidating multiple stress relief operations (thus eliminating an entire second stress relief) and consolidating weld set-ups for sub-arc and A-GTAW.

Solon, Ohio, Us

Responsibilities: Design steel industry processing equipment for customers (SES and ALCOA).Duties/Accomplishments:•Worked with Autodesk Inventor to design steel mill equipment for SES.•Oversee and direct all CAD draftsmen at satellite location.•Designed parts for 50,000 ton Mesta press in SolidWorks 2010 for ALCOA.•Worked with Autodesk 2011 Vault to manage drawing design and style control.•Dealt with vendors on selecting component parts ranging from hardware and bearings to electric motors for defined applications.

Responsibilities: Design, benchmark, improve, test and expand all product lines in the filtration industry, for aeronautical, commercial and defense uses.Duties/Accomplishments:•Designed and tested filters used on Sikorsky Helicopter, Joint Strike Fighter, & M-1 Tank. •Introduced, created guidelines for, and implemented the use of Inventor v.11.0 and 2010 into company drawing system. Company had previously only used AutoCAD.•Trained Draftsmen and lab technicians.•Designed and produced filtration systems using sheet metalworking, casting, plastic injection molding and various welding techniques (i.e. GTAW, RSEW, PAW).•Designed routine test equipment for test lab and developed test procedure requirements

Twinsburg, Ohio, Us

Responsibilities: Design, maintain, improve, test and expand all product lines in the stainless steel fitting and valve industry. Duties/Accomplishments:•Designed and tested needle valves, metering valves, check valves, ball valves, bite-type ferrules and created DuolokTM, UnilokTM, and GriplokTM brand ferrules. •Designed majority of components for check valves, ball valves, needle valves, tee filters and dielectrics. Designed test fixture for life tests on all valves.•Familiarity with multi-spindle machinery processes and tooling, annealing, EDM drilling, forging equipment, heat treatment of 316SS, lapping, PFA coating and several measurement devices.•Created 3-D table driven parts and assemblies using Excel and SolidWorks 2006.•Directed work of, and trained all CAD draftspersons and lab technicians.•Dealt with vendors on issues of new test equipment for lab, machines for the shop floor, raw materials and manufacturing processes. •Designed routine test equipment for test lab and developed test procedure requirements. Performed burst tests, leak tests, dimensional studies, and Rockwell hardness tests. •Performed and designed vibration test, liquid nitrogen low temperature leak test and flow performance (Cv) tests•Worked with Tool Engineering, Quality Department and Marketing/Sales personnel in the launch of new parts and products.•Worked on 6-Sigma Team to resolve manufacturing problems saving over $30,000/year on first project.•Participated in Kaizen speed to market event. Product was taken from concept to prototype in one week and first sale after validation in two months which was over 2000 pieces.•Performed weekly 5-S departmental audits.•Participated as ISO auditor in initial certification of ISO-9000.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Responsibilities: As a contract employee, create drawings for cast iron motors.Duties/Accomplishments:•Designed cast iron electric motors using Intergraph EMS 3.0. •Using the 3-D designing capabilities of EMS, set-up the desired tolerances and space requirements of their new TEFC High Efficiency motors.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Responsibilities: Run lab tests and FEA programs.Duties/Accomplishments:•Tested and developed air-conditioning hoses and connectors for the Automotive Connector Division. Tests included salt spray, burst, vibration and leak tests. •Operated FORGE2 FEA program to develop manufacturing process for aluminum connectors.

North Canton, Ohio, Us

Responsibilities: As an intern, ran lab tests, created CAD drawings and made parts in model shop and product engineering.Duties/Accomplishments:•Created drawings and 3-D models on Intergraph EMS and Microstation. •Ran life tests on ATM parts and tested and troubleshot Video Automated Teller Units. •Built prototype security products like safety deposit boxes, safes and ATM parts from prints on Intergraph EMS.

Cork, Ie

Responsibilities: As an intern, fixed bills of material and documented processes.Duties/Accomplishments:•Created bills of material and routings for electrical relays and monitored and documented production process. •Entered MAPICS & MRP II information in inventory management, accounts payable, engineering change notices, order entry and invoicing.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Physics