Ron Collins Email & Phone Number

Woburn, MA, US

Andover, MA

Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer in the Plasma & Reactive Gas division focusing on innovative product development. Role includes mechanical design & analysis for fast-turn projects. Tools for analysis include Solidworks Simulation FEA, Solidworks Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD), Ansy CFD and Mathcad for analytical calculations. Specialties include.

Greater Boston Area

7 Constitution Way, Woburn, Ma 01801

Primary role is the design & development of laser driven light sources(LDLS). Responsibilities include the design of laser power supply's, lamp assy's and their optics, as well as, customer specific versions of new and existing products. All designs require analysis for thermal management which are done analytically and through thermal FEA models.

Woburn, MA

Sr. mechanical design engineer working on multiple projects. Responsibilities include design, analysis & detailing of complex mechanical systems. Emphysys is a technology solutions provider for complex high-tech manufacturing processes.

Woburn, MA

• Founding member of a start-up company whose primary function is developing electrodeless light sources.
• Leading mechanical design engineer on the EQ-99 Laser-Driven Light Source product. Energetiq was awarded the 2010 Prism Award for photonics innovation in the "Other Light Sources" category for its EQ-99 laser-driven.
• Responsible for mechanical design, calculations, documentation and support for plasma sources ranging in power between 1.5W – 60kW. Experience includes thermal analysis of said plasma sources which includes FEA thermal.
• Sub-system design afforded experience with brazed assemblies, thermally epoxied cold plates, many sheet metal parts, as well as, 1000+ machined parts. Also have worked with several ceramics, quartz, silicon carbide &.
• The EQ-10 EUV light source was awarded R&D Magazines top 100 award for the best products developed in 2006, as well as, Semiconductor International Editors’ Choice Award for 2008.
• Have successfully designed cooling system for high power LED arrays.

Woburn, MA

• 1st employee of a small start-up company whose primary function is developing small vacuum-based instruments. MKS purchased this company within the first year of its creation.
• Responsible for all mechanical design, documentation and support for a mass spectrometer based helium leak detector. This device is a released product called PICO.
• Design experience includes a complex miniature turbo pump, a miniature scroll-type roughing pump, ion traps and overall system packaging design incorporating state-of-the-art rapid prototyping techniques.
• As part of the advanced technology group, I assumed responsibility for setting priorities and tracking project status. Project management skills were applied commonly throughout all projects.
• The PICO helium leak detector was awarded R&D Magazines top 100 award for the best products developed in the year 2002 & Semiconductor International Editors’ Choice Best Product for 2004.
• Co-inventor on 4 US Patents #’s 6,872,909, 7,073,771, 7,501,600 & 7,659,489.

Woburn, MA

• Project manager assigned to several commercial diamond reactor systems.
• Designed custom interface hardware to adapt existing plasma products to customers equipment. These activities were targeted primarily at customers in the semiconductor market.
• Worked directly with mechanical engineers and physicists in the development of plasma deposition reactors and related equipment.
• Responsible for the design of vacuum chambers and control system interfaces, plumbing, and mechanical packaging with the extensive use of Autocad’s R14 solid modeler.
• Given full responsibility for customer specific product design, which I was responsible for from conception through delivery.
• Experience included almost all aspects of project design and management including customer concept approval, design for manufacture, as well as customer acceptance testing which, in some cases, included written test.

Salem, NH

• Responsibilities included the design and development of new products including the System 2000 sonar recorder, model 595 thermal recorder, model 615 video display, several thermal printer mechanisms and many accessory.
• Designed several undersea pressure vessel packages including the integration of a sonar transceiver into the warhead section of a torpedo for NUWC(Naval Underwater Warfare Center).
• Above projects included the design of thermal printers, gear boxes, card cages and many electronic packages constructed of both machined and fabricated components. All projects managed from concept through release to.
• Designed many in-house tools including a vacuum potting chamber for degassing potting materials for use on the sonar transducers. Also, designed custom shaped low-temperature ovens for use in curing these same.

Mechanical Engineering Technology

- Additonal Training Courses: * Solidworks Simulation Designer FEA Course * Solidworks Simulation Professional FEA Course * Solidworks CAM.

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