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• Vendor & Supplier Management: Skilled in procurement, vendor selection, and quality oversight for manufacturing processes.• Manufacturing Oversight: Coordinate CNC machining and assembly production, ensuring quality and adherence to specifications. Prototypes to in stock volume products.• Employee Development: Identifying and avoiding pitfalls as a team without micromanagement, teaching through example and mentorship for design and calculation best practices.• Technical Documentation: Manage drawing approvals, manufacturing, customer documents, installation plans, and compliance with industry standards.• Design Chops: Expertise in SolidWorks for design, prototyping, documentation and assembly, leveraging scan data at part and facility levels.• Reverse Engineering & Design: Cutting edge reverse engineering methods and software, and adaptable to industrial design tasks.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Lead cross-disciplinary communication between animators, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and controls teams, impacting hardware on multi million dollar bespoke robots.• Held final approval authority for motion profiles across multiple projects impacting the largest customers.• Oversaw BLDC actuator tuning / troubleshooting during commissioning, ensuring successful first motion.• Served as a multidisciplinary subject matter expert, providing global support for touring and permanent installation, including commissioning, maintenance and in-service operations.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Visualization skills and ergonomics expertise to generate and refine concepts based on user/client needs.• Communicated design direction effectively to teams, coordinated with internal finish and fabrication departments, outside vendors, and customers.• Solved problems where PM scopes were fluid. Made adjustments inside budget that satisfied requirements, despite fluid scopes and change orders as they were handed down from product.• Work with product management, project management, design engineering, and fabrication teams to deliver on-time solutions, support product launches, and refine design workflows.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Project Leadership: Lead prototype commissioning, ensuring design meets or exceeds calculated theoretical physical limits.• Load Case Analysis: Oversee load case generation for analysis, animation and validation using SolidWorks. Validated with real-world load cell and strain gauge data.• Solidworks & FEA: Advanced user leveraging FE for designing machined parts, weldments, and prints. • Mechanism Design: Specialize in BLDC servo actuator sizing, design, gearbox selection, axis acceleration limits, and duty cycle calculations from concept, prototype, production and installation.• Integration: Manage integration of custom, off the shelf, machined and textile parts for multi-compound axis robots.• Hands-on Support: Assist machine shop, vendors, and assembly to ensure project success and delivery. Modified drawing standards to eliminate clarifications. Cleanup of botched designs and project recovery.

Nashville, Tn, Us

Equipment design and conception in Inventor 2018 (piece parts and complex assemblies)Controls experience with Ethernet/IP, limited Allen Bradley RSLogix 5000 and RS232 devicesDeployed as site lead engineer on multiple projects to manage general installers, millwrights and electriciansFacility layout and documentation generation in Autocad Mechanical

Responsible for repair, modification and restoration of priceless machinery and equipment featured on national television.Reverse engineering and documentation generation for undocumented and modified equipment

Yokohama-Shi, Kanagawa, Jp

Nissan Production Way (NPW) Kaizen TrainedUltrasonic Gas Leak DetectionProject Management in Microsoft ProjectProduction aid design on multiple assignmentsProduction controls design and implementationSheet metal design in Unigraphics NX CADExtraction of class A surfaces for tool design

Chandler, Az, Us

Maintained and demonstrated 3D printersTechnical discussions and demonstrations with customers on the floor

Calibrated pressure transmitters, RTD’s, power meters, Agilent based Data Acquisition Systems, Pipe Flow Pitots, Thermocouple Readers and AnemometersExcelled at deadweight pressure calibrations <10,000 psi of Rosemount digital pressure transmittersWrote scripts to automate entry of cal data to and generation of hard certificates with Fluke MET/CALPerformed circuit level repairs on analog instrumentation in house and in the fieldAided in the conducting of tests on site at coal, combined cycle, natural gas and nuclear plants

Head Mechanic Responsible for diagnosis and repair of motorcycles, dirtbikes and ATV's.

Fulfilled warranty repairs for Gateway, Fujitsu and IBM laptops - hardware and software repairs. Maintained campus technology. Liquidated obsolete equipment and handled sales.