Steven Thornton Email & Phone Number

De Leon Springs, Florida, United States

Responsible for supporting production processes and procedures.

De Leon Springs, Florida, United States

De Leon Springs, Florida, United States

Port Orange, Florida, United States

Orlando, Florida Area

Universal Studios Orlando Florida

Provide engineering support for rides, animations, and facilities in regards to safety, repairs, upgrades, and reliability.

• Created custom solutions tailored to the customers specialized needs. Custom solutions included: test fixture design, test stand design and construction, data acquisition and analysis, failure analysis, test planning, and new service development.• Performed software engineering related to test services.• Met with customers to develop test plans to meet unique requirements.• Tracked and planned corrective and preventative maintenance on lab equipment.• Proposed, setup, and chaired a company wide safety committee.

• Managed the Hydraulics and Special Applications Department• Supervised department personnel.• Performed as the Program Manager for all department jobs.• Prepared quotes for the department.• Created custom solutions tailored to the customers specialized needs. Custom solutions included: test fixture design, test stand design, data acquisition and analysis, failure analysis, test planning, and new product/service development.• Performed software engineering related to test services.• Experience in hydraulic systems for testing components for military aircraft, military ground vehicles, and commercial aircraft.• Experience in electrical testing methods such as contact resistance, insulation resistance, voltage withstand, and bonding resistance. • Experience in specifying and performing testing to various standards/specifications, i.e. SAE ARP 1383B, MIL-STD-810, RTCA DO-160, etc. • Experience setting up and programming a MOTOMAN SV3 6-axis robot for use in harsh environments and/or repetitive motion type tests.

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

• Developed standard operating procedures and unique assembly instructions for the production floor.• Participated in new product development teams by performing cost analysis and in design for manufacturability.• Designed specialized tooling for the production floor and final test department.• Performed failure/root cause analysis.• Developed corrective actions related to the assembly and test of electrical, fiber optic and high voltage products.

Ormond Beach, Florida

• Performed product design for subsea electrical and fiber optic products based on customer and MILSPEC requirements.• Performed FEA analysis using ANSYS.• Developed database to track part performance metrics on lot batches of critical materials.• Developed unique assembly instructions, test procedures, and qualification programs.• Performed as lead member of the SolidWorks & DBWorks implementation team.

Bethesda, Md

• Performed reliability, maintainability and availability analysis, risk assessment, and project management tasks related to US Navy ship design and procurement.

Bs, Ocean Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineering Council, SNAME/MTS

Aa, General

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa