Thomas Harding Email and Phone Number

Technical Director in charge of all projects.

Technical design and development of attraction equipment

Created scope, schedule & budget, equipment designer & design manager, fabrication, installation, sub vendors, general contractors, and client manager. Wrote equipment manuals, produced fabrication drawings, close out documentation, maintenance training, client close out. For multiple attractions at Shanghai Disney.

Created scope, schedule & budget, equipment designer & design manager, fabrication, installation, sub vendors, general contractors, and client manager. Wrote equipment manuals, produced fabrication drawings, close out documentation, maintenance training, client close out. For multiple attractions at Shanghai Disney.

Created production drawings from concept art and descriptions for theatrical show equipment, theme park attractions, architectural facades, museum exhibits, promotional sets, and mechanical devices.

Designer and program manager for robotic liquid nitrogen fog nozzles in Reno nightclub. General Contractor for hotel modification. Had to run high pressure steam lines and cryogenic vacuum jacketed plumbing from basement of hotel to nightclub during operating hours. Project included modification of environmental systems by adding Oxygen sensors and evacuation systems.

Mechanical Designer and Program Manager for show equipment for Universal Singapore attractions. Designed, managed fabrication and installation for complex entertainment equipment involving fire, smoke, water explosions, and large moving objects for Hollywood stunt show, Lights Camera, Action at Universal Studios Singapore.

Managed International vendor companies for the new Heineken Experience through Design, Construction/Fabrication, Installation and Commissioning.

Lead mechanical designer for animatronics, robotics, show action equipment, animated props, and other custom mechanical equipment. Designed large automated mechanical equipment.

Equipment design, fabrication and installation for Food and Industrial processing plants, bottling, canning, labeling, boxing, for Pepsi bottling plant, Ice Cream plant, dry powder plant, water bottle filling plant, fiberglass insulation plant.

Lead mechanical designer for theatrical rigging and stage rigging equipment.

Program Manager/Lead Designer for Walt Disney Imagineering. Led projects from concept through completion for Animal Kingdom, California Adventure and Magic Kingdom.

Technical Director/Program Manager for Star Trek: The Experience ride at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Managed vendors and unions for fabrication, construction and installation phases of this project.

Program Manager (Show Manager) for the original T2/3D attraction at Universal Studios Florida. Managed GC, Architect and show vendors. Technical interface between film and show with Digital Domain and James Cameron.