Thomas Doyle Email & Phone Number

Burlington, Vt, Us

Williston, Vermont, United States

- Conceive, design and develop innovative military, aerospace and defense products to meet extreme technical requirements and critical mission objectives. - Develop CAD models for concept evaluation, functional analysis, finite element analysis and final product definition.- Create and manage top-level CAD assemblies, PLM BOM product structure, design completion schedule and resource planning.- Responsible for tracking and reporting weight budgets and allocations throughout the design, development and build process.- Ensure design and delivery goals are achieved by organizing, encouraging and facilitating regular cross-functional design reviews.- Pro-actively engage and develop team members who are new to the business through mentoring and training as well as developing academic relationships and opportunities (VTC).- Subject matter expert for Additive Manufacturing (GD corporate AM Committee) and 3D Model Based Definition.

Burlington, Vermont

- Expert level operator of multiple CAD/CAE/PLM/FEA tools, responsible for timely generation of design solutions, 3D CAD models and 2D drawings IAW internal and industry standards (ASME Y14.5 GD&T, Y14.100, etc).- Regularly provide key design inputs for defining new product requirements.- Organize and perform prototype assembly and acceptance tests with development teams at various locations.- Routinely collaborate with structural analysis SMEs on design optimization to meet weight and durability requirements.- Perform and document tolerance and interface analyses throughout the design process to ensure proper fit and function.- Responsible for supporting off-site customer tests, qualification, training and system integration.- Heavily engaged with continual improvement initiatives for internal CAD/PLM procedures and design workflow processes.

Burlington, Vermont Area

- Expert level operator of numerous CAD/CAE/PLM tools responsible for generating 3D solid models and 2D drawings IAW internal and industry (ASME) standards.- Routinely collaborate with structural analysis SMEs on design optimization to meet weight and durability requirements.- Perform and document tolerance and interface analyses throughout the design process to ensure proper fit and function.- Organize and oversee component and system level acceptance tests with production teams at various locations.- Product design SME providing technical guidance to suppliers and production teams during fabrication and assembly.- Interface with customers to develop product requirements and coordinate exchange of technical data.- Responsible for accurate surveying of vehicles and aircraft to identify and fully define surfaces, interfaces and envelopes for new component and system integration.- Ensure first time design success by managing design complexity and engaging internal SME’s to obtain materials, process capability, lead-time, electrical, quality and cost guidance.- Continual improvement of CAD/PLM process and participate regularly in standards development.

Burlington, Vermont Area

- Create 3D CAD models and generate 2D drawings IAW internal and industry (MIL, ASME) standards.- Perform prototype integration and fit-checks on vehicles and airframes to ensure fit and function requirements were achieved.- Work within PLM & configuration management processes to define and document engineering and design changes.- Responsible for accurate surveying of vehicles and aircraft to identify and define surfaces and interfaces for component design.- Interface with customers to develop product requirements and coordinate exchange of CAD data.- Product design SME on teams responsible for root cause analysis, solutions and corrective actions for supplier quality issues, non-conforming parts and component failures.- Operate and maintain rapid prototype fused deposition modeling machine (3D printer).

- Conceive and develop 3D CAD models for composite radomes; weapons, external weapons, surveillance and cargo pods; fairings; internal airframe structures and equipment, and ground support equipment.- Generate 2D CAD drawings IAW internal and industry (MIL/ASME) standards.- Apply GD&T, Design for Manufacture/Assembly & Design to Cost principles to achieve producibility and cost objectives.- Routinely collaborate with structural and aerodynamic analysis groups to create designs that meet weight, structural and aerodynamic requirements.- Create and maintain standard hardware CAD library for commonly used aerospace fasteners.

Burlington, Vermont Area

- Leverage 25+ years of design experience and connections to provide innovative product design, development and engineering services to industry leaders in the defense, medical, consumer and sporting goods markets.

Burlington, Vermont Area

- Manage overall product lifecycle from ideation/conceptualization to manufacturing to delivery.- Responsible for new product design, meeting cost objectives and profit margins, quality, schedule and delivery objectives.- Leverage multiple CAD/CAE tools (Solidworks 3D solid modeling & analysis) and identified appropriate traditional manufacturing and rapid prototyping technologies to design and develop innovative new products.- Established R&D lab, specified and procured appropriate equipment and designed test apparatus for destructive, non-destructive, durability and performance testing.- Identify development test needs, created test methods & plans, performed, documented and presented test outcomes.- Collaborate with multiple departments to create and deliver an entirely new product line annually.- Develop specialized processes and calibration equipment for safety critical product (ski binding).- Provide key guidance for set-up of production lines, training, process instruction, quality control and product assurance at factories in Canada and China.- Perform source inspection and on-site production monitoring and vendor management in North America, Europe and Asia- Author technical product instruction manuals for end users and dealers.