Tyler Harrist Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Help small businesses overcome technical challenges with product development.
• promote the Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program (SATOP)
• provide individual support to small businesses through their enrollment and participation in SATOP
• purate and support strong alliance partners to provide technical talent in the SATOP program

Fort Worth, Texas

• Provide technical, creative, and strategic prospective for clients with technology start-ups in early stages.
• create innovation strategies - long-term technical vision and development road maps
• secure strong IP foundations - intellectual property guidance and recognition
• implement strong engineering practices during development - system architecture, requirements definition, flow down, traceability, testing, and verification
• act as principal investigator to support grant-funded activities
• networking and team building – connect clients strategically with a strong technical community

Tulsa, OK

• Provide operational oversight and drive continuous improvement focusing on people, product, and process.
• ramp up production by 900%, decrease fallout from 30% to 1% and customer returns from 4% to 0.5%
• multiply assembler productivity by 600% by improving process, tooling, and environment
• redesign machining processes and tooling to dramatically improve capacity, quality, and cost
• design and implement quality systems to drastically reduce fallout and customer returns
• develop supply chain processes to stabilize material availability and cash flow

Hurst, TX

• Use analytical tools, data-driven methodologies, critical thinking, mechanical intuition, and careful communication to drive continuous improvement.
• use Six Sigma DMAIC methodologies to identify root cause, drive corrective action, reduce variation
• enable statistical process control (SPC) by implementing data collection tools and reports
• use Lean methodologies to identify waste and streamline production
• standardize production using standard operating procedures, quality worksheets, shop drawings, etc.
• transition development programs into production programs by developing and documenting robust manufacturing processes

Grand Prairie, TX

• Complete a series of job rotations to develop leadership and technical skills.
• R&D Lead – invent Warhead for DARPA (see patents below), explosive testing, hydrocode analysis
• Innovation Team Lead – identify, promote, and mature innovative ideas harvested from work force
• Proposal Team Member – rapid system architecture development/maturation for a major proposal effort
• Systems Engineer – system requirements definition/management for major development contract
• Systems Safety Engineer – develop/publish demilitarization and disposal procedure for missile system

Lubbock, TX

• Design, build, tune, test, and verify all laboratory equipment from ground up, spearhead funding activities, and create awareness for a newly commissioned laboratory at Texas Tech University.
• design, build, tune “Heart Simulator” hardware (fluid flow loop and physiological pulse pump)
• design, build, program a control/data acquisition system (LabView, control electronics, and sensor suite)
• document procedures for tissue dissection, tissue-to-hardware suture, and machine operation
• steward publicity events and initiatives to raise awareness of the new lab
• obtain initial funding from American Heart Association through research proposal/grant writing activities

M.S., Mechanical Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering