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Asheville, Nc

Asheville, North Carolina Area

Kinematic Design provides product design and project management for electro-mechanical products and systems with a specialization in mechanical engineering and design. With broad and successful product design experience from Construction Equipment to Aerospace and Pharmacy Automation to Electron Microscopy, we can adapt our knowledge for most projects.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Lead the design of the flagship software controlled gas/heating Atmosphere product for Protochips starting from a simple mechanical prototype. Installed and ensured the first systems worked and met customer expectations in multiple sites across several countries. Redesigned the double tilt heating holder for Aduro. Started and managed the Solidworks PDM Workgroup database for the mechanical design team.

Apex, Nc

Project Engineer and Mechanical Engineer for multiple simultaneous custom automation projectsResponsible for project timeline, project cost, system concept, mechanical design, mechanical drawings, purchase orders, vendor selection, assembly, and product reliability Developed and manufactured a human skin growing and grafting test unitCompleted a semi-automated pick and place machine for a pharmaceutical manufacturer

Hillsborough, Nc

At Megawatt, I led the successful mechanical design for the elevation and slew drives for their most recent prototype of a two-axis tracking concentrated photo voltaic (CPV) solar tree. In addition, I was System Engineer for the development of the next generation of CPV.

Responsible for managing engineering projects for nation's largest chain pharmacies. Coordinated engineering team with marketing team to deliver changes to Parata Max to meet specific chain customer needs.

Used data mining from service team database and customer service feedback to lead the engineering effort for a 50% reduction in service dispatches for the Parata Max Designed and created all drawings for the new Max gantry robot Managed two gantry robot projects, component suppliers, testing, and supported the manufacturing of two robots from concept through productionLed the unit frame design, ran FEA frame stress analysis, and managed frame vendor manufacturing processesCreated design and managed project for automated exception carousel from concept to production in 4 months and under budget (patent application filed)

System Engineer of brake systems on Backhoe-Loaders and Small Wheel-Loaders. Used 6-Sigma techniques to design brakesAggressively reduced cost of brakes and improved acceptance by optimizing brakes using iSightLead Performance Engineer responsible for designing, optimizing, and analyzing six-bar linkages along with overall system for new line of Small Wheel Loaders Created new analysis and optimization methods during redesign for loader linkage on Backhoe-Loader to eliminate existing problems with hydraulic loader linkageAnalyzed, directed design, and tested backhoe buckets to eliminate competitive gap

Mechanical Engineering of satellite antennas deployment mechanisms. Mechanical and antenna concept creation for study group for winning satellite subcontractor projects.