Served on the engineering team, participating in the design and documentation of various products, including a mobile sandbag filling factory built on a tractor trailer. Served as in-house SolidWorks trainer, conducting a weekly lunch-and-learn highlighting various aspects of the software to enhance the team’s benefit of its use.
GoEngineer – SolidWorks Instructor – as needed since May 2012
Teach various SolidWorks courses
MindFlow Design (formerly LaunchPoint) – SolidWorks Consultant – as needed since April 2012
Subcontract on various CAD modeling, mechanical design, and drafting assignments.
Stephen Oualline (private inventor) – SolidWorks Consultant – as needed since March 2012
Primary mechanical designer, bringing to reality the customer’s ingenious concept of an interactive kinetic sculpture which plays an age-old classic game with the guest, using 100% mechanical logic; no electronics.
Participated in the mechanical design and documentation of animatronic figures for world-famous theme parks and attractions. Installed and administered PDM Workgroup, and subsequently SolidWorks PDM, and served as point person for all matters related to SolidWorks and product data management, while continually contributing to mechanical design. As the design of the figures matured, gradually became the main engineering liaison to the manufacturing team as the figures were built and final changes were made. Continually maintained all CAD models and drawings for complete as-built documentation packages.
Bioformatix – SolidWorks Consultant – April 2009 to March 2010
Mechanical design of head-mounted apparatus for visual field testing
Customer purchased technology and SolidWorks files for a modification kit for private aircraft from the company who originally developed it. I went through the extensive set of SolidWorks 2005 files, correcting problems with the models so that they can be used in production.
Precision Power Transfer.– SolidWorks Consultant – as needed since January 2009
Created mechanical design and accompanying documents for a large heat exchanger.
Digital Dimensions, Inc. – SolidWorks Instructor – August 2008 to January 2009
Taught SolidWorks courses as needed
Wixom Engineering– SolidWorks Consultant – as needed since July 2008
Subcontract on various CAD modeling, mechanical design, and drafting assignments.
Served as “SolidWorks Engineer” and master modeler on a project in which a proprietary heavy transportation vehicle for the construction industry was developed by a team of 10+ engineers and other CAD professionals, some co-located in one building, others working from off-site offices.
Authored mechanical design team’s operating procedure for SolidWorks use and file management, and oversaw its implementation and ongoing execution.
In-house CAD trainer and technical support consultant
Mechanical design and drafting
Integrated Technologies Consulting, Inc. – SolidWorks Consultant – January 2006 to December 2006
All mechanical CAD work for new emergency call boxes in Los Angeles county (now installed and operational).
Developed configurable SolidWorks assembly model representing a typical spiral conveyor system. Variables such as belt width, belt radius, tier pitch, number of tiers, number of legs, drive mechanism size, and so on, can be adjusted to give the look and overall dimensions of the custom system that would suit a given customer's requirements.
SpectraSensors – SolidWorks Consultant – August 2005 to October 2005
Completed the design and documentation of a unit which is used for testing Arsenic levels in water, using Laser Spectroscopy technology. Rapidly brought the design from early concept stage to fully-designed-and-documented beta test unit.
Assisted engineers new to the use of SolidWorks with best-practices advice and help with setting up the use of various productivity-enhancing aspects of SolidWorks, including Toolbox.
Westech College – CAD Instructor – June 2005 to September 2005
Taught Summer Saturday SolidWorks class.
Dreamation – SolidWorks Consultant – March 2005 to June 2005
Reverse engineered mechanical and visual aspects of existing animatronics toy and created SolidWorks layout. Maintaining the integrity of the original character was a high priority. Advanced surface modeling techniques were used to accomplish this. Assisted in design updates for use with 2005 technology.
Xirrus– SolidWorks Consultant – as needed since October 2004
Assist with design and documentation of various hi-end WI-Fi products.
Rain Bird – SolidWorks Consultant – as needed since July 2004
Exploded assembly & packaging drawings, specification control drawings.
3-D Engineering – SolidWorks Consultant – as needed since June 2004
Miscellaneous mechanical design & drafting on various proprietary projects.
Brugger Engineering – SolidWorks Consultant – as needed since October 2002
Convert legacy 2D CAD and hand drawings to Solidworks models and drawings.
Provide design changes to existing parts to facilitate the use of thermoplastic material in lieu of previously-used thermosetting plastic material.
Injection mold design and documentation.
Phantom Bikes – SolidWorks Consultant July 2002
Reverse engineered client’s highly-stylized custom bicycle motocross cranks, creating a parametric SolidWorks model, with configurations for various sizes of riders. Provided file output in preparation for CAM production.
Designed and documented custom bridge consoles for use on vessels in the shipping and oil drilling industries. Provided design layout as well as mechanical and electrical production drawings.
Participated in the interview process, helping to select design and drafting personnel.
Created custom enhancements to AutoCAD, using various techniques, including autolisp, script files, and menu customization. Established network AutoCAD user groups, allowing me to implement CAD enhancements simultaneously from one network location.
Aetrium (formerly Symtek) – Mechanical Designer – February 1995 to June 1998
Served on design teams, developing several memory chip handlers (test equipment), both gravity-feed and pick-and-place.
Served as Drafting Coordinator, overseeing the flow of engineering drawings and document changes.
Created custom enhancements to AutoCAD, using various techniques, including autolisp, script files, and menu customization. Established network AutoCAD user groups, allowing me to implement CAD enhancements simultaneously from one network location.
Developed and implemented CAD standards and engineering change procedures.
Participated in the interview process, helping to select design and drafting personnel.
Delta Design (contract) – Drafter – July 1994 to February 1995
Mechanical drafting
Engineering change order (ECO) implementation
Athens Chemical Management Systems (later became IPEC) – Designer/Drafting Coordinator – January 1993 to July 1994
Participated in the design and documentation of a hydrofluoric acid reprocessor containing over 80 valves and various other components.
Served as Drafting Coordinator, overseeing the flow of engineering drawings and document changes.
Created custom enhancements to AutoCAD, using various techniques, including autolisp, script files, and menu customization. Established network AutoCAD user groups, allowing me to implement CAD enhancements simultaneously from one network location.
Developed and implemented CAD standards and engineering change procedures.
Conducted an accelerated class on using AutoCAD.
Participated in the interview process, helping to select design and drafting personnel.
Phase Metrics – Designer/Drafter/CAD Administrator – June 1992 to January 1993
Participated in the design and documentation of several high-precision tooling fixtures for holding disk-drive read-heads as their flying height was measured.
Served as Drafting Coordinator, overseeing the flow of engineering drawings and document changes.
Created custom enhancements to AutoCAD, using various techniques, including autolisp, script files, and menu customization. Established network AutoCAD user groups, allowing me to implement CAD enhancements simultaneously from one network location.
Developed and implemented CAD standards and engineering change procedures.
Participated in the interview process, helping to select design and drafting personnel.
Created a lisp routine to batch reformat legacy AutoCAD drawings, incorporating new company-standard border and view arrangements.
General drafting
Four Pi Systems – Drafter – September 1988 to May 1992
Designed and documented a pneumatic board-marking mechanism which uses a disposable paint pen and de-caps the pen when it comes down to mark a bad board and re-caps it when it returns.
Designed several custom fixtures to accommodate the loading of odd-sized printed circuit boards, including SIMMs, into an automated inspection system.
Designed packaging for several control panels.
Completed all assembly drawings for a prototype circuit board inspection system containing 3 axes and over 1000 parts.
Created custom enhancements to AutoCAD, using various techniques, including autolisp, script files, and menu customization. Established network AutoCAD user groups, allowing me to implement CAD enhancements simultaneously from one network location.
Developed and implemented CAD standards and engineering change procedures.
Created an animated 3-D demonstration of scanned-beam laminography using autolisp.
Education
Muir Technical College: Certificates in AutoCAD and Drafting; 4.0 GPA
