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SOLIDWORKS DESIGNER

ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST – MANUFACTURING

Specializing in SolidWorks Design from Conception to Tooling

and Mechanical Design & Applications for Embedded Systems

Objective:

     Contract Product and Mechanical Design/ Solid Modeling/ Mold Design

Self-directed professional with over 20 years experience in advanced manufacturing fields. High-energy self-starter who takes great pride in work. Strong mechanical design with advanced aesthetic and idea skills. Excellent ability to quickly diagnose and analyze requirements for tool design. Exceptional interpersonal skills and effective customer relations. Skilled in assessing user needs, establishing project specifications, evaluating hardware/software solutions, then implementing plastic part and electromechanical designs and applications.

Valuable team player who works closely with engineers on design and drafting projects providing on-demand as well as on-going CAD support to improve manufacturing processes.

Core competencies include:

• SolidWorks Drafting and Design, including surfacing
• Capable of working from engineering drawings, CAD models, electronic data, blue prints, work lists, sketches and verbal instruction to create 3D Solid Models and production drawings in a variety of fields including machine tools, fabrication, sheet metal and castings.
• Skilled Mold Designer—Rotational, Thermoforming and Injection Molding
• Coordinate with customers on design approval and delivery schedule
• Product Designs – from plastic injection tools to medical equipment and avalanche control machines.
• CNC programming of complex 3D surfaces. Able to Hand Edit CNC Code
• Proficient working with PCs, both hardware and software. Microsoft Windows, MS Office suite and CorelDraw & Photo-Paint

COMPUTER SKILLS

 SolidWorks   CAD   C Language   Visual Basic   VB.Net   Visual Studio.net

 MS Word & Excel   MS Office   8051 Assembly Code Z 80 Assembly   G-Code

MACHINING & DRAFTING SKILLS

 Able to operate machine tools both CNC & manual

Able to easily migrate to other CNC or CAD systems

General Shop Welding : Mig Tig, Stick & Gas Welding

 Drafting to ASME Y14.5

Project History

2008 – Present, Designer Railings, LLC, Littleton, CO

Industrial Designer developing innovative product design in SolidWorks from concept to tooling that fully addresses customer specifications and requirements. Advanced aesthetic design makeovers to prepare products for market.

CAD Design, SolidWorks: Plastic housing for disposable surgical instrument, LED lens covers and light pipes for medical infusion pump, architectural design for the fountain at Streets at Southglenn

1997 – 2008, West Mountain Software, Littleton, CO

Consulting: CAD, Mechanical Design for Manufacturing and Machine Control Software Development. Affordable Contract Mechanical Design/ Solid Modeling/ Mold Design.

CAD Design: SolidWorks design & modeling of six avalanche machine prototypes that are in development and installed at a Colorado Ski Area. Isogrid space frame designs.

Machine & Software Design: Machine Controller for Synthes Medical; Control Software for Tools For Bending, Mechanical Design & Machine Control Software for Avalanche Machine Prototypes

1989-1997, Recreational Composites, Santa Barbara, CA

Consulting: CAD and Tool and Machine Design. Designed cavities, generated toolpaths and taught and supervised machinists on Fadal Vertical Milling Centers. Used and taught classes on Pro-Engineer, AutoCad, AutoSurf/AutoMill. I was the first person certified by AutoDesk to teach AutoSurf/AutoMill in Southern California in 1992.

 CAD Design: Injection Molds, and Manufacturing and Testing Machines for MedTronics and Mission Industries.

 Machine Design: EDM Machine for Raytheon, Manufacturing  and Testing Machines for MedTronics

1983-1989, InterLink Electronics, Santa Barbara, CA

Manufacturing Environment, Electronic Components. Occupied several positions as start-up company developed growing to over 160 employees.

 Manufacturing: Controlled total manufacturing process from material selection to finished product. Supervised the design and construction of two manufacturing facilities including implementing a 9 seat AutoCad design center.

 Product Research: Analyzed critical components and decided on the best way to manufacture.

 Sales: Aerospace and Advanced Composites: Development projects with Boeing, Northrup, McDonald Douglas, Sikorsky, Lockeed, U.S. Air Force, Sandia Nat. Labs, Toyota, Microsoft

Professional Accomplishments

Awarded U.S. Patent 6,286,289

Multiple Face Isogrid Structures. A space frame structure patent.

Patent Pending

Apparatus and Method for Avalanche Control; Doc. Type and Number: U. S. Patent 2006025444