Engineering Tomorrow: Innovating at the Speed of Change
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With fifteen years of varied experience in Mechanical Engineering design and Technical Project Management in the Semiconductor, Optics and Medical Device Industries, genuine mechanical curiosity, commitment to excellence and hands-on ability, provide me the tools to to help you realize your greatest technical ambition.
From managing a small team of engineers and industrial designers to design and manufacture a novel new medical device or designing automated inspection stations for an Augmented Reality Goggles assembly line, I’ve developed the skills to bring your vision into reality.
Mechanical Design Manager - Medical device Start-up
● Managed a cross-functional team including optical, electrical and software engineers as well as an industrial designer.
● Helped develop system architecture and define system requirements.
● Managed all quoting and ordering of custom equipment. Including optics, 3D printed, CNC machined and sheet metal parts.
● Designed and detailed all opto-mechanical assemblies and components.
● Managed all vendors.
opto-mechanical design engineer - augmented reality goggles inpsections
● Designed transmission inspection station for mass production of optical arrays for next gen. Magic Leap Augmented Reality glasses. Included precision Z-stage to lift optics. Capable of sub 25 sec. inspections for automated assembly line. Managed draftsmen to create assembly instructions.
● Designed profile inspection station utilizing autocollimator for Magic Leap. Included 3-axis stage for XYZ control.
● Designed air-gap inspection station utilizing interferometer. Included 3-axis stage for XYZ control.
Technical Project managment
Developed fully-automated membrane testing machine based on manual research and development lab test. Included logging of results on on-premises server and meeting fire safety requirements.
● Led Engineering and Production teams to develop and document equipment requirements for quoting process as well as Factory Acceptance Testing and Site Acceptance Testing documents. I performed multiple Factory Acceptance Tests as well.
● Worked with Sales, Mechanical, Electrical & New Product Integration engineers, project managers, Logistics and Finance teams (both USA and Taiwan) overseeing the purchase, building, testing, shipping and import of 17 Tools for a new production facility underway in Taiwan. This involved working with personnel from Taiwan to Sweden.
Mechanical design - high vacuum spectroscopy inspection
Developed 2nd gen. Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer into world’s 1st in-line production inspection tool. Also debuted as the world's 1st multi-element inspection tool. This system utilized a radio frequency generated plasma and required designing for an Ultra High Vacuum scanning environment. ● Analyzed 400 lb. lid/optics assembly of X-Ray spectroscopy inspection Tool for operator access utilizing Finite Element Analysis and Free Body Diagrams to validate safety for certification. ● Managed Top-Level assembly of both SIMS tool and X-Ray spectrometry tool in SolidWorks. SIMS tool was the largest file that Solidworks Distributor had ever seen. Oversaw software update including Vault.
New!Senior opto-mechanical design engineer - large custom optics
● Designed fixturing to manufacture precision optics and kinematic tooling for interferometric inspections of large optics for satellites.
● Designed tooling to handle large optic substrates (1.5 meter OD, 450 lb.) for the Thirty Meter Telescope project currently under way in Hawaii. This required FEA analysis to guarantee substrate and personal safety.
● Performed coating stress analysis of optics utilizing FEA to guarantee prescription in zero gravity environment.
Opto-mechanical design engineer - semiconductor capital equipment
● Used Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing to design passive alignment tooling to specification for brightfield objective lens array. Included FEA stress analysis on flexures. The tooling helped System Engineers to seamlessly integrate Next Generation Objective Lens ahead of schedule. ● Used understanding of manufacturing processes and GD & T to improve design of prototype optical alignment tooling. ● Managed Collection Optics System Solid model assembly.
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