nsaulat281

Experience

• Senior Manufacturing Engineer Donaldson Filtration Co · Full-time Mar 2023 – Present 1 yrs 6 mos Santa Clarita, CA, United States • Oversaw the CNC Machining and Assembly Departments for Aerospace and Defense Parts and Assemblies
  • Led Team of one Engineer and one Programmer, Managed Project Expectations, Daily Tasks, and Performance
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  • CNC Machining Process Creation: 3-5 Axis CNC Mill and 2-4 Axis CNC Lathe Planning and Programming
  • Machine Probing, Optimization of Programs, Utilizing All Machine Capabilities
  • Design and Programming of Holding Fixtures and Custom Tooling for Part Manufacturing
  • Creation of CAD Models, Assemblies, and Drawings with GD&T
  • Custom Tooling Creation for Aerospace Assemblies
  • Multiple Process Improvement Projects which Increased Productivity, Reduced Lead Times, and Reduced Takt Time
  • Master Router Creation, SOP Creation and Implementation
  • NCR Dispositions, ECR Writing, Drawing Redlines, First Article Inspection, and Root-Cause Analysis & Corrective Action
• R&D Engineer II Edwards Lifesciences · Full-time Nov 2018 – Nov 2019 1 yrs Irvine, CA, United States • New Product Development: THV – Valves and Stents with Nitinol and Cobalt Chromium
  • Design verification testing: Router Creation, SOP Creation, Create Valve Builds, IQ/OQ/PQ Validation
  • Test Method Development and Fixture Creation: Tissue Strain Characteristics, Retention Testing, Valve Flow
  • Write protocols, reports, and technical summaries: Animal Studies, Frame Fatigue, Frame Fracture, Perforation Study
  • Perform feasibility testing: Blunt Needle Project, Nitinol Fracture Testing, Valve Perforation, Valve Retention
  • Design of PET Cloth Components, Pericardial Tissue Leaflets, and Test Fixtures and Assemblies
  • CO2 Laser cutting of multiple materials including plastics, polyurethanes, cloth, metals, pericardial tissue, etc
  • Ultrasonic welding of different materials
  • DFM, Hand calculations, Tolerance analysis i.e. tolerance stack-ups, Minitab usage for all data analysis
  • Solidworks Design – Parts, Tooling, and Fixtures
  • Fusion 360 CAM – Parts, Tooling, and Fixtures
  • CNC Machining - Parts, Tooling, and Fixtures
  • 3D Printing – Prototyping of Parts, Tooling, and Fixtures