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Experience

• Mechanical Modeling Engineer Triax Industries, LLC · Full-time Aug 2024 – Feb 2025 6 mos Chandler, AZ, United States Manufacturer of investment cast parts for industrial and aerospace gas turbines.
  • Designed and produced investment casting tooling for gas turbines, using 3D model-based definition (MBD), saving the time and cost of 2D drawings. SolidWorks models for assembly, grinding, and inspection tools.
  • Ran Prusa 3D Printers and Prusa Slicer to rapidly produce production-ready PLA polymer parts onsite.
  • Extracted features from scans, using Zeiss Reverse Engineering (ZRE) software, for import into SolidWorks.
• Mechanical Design Engineer Prevco Subsea LLC · Full-time Sep 2022 – May 2024 1 yrs 8 mos Fountain Hills, AZ, United States Manufacturer of submersible pressure vessels for undersea research and defense instrumentation.
  • Designed and modified 3D models and drawings of titanium, stainless steel, etc. parts and assemblies using SolidWorks, Excel macros, and structural calculations. Communicated directly with customers and vendors.
• Mechanical Design Engineer Nidec SV TCL · Full-time Feb 2005 – Aug 2012 7 yrs 6 mos Tempe, AZ, United States Manufacturer of wafer test equipment for the semiconductor fabrication industry.
  • Designed a wide variety of precision vertical probe test assemblies to meet customer specifications.
  • Created SolidWorks 3D models, drawings, and detailed bills of material (BOMs) from concept to final approval. Checked and corrected engineering drawings made by colleagues.
  • Invented a CAD method for arranging and outputting coordinate positions of thousands of metal probes in a pattern matching the microscopic bond pads on a silicon wafer.
  • Became key member of R&D Team for product development. There I invented, designed, detailed, prototyped, built, and tested a multipurpose, spring-loaded latching device to handle extremely fragile and expensive fine-pitch probe assemblies which had previously been handled manually.
  • Modeled and detailed MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) etched probes for very fine pitch devices.
• Senior Mechanical Engineer Rockford Corporation · Full-time Jan 1999 – May 2004 5 yrs 4 mos Tempe, AZ, United States Consumer Electronics manufacturer of mobile, professional, and home theater audio systems.
  • Created high-volume consumer product designs including UL-compliant amplifier housings, custom connectors, extruded and cast aluminum heat sinks, and high-current fused distribution blocks. Designed plastic parts for injection-molding, sheet metal, and machined parts using SolidWorks and Pro/Engineer. Heavily focused on electronics packaging and cosmetic part design.
  • Served as the Mechanical Engineering Lead for the design and development of Rockford’s OEM products for Nissan USA, using SolidWorks and Pro/Engineer.