• Owner & operations manager
• Customer interface
• Personnel management
• Project scheduling & costing
• Management of rapid prototyping technologies & outside services
• Principal Mechanical Engineer

• Mechanical design of electronic instruments
• Conceptual, thermal, structural and detailed design
• Design for manufacturability and assembly
• Design for environment; high/low temp, high altitude, shock, vibration, EMC
• Design to UL safety standards
• Basic human factor design for control panels and displays
• Integration of industrial design
• Sheet metal, milled & lathed part design
• Extrusion spec & design
• Plastic part design: injection molded, compression molded, RIM, structural foam, thermoformed, insert & over-molding, interface with mold maker
• Casting design: sand, V-process, investment, and die castings
• Mechanical design of cables and harnesses: custom raw cable, semi-rigid cables, ribbon & discrete wire harnesses, over-molded strain reliefs
• Mechanical design of PCBs, backplanes, flex circuits; outline, mounting, & connector placement; source/design component heat sinks
• Misc design: die cut, P/M, weldments, dip brazings, shipping containers, reverse engineering, connectorized RF component layout, interconnect schemes
• Component selection of adhesives, fasteners, coatings, EMI gaskets, springs, labels, fans, shock mounts, connectors, switches, knobs, handles,
• CAD: SolidWorks, Autocad, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
• Drafting: fab, assy, SCD, interconnect diagrams, MIL-STD-100, ANSI Y14.5, GT&D

Analysis & Testing Abilities:

• Mechanical integration; prototyping; resolve problems and identify opportunities
• Thermal hand calculations & testing
• Spec and tailor shock and vibration requirements, manage testing

Cross-Functional Support Abilities:

• Bill of materials and component engineering
• Parts & services procurement
• Cost reduction studies
• Manage low-qty turnkey production
• Expert witness experience