I am a mechanical engineer specializing in:

• Management of complex projects with accelerated timelines, from concept development through production and commissioning while matching vendor capabilities with client expectations.

• Management of mixed disciplinary teams with competing interests.

• Hands on design and engineering of structural systems using non-traditional materials.

• 3d “digital twin” modeling, mechanical drawing for production, and complex engineering analysis using ANSYS.

• Design, integration, and building of mixed mechanical and electrical systems.

• Proof of concept and prototype development with validation testing and documentation.

• Use of:

o 3-5 axis machining of a variety of steel, stainless steel, aluminum, brass/bronze and titanium alloys

o Complex fabrication of steel, and stainless steel alloys using GTAW, GMAW and electron beam welding

o Extrusion of aluminum, brass, and bronze

o Investment, slip, and sand casting in a variety of steel, and stainless steel alloys

o Mechanical forming of sheet and plate steel, stainless steel, and aluminum

o Use of a variety of surface finishing techniques including anodizing, galvanizing, nitriding, electroplating, blackening, fluoropolymer paint and coil coatings, and powder coating.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Devens MA

Tripyramid Structures Inc, Westford MA

• Managed the day-to-day design and engineering priorities of mixed group of engineers, architects, and manufacturing specialists.

• Directly worked with clients, contractors, and vendors to develop projects and ensure quality from concept, through design, to final installation.

• Communicated design and engineering work with 3d models, CAD sketches, dimensional drawings, and shop and assembly drawing packages using Solidworks, Rhino and AutoCAD.

• Provided engineering support for all ongoing project work using hand calculations, custom applications and structural analysis using ANSYS.

• Developed engineering narratives and engineering calculation packages as required to justify and validate design work.

• Developed test/ validation protocols to prove out engineering and design.

• Designed and built custom mechanical, electrical and hydraulic equipment to support internal R&D.

• Provided mentoring and leadership training to help grow the next generation of engineers and architects.

Tripyramid Structures Inc

• Managed the day-to-day requirements of a variety of external and internal projects including:

• Interacting directly with project clients and associated contractors

• Interacting directly with manufacturing vendors including machining, fabrication/forming, casting (stainless steel and alloy steel) and aluminum extruding.

• Developed and communicated project and hardware designs via 3d models, sketch and shop drawing packages, and piece and assembly drawings for manufacturing.

• Developed engineering narratives and engineering calculation packages as required to justify and validate design work.

• Provided day to day engineering support to other staff project managers and architects including spot calculations during design through to full calculation packages.

Deep Ocean Engineering, San Leandro CA

• Led a mixed engineering team in the mechanical and electrical development of:

• A novel class of underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to simplify manufacturing and constructability, increase mission flexibility, and enhance survivability.

• A line of prototype, all electric brushless DC thrusters, fiber optic connectors and composite pressure vessels for use at full ocean depth pressures (~16,000psi)

• Supported the ongoing production and development of four classes of legacy ROV product lines including nuclear rated vehicles.

Deep Ocean Engineering, San Leandro CA

• Collaborated with a small team of mechanical and electrical engineers to develop small semi-autonomous, benthic landers for deployment and retrieval of subsea deep water monitoring instruments.

• Developed concepts and prototype hardware for snake like locomotion to compete for and eventually satisfy both phase 1 and 2 of a US Navy SBIR (Small Business Initiative Research) grant.

• Independently lead the development and engineering of a less than 70-pound observation class, subsea vehicles for use by naval EOD operators for ship hull inspection and intrusion detection.Item description

Tripyramid Structures Inc, Westford MA

• Worked as an engineer in training to support a variety of architectural and structural projects.

• Worked as a manual machinist and leading the transition to CNC machining and use of CAM software

1993-1997

BS Mechanical Engineering, Alfred university

Overall GPA 3.5, Major GPA 3.8

• CAD: NX, Solidworks(3d), AutoCAD (2d), Rhino (3d and surfacing), Fusion360/Inventor (3d and CAM), KiCAD

• Analysis: ANSYS Mechanical, ANSYS HPC, Solidworks Simulation, Comsol, SkyCiv, AutoDesk Simulation Mechanical (Algor and Nastran)

• Office: MS Office Suite/Office 365, Project, MathCAD, Open/Libre Office, Slack, Asana, Vizio, Lucid Charts

• Code: VSCode, Jupyter Notebook/Lab, Git (using Windows, Linux and MacOS)

• Skilled machinist (manual and CNC) and welder (GTAW and GMAW)

• PCB design, manufacturing, and stuffing/rework

• Prototype level coding and data analysis using C, C++, and Python

• Skilled at the use of 3d printing (SLA, MSLA, FDM) and 3d printer design

• Skilled with the design, build and troubleshooting hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical systems.

• Skilled in the use of strain gauges, a variety of process instrumentation and sensors, and data collection devices and software.

• Familiar with ABB industrial robots, Robot Studio and RAPID programing

• Certified fork truck driver, and familiar with a variety of construction lifts and equipment

• Lazy long distance bike touring where the destination is not really the point.

• Downhill and cross-country skiing because let’s not kid ourselves, winter is the best season.

• Fantastic cooking since capers were created by unicorns and white wine is not for drinking only.

• Making kitchen knives, because absolutely no one knows how to cut a tomato like I do….