Additional Competencies

Hands-on Proficiency:

• Thoroughly enjoy participating in hardware assembly and integration
  • Key learning tool in becoming better designer
  • Provided component ownership from “cradle to grave”
  • Hardware ranged from precision components to structural assemblies
• Active participant in hardware testing, including at remote sites
• Performed shrink fits, press fits, permanent magnet installations, etc.

Documentation:

• Regularly present and critique designs during in-house design reviews
• Present progress updates during formal design reviews with sponsor
• Troubleshoot fabrication mistakes and design changes with engineering change order system (ECO)
• Generated and maintained bill of materials for large assemblies
• Created assembly/maintenance documentation for end customers

Hardware Procurement:

• Solicited bids, procured and supervised progress of parts in excess of $250k
• Regularly tracked procurements from 10+ vendors at a given time
• Supervised in-house technicians during part fabrication and assembly operations

Additional Software:

• Microsoft Office
• Visio
• MathCAD
• Matlab / Simulink
• Visual Basic for Applications (particularly for Microsoft Excel)
• NIST Refprop