David Milton

- Part of team launching the first GoPro aerial product into the market
- Lead Mechanical Engineer on next generation aerial platforms
- Help plan and roadmap future aerial product offerings

- Lead designer on the ground up design of a dental cart for 3D oral imaging, including the design of the optics engine
- Lead Mechanical Engineer on a fast-paced, $4M project for which I devised a patent-pending machine for preparing a dairy product, followed by the ground up design of a custom machine, which included complex surfacing to meet the design specification set by Pininfarina Extra, Italy
- Create estimates for project cost and scope of work and mentor younger engineers during heavy workloads and across design centers
- I have constantly been referred to as moving projects along quickly and successfully within a process-heavy environment and I act as an advocate to change the culture to better support and execute on Industrial Design goals
- In this client facing role, I interface directly with CEOs, PhD scientists, technology experts, engineering teams, and industrial designers to create products that meet challenging requirements

- Involved in company planning by developing mechanical project scope and financial estimates
- Researched luxury materials and manufacturing capabilities for new product concepts
- Began early conceptual design of several cell phone form factors and electro-mechanical systems

- Responsible for generating innovative new ideas for future HTC product offerings
- I was hired to work with engineers that had ten to twenty years each of telephony design experience. Though I had no prior telephony design experience, I advanced quickly and, after only four months, initiated a project that was one of three projects used to demonstrate our sites capabilities
- Worked with Antenna specialists, Industrial designers, PCB designers and product planners simultaneously to create innovative smart technology devices
- Designed prototypes to prove-out and demonstrate concepts to engineering and the CEO
- Led and participated in several technology studies

- Diverse design experience in medical, pharmaceutical, laboratory and consumer products
- Worked with companies including: 3D Systems, Newell Rubbermaid, Becton Dickinson Technologies, Phillips, Hyster/Yale, HoMedics and Sensus among others
- Maintained positive client relations and helped to win new business: my work for one division of Newell Rubbermaid led to our winning a large contract with another division of that organization
- Designed for high and low volume manufacturing from concept to production
- Experienced working with Industrial designers to create high-quality aesthetics through engineering, including the creation of final surfacing data directly from 2D hand sketches in Pro-E and SolidWorks
- Hand built quality prototypes for several programs for functional evaluation and proof of concept

- Key team member in a $3 million cell installation including the implementation of new processes
- Designed, tested and incorporated pneumatic quick-change tooling for 400 ton cold-forming presses; a design launched plant-wide saving 30 minutes per change-over which yielded a 75% time savings
- Designed and tested pneumatic quick-change tooling for the K4 station of a 1600 ton warm-forming press; a design that deviates from convention method and that I proved out with the toughest job run in the plant
- Part handling and automation design for equipment running up to 6 million cycles per year
- Robotic gripping systems design and robotics programming