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Lead Mechanical Engineer
Fluidity Tecgnologies
Houston, TX
Aug 2020 - Present (4 years 3 months)
• Design of handheld Joystick Drone controllers. Plastic injection molding design and E/M packaging.
• Design of manned 2-person drone. Battery mounting, fuselage design, aerodynamics of wings and lift. Junctions for Carbon Fiber skeleton. Material selection.
• Mechanism design for wrist mounted stick controller arm clamp. Bearings, gears, rotating arms.
• Managed Tooling and Mold houses in China. DFM of projects and First article inspection.
• Sourcing offshore C/M’s and supply chain of chip sets & components for mechanical and PCBA design. https://fluidity.tech/ https://www.star8green.com.au/aerial-e-vehicles/
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VP Manufacturing & Engineering
Burlingame, CA
Jan 2019 - Present (5 years 10 months)
Head of Product Design & Manufacturing of Environmental Simulator's, Keyboards & LED lighting experience for the high end Gaming market. In charge of all manufacturing throughout China including selection of vendors and supply chain. Sourcing components, raw material, SMT and DIP Solder lines including total box build assembly houses for production of companies products.
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Director Hardware Engineering / Lead Mechanical Engineer
Redwood City, CA
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019 (2 years 10 months)
• Design Consumer Electronic Products from home appliances, mobile phone accessories, children’s educational toys and Life Science medical devises.
• DFM of Plastic housings, sheet metal enclosure, heat spreader plates & heatsinks.
• Plastic injection tooling design and complex CAD surfacing. Sheet metal and magnesium molded optical chassis design. Tooling management with emphasis on simplification in molding.
• DFM for manufacturing from ID through Production. Setup of Production lines and Flowcharts
• Setting up of supply chain, fabrication vendors and C/M’s throughout China for companies engineering & manufacturing. Responsible for all tooling and setup of Production Line with Flow Charts including QA stations. Manage ODM Engineering Design Team in China.
• Design for DFM & DFx Consumer Electronic Children’s Learning Toys. Plastic Injected Bezels, Over molded Covers and Double Shot colors in assemblies
• Source new vendors and C/M’s for consumer product project builds and Lithium battery solutions.
• Administrate Arena Engineering Data base system for Document Control
• Building vendor relationships with manufacturing partners and the day-to-day operations for supply of finished goods.
• Multi-national compliance certification. ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 including Toy Safety compliance
• Packaging including Artwork Design and fabrication
• Logistics, Fulfillment & Palatalization shipping anywhere in the world.
• Administrate Arena Engineering Data base system for Document Control.
• Extensive experience in China manufacturing and business culture understanding.
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Mechanical Engineering Manager / Asian Ops
Menlo Park, CA
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016 (1 year 1 month)
Built & managed the mechanical engineering dept. Sourcing new Asian molders and CM's. Lead the Design of Consumer & Medical devices. Design and surfacing of Perosphere’s hand held blood plasma reader to cosmetic hair crimping tools. Naples iMeasure Medical Methadone dispenser. Ceramic injection CIM, and technical glassware products. 3D print prototyping plastics parts for DVT.
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 2014 - Feb 2015 (5 months)
Design and DFM plastic injection enclosures for tooling with vendors in China. Make modifications where necessary, redesign or modify as tooling issues arouse. Design new features into plastics. Design of large capacity Raid storage systems designing for modularity and commonality of parts.
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Senior Director of Mechanical Engineering & Manufacturing Ops
Suzhou Shi, China
Apr 2010 - Sep 2014 (4 years 5 months)
Development and design of consumer electronic products. Created and staffed engineering department to support our manufacturing groups. Electronic packaging design. Plastic injection molding, PCB design and manufacturing. Specializing in DFM solutions for clients. Directed a team of more than forty Engineers designing consumer devices, Mobile phones, large screen plasma televisions, laptop computers to electric toothbrushes. Bringing western In-house design support for customers’ requirements in China.
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Mechanical Engineering& Manufacturing Manager
San Jose, CA
Dec 2007 - Apr 2010 (2 years 4 months)
Fiber optic telecom chassis and modules. Lead Engineer of design and all manufacturing. Sheet metal chassis and injection molded bezels. Custom fiber optic connector design. Sourcing mechanical and electrical components throughout China and qualifying new vendors. Management and training of CM’s production line.
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Menlo Park, CA
Apr 2006 - Oct 2007 (1 year 6 months)
Design of touch screen monitors. Injection molded, die cast and sheet metal chassis parts. Oversee molding and tooling issues in China. Extensive travel in China to CM’s and Tooling vendors. Shock and Vibration package testing.
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Mechanical Engineering Manager
Auspex Systems
Santa Clara, CA
May 2001 - Mar 2006 (4 years 10 months)
Design of 19” rack mounted sheet metal chassis and modules. EMI shielding, plastic bezels, keyboards and over molded keys with metal dome inserts. Airflow and thermal analysis. PCB mechanical layout of connectors and fiber optic components.
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Chief Mechanical Engineer & Manufacturing Manager
Palo Alto, CA
Oct 1999 - Apr 2001 (1 year 6 months)
Industrial Design & Mechanical development of handheld Bluetooth game player. Managed CM’s, Tooling, and Plastic Molding, sheet metal and component suppliers throughout Asia.
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Cupertino, CA
Mar 1993 - Sep 1999 (6 years 6 months)
Mechanical Product Design of Laptops, printers and digital cameras. Liaison with ID department modeling complex freeform surfaces. EMI shielding, sheet metal chassis design, plastic injected bezels. Manager of PDS employee’s onsite at Apple.
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Senior Mechanical Engineer
Palo Alto, CA
Aug 1990 - Mar 1993 (2 years 7 months)
Plastic part design for handheld remote controls. Silicon rubber keypads with insert molded metal dome. Complex free form surfacing for Industrial Designer’s. Rotating mechanisms, portable blood plasma pump. SLA and silicone rubber molds.