SUMMARY:

• An expert in PLM/CAD(DMU) Architecture, Process, and Data exchange protocol.
• An expert in Product ideation, Product specifications, Design, FEA, kinematics and mechanism synthesis, tolerance; Design for six sigma and Lean manufacturing; APQP, FMEA, Statistical Process Controls; GD&T; Gage R&R etc. Understanding material properties, heat treatment, finishes and manufacturing processes.
• Proficient in using CATIA V5/ENOVIA, SolidWorks, UNIGRAPHICS/Teamcenter, Hypermesh, Nastran, and ADAMS etc
• Experiences in developing products of automotive convertible roofs, automotive seats, automotive seals, aircraft landing gears and aircraft propulsion system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TECHNICAL: Enovia, PDM Explorer, Teamcenter, SAP Microsoft Project Management Unix, scripts, administration CATIA V5, SolidWorks Windows NT, 95, 98, XP Unigraphics NX Microsoft Office Suite MS Visual C++ Lotus Notes Matlab Dynamics and FEA Systems: Adam, Nastran, Abaqus, Hypermesh

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, East Hartford, Connecticut

Design Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Design review, Creating Interface Control Documents with IPT teams and suppliers. DMU/PLM Architecture and process. Product Data Management, Data Conversion, Data Integration, Data Exchange and Exchange protocol with the customer and suppliers.
• CATIA V5, UG NX, and Teamcenter Engineering are used for design integration and Product Data Management.

Confidential, Novi, Michigan

Contract Lead Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design of aerial delivery system, Requirement and compliance analysis with GD&T, Design for critical quality and Design for six sigma.

Confidential, Los Angeles

Senior Deputy Manager, Marketing and Operations

Responsibilities:

• Provided planning, direction, and decision for the operation of a manufacturing business unit of the company. Gave directional instruction in cost analysis, pricing, quotations and negotiation.
• Led manufacturing operations, capacity planning, supplier, inventory management and lean Manufacturing.
• Reviewed product designs with SolidWorks to ensure that product specification are met.
• The manufacturing operations include injection molding, sheetmetal stamping, machining processes, pressure casting, Desktop/Laptop PC enclosure parts and assembly

Confidential, Seattle, Washington State

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• System integration and testing on software, electrical and mechanical systems.
• Revised the requirements and specifications of system, reliability and validations for mechanical drive systems, electrical actuators on DOORS according to RTCA DO - 160, DO-178 and FAR Chapter 25 and 27.
• Attended technical meetings, reviewed, and made comments on DOORS for technical reports of design, analysis and testing on stress, fatigue life, kinematics, thermal distribution, tolerance and assembly from suppliers to ensure that system Specifications, Reliability indices, and System integration were satisfied.
• Reviewed design with building models, released Engineering documents and Design data through CATIA V5/Enovia LCA.

Confidential, Plymouth, Michigan

Staff engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completed seat design through all phases from ideation, concept design, design, release, prototyping, to launch.
• Worked with supplier on electrical actuator for seat automation of the third-row stowflat in Ford Expedition and Navigator Vehicles.
• Experienced in mechanism design, cable design for motion control in mechanisms with CATIA V5.
• Also experienced in DFA, GD&T, product quality, CTQs (Critical To Quality), PDFSS (Product Design For Six Sigma), APQP, FMEA, customer quality satisfaction.

Confidential, Sterling Heights, Michigan

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated testing and FEA, done Gage R&R for correlation to pursue GM supplier FEA .
• Designed automotive seals, modeling with UNIGRAPHICS NX2/Teamcenter.

Confidential, Adrian, Michigan

Design engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for concept design and packaging, generating mechanisms on convertible roof systems
• Involved in design of hydraulic driving systems for Ford Thunderbird and Ford Mustang convertible roofs.
• Experienced for part modeling, surface modeling, packaging, and optimizing of the convertible systems packages with matching design background data by kinematics analysis.
• Created and instituted an effective standard for transferring and packaging data, Product Data Management (PDM), among multiple CAD systems,
• Worked on tolerance markups and tolerance stack-up analysis.

Confidential, Warren, Michigan

PROJECT ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Applied CAE Finite Element Method based techniques to simulate body-in-white manufacturing assembly process.
• Optimized Datum locating, schemes, assembly clamping, welding location and welding sequences to reduce assembly build distortion and variation.
• Troubleshooted and identified process failures between stamping and assembling with CAD/CAE techniques.

Confidential, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Research investigator

Responsibilities:

• Re-engineered automotive body assembly line and fixtures.
• Statistically processed measurement data from Coordinate Measurement Machine, analyzing deviation, six sigma variation, and process capability, finding statistical patterns and plot statistical charts.
• Troubleshooted problems of fixture locating, and other failures.
• Troubleshooted problems on assembling sheetmetals of automotive body-in-white, and fitting the panels of hood, fender and decklid.
• Proposed actions to problems, presented to plant engineer, reporting evaluations of the actions.
• Researched splines, spline surface, NURB, Class A surfacing.

Confidential

Associate director

Responsibilities:

• Computer Graphics and CAD system software development
• Taught engineering graphics, mechanical design and Computer Graphics.