Sr. Product Development Engineer Resume Redwood City, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Fifteen years as a mechanical design engineer designing products for high - volume production.
Extensive prior experience in development of new mechanical solutions in concert with new manufacturing processes.
Machine shop aptitude for prototyping and production.
3D modeling and 2D part documentation incl.
Confidential 14.5 and inspection methods.
Project experience in the areas of: Injection molding, extrusion, compounding, additive/subtractive lithographic fabrication, rapid prototyping, light automation, product testing, equipment retrofits, material and equipment specification.
Background in product and process development of conductive polymer based circuit protection devices.
Comprehensive experience with six-sigma lean design and methodology, ISO-9001 audits.
Project planning and coordination, product costing, presentations and written design reviews.
Experienced and skilled with SolidWorks / Simulation / Enovia PLM, Pro-E, AutoCAD.
Prior exp. w/ LabView, Minitab, SolidCAM, CNC machining, circuit prototyping, DAQ, C, SQL

PROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE:

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Sr. Product Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

Design and specification of molded plastic & metal part design, material specifications, mold qualification, thermal testing and preparations for approval agency.
Provide detailed 2D drawings, purchase specifications, product costing, BOM entry and doc. management.
Support role to branch engineer designing thermal controller for commercial/residential applications.
Assisted launch of Raychem Confidential flexible underfloor heating system, Winter Guard Tee Splice and HWAT Power Connection Kit.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Sr. Product Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

Design of new module prototypes, testing, costing, documentation, process development.
Generated intellectual property regarding: connectors, electrical routing, and module design.

Confidential

Product Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed introductory snap together prototype and production over molded, packages.
Designed and built economical metal forming tools and part molds.
Designed several prototype injection molds and over-molded lead-frame bases and covers.
Designed and fabricated low cost custom tools and process flow for introductory prototype part fabrication.
With chemist, developed an elastic, UV-curable epoxy coating capable of withstanding reflow temperatures.
DOE for optimal coatings, termination materials and surface pre-treatment.
Developed interactive thermal cycler with Labview to control environmental chamber.
Developed resettable-fuse prototypes and panel array process for high-voltage (600V) circuit protection devices .
Demonstrated prototype feasibility and performance at one third cost leveraging multi-layer (HDI) rigid & flex circuit board manufacturing methods to Tyco’s conductive polymer based resettable fuse panels.
Managed vendors and developed in-house processes to facilitate panel prototypes: lamination, etching, plating, plasma treatment, via-plugging, CAD & Gerber files and instruction documentation.

Confidential

Equipment Engineer

Responsibilities:

Devised pivoting roller coating mechanism to selectively paint edges of rectangular components. Responsible for mechanical design, assembly, wiring, programming and documentation.
Assisted in re-design of injection molded housing to facilitate ultrasonic welding.
Served as liaison between construction company and Tyco personnel for procurement and installation of $5 Million of integrated equipment for polymer compounding, pelletizing and drying.
Designed control system retrofits for sheet-cutting machine.
Completed an installation of an automated web thickness sensing system and web slitting equipment.
Designed and fabricated prototype fixture scrubbing machine - reduced hand scrubbing of reflow fixtures.
Designed automated fixture washing machine with fixture magazine unloading and loading stations.
Designed semi-automated drying system, washable part magazines, racks and ultrasonic bath.