Mechanical Design & 3D CAD Solid Modeling

 

Skills and Employment History

I am a  Mechanical Designer / Design Engineer with over 30 years experience working in the design and development of electro/mechanical products, such as mobile phones, computer and computer related products and automotive electronic components.

 

I also have extensive  CAD experience including Unigraphics, Inventor 10, Catia V5 and Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0.


Key experiences

Taking new product concepts through to design, development and engineering, prototype, documentation and into full production. Projects have included the design and development of electro/mechanical enclosures for main frame computer systems and peripheral products including disk drives, rugged hand held computers to desktops; mobile phone handsets; engine control units and MultiMedia Mobile (Smart Radios) for automobiles, ands manufacturing equipment such as tooling and fixtures.

 

CAD experience includes: Unigraphics NX3, Inventor 10, Catia V5, and Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0.

 

Additional responsibilities have included ensuring that all designs and project activities complying with company procedures and standards; projects completed to within the agreed costs and time scales; liaison with outside suppliers to ensure designs can be manufactured efficiently, and with manufacturing to ensure designs and documentation meet production requirements.

Processes utilized have included: plastic injection moldings, zinc, aluminum and magnesium die castings, precision machining, and sheet metal fabrications, and the utilization of Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Tooling techniques.

 

The creation of all documentation require for prototype and production of all products. Drawing experience includes to both ANSI and BS308 .

 

 

Employment History

12/2006-Present

Delphi Delco Electronic Systems, Kirkby, Liverpool, UK

Mechanical Design Engineer (contract)

CAD: Unigraphics NX3

7/2005 to 11/2006

ABSL Power Solutions (Formally ATA Battery Systems)

Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, UK

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

CAD: Inventor 10

10/2001-7/2005

Delphi Delco Electronics Europe GmbH,

Mobile MultiMedia Design Center, Bad Salzdetfurth , Germany

Mechanical Engineer MCAD

CAD: Unigraphics NX2 and Catia V5

2/2000 to 10/2001

Delphi Delco Electronic Systems, Kirkby, Liverpool, UK

Mechanical Design Engineer (contract)

CAD: Unigraphics NX2

3/1999 to 2/2000

General Motors Corporation, Truck Group Center - TPC , Pontiac, Michigan, USA

Contract Unigraphics Application Support Specialist

3/1998- 3/1999

Ericsson Mobile Telecommunications UK Ltd. Keytech Centre, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK

Contract Mechanical Designer

CAD: Unigraphics

2/1996- 3/1998

Sun Microsystems UK Ltd. Telecommunication Products Group, Slough, Berkshire, UK

Mechanical Design Engineer

CAD: Pro/Engineer.

11/1994-2/1996

NEC Technologies ( UK) Ltd. R&D Development - Mobile Communications Division, Reading, Berkshire, UK

Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer

bureau's. CAD: Unigraphics

10/1993-11/1994

Random Product Design, Random Group Ltd., London UK

Contract Development Engineer

CAD: ME10, SolidDesigner, SDRC and Pro/Engineer

7/1991- 10/1993

Husky Computers, Ltd. Coventry, West Midlands, UK

Mechanical Design Engineer

CAD: AutoCAD 12

8/1984- 6/1991

Tandem Computers, Inc. Cupertino, California, USA.

Mechanical Designer

CAD: Unigraphics.

3/1982- 8/1984

Domain Technologies,Inc., Milpitas, California, USA.

Contract Mechanical Designer

2/1979- 3/1982

Datapoint Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, USA

Mechanical Designer

3/1977- 2/1979

Memorex Corporation, Santa Clara, California, USA

Mechanical Drafter

 

Education

June 1986

San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA

B.S.M.E. Mechanical Engineering (part time study)

June 1982

De Anza College, Cupertino, California, USA

A.S. Degree in Mechanical Design & Drafting

Additional studies included CAD/CAE and PCB Design (all part time study)

March 1977

Bay Valley Technical Institute, Santa Clara, California, USA

Certificate Mechanical Drafting

June 1975

San Jose High School, San Jose California, USA

High School Diploma 

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