San Francisco Bay Area
A leader in mechanical design and analysis engineering with years of experience producing winning designs. Proficient in generating a wide range of highly detailed engineering simulations to prove out product performance in the virtual space. Experience to know when hand calculations or a physical prototype will achieve the desired results more effectively. Ability to simultaneously guide other engineers and manage multiple international vendor projects while pursuing individual work priorities and planning a path forward. Places high value upon ownership of projects from concept through analysis, material selection, detail design, manufacturing support, prototype build, test data synthesis and failure response. Motivated to keep searching for the next better version of even the most successful parts and methods.
• Led a cross-disciplinary team in defining the hardware to achieve class leading robot performance per dollar while ensuring effortless customer experience and high quality industrial design • Design of all servo drive custom electro-mechanical assemblies and specification and sourcing of off-the-shelf components • Ensured efficient validation design decisions by leveraging the unique merits of analytical calculations, FEA and physical prototypes as appropriate • Drove component and system testing that enabled design validation and software development • Performed failure analysis and redesign to increase component lifetime by a factor of 3 • Defined requirements, tested, debugged and tuned safety critical embedded software ensuring smooth operation and reliability of physical safety system • Built a BOM cost model to map path to product cost reduction of 65% • Reduced build time by 75% through part and assembly process waste elimination with knowledge gained from hands-on assembly
• Responsible for the design of the bottom end for a reversible, isothermal, 200 bar, reciprocating air compressor • Innovated 2 novel methods for providing oil to the wrist pin joint to allow running without cylinder load reversal that is typical in combustion engines. • Guided other team members in mechanical design, materials selection, manufacturing and operation of reciprocating machines. • Built and managed a vendor network capable of high precision manufacturing of large components • Created detailed structural fatigue, dynamics, flow and elastohydrodynamic models using Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent and AVL Excite to build understanding and optimize designs • Led creation of a 2D piston skirt hydrodynamics model in Matlab for skirt profile tuning
• Designer of all bottom end and thermal management components for racing engines that won 195 races in IndyCar and NASCAR competition, including the 2003 INDY 500 and multiple manufacturers championships • Maintained responsibility for bottom end components for full life-cycle including concept generation, analysis, detail design, manufacturing support, test management and failure analysis. • Project manager and lead technical resource for large projects involving multiple internal junior and senior engineers, engineering consultants and manufacturing partners. • Developed detailed structural and flow models of all major engine components using Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent, Flowmaster and Valdyn to guide departmental design decisions • Improved engine performance by 10 HP, while eliminating piston failures, with a full cooling system redesign to eliminate combustion chamber hot spots that were producing detonation • Mined engine test data using AVL Concerto to drive part failure analysis and refine FEA and CFD models. • Led weekly cross-functional meetings to plan resource allocation and design priorities