Millbrae, California, United States
Mechanical Design Engineer with 14 years of experience in complete product development of one-of-a-kind process equipment and high-volume outdoor, indoor, and vehicle-mounted electro-mechanical systems and enclosures from concept to mass production, including analysis, detailed design, testing, documentation, and manufacturing release. • Lead mechanical designer of Cisco’s first outdoor wireless LAN product. • Designed sheet metal, injection-molded plastic, die cast metal, machined, and extruded parts in SolidWorks (5000 hours) and ProEngineer (200 hours). • Performed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of conduction, natural convection, and forced air cooling systems using Coolit (500 hours) and FloTHERM (50 hours). • Performed finite element analysis (FEA) of static stress, vibration, and wind loading with COSMOS. • Wrote test plans, reports, and performed outdoor environmental testing of components and systems. • Strong electrical engineering background in addition to mechanical engineering.
Lead design engineer for a critical sub-system of a device to monitor and maintain truck tire pressure
Design, build, and improve scale-up equipment for a novel thin film deposition process • Used SolidWorks to redesign existing and create new systems of experimental equipment on multiple size scales to improve reliability and usability for chemistry and process development. • Supported numerous equipment modifications and additions to accommodate a wide range of process and chemistry experiments. • Worked with pneumatic, vacuum, liquid handling, and electrical sub-systems. • Teamed with our internal team and equipment vendor to install and bring up a large prototype machine and pilot line web handling machine, infrastructure and support systems.
Designed outdoor and indoor wireless electronic enclosures, mounts, and cabling. Responsible for all mechanical, thermal and structural aspects.
Acquired by Cisco Systems in May, 2000. Responsible for completing the chassis design for a cell phone pico-base station, sourcing mechanical components, and supporting prototype builds.
Experimental Verification of Nonlinear Control for Rigid-Link Flexible-Joint Robots with Harmonic Drive Transmissions • Debugged and finished building a servo testbed and validated non-linear control algorithms in MATLAB and Simulink.
Introduction to Manufacturing CAD/CAE/CAM Lab for sophomore mechanical engineering students.