Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Working with capable people is a highly rewarding experience in it's own right, working on difficult problems with them is a treat.
I develop new products by: observing immediate and emerging market needs, imagining solutions, evaluating existing and potential markets, creating business cases, defining product requirements and specifications, evaluating and selecting existing and emerging technologies, inventing new technologies, creating patents, directing the designs of other engineers, testing and refining designs, sourcing and acquiring inventory, organizing and directing production activities, and organizing service activities.
We lead the industry that builds and sells Automatic Turf (Sod) harvesting machines that handle the turf as flat slabs and as small rolls. Flat slabs are specific to warm climate grasses where each piece has to be stacked on a pallet in the flat condition. Previous automation technologies have proven less productive than manual labor. Specifically we have deployed high performance electric drive motion control systems in a market (agriculture) traditionally dominated by hydraulic systems. Our harvesters stack faster than manual harvesters and burn less fuel than hydraulic powered harvesters. They work on holidays and weekends, and never have hangovers or personal conflicts.
Oversee manufacturing engineering efforts supporting existing and new products.
I worked as a leader of a team of engineers and graduate students to develop a prototype Positively Engaged Continuously Variable Transmission. We demonstrated a working variator type of CVT where the torque was delivered through a gear tooth engagement and not a traction (friction) drive, and demonstrated the ability to operate at any ratio within the range of the machine.
I owned a small engineering company that designed and tested products for the automotive aftermarket, aerospace, and gymnasium equipment markets. We specialized in two areas: designing castings, and automated testing. We developed castings and molds for engines, axles, hoisting systems, fall protection systems, et cetera using solid modeling and flow/solidification simulation software. We also built and operated automatic life cycle testing equipment for hoisting and fall protection equipment, as well an automated machine for aerospace composites manufacturing.
LynRus is a foundry and machine company that sells Gymnasium Hoisting and Fall Protection systems as well as custom castings and machine work. During the first year I was the department that designed and tested the gymnasium equipment and developed tools for the foundry, Later I had engineers that I supervised.
GE O.E.C. Medical Systems manufactures C-Arm style portable X-ray equipment. I worked in developing image train alignment devices and cosmetic covers.