SUMMARY
Creative, project-oriented engineer with over 20 years of management, design and analysis experience. Highly innovative problem solver. Extensive experience with consumer, industrial, automotive and Defense development as engineer, manager and technical director. Active Secret clearance. Accomplished in:
o Mechanical Design
o Vendor Management and Development, domestic & international
o Finite Element Analysis
o Team Building & Leadership
o Project & Program Management
o 2D & 3D CAD
o Acoustics & Vibration
o Test & Qualification
EXPERIENCE
Sound United, Owings Mills, MD
Sr. Engineer
2016 - Present
Head of development of audio transducers for multiple brands.
TE Connectivity, Winston Salem, NC
2014-2016
Engineer IV
Led development of automotive subsystems including high-current switching and sensors
Meggitt Sensing Systems, Germantown, MD 2011 – 2014
Senior Mechanical Engineer & Project Manager
Managed design and development of new sensor systems for Industrial and Military Customers
• Team Leader for Mechanical Engineering - managed work of department: 3 engineers and 1 technician.
• Technical lead on numerous concurrent sensor projects, both industrial and military.
• Successfully managed multiple military aerospace and marine sensor qualification projects and internal R&D projects, including key sensor systems for a Navy helicopter program worth $1.6M to the company with a sales life of 20+ years.
• Led project to develop new high-temperature sensor that improved maximum temperature performance by 40% with only a 10% increase in cost.
• Designed new components and systems for Navy using CAD, FEA and materials research to satisfy tough weight and performance targets.
• Project manager and technical lead for innovative hand-held portable electromagnetic shaker that could drive 3x as many frequencies and 20% more weight than competition for same retail price.
• Developed proposals and designs for wearable blast sensors for monitoring warfighters’ health that utilized proprietary technology and was thinner and lighter with better performance than competing sensors.
• Designed new test & measurement systems: One that tested 10 million combined mechanical and thermal cycles for military sensors; Another saved $10k per test by internalizing tests previously done at outside facilities.
• Wrote and edited patent applications for the Maryland division, including 1 granted. Analyzed and advised Sr. Management on competitors’ patents for prior art.
• Instrumental in filling 5 open positions in company, both permanent and contract.
Polk Audio, Baltimore, MD 2002 - 2011
Senior Engineer & Technical Director
Developed audio systems and subsystems for Polk products
• Managed all technical aspects –acoustical, electromagnetic, mechanical- of transducer development for all Polk products; Had significant input on 95% of Polk’s product lines.
• Technical director for multiple simultaneous projects.
• Lead development of automotive systems including Signature Reference, Mobile Monitor and DXi that were responsible for over 90% of company’s sales in mobile loudspeaker market.
• Instrumental in developing new test methodology, tone-burst testing, that is now an industry-wide test and which delivered significant improvements to product durability including doubling the life of subwoofers.
• Developed extensive foreign suppliers and sub-suppliers; Directed them in designing, building and testing products for Polk, including troubleshooting performance and process functions on sight.
• Integrated product lines from merged division into Polk’s development process and improved performance of those product lines while handing them off to new vendors.
• Performed all FEA work, including acoustical, electromagnetic and thermal
• Developed and maintained measureme...
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