Apr 07     PROENGINEER CONTRACTOR         MOTO ELECTRONICS         San Francisco, CA (415) 281-4800
To             Worked on a camera in a pen using WildFire 2.0. Detailed all its drawings specifying materials, platings and
June 07   adhesives. Used Pro-Engineer software.

May 06     PROENGINEER CONTRACTOR         BOSTON SCIENTIFIC     Boston, MA (508) 683-4158
To           Help design an Electronics Enclosure that controlled Boston Scientific's first endoscope. Designed the incoming
Dec 06   power ( transformer/battery backup/power supply) section. Worked with supplier to build the isolation transformer.
                Used Pro-E's Wildfire 2.0 Pro-Cable to route wiring from the incoming power section thru the power supply.

Jan 06     PROENGINEER CONTRACTOR          SANIMNA-SCI     Huntsville, AL (731) 424-3500
To             Help design an Electronics Enclosure and Medical Room Automation. Used Pro-Engineer's Pro-Cable
May 06     to route wiring in a Hoffman cabinet containing rack mount computers. All work was done in
                  Pro-Engineer's Wildfire 2.0.

Jan 05 To Dec 05 Broke Wrist - Time off for Surgery and Therapy

Apr 04     PROENGINEER CONTRACTOR        MAYTAG     Jackson, TN (731) 424-3500
To             Designed a portion of the newest concept: “dishwasher in a drawer”. Used “Mind Manager”, project
Sept 04     management tool and the “Pugh Matrix” to help develop design concepts. Work was done in Pro-E 2001.

Dec 03     PROENGINEER CONTRACTOR         JOHN DEERE     Des Moines, IA (515) 289-3195
To             Designed a 3 axis “Machining Center". A Cat 50 Tool Changer & 30 piece Tool Holder mounted on a column
Apr 04     slid along linear motion rails. A Ball Screw's Moving Nut was mounted directly to the column & rotated by an
                  Allen Bradley motor to provide motion down a fixed 35 foot Ball Screw shaft. Other directions of motion
                  used fixed nut ball screws with axial mounted motors. A spindle held the cutting tool & was motor driven by a
                  belt & pulley. Vertical motion had parts' weight counterbalanced by a air cylinder.Work was done in Pro-E 2001.

Nov 02     PROENGINEER CONTRACTOR         BAXTER HEALHCARE Round Lake, IL (847) 270-5427
To             motors dispense precise amounts of chemicals. Dispensed chemical weights were checked using Load Cells.
Sept 03     All designs were done in Pro-Engineer's “Top Level Down” modeling method using Skeletons, External
                  Data Sharing ( shrinkwrap & copy geometry ) and Surfaces for faster regeneration time of large assemblies.
                  Work was done in Pro-E 2001.

May 02     PROENGINEER CONTRACTOR         OWENS-ILLINOIS     Toledo, OH (419) 247-8295
To             Made “Free-Form” designs using Pro-Engineer's Advanced Surfacing: Boundary Conditions. 3D Models
July 02     were used to fabricate blow molds for the manufacture of plastic bottles.

Feb 02     PROENGINEER CONTRACTOR         CENTURION     Lincoln, NE 402) 325-3229
To             Designed cell phone antennas. Antennas were thin metal and internal to the cell phone. Used Pro-Engineer's
Apr 02     "Surfaces" to match imported geometry from step files. Wrote a Pro-Engineer “Software Program" for a
                  helical spring with many "dimensional variables" & "feature options". Set up Centurion's first Pro-Engineer
                  file storage system, Intralink 3.1.

Jun 00     PRO-ENGINEER CONTRACTOR         FN MANUFACTURING    Columbia, SC (803) 736-0522
To             Designed attachments to the M240 Machine Gun for the Navy Seals. Used GD&T & ANSI 14.5 formats in
Oct 00     Pro-Engineer to produce detailed drawings of said attachments. Made Pro-Engineer models from military
                  drawings & detailed to match.

May 99     PRO-ENGINEER CONTRACTOR         DIALIGHT CORPORATION     Farmingdale, NJ (732) 919-3119
To             Designed Optoelectronic devices to replace 2 - 18 watt Incandescent Bulbs used in train signals (red, yellow,
Jun 00       green). Used 3 of HP's new Barracuda LEDs on an aluminum substrate to provided the illumination. Designed
                  housing for LEDs & PCB switcher circuit using 2 mating aluminum Die Cast halves screwed together.
                  Designed the housing's Fins (# , spacing & length) to dissipate the maximum amount of "heat" generated
                  from a power resistor anchored to the wall of the housing & from the LEDs' aluminum substrate. Met railroad
                  isolation spec by designing 2 plastic injection molded parts to separate metal housing from the supply voltage's
                  electrode.

Sept 98     PRO-ENGINEER CONTRACTOR         CHERRY ELECTRICAL     Kenosha, WI (414) 942-6586
To             Did "tolerance analysis" using Pro-E Models. Supported the design of a controller module used for Pitney
Dec 98     Bowes' Postal Machine. Module employed "plastic injection molded" parts (light guides and housing),
                  Keypads and Electronic Parts.

July 97     PRO-ENGINEER CONTRACTOR         VDO NORTH AMERICA     Winchester, VA (540) 678-1603
To             Designed a Freightliner Truck instrument panel using ABS plastic frame to house gauges, PCB, light
May 98     guides & dial faces. Plastic frame used snap fits for assembly. Designed acrylic light guides for piping
                  light from incandescent bulbs to dial faces. Angled cuts in the acrylic light guides changed direction of
                  the light according to Snell's Law.

Jan 97     PRO-ENGINEER CONTRACTOR         MOLDTECH PLASTICS     Chicago, IL (773) 342-3900
To             Designed plastic injection molded piece parts. Made Stereo Lithography (SLA & SLS) prototypes
Jun 97     of designed piece parts. May 97     Installed & configured UNIX Operating System (HP-UX 10.20) for
                  HP Workstation. Installed & Configured Pro-Engineer Revision 18, on a Unix Workstation. Networked
                  (10BaseT) a Unix Workstation to Windows NT 4.0 operating system.

Jun 96     PRO-ENGINEER CONTRACTOR         TEXAS INSTRUMENTS     Dallas, TX (972) 917-6826
To             Designed state of the art Laptop Computer. Major component designs were: "Plastic Compression Molded"
Jan 97     case (.030" thick, carbon fiber), a keyboard locking "mechanism" and a magnesium die cast bezel used to
                  transfer heat from the CPU.Made Stereo Lithography (SLA) prototypes. Used Pro Mechancia for FEA
                  Stress Analysis of plastic case.

1994         SWITCHCRAFT         (Connector Manufacturer)     Chicago, IL (773) 792-2700
To             Designed Telecom sheet metal assemblies using Pro-Engineer. Designed Switches & Contacts and Jacks &
May 96     Plugs from metal stampings, screw machine parts & plastic injection molded piece parts.

1992         AutoCAD CONTRACTOR         DME, PARADEX, PROBE     South Florida
To             Designed plastic and sheet metal parts for the above three companies. Design included a Plastic Vacuum
1993         Forned case using AutoCAD 12. Designed artwork for printed circuit boards using Protel layout
                  software & its parts library.

1990         INTERMEDICS         (Medical Manufacturer)     Angleton, TX (409) 233-8611
To             Learned FDA Clinical Procedure. Help obtain FDA approval for Intermedics' 1st 150 Defibrillators.
1992         Developed assembly processes and wrote their procedures. Designed assembly fixtures using AutoCAD 12.
                  Developed "resistance welding" equipment that had a programmable waveform and computer interface.
                  The readings of the current and energy dissipated from each weld operation could be stored in the computer
                  for SPC processing.

1988         TRW OPTOELECTRONICS         (Now OPTEK)     Dallas, TX (214) 323-2200
To             Designed "Optoelectronic" devices consisting of light from LEDs' filtering thru some medium striking
1990         photodiodes or phototransistors. Microscopic current was produced by these photodiodes / phototransistors
                  picking up that light. This current had a distinguishable waveform based on the medium that it was filtered
                  thru. This waveform could be amplified by an op-amp & then analyzed to produce "optical encoders",
                  "red blood count devices". Chip Components were attached to P.C. boards using conductive epoxy and
                  connections were made to the PCB runners by fine gold wires thermosonically bonded. Components were
                  encapsulated in an optically clear silicone for environmental protection & light transmission. Designed
                  plastic injected molded parts: 1) acrylic light guides. 2) housing to hold a rotating metal shaft made of PEEK
                  material filled with 15% PTFE (the PTFE was used for lubrication).

1985         GENERAL INSTRUMENT         (CP Clare Division)     Chicago, IL Plant No Longer There
To             Designed General Instrument's first "RF" relays. Relays were composed of a dry reed switch mounted inside
1989         a wound coil of magnet wire. Designed metal stampings to use as bobbins for magnet wire and plastic injected
                  molded housings. Housing pieces glued together passed Mil-Std “Gross Leak Test” after Mil-Std Temperature
                  Shock. Setup prototype assembly lines in Chicago until the mature product was transferred to Mexico for
                  production
.

1984         MOSTEK         (Semiconductor Manufacturer)     Dallas, TX Out of Business
To             Managed Automation Project that built plastic DIP semiconductor RAM. RAM was made by "Plastic Transfer
1985         Molding" Ram had a voltage sensing circuit built-in such that if the external power supply was interrupted, a
                  watch-type battery would supply current in order to retain the RAM's programmed memory. Coordinated &
                  supervised the building of the automation.

1981         MOTOROLA         (Communications Division)     Plantation, FL (305) 475-5000
To             Designed "Electronic Packaging" and "Microelectronic Packaging" for portable 2-way radios. Radio consisted
1984         of various modules which were inserted into sockets on a 4-layer PCB motherboard. Modules were resistance
                  welded stainless steel 5 sided enclosures and on the 5th side was a header with pins.
                  Predicted designed components' reliability, mathematically with FEA Analysis.
                  Verified results, experimentally, using strain gauges, an instron, vibration table, drop testing and piezoelectric
                  transducers.

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