Experience

Farm, A Flex Company

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Mechanical Engineer

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  • Client relationship and trust building through mutually invested design process.• Conceptualize, engineer, build, test, refine…repeat. Fail fast and get on to the next iteration with insight and data to advance the final design iteration.• Combining multidirectional inputs (clients, users, marketing, manufacturing, design, engineering) to a singular focus, the best product possible.• Collaborate with some of the best minds in the industry. Designs formed in isolation have no chance of competing with a broad range of ideas, personalities, and experience.• Simulation (or Digital Twins) to reduce prototype iterations can accelerate the design process like no other technology. How do you know the simulation is correct unless you test it? That’s what the engineering lab is for, and where I get to break things…for science.• Managing numerous project demands simultaneously, and not losing touch with the critical points. Changing direction from one project to the next requires flexibility and adaptability.• I am a consultant, but I don’t know everything. That’s where being a quick study with a passion to learn, particularly from passionate people, quickly fills in the gaps.• Helping with the upfront proposal planning to prepare clients expectations. Looking at a “white sheet” concept with only an end goal in mind can lead clients and design firms down a winding road to nowhere.• Mentoring and hiring Co-Op’s is a unique challenge. Finding what inspires a young engineers and letting them loose rewards both of us.

• Sr Mechanical Engineer

  • Dec 2008 - Apr 2021

• Mechanical Engineer

  • Dec 2004 - Dec 2008



Barry Controls

• Sr. Project Engineer

  • Jun 2001 - Dec 2004

  • Design and engineer complete elastomeric solutions for vibration isolation to the automotive, medium duty trucking, and motorcycle industries as a Tier I supplier.• Sales support for gathering customer inputs/requirements on-site and face to face.• Quality controlled product development with multidisciplinary teams through the APQP, ISO 9001, PPAP process.• Program management from sales call to final production. Concept generation with a collaborative team through the quality process and on to Injection molding, compression molding, metals prep, sourcing both domestic and foreign components.• Proud member of the 2005 Ford GT development team -Challenging timeline after being brought online a year into the program. -Had to prove why my design was better than the off-the-shelf design from a pickup truck. -Full concept development including simulation and strain gage testing prototypes. -Subjective track testing feedback from the prototype car at the Ford durability track compared to a Ferrari 360.

• Project Engineer

  • Jun 1999 - Jun 2001



Proteus Design (now Motiv)

• Engineer

  • Jul 1997 - Jun 1999

  • Engineer for a classic Industrial Design firm.• CAD model development for healthcare, medical, cosmetic, consumer goods, and customer facing store display.• Complicated surfacing models for ergonomic handheld devices and consumer goods intended for injection molding.• Multiple functioning breadboard models for preproduction and concept development. • Engineer for a classic Industrial Design firm.• CAD model development for healthcare, medical, cosmetic, consumer goods, and customer facing store display.• Complicated surfacing models for ergonomic handheld devices and consumer goods intended for injection molding.• Multiple functioning breadboard models for preproduction and concept development.



GKN plc

• United Kingdom
• Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
• 700 & Above Employee

• Development Engineer

  • Jun 1994 - Jun 1997

  • Product and process design as a new engineer in the R&D team. Developed new process for press/sinter powder metal (P/M) parts, machining improvement for P/M parts, cycle time reduction for tool changeover, die wall lubrication experiments including head concepts for powder lube dispersion.• Tier I supplier to GM, Ford, Chrysler (at the time), and Honda. • Technology development and enhancement. Brought the company into 3D modeling, strain gage testing, and fatigue testing. Spec’d, purchased, and installed a 100k lb MTS hydraulic fatigue testing machine for durability testing engine components.• Press Operator. Hands dirty on the process I was designing for.