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Sr. Mechanical Engineer

Action sports enthusiast looking to apply my engineering talent to the products I'm passionate about.

http://www.function.com/
Function Engineering provides mechanical design and engineering consulting for product development.

-Working for a wide variety of client companies of all sizes in many industries
-Humanoid & animal like robotics/animatronics.
-Wheeled base, automotive, and industrial automation robotics design projects of various scales and complexity levels from blank slates.
-Design of robotics for use with very high power transmission and associated thermal analysis
-Battery powered light weight robot using custom linear actuators driven by custom packaged frameless electric motors, acting through custom four bar mechanisms. All parts optimized with FEA for high specific strength. Utilized off the shelf carbon fiber products bonded to custom aluminum components.
-Numerous test fixtures, including high cycle life test fixtures and a small motor dynamometer
-Consumer electronics design including camera and mobile phone accessories, kitchen appliances, wearable audio equip

www.zee.aero
-Employee number 43
Sr. Mechanical Engineer- Manned, Civilian, Fully Electric, Aviation Vehicles, 40-110 employees
-Primarily focused on extremely high torque/power to weight ratio electric motor development
-Lead ME for several major motor projects
-Aluminum, steel, and titanium component and assembly design
-High temperature composite part and tooling design
-Structural optimization through finite element analysis (stators, rotors, shafts, housings, mounts, etc.)
-Design of centrifugal forced air cooling for challenging thermal loads on high current, high temp stators
-Bearing, encoder, connector, cable, and fastener selection
-Numerous manufacturing processes and tooling developed to build and test motors completely from scratch: lamination stack (cutting/coating/bonding/machining), powder coating, winding tooling, encapsulation (potting) molds, precision magnet grinding, metal forming tooling, and Halbach magnet array assembly tooling.
-Supervised multiple technicians and wrote assembly procedures for complex builds
-Used SolidWorks CAD, FEA, PDM and Hyperworks FEA
-Most design work proven by build, bench test, and flight test

Our team of 5-10 co-workers designed, built, tested, and competed an aircraft in the 2013 Red Bull Flugtag in Long Beach, California. Not only did we win 1st place at the event but we set a world record of 258 feet of distance.

http://redbullflugtagusa.com/page/teams/view_team/775/the_chicken_whisperers

As with any competition there were some strict rules that shaped our design. The most notable were: 28' wingspan, 10' height limit above platform, 20’ max length, no stored energy, no ropes, no pulleys, no pilot harness, pilot can't be head first, and no support wires.

     The other large challenge is the difficulty of safe, non-destructive testing the craft for the mission of gliding down from a 30' platform. An overall factor in the design was to get good stability and handling, and also to get something that could fly well without having to practice a lot first, but also to have something where we could test fly and practice enough in a safe manner. This drove us to select a foot launched craft, because we could test it like a hang glider, which we did one week before the event. We drove it to popular hang gliding training hill, pointed it into the wind and ran with it, doing a few short hops. This allowed us to test and adjust the Pilot's CG to trim pitch, the rudder's surface area for control margin, the twist grip control interface, and other design details.

     Also of note is that previous record set in Germany was very likely done with the previous wingspan limit of 30' and from ~45' foot launch height (27' platform + tall 18' cart), while ours was done from a ~22' foot launch height (20' platform due to high tide and 2' tall cart due to new tighter, safer regulations from Red Bull.

Team Manager, Mechanical Engineer, Builder, Dancer, Pusher

www.wrightspeed.com
Sr. Mechanical Engineer- 17 employee start-up, 14 engineers, 2 mechanical engineers
-Series hybrid electric vehicle drive train design, development, and integration. Custom truck built in under 6 months
-Battery pack and inverter power electronics design and build: both  liquid cooled, 300+ V, 100+ A, environmentally sealed, EMI sealed, and jam-packed full of interconnected electronics
-Drive shaft design and build: 250+ hp, integral parking/emergency brake
-Used PTC Creo CAD (Pro/E successor) with Windchill 10.0 PDM, and Autodesk Inventor CAD with Vault PDM

http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/excalibur/
Mechanical Engineer I, Mechanical Engineer II, & Sr. Mechanical Engineer I 
–12k employees, 6k engineers
-Cruise missiles, supersonic missiles, guided artillery, exo-atmospheric vehicles, & proprietary projects
-Patent Pending – high shock and vibration, 15,000g, large thermal range, innovative electronics packaging method
-Primary mechanical engineer for Excalibur Ib projectile guidance section, beat part cost and assembly time targets, unheard of first pass flight test success, and won competitive $36M contract for final development
-Selected digital, RF, and power connectors, designed circuit board and flex circuit envelopes, developed encapsulated (potted) circuit board assembly and associated encapsulation process
-Highly refined documentation: drawings, analysis, assembly instructions, requirements, testing, etc.
-Integral member of a small proposal team that won a $23M contract for T3, and then continued development of super-sonic air breathing rocket motors, related inlets, flight control systems (fin actuators), antennas, joints, aerodynamic surfaces, and electronics; extreme thermal environment, high vibration, long life, and low mass
-Hundreds of hours of training and mentoring by experts in design, analysis, metallurgy, composites, adhesives, electronics, failure analysis, DFMEA, DFMA, 6 Sigma, drawings, and project management
-Used Pro/Mechanica finite element analysis, and Pro/Engineer Wildfire CAD, and Pro/Intralink PDM

Sr. Mechanical Engineer I

http://appliedenergetics.com
Mechanical Designer, Jr. Mechanical Engineer, & Mechanical Engineer – 20 to 75 employees
-Opto-mechanical assemblies for femtosecond, terawatt lasers; mostly for precision adjustments in lab use
-Supported electrical, laser, and optics scientists and their research
-Dynamic optics, voice coil actuation, beam steer and dynamic focus systems including deformable mirror design
-Extreme high voltage electromechanical system design and builds: Tesla coils, pulse generators; 10kV to 1MV+
-Joint IED Neutralizer Vehicle – designed and built numerous subsystems for several vehicle iterations, including a low rate initial production run of vehicles
-Machined, welded, and fabricated many of my own designs
-Assembled and tested all of my designs both in the lab and in the field
-Directed the work of machinists, welders, designers, drafters, and assemblers
-Implemented and administered CAD network and data management system
-Used Pro/Mechanica finite element analysis, and Pro/Engineer CAD, and Pro/Intralink PDM

Mechanical Engineer

http://campwoodward.com/

I worked for Woodward during three summers while in college. Previously I was a camper, then a dishwasher. As a real paid employee I was a skate-park lifeguard and instructor by day, then responsible for 18 kids from dusk to dawn. It was a great learning experience for me. It had the pleasure of working with an international group of staff and campers with a wide age range. This developed my communication skills tremendously. Plus it was tons of fun.

Skate Instructor & Camp Counselor

http://www.playitagainsports.com/

I worked in this new and used sporting goods retail store part time while in high school. I was responsible for choosing models and quantities of skate equipment to carry in house. I evaluated and negotiated the purchase of used equipment. I also interacted with customers purchasing new and used equipment. Prior to this I worked at PetCo.

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Nate Herse

Function Engineering, Inc.

Zee.Aero

The Chicken Whisperers - Red Bull Flugtag Team

Wrightspeed Inc

Raytheon

Applied Energetics, Inc.

Camp Woodward

Play It Again Sports and Fitness

University of Arizona