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Product Design Engineer with over a decade of experience working in the automotive industry and outdoor consumer product industry. Skilled in Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Class-A Surface Modeling, Automotive Engineering, Kinematic Design, and Finite Element Analysis. Creative out of the box thinker who is driven to invent and solve problems both independently and with team collaboration.       


-Work alongside manufacturing partners to ensure products meet specifications.
-Establish acceptable part tolerances for product assemblies.
-Create 2D drawing documentation.
-Build relationships with Ops team.
-Develop and implement test plans for off-tool products to ensure correct functionality.
-Collaborate/Brainstorm with product managers for NPD.
-Utilized 1Factory system to document inspection measurements of off-tool parts.
-Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering and Quality Engineering departments to establish QAP, FAI, and on-going inspection plans of products produced at manufacturing partners in Asia.
-Benchmarking and product tear-downs of competitor products.
-Review and provide feedback of 3D tooling drawings for hydroforming, deep drawing, injection molding, compression molding from factories.


Product Engineer

-Collaborate with Industrial Design & Product Development teams to create new products.
-Develop 3D CAD models of new products that meet manufacturing, design, and function requirements.
-Ideation of novel mechanisms for new product development.
-Create 3D printed parts of CAD models to check form and function.  
-Build and test prototypes to validate new product concepts. 


Design Engineer

-Prototype development of electro-mechanical systems for research models, show cars, and running concept models. 
-Oversee CAD model assemblies of exterior styling models.
-Accountable for parts designed for manufacturability and assembly; CNC machining, additive manufacturing, injection molding, welding, casting, composite layup.
-Conceptualized, designed and assembled a modular Alufix fixturing system for vehicle HMI instrumentation studies. 
-Implemented and coordinated the use of ENOVIA PLM for in-house prototype models.  
-Responsible for communicating and sharing CAD models with suppliers & vendors. 
-Liaison between procurement and styling design groups to develop mockup models.
-CAD mentor to engineering data group.  Provide techniques and strategies to efficiently create parts/assemblies.


Design Engineer: Advanced Product Realization Department 

-Creatively modeled Class-A surfaces of interior and exterior automobile parts for Honda & Acura production models using CATIA V5.  

-Accurately combined feasible manufacturing requirements with styling intent provided from sketches/clay models to create mathematical parametric 3D data that was used to shape the tooling for mass production.

-Design Patent:  The ornamental design for an Acura wheel  
			Issued Jan 26, 2016. Patent issuer and number: US D748,034 S
			https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/a1/08/da/0ae1c3b3407d45/USD748034.pdf

-Design Patent:  The ornamental design for an Acura wheel
			Issued May 20, 2014. Patent issuer and number: US D705,153 S
http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/USD705153.pdf

-Designed cooling ducting in a hydrogen fueling station.


Design Engineer: Styling Surface Development Department 

Performed all types of bicycle tune-ups, repairs, and builds.  Built and repaired exercise machines.  


Service Writer, Bicycle Mechanic

Assembled and test rode new bicycles, performed repairs on customers bicycles, worked the sales floor to sell bicycles, accessories, and clothing.  

Bicycle Mechanic

Find out detailed information about Lev Wechsler,  in Bend , OR

Lev Wechsler: in Bend , OR

Lev Wechsler

Hydro Flask

Hydro Flask

Honda R&D Americas, Inc.

Honda R&D Americas, Inc.

Bert's Bikes and Fitness

Yorktown Cycles

University at Buffalo