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Ángel Torrado										

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ángel-torrado/74/8b2/3a7									

Personal Data						
						
	Address:			6208 W Iowa Pl, Lakewood, CO, 80232		
	Telephone:			915 929 5331		
	Email:			artorrado@gmail.com		


Languages		
		
	English: 	  Fluent	
	Spanish: 	  Native	
	French: 	  High	

	
Background & Summary										
										
	Multidisciplinary engineer experienced in mechanical engineering and with a later formation in materials science. Expertise in product development, validation, verification and quality control including tasks like test designing, execution and evaluation of gears and mechanical transmissions; failure analysis; and teams management and supervision. Broad experience in utilizing, developing and analyzing testing and 3D printing machines. Jovial, motivated and proactive. Easy to work with in a team environment and a great ability to develop research and analysis programs. Strong academic background with a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering.									
		
								
Work Experience										
										
	2012-2015			PH.D STUDENT RESEARCHER WITH POLYMER EXTRUSION LABORATORY AND W.M. KECK CENTER AT UTEP 	El Paso, TX						
				·	Novel materials development and failure analysis for Additive Manufacturing applications					
				·	Materials characterization of plastics					
				·	Modification and adaptation of 3D printing machines to the specific research necessities					
				·	Second place in the El Paso del Norte Venture competition in entrepreneurship and business creation					
				·	Teacher assistant					
										
					

	2008-2012			JOHN DEERE IBERICA			
	Getafe, Spain				
					PRODUCT VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION ENGINEER (40 MONTHS)						
				·	"Validation and verification plans, and design of experiments (DOE) development for components and transmissions
for agricultural and construction vehicles"					
				·	Mechanical testing machines and test design, development, fabrication supervision, start up, diagnosis and test supervision					
				·	Management and supervision of technician teams					
				·	Multi-worm circle drive gearbox team development and patent coauthor (No. 8,746,362)					
				·	Efficiency evaluation and correlation between experimental and theoretical (Glyphworks, Romax) results					
				
					QUALITY ENGINEER AS SUPPLIER PROCESS ANALYZER (6 MONTHS)						
				·	Manufacturing verification and supervision					
				·	Development of corrective actions for manufacturing design deviations					
				·	Cooperative work with supplier partners in the design of quality control mechanisms to ensure design requirements					
										
	2007 - 2008			MASTER'S STUDENT RESEARCHER, ERASMUS MUNDUS PROGRAMME AT LEGI-INPG	Grenoble, France		
				·	Analysis of coaxial liquid jet behavior for applications in combustion of rocket engines					
										
	2002-2008			ETSII-UPM 	
	Madrid				
				·	Air Intake development (CATIA+FLUENT) Formula SAE Competition like UPM Racing Team Engineer at INSIA					
				·	Cibertech Competition: Robotics competition: Design, construction & competition of line follower robots

								
EDUCATION										
										
	2012-2015			MATERIALS SCI. & ENGR. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT UTEP 	El Paso, TX					
				·	"Decreasing Anisotropy in Material Extrusion 3D Printing via Materials Development", G.P.A: 4.0 					
										
	Apr 2008			INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER, SPECIALIZED IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT ETSII-UPM 	Madrid, Spain					
				·	5 years degree B.S. + M.Sc.					
								
SKILLS										
										
·	Failure Analysis and materials characterization (DMA, XRD, SEM, EDX, FTIR and surface energy analysis)·	Mechanical design with CAD (Pro/Engineer, SolidEdge, SolidWorks, Catia…) and simulation (Ansys, Simulink, MatLab…)·	Mechanical testing									
·	Programing									
·	Technical writting and oral presentation						·	3D printing									
·	Vast experience in Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint…) and image processing (GIMP, Pixelmator)·	Windows, MacOSX, Linux				


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS								
									
	Torrado, A. R., Shemelya, C. M., English, J. D., Lin, Y., Wicker, R. B., & Roberson, D. A. (2015). Characterizing the Effect of Additives to ABS on the Mechanical Property Anisotropy of Specimens Fabricated by Material Extrusion 3D Printing. Additive Manufacturing.											
	Torrado, A. R., Roberson, D. A., & Wicker, R. B. (2014). Fracture surface analysis of 3D-printed tensile specimens of novel ABS-based materials. Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention, 14(3), 343-353.					
									
	Rocha, C. R., Torrado Perez, A. R., Roberson, D. A., Shemelya, C. M., MacDonald, E., & Wicker, R. B. (2014). Novel ABS-based binary and ternary polymer blends for material extrusion 3D printing. Journal of Materials Research, 29(17), 1859-1866.					
	Bindl, R. M., Ruiz, F., Torrado, A., Luoma, T. A., & Horstman, N. J. (2014). Multi-worm circle drive gearbox. U.S. Patent No. 8,746,362. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.								
					
				
SELECTED CONFERENCES, SCHOLARSHIPS & HONORS									
									
	August 2014			25th Solid Freefrom Fabrication Symposium		Austin, TX			
					ABS Based Composites and Blends for Application on 3D Extrusion Modeling.					

									
	 May 2014			Graduate Research Award at UTEP			El Paso, TX		
					Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering					

									
	March 2014			Paso del Norte Venture Competition at UTEP		El Paso, TX			
					Polivers: A universe of polymers. Second place prize					

									
	March 2012			John Deere TechConnect LETS Conferences		Mannheim, Germany			
					"Circle Drive Crown Gear Life Comparison Test"
					
									
	Jul 2011			John Deere Coretech Conferences			Waterloo, IL			
					"Effieciency on Gearboxes & Romax Correlations"
					
									
	2007				Cibertech Competition at ETSII-UPM			Madrid, Spain	
					Robotics competition: Design, construction & competition of line follower robots.					

									
	2006				UPM Racing Team Engineer at INSIA			Madrid, Spain	
					Air Intake development (CATIA+FLUENT) Formula SAE Competition. 										

·	Novel materials development and failure analysis for Additive Manufacturing applications					
·	Materials characterization of plastics					
·	Modification and adaptation of 3D printing machines to the specific research necessities					
·	Second place in the El Paso del Norte Venture competition in entrepreneurship and business creation					
·	Teacher assistant

PH.D STUDENT RESEARCHER

PRODUCT VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION ENGINEER (40 MONTHS)						
·	"Validation and verification plans, and design of experiments (DOE) development for components and transmissions
for agricultural and construction vehicles"					
·	Mechanical testing machines and test design, development, fabrication supervision, start up, diagnosis and test supervision					
·	Management and supervision of technician teams					
·	Multi-worm circle drive gearbox team development and patent coauthor (No. 8,746,362)					
·	Efficiency evaluation and correlation between experimental and theoretical (Glyphworks, Romax) results					
				

QUALITY ENGINEER AS SUPPLIER PROCESS ANALYZER (6 MONTHS)						
·	Manufacturing verification and supervision					
·	Development of corrective actions for manufacturing design deviations					
·	Cooperative work with supplier partners in the design of quality control mechanisms to ensure design requirements

PRODUCT VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION ENGINEER

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Angel Ramon Torrado Perez

W.M. KECK CENTER

JOHN DEERE IBERICA

ETSII-UPM

UTEP