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I am a meticulous, accountable and energetic registered Professional Engineer with a diverse background in medical and scientific instrumentation design, oil and gas industry products, ballistics, explosives, micro-mechanics and optics. I enjoy researching complex problems that require simple, creative, effective and low cost solutions. I have a solid foundation in process equipment design in the oil and gas field, computational simulation, optical design, and complex mechanical design. I have experience in both low quantity prototype development, as well as high volume development, and understand the technical and monetary issues facing each, as well as the issues arising from the transition from prototype level quantities to production volume. My specialties include process design for O&G using Compress, Promax and HTRI, FEA with Ansys and COSMOS/GeoStar, optimization of optical trains using Zemax, part and assembly design in Solidworks, and ballistics simulation with PRODAS.Medical Device Research and Design (R&D) Engineer @ Project, Design and Manufacturing Engineer for designs related to various types of medical equipment. Key responsibilities include: • Design of medical instrumentation and equipment with manufacturing held closely in mind • Product testing and qualification in conformance with ISO 9001, 13485 and applicable FDA codes • Manufacturing process improvement (improved programming routines, value stream mapping, etc) • CAM programming for a variety of types of mills, lathes and other CNC controlled equipment • Specification and Procurement of appropriately tailored capital equipment • Leveraging novel manufacturing techniques for application in difficult designs From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Project Engineer / Process Equipment Design Engineer @ Project / Process Engineer for designs related to: • Vessels (Code and Process Design) • Coded Structural Design (Skid, Building, Piping, etc) • Sizing (Valves, Controls, Pumps, Heaters, Other Off-the-shelf Products) • Modularized / Packaged Units (Dehydration Units, Amine Units, Gas Processing Units) • Cryogenic Plants • Claus Plants (H2S conversion to elemental sulfur) • Indirect heaters • Reboilers • Shell and tube heat exchangers • Contactors • Fractionation columns • Natural draft combustors Simulation experience with • Codeware Compress • Promax process simulation software • HTRI heat exchanger software Deeply involved with design adherence to the following codes: • ASME Sections II, VIII, IX • ASME B31.3, 31.8 • NACE MR0175 / ISO 15156 • API standards including • 12F (Production Tanks) • 12GDU (Glycol Dehydration Units) • 12J (Separators) • 12K (Indirect Heaters) • 12L (Emulsion Treaters) • 520 (Sizing of PSVs) • 521 (PSV Sizing for Fire Relief) • 660 (Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers) • 661 (Air-Cooled Heat Exchangers) • ASCE • ASHRAE • IBC • AISC (Using either LFRD2/13 or ASD9/13 methodologies) • AWS D1.1 From September 2013 to May 2015 (1 year 9 months) Mechanical Engineer @ *Involved with plant shutdown in summer of 2013. Design and Plant Engineer responsible for: • P&IDs and flow diagrams • Ariel compressor performance simulations • Valve sizing simulators • Heat Exchanger sizing • Auxiliary pump sizing • Instrumentation specification • Specification of fabrication materials including sheet, piping, nozzles, beam, and associated components • Code compliance with respect to ASME Section VIII, IX and II, ASME 16.5, B16.11, 31.1, 31.3, and 31.8. Member of senior management staff, involved with setting group standards, which utilized 6-sigma, Lean and a blend of other manufacturing principles. Designed vibrational supports in accordance with API 618 in order to increase package reliability and service life Lead many cost savings initiatives. First year projected savings nearing $500K Reviewed and implemented engineering changes based on customer and service staff feedback Bid and managed projects of varied complexity From December 2012 to August 2013 (9 months) Casper, Wyoming AreaR&D Mechanical Engineer @ Engineering lead on design and simulation oriented tasks. Includes FEA and PRODAS ballistics simulations. Responsible for project conformance to ISO 9001. Products developed in accordance with a rigorous engineering design plan including inception, prototype design, detailed design and qualification, engineering pilot, and manufacturing takeover. Responsible for periodic design reviews, process and design FMEAs (root failure analysis), transition to production, and cost and time budgeting. Research and development using a variety of tools and equipment including Infintion 35Ghz Doppler radar, scotopic and photopic detectors, heat flux sensors, blast probes, and spectrographs. Defense contract conformance and management. I have been responsible for technical writing, including responding to RFI's and various government initiatives under technology development (TD) and Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phases. From December 2010 to December 2012 (2 years 1 month) R&D Optical and Mechanical Engineer @ Raman spectrometer design utilizing free-space optics, integrating into a variety of different platforms including fiber collection probes, telescopic systems, microscopic systems, and free-space collection fixtures. Primary optical design considerations included spot size, diffraction, resolution, collection efficiency, polarization, stray light analysis and illumination systems. Researched and applied new ideas to existing technology and products. Suited to designs requiring assembly by technicians. Strong emphasis on designs based upon precise and accurate alignment techniques, assembly simplicity, and cost efficacy. Familiarized with development in an R&D and production environment in a fast paced, deadline oriented setting. Zemax sequential and non-sequential optimization for optical trains. Familiarity with aberration theory, tolerance analysis, athermal analysis, beam propagation analysis, diffraction analysis and custom merit function builds. Designed fully integrated Raman microscope with LED illumination source combined with simultaneous extraction of spectral content. Designed custom Near IR lens set which resulted in twice the throughput and spectral range with the same amount of correction as comparable lens at 1/10th the cost Designed and integrated optical and mechanical trains and components for use in defense / remote sensing applications. Experience with solar blind systems and eye-safe wavelengths. Extensive Solidworks background, experience incorporating cost of goods, bills of material, and PDM Experience with a variety of laser types and wavelengths. Integrated both gas and semiconductor lasers into Raman systems from mid-VIS to IR. Experience with continuous wave and pulsed laser systems. Integration and characterization of CCD, CMOS and EBCCD sensors into systems. Systems include back thinned Si, InGaAs and InGaAsP sensors. Experience with gated CCDs combined with pulsed lasers (in essence, LIDAR/LADAR). From May 2005 to December 2010 (5 years 8 months) BSME, Mechanical Engineering @ University of Wyoming From 2004 to 2006 AS, Engineering Science @ Casper College From 2002 to 2004 AS, Computer Science @ Casper College From 2000 to 2002 Matt P.E. is skilled in: R&D, Engineering, Finite Element Analysis, Mechanical Engineering, Sensors, Manufacturing, Solidworks, Optics, Product Development, Simulations, Design of Experiments, Product Design, Materials, ASME, Failure Analysis