Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, June 1995, GPA: 3.55/4.0.
Experience
Principal Mechanical Engineer, September 2003 - present
Major Defense Electronics Company, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mechanical design and structural and thermal analysis Project management
Senior Mechanical Engineer, April 2000 - August 2003 Itronix Corporation, Spokane, Washington
Responsible for design and development of rugged-class wireless notebook computers and vehicle mounted peripherals from product definition through end of production. As a member of a multi-disciplinary team, I am responsible for: electro-mechanical system architecture, design of experiments, detail design of key components and sub-systems, management of outsourced services for industrial design, detail mechanical design and contract manufacturing, EMI/RFI shielding, design verification testing, design reviews, engineering documentation, and manufacturing/sustaining issues. Responsibilities also include providing technology vision and maintainance for the department’s suite of engineering design, analysis and visualization software tools.
Methodology consulting: integrate PTC software suite into existing product development processes and advise companies on specific design practices; Pro/INTRALINK and ProductView implementation. Modeling consulting: Pro/ENGINEER implementation, Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/INTRALINK and Pro/PDM user mentoring, complex modeling, mechanical design automation, development of company-specific CAD standards and best practices. Classroom instruction certification: "Intro to Pro/ENGINEER" (release 18, 19, 20 and 2000i) Development and delivery of customized training courses: Large Assembly Management, Top Down Design, Pro/PIPING methodology, Pro/INTRALINK usage and Electro-mechanical design (Pro/CABLING and Pro/HARNESS-MFG). Development of business proposals for consulting engagements and software implementation plans.
Taught basic concepts of design and modeling using Pro/ENGINEER. Assisted students involved in Senior Design Projects in using Pro/ENGINEER as a design and modeling tool and in prototyping their designs using systems developed at the Manufacturing Processes Laboratory at the University of Utah.
Responsible for mechanical design projects, maintenance and operation of Fused Deposition Modeling equipment, conversion of two dimensional drawings to solid models using Pro/ENGINEER, and production of RTV silicone molds.
Participated in development work aimed at improving the accuracy of large scale layered manufactured objects.
Computer Skills
Design tools: Pro/ENGINEER and Solid Edge. Data management and visualization tools: Pro/INTRALINK, ProductView and Pro/PDM. Analysis tools: ANSYS - structural and thermal and ICEPAK - computational fluid dynamics. Project management tools: Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, and Project. Operating systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, UNIX, Windows 95, MS-DOS, and MacOS. Programming: FORTRAN and C++. Other: web page creation using HTML.
Publications
Techniques for Improved Speed and Accuracy in Layered Manufacturing by Novac, Kaza, Wang, Lee, and Thomas. Proceedings of the 1996 Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, August 12-14, University of Texas at Austin. An Automated Technique for Adaptive Slicing in Layered Manufacturing by Novac, Lee, and Thomas. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Rapid Prototyping, March 31 - April 3, 1997, San Francisco, California. Producing Prototypes That Don't Fit the Current Commercial Paradigm by Thomas, Novac, Lee, Wang, and Mu. Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing, July 1-3, 1997, Nottingham, England. Rapid Fabrication of Disposable Fixtures for Correct Assembly of Split Build Rapid Prototyped Parts by Kadakia, Novac, Thomas, Balogh, and Smith. Proceedings of the 1997 Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, August 11-13, University of Texas at Austin. Last updated:April 2004
Thesis: Adaptive Slicing Techniques for Layered Manufacturing.
Mechanical design and structural and thermal analysis