Thomas Rathbun (585-342-8867) (585-300-5411) or trathbun@earthlink.net                                  RESUME July 09

May09 to June09

CONTRACT: Volt Technical

CLIENT: Raytheon Missile Systems

    1151 East Hermans Road

    Tucson, AZ85756

      REPORTING TO: Greg A. Trainor

JOB DESCRIPTION:  Mechanical Drafter

Pro-Engineer Surfacing and solid Modeling, Design of tooling for Missile Guidance Systems transportation.

Detailing and Integration of existing shock mount into new concept enclosure and mobile unit.

 

Sept 07 To Feb 09

CONTRACT: I R P MultiMedia inc.

CLIENT: The Gunlocke Company, LLC

    One Gunlocke Dr.

    Wayland, NY 14572

    www.gunlocke.com

      REPORTING TO: Chris Phillips

JOB DESCRIPTION:  Design Engineer

Pro-Engineer Surfacing and solid Modeling, Design Check, Reverse Engineering, remodeling and redraw their Guest Chair product line in Pro-Engineer Wildfire 3.0.

Woodworking, Plastics and sheet metal, detailing of wood and welded office furniture. Conversion of files from AutoCAD 2d to ProE WF3.

 

May 07 to Sept 07

         CONTRACT: Aerotek

                     CLIENT: Parker Hannifin Corp.

                             Parker Aerospace

                             Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division

                             124 Columbia St.

                             Clyde, NY 14433

                REPORTING TO: Gary King/Mark Iorillo

JOB DESCRIPTION: Mechanical Designer Pro-Engineer Surface and solid Modeling (Wildfire 2.0) and detailing of class 1 fuel injection components and fixturing for military and commercial aircraft using Military and GD&T. ASME Y14.5M standards. Forgings, Investment castings, precision machining, brazing and EDM.

 

Jan07 to May07 CONTRACT: Summit National

CLIENT: Hughes Networks Systems

    11717 Exploration Lane

                             Germantown, Maryland 20876

            REPORTING TO: Larry Cronise

            JOB DESCRIPTION: Senior Designer

Pro-Engineer Modeling (Wildfire 2.0) and detailing of 19” racks and components for hi-speed satellite broadband servers.  Sheet Metal design, and electronics packaging. COURSES and TRAINING TAKEN: Ethics and Compliance, Export Control Awareness and ISO 9001 part1 & 2.  

      Sept06 to Nov06

CONTRACT: I R P MultiMedia inc. / Summit National
CLIENT: Plug Power Inc.

  Stack Center Of Excellence
              968 Albany-Shaker Road
              Latham, NY 12110

            REPORTING TO: Kevin Mease

              JOB DESCRIPTION: Design EngineerMaintain and qualify first article castings, Back check plate design tutorial standard and benchmarking.

         Aug04 to Sept06

REPORTING TO: Dhirendra Damji, JimD’Aleo

      JOB DESCRIPTION: Mechanical DesignerCAD (Pro Engineer Wildfire, Intralink V3.3, PDM link, Microsoft office) As a member of the Stack CEO Engineering team some of the task I was responsible for were Architecture and Configuration Management, Product Conceptualization, Skeleton/Relation Driven Stack & Plate Design, 3d Solid Modeling, Design of Castings, Preparation of models, (for Mechanica FEA, Compression analysis and Fatigue analysis).  Water jet cutting, compression molding composites and Fiber Glass Molding of stack insulation pieces, Compression Molded Plastic Pieces, Die Cast Stack End Plates, Sheet Metal Design, Fixture Design and Detail Drawings using GD&T. ASME Y14.5M - 1994.

        May03 to Aug04
        CONTRACT: Summit National
                               15 Braintree Hill Park
                               Braintree, Ma 02184
        CLIENT: Plug Power Inc.
                               968 Albany-Shaker Road
                               Latham, NY 12110
      REPORTING TO: Eric White, Rich Chartrand
      JOB DESCRIPTION: Engineering Design Consultant
CAD ( Wildfire, Pro Engineer V2001, Intralink V3.2), Conceptual Design, Packaging Layouts, Design, Solid Modeling, Animation, Tolerance Studies, rendered illustrations and detailing, and electrical schematics and logic diagrams of PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) hydrogen pump stacks and hydrogen home refueling stations. Preparation and delivery of models for fabrication, Ansys FEA and flow analysis. Vendor technical support. 

COURSES and TRAINING TAKEN: Intralink V3.2, Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3 Training, Safety Training. Wildfire 2.0, ProductView 8.0, GD&T Fundamentals Y14.5M-1994, Geometric Dimension and Tolerancing Applications, and Process Capable Tolerancing, and Tolerance Stack-ups.

        May02 to May03
        CONTRACT: I R P MultiMedia inc.
        CLIENT: Multiple
        JOB DESCRIPTION: Producer/Graphics designer/Designer
3D modeling (Pro Engineer) of audio/visual furniture for web catalogs.
Audio/Video post production & animation using Pro/Engineer, Interactive Product Animator, LightWave, Inscriber TM, Smartsound and Adobe Premiere and Photoshop. Graphic and web design using Flash MX, Interactive Product Animator, LightWave, Netscape Composer and Bryce 3d.

        FEB 00 to May 02
        CONTRACT: Applied Mechanical Technologies (in house)
                                7931 Rae Blvd.
                                Victor, NY 14564
        CLIENT: Kirtas Technologies Inc.
                          Los Gatos, CA 95032
        REPORTING TO: Tuck Taylor
        JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer
CAD ( Pro Engineer V2000I Interactive Product Animator) Design, Solid Modeling, and animation of hi-speed book scanning test fixtures.
        CONTRACT: Applied Mechanical Technologies (in house)
        CLIENT: Kodak
                               Rochester NY 14650
        REPORTING TO: Mike Lesczynski
        JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer
CAD ( Pro Engineer V2000i, Interactive Product Animator) Machine Design, Solid Modeling, trade show animation, and Detailing, of film drying and processing systems.
        March 01 to Oct 01
        CONTRACT: Applied Mechanical Technologies
        CLIENT: CVC/Veeco
                          525 Lee Rd.
                          Rochester,NY 14606
        REPORTING TO: Bill Messner
        JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer
CAD ( Pro Engineer V2000i,  Pro/Intralink ), Design, Solid Modeling, and Detailing, of wafer deposition tooling for the data storage industry using High Vacuum CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition).
        CONTRACT: Applied Mechanical Technologies
        CLIENT: Plug Power Inc.
                       968 Albany-Shaker Road
                       Latham, NY 12110
        REPORTING TO: Jim Kralick (Sr. Project Engineer)
        JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer
CAD ( Pro Engineer V2000i, ), Design, Solid Modeling, Detailing, of environmental preparation components for PEM fuel cells.
        REPORTING TO: Ryan Dunham (Engineer)
        JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer
CAD (Pro Engineer V20), Design, Solid Modeling, Detailing, of environmental preparation components for PEM fuel cells.
        REPORTING TO: Cliff Gibbons (Engineer)
        JOB DESCRIPTION: Design Engineer
CAD (Pro Engineer V20, Pro/Intralink), Design, Solid Modeling, Sheet Metal Modeling, Enclosure Design. Electro-Mechanical systems packaging design.
        
        JULY99 to DEC99
        CONTRACT: Total Technical Services Inc./ IRP MultiMedia inc. (1099)
         CLIENT: Areoglide Corp.
                        100 Areoglide Dr.
                        Raleigh, NC 27511
         REPORTING TO: Mark Paulson (VP Operations)
       JOB DESCRIPTION:Mechanical Designer
CAD ( Pro Engineer V20, Pro/Intralink), Solid Modeling, Complex Sheet Metal Modeling, Structural Steel design, piping, large weldment assemblies sheet metal machine guard design and detailing of industrial dryer equipment. Hardware and CAD license supplied and maintained.

         JULY 98 to JULY 99
         CONTRACT: I R P MultiMedia inc. ( 1099 )
         CLIENTS: Xerox Corp., Solid Advice Consulting,CAD CAM Inc., Corning Glass, Torrey Pines Research, American Swiss Products Company Inc., LaserMax Inc., Applied Mechanical Technologies
          JOB DESCRIPTION: Design Consultant
CAD ( Pro Engineer V18, V20, PT Modeler, IPA) Solid modeling, Sheet Metal Modeling, design and detailing of toner transfer lab test fixtures, materials handling equipment and robotics, paper conversion dies, sub-micro-mechanisms. 2d animated motion studies, 3d animated assemblies. Internet vendor and patent searches. File translations to and from Intergraph EMS, Pro/e and SDRC on Sun UNIX and Windows NT 4.0 platforms. Web Page Design & development. Web Publishing, PC hardware design, build, upgrades and repair.

         MAR 96 to JUNE 98
         CONTRACT: Kelly Technical
         CLIENT: Xerox Corp.
                           Rochester, N.Y. 14644
                           Corporate Research and Technology
         REPORTING TO: Don Fisher ( Research and Engineering mngr )
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Sr. Designer
CAD ( Pro Engineer V15, V16,V17&V18, PROPDM ) Solid, surface modeling, detailing and build of electro-photographic lab test fixtures, linkage mechanisms, and paper path sub-systems, 2d animated motion studies, Modification and design of high speed printing test fixtures. CAM (MasterCam) setup, File translations to and from Intergraph EMS, Pro/e and SDRC on Sun and Windows NT 4.0 platforms. Internet vendor and patent searches, PC hardware benchmark testing.
COURSES and TRAINING TAKEN: Troubleshooting and Maintenance of IBM PCs &
Compatibles (SkillPath Seminars), Docushare and Class3+ Laser Safety.

         AUG 95 to MAR 96
         CONTRACT: I R P MultiMedia inc. ( 1099 )
         CLIENT: Hill-Rom
                          1069 State Route Hwy 46
                          Batesville, IN 47006-9167
         Engineering
         REPORTING TO: Ray Grella ( VP Operations )
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Sr. Designer
 CAD ( Pro Engineer V14 and V15 ) Solid, surface modeling and detailing of ejection, roto and rim molded plastic parts for a neo-natal intensive care unit. Model file preparation for finite element and thermal analysis for Pro-Mechanical, SDRC and Ansys. Computer modem communications and plastic consulting. Assistant system administrator on a Silicon Graphics platform CAD/CAE  Network.

         AUG 94 to AUG 95
         CONTRACT: Alliance Group (Cincinnati)
         CLIENT: Hill-Rom
         REPORTING TO: Vern Bremmer (chief engineer)
         Dave Newkirk (industrial designer)
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer
         CAD (Intergraph EMS 3D 3.0) Solid, surface modeling and detailing of air/heater sub-systems. Conceptual design, design, mass property analysis, and static loading calculations of plastic frame, housing and enclosure parts for a neo-natal intensive care unit. Test fixturing of convective systems for engineering models. Telecommunications of IGES files, EMS to IGES file conversion.
COURSES and TRAINING TAKEN: GE Plastics Advance Design Seminar. GE Polymer
Chemistry, Pro/E Basic training, Pro/E advanced surfacing.

         MAY 94 to AUG 94
         CONTRACT: Tech Aid (Boston)
         CLIENT: Roper Corp.
                          1507 Broomtown Rd.
                          Lafayette, GA 30728-1408
         Engineering
         REPORTING TO: Randy Mauritzen (drafting dept. manager )
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer
         CAD ( Intergraph EMS 3D 2.0) Design and graphic layouts of control panels for household appliances. Microwave, and electric oven packaging design. 3D solid modeling of sheet metal, plastic and extruded parts. Sheet metal shop interface and trouble shooting, for laser cut sheet metal patterns. Import, export and debug of IGES and DXF CAD files from Intergraph into AutoCAD V12_c2. Technical Illustration of manufacturing instructions. Revision of existing drawings.

         NOV 93 to JAN 94
         CONTRACT: International Consulting Group
         CLIENT: Miles Diagnostics Division
                           Tarrytown, N.Y. 10591-5097
         Engineering Services
         REPORTING TO: Alex Kerr ( engineering manager )
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer CAD ( Intergraph EMS 2D 2.4) Assembly and detail drawing composition  and revision, and software integration drawings, for medical diagnostic equipment (hematology).

         AUG 83 to AUG 93
         CONTRACT: Superior Design
         CLIENT: Xerox Corp.
                           Rochester, N.Y. 14644
         Office Document Systems - Feb 93 to Aug 93
         REPORTING TO: Joe May ( unit mngr.)
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer
CAD (Intergraph EMS 3D solid modeling 2.7) design layout of registration
subsystem for a mid volume product line of printer and copier systems.
         Mid Volume Products - July 91 to Feb 93
         REPORTING TO: Tom Bitter (unit mngr.)
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer
         CAD (Intergraph 3D solid modeling) design layouts and detailing of document handling
devices.  Secondary training of Intergraph operators.
Business Product & Systems Group - April 86 to July 91
         REPORTING TO: Gary Minagawa (unit mngr.)
         Tom Kane (section mngr.)
         Dick Schieck ( unit mngr/ME )
         Tim Pinckney ( unit mngr/ME )
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer A
CAD ( Intergraph 3D solid modeling ) design layouts, tolerance studies, assembly and detail drawings, documentation, debug and engineering support of enclosure subsystem, data loading of existing frame design. Latch design and redesign, design of miscellaneous plastic and sheet metal parts for drive, paper handling and NOHAD subsystems. Beta testing of MEDS,XMEDS,DSMS, and Xerox matrix software and functional consulting on CAD work and documentation
processes.
         Centralized Products - Aug 84 to April 86
         REPORTING TO: Don Tickner ( unit mngr./ME )
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer A
Machine architecture ( manual drawing ), frame test fixture, cover design layout, build, debug and engineering support, CAD ( 2D Intergraph )  detailing of enclosure subsystem for electro optic scanning module.
         Engineering Products-May 84 to Aug 84
         REPORTING TO: Barbara Waal (unit mngr. /EE)
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer B
Detail drawing and test targets for prototype electro optical scanning product.
         Wilson Research Center - Aug 83 to May 84
         REPORTING TO: Bill Bailey (drafting mngr.)
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer B
Design layout and details of engineering models and prototypes. Design and
details of high vacuum microelectronics lab fixture control and supply
systems in a class 100 cleanroom environment.
Redesign of shutter drive
system for e-beam deposition chamber.

COURSES and TRAINING TAKEN: "Creative Problem Solving", "Design For Assembly",
 "Product Delivery System", "Mech. Engineering Design Software", "Continual Supplier
Involvement", "Viewpoint 1.2", "Approaching Mechanical Engineering Design" ( TME 4300), Engineering Modeling Software basic, detailing, modeling ( Intergraph EMS ).                                          US PATENT NO. 5201425 - AUG 91 (Shock absorbing scuffer roll)

          Sept 81 to May 83
         CONTRACT: Superior Design
         CLIENT: Mobil Chemical
                           Mobil Tech Center
                           Macedon, N.Y.14502
          REPORTING TO: Cliff Smith (drafting mngr.)
          JOB DESCRIPTION: Mechanical Designer Structural design and static loading calculations of steel mezzanines and nip  towers. Equipment layouts, and third party checking of product extrusion lines. Design, checking and detailing of plastic web handling devices.

COURSES and TRAINING TAKEN: Firefighting.

         Aug 80 to SEP 81
         CONTRACT: Butler Service Group
         CLIENT: Burroughs Corp.
                           1150 University Ave.
                           Roch.N.Y.14607
         Printing Engineering B.F.Div.
         REPORTING TO: Leo Miller (section mngr/ME)
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Mechanical Designer
Disassembly, inspection, modification, and assembly of existing paper conversion die unit. Design layout, sub-assembly, and detail checking of similar die unit. Sketches, isometric and prospective drawings, design layout, assembly drawing, sub-assembly drawing, detail drawing and checking of paper conversion tooling.

         AUG 79 to AUG 80
         CONTRACT: Perno Latone Assoc.
         CLIENT: Sybron Corp. ( Pfaudler )
                          1000 West Ave.
                          Roch. N.Y. 14611
          REPORTING TO: Victor Biller (filler engineering mngr.)
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Layout Designer-Mech.
Sensor, infeed transfer, closer interface, feed screw drive, turret guard and  change part layout drawings, for customer order industrial filling equipment.

 

         NOV 76 to AUG 79
          CONTRACT: Allstates Design
          CLIENT: Xerox Corp.
                            Roch. N.Y. 14644
         REPORTING TO: Bruce Henery ( Drafting Mngr. )
          JOB DESCRIPTION: Designer B
Product design support, design layout, check layout, assembly, sub-assembly and detail
drawings.
          REPORTING TO: John Sunquist ( Drafting Mngr. )
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Draftsman A
Product design support, sub-assembly and detail drawings.
         REPORTING TO: Chuck Vullo ( Drafting Mngr. )
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Draftsman A
Product design support, sub-assembly and detail drawings.

         APRIL 74 to NOV 76
         Techtran Industries
         Henrietta, N.Y.
          REPORTING TO: Hank Jankowiak ( Elec. Design Engineer )
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Draftsman
         All electro-mechanical drafting and documentation, P.C.boards, layouts, checking, schematics, block diagrams, assemblies, hole charts, service manuals, logic diagrams, redesign and detailing of tape drives, enclosure design, and chassis layout for 8400 datacassette and 9400 floppy disc product lines.

         SEP 70 to APRIL 74
         General Railway Signal Co.
         800 West Ave.
          Roch.N.Y.14611
          REPORTING TO: George Alexander ( Chief Draftsman )
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Mech. Detailer
Revision and composition of layout, assembly, sub-assembly and detail drawings.
          JOB DESCRIPTION: Tracer
Revision and composition of block diagrams, purchased part, detail, logic diagrams, schematics, board assembly and system module drawings.

          AUG 69 to AUG 70
         Erdle Perforating Co.
         1000 Pixley Industrial Pkwy.

         Roch.N.Y.14624
         REPORTING TO: Hank Hanes (forman)
         JOB DESCRIPTION: Operator's Assistant Sheet metal fabrication machinery. (Breaks, slitters, punch presses and cut offs)

 

          EDUCATION: Graduate of Teletronics School System Inc.
          Licensed by New York State Dpmt. of Education
          American School Of Drafting - AUG 69 to AUG 70
          DIRECTOR: Patrick Farzaroli
          COURSE DESCRIPTION: 1000 hrs. of board training with lectures in
Basic Projection, Mathematics I & II, Dimensioning, Detailing I&II, Y14.2, Electronics, Printed Circuitry, Packaging, Exploded Views and Advanced Electro - Mechanical Project design.

ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE at medium to expert proficiency :
Pro/engineer V15 (thru Wildfire), Productview, ProPDM, ProSheetmetal, ProIntralink, ProDiagram, Bunkspeed Hypershot, Solidworks, Interactive Product Animator, Intergraph EMS, MEDS and IDGS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, VideoAction, Truespace, Trispectives Technical, Bryce 3D, Poser,  Autodesk Animator Studio, Autocad V12_c1, Microstation V4, V5, MS95, DCL, Fortran, Lotus Notes, Unix, Irix 3.5, DOS, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT V3.51, 4.0,Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, OpenOfice, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Access.  Sonar, Sound Forge, Audacity, Sonic Desktop, Smartsound, and Jammer Pro.

 


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