Matthew L.

Experience

• Founder Zero Gravity Innovations · Self-employed Jan 2025 – Present 1 yrs Oklahoma City, OK, United States Founder and Lead Designer driving the development of innovative product concepts across multiple domains including automotive component design, acoustics, aerodynamics, and solar energy. Utilize advanced CAD tools (CREO, CATIA) for modeling and analysis. Lead product development, patent edits, and strategic planning for multiple LLC ventures. Collaborate with suppliers and investors to transition designs from concept to production.
• Co-founder Innovative Biological Implant Solutions · Self-employed Apr 2012 – Present 13 yrs 9 mos Oklahoma City, OK, United States o Lead Engineer, and Co-Founder worked in the new product development department. Responsibilities included developing and designing innovative and novel new products for the orthopedic surgical design space using CREO + ANSYS + Pro-Mechanica Motion.
  o Primary designs included several joint replacement arthroplasties for foot/ankle application including both implants as well as surgical installation procedures, alternate screw fixation which also preserves joint range of motion and an arthroscopic device with a full 3D articulating tip plus jaw actuation with single hand control.
  o Worked with legal to protect Intellectual Property, raising capital to fund various projects, working with the FDA for device classifications, building a team of exceptional employees with a wide range of expertise and backgrounds, leading the product development department and creating initial design boundary conditions such as materials, manufacturing processes, joint kinematics and dynamics, static and dynamic loads, working with vendors around the world to develop working prototypes and refining designs through CAD and FEA.
  o Developed overall business strategies and financial plans to support conception to mass production phases. Also involved in creating and submitting a grant application for a solicitation of the NIH for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant Applications.
• Depot Design Lead Pratt and Whitney · Full-time Jan 2007 – Mar 2021 14 yrs 2 mos Oklahoma City, OK, United States o Senior Repair Development Engineer 2007 – 2009: Developed new repair technologies and technical data. Used Unigraphics-NX various versions. Repairs included various welding types (laser, GTAW, EB, Linear Friction, etc), plasma spray, detail replacements, brazing, machining (single point bore, conventional & non-convention milling, reaming, drilling, grinding, etc.), waterjet strip, shotpeen, coating strip and recoats, blends, hydraulic systems etc.
  o Senior Staff Engineer & Design Integration Lead 2009 – 2014: Developed more complex repairs and began leading teams as well as continuous process improvement projects to reduce repair development turn times also reviewing and approving technical data.
  o Senior Staff Part Family Lead (TEC/Aug/Nozzle Systems) 2014 – 2017: Supported TF33, F100, F119, and F135 military jet engines. Responsibilities include leading the repair design team for the Turbine Exhaust Case, Augmentor, and Nozzle module systems of the engine by overseeing and leading junior engineers during repair development activities and reviewing, approving, and signing off on technical data providing overall technical leadership and systems integration guidance. Also responsible for approving design configuration changes, technical data modifications, limit expansions, and non-conformances (MRBs) on the shop floor. Nozzle module system also involved hydraulic actuation system integration for flight performance characteristic monitoring specifically in relation to aftermarket repair approaches.
  o Senior Staff Part Family Lead (Mechanical Systems) 2017 – 2019: Supported TF33, F100, F119, and F135 military jet engines. Responsibilities included design integration of engine hydraulic systems as well as various fluid flow studies to ensure proper component performance and cooling characteristics and specifications were met for repaired parts without reducing component design life.
  o Depot Design Lead 2019 – 2021: Job responsibilities similar to prior role except responsibilities extended to all engine modules and models within military application. Worked as the key technical focal for all of Tinker AFB issues both with internal and external customers. Worked extensively with USAF engineering senior leadership to determine best repair approaches and negotiate overall technical integration strategies for future and current repair development activities including cost reduction approaches. This encompassed design and structures systems integration as well as technology development integration both internal to P&W and external USAF customer. Provided real time signature authority (MRBs) for engineering disposition of parts on shop floor involving non-conformances across all components fracture, life-limited & rotating components.
  Lead the Oklahoma City Operations Team (consisting of approximately 45 engineers) both from a technical integration and strategic perspective while providing mentorship and tactical leadership as necessary.
  o General Knowledge – Have extensive experience in both fracture and LCF characterizations, FEA, material analysis, heat treating, exotic material analysis and selection such as various Ti and Ni alloys, and 2-D GD&T drawing creation, interpretation & modification.
• Staff Design Engineer Google · Full-time Jun 2004 – Dec 2007 3 yrs 6 mos Libertyville, IL, United States o Staff Mechanical Design Engineer in Mobile Devices (▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ design) responsibilities included product design from concept to mass production, project management, mass production trouble shooting to improve processes and reduce cost, implementing Six Sigma design using statistical process control, performing complex system level Tolerance Analyses with Monte Carlo simulations to refine designs, etc.
  o Manufacturing techniques used to create designs generally included metal die-casting, plastic injection & compression molding, sheet metal design, circuit and flex design and die cutting as well as using top-down advanced surface modeling techniques using Pro/E. Onsite supplier support required during new product development and launch to locations all around the world.
  o Some designs included a LCD zinc die cast frame, injection molded plastic chassis housing as well as various plastic part designs, stamped AL flip outer housing, slider mechanism, cameras, thin metal keypad, cameras and camera packaging, and acoustic architecture design layout.