Terry B.

Experience

• Design Engineer Consultant & Model Making CAD Arts Design · Freelance Jan 2018 – Present 8 yrs El Segundo, CA, United States Working remotely, industrial design and design engineering of various projects in various industries: indoor lighting, outdoor lighting, aerospace, dental, interior architecture using SolidWorks 2018 - 2024.
• Design Engineer Consultant AM LED TECHNOLOGIES · Freelance Sep 2016 – Dec 2017 1 yrs 3 mos Alsip, IL, United States Working remotely, industrial design and design engineering of new product development for recessed and suspended indoor LED lighting, high bay LED Lighting using SolidWorks 2017.
• Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Krypton Lighting · Full-time Jan 2016 – Jul 2016 6 mos Plano, TX, United States Helped to develop mechanical design department. Utilize my experience in sheet metal, extrusions, and injection molding, generated assembly drawings, installation instructions, and high-volume production assembly drawings, work directly with UL, work with Marketing and Electronic Engineering departments on projects, conducted R&D testing, sourced new vendors.
  Implemented SolidWorks as company’s primary mechanical design software. Production drawings were completed 10 times faster than Auto CAD.
  Created part numbering system for mechanical parts. No system in existence upon my arrival at company. BOM creation improved 100%.
• Design Engineer Consultant AM LED TECHNOLOGIES · Freelance Jan 2015 – Dec 2015 11 mos Alsip, IL, United States Working remotely, industrial design and design engineering of new product development for recessed and suspended indoor LED lighting, outdoor LED wall lighting, LED street lighting, and LED canopy lighting using SolidWorks 2014.
• Senior Mechanical Design Engineer UNIVERSAL LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES · Full-time Apr 2012 – Aug 2014 2 yrs 4 mos Round Rock, TX, United States Designed new electronic fixtures for LED lighting and power supply products. Generated design layouts, individual component, welding, and assembly drawings using SolidWorks 2012 and SolidWorks EPDM, conducted R&D testing, product development analysis, sourced new vendors and developed project processes and procedures.
  Created New Employee Orientation document, saving $2000 per new employee on orientation costs.
  Led Package Design department, speeding up finished packaging materials available for production by 30%.
  Created QA Parts Checking form, speeding up QA Inspection process by 20%.
• Senior Design Engineer Hydrel · Full-time May 2009 – May 2011 2 yrs Conyers, GA, United States Designed new product lines for landscape and architectural lighting. Created product release packages for manufacturing, developed prototypes, conducted photometric & thermal testing, production cell development, sourced new vendors, developed project processes and procedures and created project cost estimates.
  Patent pending on Tapestry HID and LED Flood Light outdoor light fixture family. Enabled company to have product line for radial floodlight market.
  Utilized Acuity Outdoor Value Stream project management system, eliminating wasted steps in production by 20%.
• Senior Design Engineer PAULUHN · Full-time May 2006 – Apr 2009 2 yrs 11 mos Pearland, TX, United States Developed innovative lighting solutions for hazardous environments from design through production. Generated design layouts, individual component and assembly drawings, created prototypes, and prepared preliminary cost estimates.
  Designed Enviro Pro High Bay indoor light fixture family, enabling company to expand into food and beverage processing markets.
  Led development of EN approved emergency ballast, enabling company to expand into High Bay linear fluorescent European markets.
• Senior Design engineer VISTA PROFESSIONAL OUTDOOR LIGHTING · Full-time Oct 2000 – May 2006 5 yrs 7 mos Simi Valley, CA, United States Created and developed Design and Engineering Department. Led team of 1 engineer and 4 production technicians. Managed new product lines and die cast molds. Created and provided graphic images for Marketing Department. Proposed and assisted in new processes development and proposed new product concepts.
  Implemented SolidWorks as company’s primary design software after recognizing inherent inefficiency / inaccuracy of manual drafting. Production drawings were completed 20 times faster and drawing files were directly compatible with production CNC tooling, facilitating high quality promotional materials for Marketing Department.
  Implemented new product lines, resulting in $4.5M in annual sales.
  Modified existing composite model instead of generating new one for specific customer request. Modified product was ready for delivery in 3 weeks instead of 3 months, delighting customer and saving company over $16K.
  Created Vista Design Process Department Responsibility Flow Chart, minimizing production bottlenecks, gleaning input from various company departments. Created new process steps, increasing intra department efficiency on new and continuing projects.
  Created Project Management spreadsheet available on network at no cost after identifying company-wide lack of project task tracing. Improvised program worked so well company abandoned search for off-the-shelf application.
• Project Engineer LUMIERE DESIGN (Division of Cooper Lighting) · Full-time Dec 1998 – Sep 2000 1 yrs 9 mos Westlake Village, CA, United States Developed innovative designs for landscape lighting projects, create product release packages for manufacturing, and conduct photometric testing of projects. Sourced vendors and created project cost estimates.
  Received U.S. Patent for design of Aspen project - a family of bollards with an adjustable light throw.
  Designed injection molded and die cast parts for projects.
  Created New Product Description documents and reduce time to market on new projects by 15% by
  obtaining advance sign-off from Marketing, Production and Accounting.
  Standardized part numbering system, accelerating parts assignment process by 20% and streamlining BOM process.
• Design Engineer Fitting Image · Full-time Sep 1996 – Nov 1998 2 yrs 2 mos San Leandro, CA, United States Developed concept drawings for injection molded projects, conduct research and development for new projects, and design prototype injection molds for creating prototypes.
  Received U.S. Patent pending for the design of Self Measuring Spice Cap.
  Led the redesign of the company brochure.
  Sourced quality vendors and created project cost estimates.