About
30 years of SOLIDWORKS & NX CAD. Michigan-based. Senior mechanical design, reverse engineering, FEA, DFMEA, and legacy part digitization.
Founder and CEO of Kavanagh Industries, a sovereign manufacturing technology company based in Clinton Township, Michigan. USPTO Patent Pending #63/991,057.
Background:
One of only three designers on the GMC Hummer EV program, with primary responsibility for complete interior integration — console, instrument panel, radio architecture
Named inventor on five US patents covering automotive seating systems, including first-named inventor on the Removable Rotating Seating System for autonomous vehicles (US 2019/0344686 A1)
Primary illustrator on the patent filings
Services:
Reverse engineering from photos, scans, or physical samples
Legacy drawing digitization — blueprint to parametric CAD
Full parametric SOLIDWORKS modeling
Manufacturing drawing packages with GD&T per ASME Y14.5
FEA with plain-language result reporting
DFMEA per AIAG-FMEA and AIAG-VDA standards
What makes me different:
US-based, Michigan time zone
30 years of actual manufacturing experience across automotive, aerospace, consumer products, medical
All work on sovereign infrastructure — your files never touch third-party clouds, never train AI, stay your property
Send a detailed message with your project scope and I'll respond within one business day with questions, a scope, and a firm price.
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