Engineering Portfolio





Hello Everyone
I’m
Paul Ward










Background


Graduated from University of New Mexico with an ABET accredited MS in Nuclear Engineering and a BS in Mechanical Engineering
About 5 years experience including:
Computer modeling
Design in aircraft interiors
Lasers
Electrical redlines
Gamma Spectroscopy


Past Employers


General Electric Aircraft Engines
Honeywell
Emcore
Aim Aviation
Panasonic
Decrane Aerospace
Eberline















General Electric Aircraft Engines


You will love this!!!









SUMMONED FORTH AND DIRECTED AT WILL!!!



Reviewed and evaluated designs 


Worked with fabricators to ensure that parts were of 

acceptable quality.


Trained operators in how to fabricate both introductory and 

existing parts


Routed part flow (Lean Manufacturing)


Introduced new and cheaper processes for current 

production.



Evaluated Designs


Worked with lead designers to develop method sheets and 

work instructions.


Worked with floor fabricators to figure out project feasibility


Figured out production methods for composites, metals,

rubber moldings, and sound suppression.


Trained operators


Lay up room




80 ton press


Auto clave

HONEYWELL


Developed method sheets and work instructions for aircraft electronics assemblies
Introduced new laser cutting machine
Tested various electronics equipment


Method Sheets and Work Instructions


Basically, lots of Auto cad work involving

specific instructions for assembly of 

electronics


(These are recreations from memory of some

of the AUTO CAD instructions I was writing.

They are not for real parts, but do show what 

circuit card assembly instructions might look 

like.  I updated/wrote >10,000 pgs worth of 

instructions while there.)



Introduced New Laser Cutting Machine


Venus cutting machine


12w / 30 watts Plus


Used it for part marking, but it has many more

capabilities including 3-D sculpting







Testing



EMCORE



Built, tested and troubleshot infrared data transfer lasers
Operated and monitored test robots




Built Infrared Lasers


high-speed transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) modules for
use as parallel optical data communication links. The 
modules perform logic-to-light and light-to-logic conversions 
for data transmission over multi-mode fiber ribbon cable, at 
a wavelength of 850 nm




Operated test robots



Power
Attenuation
Sensitivity
Burn In
Flash programming
Temperature testing



AIM AVIATION




Chased airplanes


Design engineer of first class areas of 

airplanes using Inventor


Designed super light weight composite

structures


Formulated an overall, program specific, 

manufacturing plan


Assured incorporation of all engineering 

revisions


Coordinated status certification, including 

sample fabrication using stress strain, peel, 

and flammability testing


HVAC drafting in CATIA V5


Design Engineer of First Class Areas


Designed complete 3-D models of chairs and 

galleys


Designed the bulk of 2 MMA galley projects, 

amongst other big $ projects


Assured the incorporation of all engineering 

revisions


(These are not photos below.  They are 3-D models I worked on in Inventor. They were rendered to look like a picture.  They were used for concept design and production.)





Testing



Static testing
Peel testing
Fallibility testing







HVAC



Spent some time drawing blueprints to make lightweight HVAC piping for planes
It was nothing but drafting really funky hard to define structures




















Panasonic


-Updated design drawings of in-flight entertainment (IFE) and communication systems

-Used ProE and CAD

-Set up wiring diagrams








Eberline
Calibrated and maintained high purity germanium detector instrumentation, sensing elements, and sampling system software to calculate activity and quantity of isotopes such as 239Pu and 238U.

Monitored personnel, plant facilities and work environment using a portable high-purity germanium detector (HPGe) to detect radioactive contamination at a nuclear dump site.
(I drew these HPGE detectors in Inventor one day for fun and use in presentations.  I have run many different HPGE detectors.)


Los Alamos
Performed an inline Doppler broadening scheme for MCNP using a GPU in Linux.

Optimized current routine through CUDA C++ and benchmarked results.







UNM

Created a gamma spectroscopy program to detect very low levels of isotopes

Presented at national conferences such as ANS







Senior Projects


SAE Formula Racing
Power saving toaster





Conclusion



Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man: Another Metaphor To Help You Understand
One useful way to think about hiring is to consider the
process of baking a cake. First, before you even get out the recipe, you have to WANT to bake the cake. You have to BELIEVE you can bake the cake. Then, most importantly, you have to get off your rear and ...
GET BAKING, BUDDY!!!



Any questions?













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