DAVID K. LUCAS

1602 Fordham Circle

Altoona, PA. 16602-7394

'Home: 814-941-9092, F Work: 814-696-8066

Email: mrproe@mrproe.com

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Professional Synopsis

 

Over 25 Years as a consultant and employee in mechanical and electrical design, with experience in medical, robotics, FDA, aerospace, aircraft, railroad, heavy vehicular, marine, machine automation and telecommunications fiber optics industries. Dedicated and motivated in mentoring individual.

Expertise with:

·         20000+ hours Pro/Engineer ®

·         12000+ hours Pro/Intralink ®

·         6000+  hours Pro/PDM

·         6000+  hours Anvil 1000 ®

·         10000+ hours CADAM ®

      Solid background in the contractual process including vendor negotiations, contractual review, machine tools & die operations, injection molding, and first approval process. Have knowledge of ASME Y14.100, ISO 9000 and ASME Y14.5M-1994 Dimensioning And Tolerancing also FDA 510 (k) approval process.

 

Highlights of Experience 1980 to Present for

DKL Designs of Altoona, Pennsylvania – (1985-1994), (1998-2003), and 2005

Consultant Design - Senior Design Development Engineer

Have provided consulting services to the following companies nationwide:

Employee to:

Veeder-Root, A Danaher Corporation - Altoona, PA. - 2005 to Present: Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0® Intralink 3.4®

Designed Veeder-Root’s new On-Board Refueling Vapor Recovery (ORVR) Hanging Hardware System designed to detect ORVR vehicles and prevent air ingestion that leads to vaporized product.

Consultant to:

Cooper Wiring Devices - Peachtree City, GA. - 2005: Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0®

Completed plastic injection molded assembly design of parts for commercial sale of wiring outlets.

We used Web Conferencing Central for communicating the many design concepts iterations.

 

Pertech Resources, Inc. - Riverton, WY. -  2005: Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0®

Completed plastic injection molded assembly of parts for a point of sale printer case design.

We used OneSpace.net for communicating the many design concepts iterations.

 

Employee to:

Image Guide, Inc.Baltimore, MD. 2002 to 2004: Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0®

Senior Mechanical Designer/Manufacturing Liaison - Intralink 3.3 installation and administration, while redesigning the RCM surgical robotic module, to meet FDA requirements. This startup company was supported by GE medical systems USA.

 

Consultant to:

Lockheed Martin - Air Traffic Management Systems – Rockville, MD. - 2002

Electro-Mechanical Packaging of Rack mounted electronic equipment.

 

Lockheed Martin, NE & SS Baltimore, MD. 2001 to 2002: Pro/Engineer ®

Intralink 3.2 implementation for Net fires missile development programs and design engineering of a composite missile canister on Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program.

 

MoenNorth Olmsted, Ohio – 2001: Pro/Engineer ®

Design of new Faucets product line with Pro/Surface.

 

Lockheed Martin  Scranton, Pennsylvania – 2000 to 2001: Pro/Engineer ®

Reverse engineering of a 2000 lb. Laser Guided Bomb tail section and wing deployment linkage system using Intralink 2.0 database manager.

 

Brashear Systems, LP – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – 1999 to 2000: Pro/Engineer ®

Tooling of  large optics for Air Borne Laser (ABL) project, in conjunction with Intralink 2.0 implementation on NT work stations.

 

Cannondale Motorcycle  Bedford, Pennsylvania – 1999:  Pro/Engineer ®

New Engine development, castings, forgings, extrusions, weldments, and machine parts.

 

Hekimian Laboratories, Inc (Spirent).Rockville, Maryland – 1999: Pro/Engineer ®

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) test system design using Electro/Mechanical Packaging skills for a nineteen-inch rack and panel, for sale to phone service providers.

 

General DynamicsWoodbridge, Virginia – 1998 to 1999: Pro/Engineer ®

Development of Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV) development of the driver control linkages also assisted on the chine flap mechanism, hatch, turret, haul, exhaust, and intake design.

 

Employee to:

AMP Inc. (Tyco) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – 1994 to 1998:  Pro/Engineer ®

Development Engineer – Design and development of optical products for manufacture. Experience in fiber optic transceiver and switch product design, with background in fabrication of tooling for polishing device.

 

Consultant to:

Tompson Consumer Electronics (RCA) - Lancaster, Pennsylvania - 1991 to 1994: CADAM ®

Designed automated systems for modular manufacturing of televisions.

 

From 1985 to 1990

ADF/NASA - Cleveland, OH.                           Falk/Sundstrand Aviation - Milwaukee, WI.

Pandrol/Jackson - Ludington, MI.                       SPECO Aerospace- LRAACA- Springfield, OH.

Oshkosh Trucks - Oshkosh, WI.                         Sundstrand Aviation - Rockford, IL.

Applied Research Laboratory/UT - Austin, TXBell Aerospace/Textron - Buffalo, NY.

Giddings and Lewis - Milwaukee, WI.                Grumman Aerospace - Bethpage, Long Island, NY.

 

Employee to:

Lockheed Missile and Space Center - Austin, Texas 1980 to 1985

 

Education and Training

        Courses in Electro/Mechanical Engineering from UT Austin, on site at Lockheed Non Degreed. PTC certified Courses in Pro/Engineer 440 hours and Mechanica Motion/Structure, Drafting, Geometric Tolerance, Tool & Die, and Injection Molding. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Pro-User Organization of Parametric Technology Corporation, and American National Standards Institute.

 

Reference links:

·         Recommendation from M. Just of LMCO

·         Recommendation from M. Brattoli of Moen