Position:
Mechanical Design Engineer at Texas Instruments
Work:
Texas Instruments
since Dec 2009
Mechanical Design Engineer
AMX LLC
May 1991 - Nov 2009
Director of Mechanical Engineering / Sr. Product Design Engineer
Education:
Brantley-Draughon College
Skills:
PCB design, Testing, Debugging, System Design, Rapid Prototyping, Electronics, Solidworks, Engineering, Manufacturing, Automation, Mechanical Engineering, Sheet Metal, Inventor, Electronics Packaging, AutoCAD, Pro Engineer, Design for Manufacturing, CAD, Injection Molding, Firmware, Product Design, Simulations, Team Leadership, Consumer Electronics, Hardware Architecture, Embedded Systems, Solid Modeling, GD&T, Telecommunications, Product Development, Engineering Management
Honor & Awards:
* 5 U.S. patents as product inventor
* Received AMX’s Executive Management Team’s “Above and Beyond” award.
* 2003 - Awarded a U.S. design patent for a touch panel controller that received Electronic House magazine’s Product of the Year award.
* 2004 - Awarded a U.S. design patent for a product that received a Residential System’s RESI Award for "Best Touchscreen Control System".
* 2006 – NSCA (National Systems Contractors Association) and Sound and Video Contractor magazine named the AMX® Mio Modero DMS Pinnacle Keypad “Best Control System” product at the 4th Annual Innovations in Technology Product Awards. This product earned me a U.S. design patent.
* Designed a tabletop touch panel controller featured on the cover of the April 2003 issue of Machine Design magazine and for which I earned a U.S. design patent.