• Precision Machine Design, Electronic Enclosure Design, Semi-Conductor Machine Design, Mechanism Design,
Medical and Dental Design.
• ASME Y14.5 GD&T. Tolerance Stack-up Analysis, Statistical Tolerancing, Worst-Case, RSS Monte Carlo
Methods.
• Manufacturing and Design Engineering and Analysis, as well as generating tolerance manufacturing drawings of all
components of Honda Goldwing Left and Right Cylinder Heads. Proprietary assembly and fabrication method.
Located pertinent components through various pins and features. Designed assembly tolerancing scheme to insure
DFM and DFA of all components. G D and T intensive system.
Completed thorough FEA on stress induced in head via combustion forces. Performed Monte Carlo tolerance
analysis and RSS to predict variation in multiple components: gearing, camshaft, crankshaft. Designed Intake
Manifold Gaskets and Camshaft Intake and Exhaust Alignment Fixtures.
• Dynamic and Static Machine Design and Stress Analysis.
• Product Design: Consumer Electronics, Portable Generator, Shower Pressure Products, Food Industry, Sports
Industry Design of Training Tool.
• Extensive Machine and Tooling Design experience, Design and Analysis of Welded Structures.
• Design For Manufacture, (DFM), Design For Assembly, (DFA).
• Multiple Platform Model Based Design CAD Experience: Siemens NX, Creo, Solidworks, AutoCAD.
Summary of selected sites of employment:
James Webb Space Telescope, (JWST), at Tinsley Labs, L3 Communications, Inc.
Opto-Mechanical, Metrology and Tooling Design and Analysis for manufacture of JWST Optics.
Lawrence Livermore National Labs, (LLNL), (NIF) and Advanced Materials and Manufacturing,
Tooling, Flexure, and Mechanism Design for manufacture of NIF Optics.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, (SLAC), Babar Magnetic Field Detector Machine,
Linear Motion System and Multiple Axis Mechanism Data Acquisition Device Design.
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Department,
Opto-Mechanical, Telescope Mechanism, Optical Lens Filter mounting and Tooling Design, Trace Telescope.
Space Systems Loral,
Satellite Component Placement and Design.
Trimble Construction,
Machine Vision System Design, Opto-Mechanical Design, Lenses, CCD and Camera packaging
and Geometric Optics calculations.
Varian/Novellus Thin Film Systems, Lam Research,
Physical Vapor Deposition Systems and Front-end Structural Design, (PVD), (Etch)
Tesla Motors,
Manufacturing Engineering, Tolerance Stack-up Analysis of Rotor and Stator of Electric Motor.
Publications: Elements of tooling and fixture design for the optical manufacture of
Telescope Mirror Segments,” author: D. James
SPIE Proceedings, accepted 4 April 2005.
Education: Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering Robotics and Controls Focus with Machine Learning: Johns-Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD.
Bachelor of Science, Applied Computational Physics and Quantum Computing: CUNY City College of Technology,
New York, NY.