Highlights:

Skills:CAD, Solidworks, CATIA, Design, NX, Engineering, Product Design, BOM, MS OFFICE, PLM, ECR, ECN, Engineering Changes, GD&T, FEA, VAVE, DFMEA, Light, Lightning, Heat exchanger, Molding, Plastics, Stamping, Die and Casting

Mechanical Design Engineer 01/2016 - current
MARELLI, Udine, UD Italy
Industry: AUTOMOTIVE
Mechanical Design Engineer with 10+ years of experience in Lighting Design, Automotive, Using CAD Software (SolidWorks, CATIA V5 and Unigraphics NX), BOM, Molding, Design for Manufacturing, Engineering Change, Stack Up Analysis, Project Planning, Product Lifecycle Management, Research & Development, DFMEA, VA/VE, ISO Standards, Validation Protocols, Kaizen, Multilingual (Spanish, English, Italian, and Basic German). Proven track record in developing and executing new ideas.
• Delivered innovation by viewing products and components through the consumer's eyes while working in a multidisciplinary R&D team, successfully developing five new taillights projects from pre-development to production release, resulting in a 20% increase in customer nomination due to satisfaction. • Consulted with customers to achieve a design that fulfills customer aesthetic, functional, and legal requirements, as well as the best feasibility for manufacturability, leading to a 45% reduction in design change requests. • Managed cross-functional teams to design evaluation plans, prototypes, and schedules for projects, reliability testing, problem solutions, technical reviews, and pilot runs, achieving an on-time project delivery rate of 100%. • Coordinated across business units with other groups, including optical, electronic, software, purchasing, program managers, and manufacturing, streamlining communication and reducing project lead time. • Provided engineering subject matter expertise in writing engineering change requests, creating production drawings, and reviewing validation protocols and requirements, resulting in an improvement in design accuracy and manufacturability. • Developed cutting-edge training programs that empower coworkers, hasten the transition to CAD architecture, and decrease the learning curve for new hires by up to 50%. • Achieved increased usability and reduced runtime performance through the retrofitting of outdated legacy design procedures, resulting in a 25% increase in product development time. • Delivered additional support to other departments and projects, including a new circuit board design, analysis, and tolerance calculation, contributing to a reduction in project backlogs. • Creation of mechanical standard details for design interfaces, resulting in reduction in design errors and faster design iterations. • Technologies: Plastic Materials (Thermoset and Thermoplastic), Plastic Welding (Vibration and Laser Welding), Lighting Technology (LED, OLEDs, and Optical Systems), CAD (UG NX and CATIA V5), and Manufacturing Processes (Single Molding, Rotary Molding, and Inverted Injection Molding).--
Project Engineer 07/2014 - 12/2015
Automotive Lighting, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico
Industry: AUTOMOTIVE
Project Engineer in Lighting Technology Division
• Demonstrated knowledge of the topic byconsistently improving product designs to facilitate industrialization and cut costs, driving the creation and execution of engineering change requests, and taking the initiative in related activities. contributed to the creation of several products, including the BMW G11 HL and the VW Passat 411 RL. On high-budget projects up to $3 million, engaged directly. with customers, engineers, sales, purchasing, and suppliers. • Maintained accountability for ECRs-ECNs until Implementation and the collection of resulting data. • Review and create 3D models, drawings, and DFMEA. • Coordinated with the validation team to ensure the product met legal and customer requirements. • Assisted in accomplishing DFM processes, creating, and releasing BOMS, developing 3D parametric design data, and creating technical proposals, production casings, and prototypes. • Technologies: Plastic Materials (Thermoset and Thermoplastic), Welding (Vibration Welding), Lighting Technologies (LED, OLEDs, and Optical Systems), CAD (CATIA V5), and Manufacturing (Single Molding and Laser Welding).--
Mechanical Design Engineer 01/2012 - 07/2014
DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico
Industry: AUTOMOTIVE
Heat Exchangers Product Designer
• Facilitated product design improvements for industrialization and cost reduction across multiple products, such as the Honda MDX, General Motors GMT K2XX, Volkswagen MQB 2012, and Toyota N300, as a Design Engineer. • Collaborated with different modules, such as sheet metal, drafting (GD&T), modeling, and FEAs, to evaluate and achieve the desired design while reducing costs. • Maintained accountability for working with heat exchangers (Radiators, Condensers, Charge air coolers, oil coolers, heaters, evaporators, and AC Lines), using metal and plastic materials. • Generate 3D parametric math data and created 2D drawings per GD&T requirements; and released production drawings and prototypes in a timely manner. • Assisted with a range of other daily tasks, including providing global support in Finite element analysis, stack-up analysis, BOM update/release, blank & bulk size calculations, process tolerances, and ECR/ECN. • Technologies: Plastic Materials (Thermoset & Thermoplastic), CAD (UG NX & CATIA V5), CAE (ANSYS), and Manufacturing (Single Molding, Clenching, Stamping, Extrusion, Brazing, Laser Welding, and Rolling Machine).--

Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez 01/2007 - 12/2012
Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Industrial and Product Design
Discipline oriented to the creation of products that can be taken into a mass production benefit. Finding solution to everyday problems

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