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Curriculum Vitae
Stephen Samuel BSME, P.E., President Design visionaries, Published Author
7034 Calcaterra Drive
San Jose, CA 95120
Email: Steves@designviz.com
Phone: 408.997.6323
Cell: 408.781.3955
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Work Experience '93-Present Design Visionaries, Inc. (www.designviz.com) San Jose, CA
Position: President / Design Engineer – Failure Analysis and Animation Consultant
On a regular basis I perform stress analyses and failure analyses on numerous components from large factory machinery to small laptop springs. As head engineer and president of Design Visionaries, a firm of 12 employees, I service numerous industries such as aerospace, consumer products, medical, automotive and military. My clients are an even mix of plaintiffs and defendants. I have performed many projects that require mechanical packaging, advanced finite element analysis and kinematic analysis. I also provide design engineering services to clients on and off site. I provide Design for manufacture (DFM) consulting for consumer products, for all industries. I work closely with ID to ensure the industrial design is maintained, create complete mechanical assemblies and drawings for production tooling from ID provided surfaces and/or sketches. Clients include GM, US Surgical, Johnson and Johnson, Plantronics, Bose, Howmet, Apple, Cisco, IDEO, Lifescan, Optiled and Many others. I provide full kinematic analysis (computer simulation) to the Medical, Industrial and Legal fields. I provide computer aided design and simulation training to world wide audience and authored no less than six books and numerous articles on the subject.
I have performed many projects that require mechanical packaging, advanced finite element analysis and kinematic analysis. I also provide design engineering services to clients on and off site. I provide Design for manufacture (DFM) consulting for consumer products, for all industries. I work closely with ID to ensure the industrial design is maintained, create complete mechanical assemblies and drawings for production tooling from ID provided surfaces and/or sketches. Clients include GM, US Surgical, Johnson and Johnson, Plantronics, Bose, Howmet, Apple, Cisco, IDEO, Lifescan, Optiled and Many others. I provide full kinematic analysis (computer simulation) to the Medical, Industrial and Legal fields. I provide computer aided design and simulation training to world wide audience and authored no less than six books and numerous articles on the subject.
'83-'93 Pratt and Whitney (www.pwa.com) East Hartford, CT
Position: Senior Design Engineer
Conducted Failure analysis on jet engine components. Implemented Solid modeling at Pratt and Whitney. Created training programs and was responsible for the level of computer aided design ability at Pratt. The group I was in required me to design many of the most difficult components at Pratt and find better ways to do so using computer aided design tools.
'91-'93 Information Solids Modeling. Hartford, CT
Position: President / Design Engineer
Created many models of the most difficult geometry from many industries on the East Coast. Xerox, BIC, US-Surgical to name a few.
'90-'94 CADTRAIN Inc. New Port Beach, CA
Position: Partner
Created a set of paper based training manuals for Unigraphics Modeling, Assemblies, and Drafting. Performed product design for Apple, Boeing, Navistar, Northrup Gruman and many others.
Education & Licenses
Professional Engineer CA License #34720
University of Massachusetts BS Mechanical Engineering Graduation Date: May 1983
Northwestern University - Accident reconstruction training– Transportation Engineering
Published Author
Advanced simulation using Nastran ISBN 978-0-9754377-7-3 Copy write May 2008
Basic and Intermediate NX5 Modeling drafting and Assemblies ISBN 0-9754-3776-3 Copywrite Sept 2007
Team Center Engineering ISBN 0-9754-3774-7 Copywrite May 2006
Numerous others ISBN’s and copies upon request
Patents
Molding Apparatus for Vehicles and Methods for Use