Do you need a mechanical model designed in Inventor? A custom PCB in EagleCAD? I have 5+ years experience designing a variety of products for small startups of all kinds. I'm currently traveling around the country and picking up intriguing freelance opportunities as I go. My home bases are beautiful sunny Boulder Colorado and Brooklyn New York.
I have experience in leading complex projects from conception, through design, sourcing parts and labor, to final production. My strengths are in taking loose ideas for a project, breaking it down into easy to understand pieces, and finding the tools and information needed to make it real.
I'm very interdisciplinary, I have extensive experience with complex CAD models, generating files for manufacture, and managing the manufacturing process. I've designed complex multi-processor control boards, selecting components, designing the schematic, laying out the PCB, and managing manufacturing. I've planned and managed in-house production of projects ranging from small runs of robotic manipulators to hundreds of nodes of an interactive art piece. I also started a business developing drones for open-pit mine surveying before drones were cool.
Currently, I'm focusing on CAD and PCB design work. These are my two strongest skills, and I can crank out beautiful, functional designs, in a hurry. But, if the right project feels like a good fit, I'd be interested in long terms engineering projects.
Thanks for your consideration!
Nick
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Skills:
Autodesk Inventor:
-Designing complex assemblies
-Designing for CNC, 3D printing, laser/waterjet cutting, sheet metal parts & weldments
-Designing for cable harnesses and PCBs
- - very good at tight fitting, sexy electronics enclosures
-Generating manufacture & assembly drawings, .pdf
-Generating CAD files, such .stp .stl .iges .dxf, etc.
-Using hotkeys and macros like I'm playing mortal combat (I have a 15 button mouse)
EagleCAD:
-Reading and understanding datasheets, selecting ICs, programmers, etc
-Schematic capture, PCB layout, and library design
-I'm good at making PCBs look cool and thought out
- - consistent foot prints, markings, and fonts
- - sexy silkscreens, branding, and board outlines
-Generating gerbers, stencils, centroids, and BOMs
-Generating drawings and specs for unique assembly PCBs requirements, documentation
-I can hand solder anything with visible pins (and some QFN and BGA with varying levels of success)
-Oscope/logic analyzer wizard
-I know enough embedded programming to communicate and collaborate with embedded gurus
-I'm actively learning Altium CircuitStudio and hope to replace this EagleCAD section very soon.
Other:
-Photoshop/Illustrator
-SketchUP, I'm sure I can apply my Inventor experience to SolidWorks
-Learning CircuitStudio
-Microsoft Office, libreOffice, Google Drive
-Comfortable working in Windows 7/10, OSX, and have enough Linux experience to be dangerous
-I hate using, but can utilize: Asana, Slack, Terminal
-Arduino, and enough C/C++ to be dangerous
-Dropbox/Drive
-The internet, McMaster, DigiKey
Assets:
-Autodesk Product Design Collection subscription.
-CircuitStudio perpetual license
-Adobe CC and Office 365 subscriptions
-Highly optimized 15 button mouse mapped to hotkeys and macros galore
-Great CAD laptop
-The Art of Electronics, Machinery's Handbook
-Great communication skills, well traveled
-A sense of humor
-The continual desire to learn more, and a passion for my work
-Flexibility
What I would like to learn:
-Designing for injection molding
-Autodesk Fusion 360
-CircuitStudio, OctoPart
-More C/C++ for developing ARM Cortex MCUs
-More simulation skills for both mechanical and electrical designs
-More analog design
-How to prevent water from always wrecking everything (electronics)
-Mandarin and Spanish