Daniel F. Caputo		Cell:  [Send email to request phone number] 65-9325		Email: [Send email using form at
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3508 Blue Ridge Drive
Round Rock, TX  78681	

Objective:	3D MECHANICAL AND PRODUCT DESIGN

Skills:	Thirty years experience in the following:
	Product Design and all supporting Documentation
	Mechanical Design and all phases of Mechanical Drafting
	Tooling Design and all supporting Documentation
	Pro/Engineer, Pro/Intralink, WindChill

Education:	Engineering Drafting Technology Certification, Maryland Drafting
Institute, 1977-78
	Maintained 3.9 average in 1200 Hour Course  -  Graduated #1 in class
	Honorable Mention, 1978 North America Competition, American Institute
of Design & Drafting
	Courses in AUTOCAD-1986, PADS PCB-1989, REDAC CADSTAR-1989 and
Pro/Engineer-1996 (Part Modeling, Advanced Part Modeling, Pro/Detail, Surface
Modeling, Pro/Sheet Metal, Pro/Mechanism, Pro/Assembly and Pro/Cable)

Experience:
From 02/07	POINT INNOVATION, Addison, Texas – Design and Engineering
SR. PRODUCT DESIGNER
	Part of Mechanical Design Group for the 3D design of innovative
products
	Commercial Aircraft Seat Design for OEM Client
	Developed new commercial aircraft seat parts, IFE, video, serving tray,
mechanisms and other related components. 
	Design-For-Assembly, Design-For-Manufacturing
	Used Pro/Engineer Wildfire for all aspects of design including
mechanisms, sheet metal, castings and plastics (for injection, thermoforming,
rotational molding and machining)
	Used Pro/Engineer Wildfire for support documentation

05/06 to 02/07	DELL, INC. Round Rock, Texas – Product Group – Servers
PRODUCT DESIGNER
	Part of Mechanical Product Group for the 3D design of 10G Server Blade
and System Design
	Design-For-Assembly, Design-For-Manufacturing
	Used Pro/Engineer Wildfire for all aspects of design including
mechanisms, plastics, sheet metal, stampings for progressive dyes and castings
	Used Pro/Engineer Wildfire for support documentation

10/04 to 05/06	GREAT STUFF, INC. Austin, Texas – The RoboReel Product Line
LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER
	3D Product design and development of a remote controlled Hose Reel and
electric Cord Reel
	Design-For-Assembly, Design-For-Manufacturing and
Failure-Mode-Effects-Analysis
	Used Pro/Engineer Wildfire for all aspects of design including
Industrial, mechanisms, plastics, plastics with over molding, sheet metal,
stampings for progressive dyes, castings and machined parts
	Used Pro/Engineer Wildfire for all support documentation necessary to
hand over to manufacturing
	Used standard and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances per ASME Y14.5
	Part of a design team involved in filing of 6 patents.

02/01 to 10/04	AIRBORN, INC. The Connector Company - Georgetown, Texas –
Standard and Specialized Custom High-end Connectors
PRODUCT & MOLD DESIGNER
	3D Product Design and Management of EMI connectors and enclosures used
on missiles, the medical industry, the Space Station, the Mars Rover, as well as
commercial and airborne. The design not only included function and aesthetics but
also included Design-for-Manufacturing, Design-for-Assembly and
Failure-Mode-Effects-Analysis
	3D Plastic Injection Mold Design of well over one hundred molds
	Used Pro/Engineer Wildfire for all aspects of design including
plastics, plastics with over molding, molds for plastic injection, sheet metal,
electrical contacts for progressive dyes and screw machine contacts and hardware,
and machined parts
	Product management of up to 5 products simultaneously from concept thru
manufacturing
	Used Pro/Engineer Wildfire for all support documentation on mold design
and AutoCad for all other Drawings
	Used GD & T per ASME Y14.5 and all product design and management per
ISO 9001

10/00 to 02/01	DESIGN & ASSEMBLY CONCEPTS - Georgetown, Texas – Design and
Automation
PRODUCT DESIGNER
	3D Product Design and development of automated test and assembly
equipment used for Dell Laptops using Pro/Engineer 2001 thru Pro/Intralink
	Used Pro/Engineer 2001 for all aspects of design Support documentation
and customer interfacing
	Used standard and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances per ANSI Y14.5

12/97 to 10/00	TEKPRO TOOLING & DESIGN - Georgetown, Texas - Plastic Injection
molding
PRODUCT & MOLD DESIGNER
	3D Plastics Design of products ranging from power tools to
environmental enclosures using Pro/Engineer Release 18 thru 2000
	3D Plastic Injection Mold Design using Pro/Mold
	Support documentation and customer interfacing
	Used standard and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances per ANSI Y14.5
	Troubleshooting and problem solving

3/96 to 12/97	ROSS TECHNOLOGY, INC. - Austin, Texas – UNIX based, SPARC
compliant Workstations/Servers
ELECTROMECHANICAL DESIGN & TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
	3D Design and development of a Unix-based server
	3D Design and development of a Unix-based desktop computer
	Chassis design & packaging and product ID server using Pro/Engineer
Release 17 and 18
	Troubleshooting and problem solving
	Technical publications; ROSS hyperSTATION Installation & Setup Guide
	Used standard and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances per ANSI Y14.5

5/91 to 3/96	TRIMBLE NAVIGATION, LTD. - Austin, Texas – equipment (GPS, LORAN,
Omega)             
ELECTROMECHANICAL DESIGN & TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
	Mechanical design and drafting per ARINC 404A for GPS avionics using
AutoCad
	Technical publications; Maintenance manuals, Installation manuals,
Pilot Guides using Adobe PageMaker

2/90 to 5/91	NORDEN SERVICES - Gaithersburg, Maryland - Radar Simulators and
Emulators
ELECTROMECHANICAL DESIGN - RNDES Project 
	Mechanical design and drafting for EMI/RFI rack and panel systems for
Naval Defense
	Designed library of SCHEMA II schematic symbols per ANSI Y32.2 and PCB
layout symbols to be used with PADS PCB

7/85 to 2/90	REACTION INSTRUMENTS, INC. a subsidiary of ADAMS-RUSSELL
ELECTRONICS - Herndon, Virginia and Hunt Valley, Maryland - Surveillance
Electronics
ELECTRICAL SUPERVISOR
	Electro-Mechanical design
	PC Design
	Supervised 3 PC designers
	Electrical liaison for all departments concerning PC design and all
electrical documentation
	Designed large library of components for PC layout on AUTOCAD, Release
10

3/84 to 7/85	SUTRON CORPORATION - Herndon, Virginia - Warning systems, shaft
encoders, data collection platforms, receiver sites, transmitters
ELECTROMECHANICAL DESIGNER / SENIOR DRAFTER
	Developed and maintained documentation control system (including
Engineering Change Orders) and set up standards equal to that of DOD-STD-100 and
ANSI Y14.5
	Design packaging (various sheet metal enclosures, machined enclosures,
castings, etc.)
	RF and digital PC design per MIL-STD-275
	Supervised and mentored two junior drafters 

9/83 to 3/84	VSE CORPORATION- Alexandria, Virginia - Engineering and
Producibility Division
ENGINEERING DRAWING ANALYST
	Checked drawing packages for re-procurement on government projects to
insure the following:
	Correct standard and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances
	Piece/parts, subassemblies and assemblies would fit properly and
without interference
	Part availability
	Drawings conformed to DOD-D-1000, Level 3

9/81 to 9/83	ENSCO, INC. - Springfield, Virginia - (Ocean Systems and Sciences
Division)
SENIOR DRAFTER / DESIGNER - Clearance: Top Secret - Crypto
	IAIPS/SAS Project (Integrated Automated Intelligence Processing
System/Signature and Subsystem)
	Electro-Mechanical drafting, PC board layout and chassis design to
DOD-D-1000, Level 3
	Developed and maintained a documentation control system for nearly
1,000 drawings associated with this project

8/78 to 9/81	QUAD SYSTEMS - Gaithersburg, Maryland - (Computer peripherals,
A/D-D/A converters, data transmission and acquisition systems)
DRAFTER / JR. DESIGNER - Clearance: Secret
	Supervised 2 drafters
	PC layout
	Developed documentation control system
	All phases of electromechanical drafting