Graham Palermo

Graham Palermo Mechanical Design Engineer

Graham Palermo's Bio:

Graham Palermo's Experience:

• Mechanical / Design Engineer at Raytheon IDS

  December 2008 - March 2011

  Worked as a mechanical design engineer with primary responsibilities including product management, design, and production support. All design was performed using PTC's Pro Engineer software and management through PDM (Product Data Management ) systems. Support roles included working with all engineering trades, supply chain, and change management through effective meetings and design solutions for hardware with process-related and/or design issues. All programs were government classified and required a secret level security clearance. Independent investigation of manufacturing progress and hardware inspection was performed daily to assure a quality product is developed.

• Mechanical / Project Engineer at SemiNex

  January 2008 - December 2008

  Mechanical design/project engineer working for a military and medical application laser diode product supplier with several responsibilities including design, test, customer communication, analysis, and manufacturing production support. Key projects/ accomplishments including building a test demonstration for customers to gain research grants and demonstrations, developing a test station from scratch for both power/efficiency of products and a unique burn-in station, and production management with manufacturing vendors. Work was performed independently and required solo travel to discuss project needs / customer interests to generate a market. The designs of prototypes were specific to demonstrate product capabilities per customer needs. Hardware research and selection for test stations was performed independently and installed / programmed with the aid/management of an out-contracted LabVIEW programmer. Data acquisition systems were implemented and selected to build an automated system for analyzing product performance/reliability.

• R&D Engineer Summer Intern at Saint-Gobain

  May 2007 - September 2007

  Summer research engineering postion with Saint-Gobain materials in off-site research and development center located in Northborough, MA. The summer research consisted of education on the science of friction and wear tribology machines for polymer material performance analysis. A malfunctioning unit known in the plastics industry as a 'thrust-washer' test apparatus was repaired / maintained utilizing data acquisition hardware/software. The knowledge and use of thermocouples, linear-velocity distance transducers (LVDTs), load cells, eddy current sensors, and more were explored to improve machine operation/performance. Side research included analysis of products post-test through scanning electron microscopy and surface analysis. All necessary software was self researched and purchased through a company card.

• Mechanical / Quality Engineer at Z Corporation

  May 2006 - September 2006

  Primary responsibilities included troubleshooting software/hardware for 3-d printing rapid prototype machines. Work was done closely with lead programmer and design engineer to solve issues with software/hardware conflictions in quality testing. The tests required distinguishing between design flaws in the 3-d printing units versus software driven results.

• Undergraduate Research Engineer at University of Massachusetts, Amherst MED Dept.

  June 2005 - September 2005

  Summer research grant fellowship award under Professor Goldstein of the UMass Amherst faculty for research on "Shock and Thermal History of Meteorites." Primary responsibilities included a fluid analysis model of an asteroidal mass forming in a space environment through the use of computational fluid dynamics software. All research was performed with the aid of Professor Hyers and independent research through research articles. FIDAP and Fluent CFD software was learned. Computational methods were optimized using hand calculated analyses with fluid and heat transfer mechanics applied from recent course studies.

• Mechanical Engineer at EMC

  June 2004 - September 2004

  Pro Engineer to Solid Works conversion. Basic modeling of product Generate status reports on library conversion project.

• Mechanical Engineer II at Oracle

  March 2011

  Design advanced, electronic-enclosure systems for the SPARC super-cluster server program. Concept through sustaining design and support. Job duties include: - Design in PTC Creo Elements CAD software of concepts for sheet metal, precision-machined, plastic, and cast components; assembly; documentation and drafting. - BOM management through Oracle Agile product management software - International and domestic travel for vendor, manufacturing, and assembly support - Six-Sigma Statistical tolerance analysis for high-volume product lines via tolerance loop studies - FEA for structural / packaging testing - ANSE Y.14 standardization - RoHS 2016-compliance - PCA/PCB design

Graham Palermo's Education:

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  2003 – 2008
  B.S

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