Benjamin Snyder

Background

About Benjamin Snyder

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS •6+ years leading the power sections sustaining engineering team •4 years in new product design, sustaining engineering, field testing, cradle-to-grave technology product line development •3+ years in automated manufacturing -Building, G-code programming, & testing of a novel CNC machine designed to manufacture thin-walled Moineau motor (mud motors) stators -Design, manufacture and installation of new components for the CNC machine -Redesigned a complex tool assembly to retrofit the machine for producing an alternate size mud motor stator -Developed kinematic solution and procedural cutting algorithms for CNC Fanuc controller to produce desired mud motor stator ID profile and produced simulations in Matlab to test the code •4 years experience in oil & gas subsea wellhead R&D projects -Shared responsibility of conducting integration test of new subsea wellhead system and tools -Planning and oversight of qualification testing of subsea wellhead annulus seals -Generation of test procedures, reports, design verification packages (design calculations), part specifications and bill of materials •2+ years experience on robotics research projects for DoD -Mechanical design of Multi-degree-of-freedom systems -Classical (feedback) control system design -Kinematics analysis of multi-DOF serial and cable-based parallel robotic systems -Kinematics algorithm development for real-time control system •Extensive use of engineering software tools -Creo (ProEngineer), Solidworks, Solid Edge, Alibre CAD -Mathworks (Matlab, Simulink, SimMechanics, Virtual Reality Toolbox)-visualNastran Motion physics-based simulation AREAS OF EXPERTISE Project management, team leadership, mechanical design engineering, DFx, CAD, FEA, kinematics, electromechanical systems, robotics/automation, test specifications and reports, technical research/writing, inclusive teamwork Specialties: Project management, new product design, sustaining, HPHT subsea wellhead systems, robotics, mechatronics, kinematics, controls, Matlab Simulink modeling, Solidworks, Creo, Pro/Engineer