James Halvorson

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About James Halvorson

Senior Technical Support Engineer with solid foundation in Mechanical Design, and extensive Manufacturing and Supervisory experience. Incorporating the best of two worlds, Design and Manufacturing to develop 3 separate production startup’s; fully utilizing LEAN cost-efficient Design and Manufacturing process principles to full scale development of high volume production systems. Immensely reduced product and manufacturing cost by introducing standardization. Expert utilizing 3D Solid modeling CAD/CAE and advanced engineering machine design principles, specializing in micro-machining. Self-directed project designer; providing full scale designs from preliminary design review through manufacturing. Extensive experience in Lean cost-efficient designs, standardization, interchangeability, DFM, DFA, and vector stack tolerance analysis & advanced GD & T. • Executed feasibility studies to determine preferred design solutions. • Investigated pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture; interchangeability and serviceability. • Performed tolerance analysis of assemblies and proposed corrective action as required. • Created and released documentation of parts, assemblies, test reports and conducted design reviews. • Executed Purchasing and vendor evaluation for tooling, fabricated and purchased parts. • Reduced Assembly and Design time by initiating standardization and procedure techniques. • Immensely improved Manageability of Products, Improved operations at constraint. Specialties: • CAD/CAE – 3D Solid Modeling, 2018 SolidWorks, 2016 Autodesk Inventor, CAM350 & Dassault Systems Enterprise ePDM, Agile and Arena PLM, MS office (Excel, Word & Power Point) • Detail Design and Analysis, technical design for form fit and function •ASME Y14.100 Engineering standards (ASME Y14.24), GD & T (ASME Y14.5M 2009) • Sheet Metal, Castings, Forgings, Machine parts, PCB design and Composites • Statistical Process Control/Quality -(DOE) Design Of Experiment, Six-Sigma • Active- Secret Security Clearance US DoD military