Thomas Lind

Background

About Thomas Lind

I am a senior Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years of professional experience in advanced technology development in aerospace, defense, and commercial applications. I have a deep technical background in mechanical design and dynamics, control systems, and test automation with hands-on experience across the full product lifecycle. In addition to individual contributor roles, I have successfully built and lead cross-functional technical teams for over 10 years and ran technical development programs for the last 5 years. Outside of work, I have decades of experience designing and fabricating structures, components, and mechanisms of all shapes and sizes for my home and hobbies. Expertise: • Mechanical design in Creo Parametric, Solidworks, Fusion360/AutoCAD • Finite element analysis in Creo, Solidworks, and ANSYS • Mechanism design and analysis in Creo Simulate and Matlab Simulink • Control system design in Matlab Simulink • Design for manufacture/design to cost • Additive manufacturing, injection molded, and sheet metal part design • Test strategy and design, test execution, and automation in LabVIEW • CAM, CNC machining, and metal fabrication • Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing • Technical drawings • Technical writing (reports, requirements documents, test plans/results) • Communication and presentation skills • Capture strategy and proposal management/execution • Risk and opportunity management • Technical program management within earned value framework • Cross-functional team building and mentoring