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JEFF KRAUSE (Santa Maria, CA) Oct/07
PROFESSION:
Engineer, Project Manager, Product Development & Engineering
Consultant of 23 years Experience.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
Product Design & Development with True Low-cost Manufacturability
in mind.
Management of Design Teams, Project Management, Customer Liaison &
Vendor Management.
Tooling Programs Manager, Experience-based Estimatiing of both NRE
& Production Piece Costs.
Medical Robotics, Remotely-Operated Vehicles, CNC Systems, Internal
Combustion Engine Design,
Tribology, Low-cost Direct Fuel injection for SVO Diesel Engines,
Injection Molded Part Design,
Machined Part Design, Thermoformed Part & Mold Design spanning
several industries.
SOFTWARE SKILLS:
Eight years of Daily SolidWorks experience. - Extensive
organic modeling skills.
Twenty years AutoCad experience. - Jeff has been computer modeling in
3D since 1986.
8-months GibbsCam, MasterCam & G-code programming experience.
One Year Pro/Engineer experience and Certified SDRC Ideas training.
17 years Corel Draw /Adobe Illustrator Graphic Design, Presentation
& Image Editing.
Project Management software such as MS Excell, MS Project,
Adobe Acrobat, etc.
Six Years daily working experience with Manufacturing (MRP / BOM) programs.
BEST RECENT KUDOS:
Mechanically-Engineered & Styled a revolutionary Underwater
Remotely-Operated Vehicle,
The Seabotix LBV. Jeff was brought in as employee # 1 (a mech-design
consultant) in 1999.
Jeff was listed as a Patent Holder of the design patent for this vehicle.
Today Seabotix has over 30 employees and the vehicle Jeff helped
design is now
the world's top-selling Underwater ROV. - Seabotix profits grew 80%
in 2006.
The vehicle is also an illustrated 2006 case study for Solidworks and Cosmosworks;
Appearing in Cover Art for various Solidworks & Cosmosworks
Manuals of 2006 & 2007.
The first Production Vehicle was featured as the cover article of
‘Design News' magazine.
A picture of Jeff and his comments on Industrial Design as a Career
were solicited by a writer
and a picture of jeff appears in the 2006 McGraw-Hill College
Textbook 'Marketing Essentials'.
Jeff recently designed a soft Thermoformed combination Case/Housing
for Caire/Chart Industries that is ingeniously
structural enough that it actually REPLACED a large Injection-Molded
housing for a Portable Oxygen device.
Jeff designed the tooling for this composite case/housing as well.
The resulting tooling savings is at least $45,000.
The case/housing is softer, more user-friendly and aesthetically
pleasing than the previous hard I.M. housing.
It is one of only a handful of examples in the world of actually
replacing a rigid housing with a soft composite housing.
INDUSTRIAL SPECIALTES & PERSONAL INTERESTS
Anthropometrics (Human Factors & Interfaces), Soft Thermoformed
Composites, Robotics/CNC, Rapid Prototyping Machines,
Tribology, IC Engine Design, Low-cost Fuel Injection Design (for SVO
applications), Technical Ceramic Manufacturing and applications,
I own a Rapid Prototyping (FDM) machine and a large CNC-VMC Mill,
Sailing (Lived-aboard 7 years), Motorcycling, Grant Writing.
CLEARANCES HELD
Security clearance held at Computer Sciences Corporation, while
engaged in work
on the B2 Stealth Bomber Telemetry Test Systems Contract (1988).
I can be relied upon to pass drug tests at anytime. I don’t do
drugs or take regular medications.
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