With a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) from Portland State University, Garrett brings to the table over ten years of engineering experience across multiple disciplines.

Garrett’s current focus is navigating the challenging, fast paced environments designing and testing new products for high volume manufacturing. Doing so he is exercising his extensive organization and project management skills to deliver products to key milestones.

Both personally and professionally Garrett strives to consistently deliver the best quality work he is capable of. He is determined, professional, personable and goal oriented. He enjoys working with others, values his peers and their contributions and is agile, easily pivoting in dynamic environments.

In his free time Garrett is constantly keeping himself busy with design work, 3D Printing, outdoor recreation such as camping, hiking, jetty fishing as well as gaming. He and his wife also enjoy road trips up and down the Oregon coastline frequently visiting Bandon and secluded beaches for agate hunting and gold prospecting.


Experience

Disciplines

  • New Product Design and development

  • Continuous Improvement / continuation Design

  • Tooling Engineering and Fixture design

  • Validation Testing and coordination

  • Mentoring

  • High volume manufacturing

Design

  • Mechanical systems

  • Semi conductor / full stack loading mechanisms

  • Dimple die design and manufacturing

  • Steel and aluminum billet parts

  • Extruded aluminum parts

  • Sheet metal parts

  • Forged steel parts

  • Metal Injected Molded (MIM) parts

  • Design for Manufacturing (laser cutting extruded parts, vs sheet metal bending)

  • Plastic parts

  • Plastic Injection Molded parts

  • Poor mold design and parts

  • Composite door mold parts

  • Composite Pultrusion parts

Processes

  • Detailed assemblies and drawings

  • GD&T ASME Y14.5 1994, 2009, 2018

  • Engineering Change Orders

  • Document Change Orders

  • ITAR Compliances

  • Root Cause Analysis

  • Failure Analysis

  • Finite Element Analysis

  • Best Known Methods

  • Design for Manufacturing

  • Statistical Tolerance Analysis

Materials

  • Tooling steels (A2, A6, S7, O1)

  • Steel extrusion (A500 tubing)

  • Sheet steel (A36)

  • Alloy steel (12L14, 1215, A4130)

  • Aluminum, Billet and Extruded (6061, 6005A, 7075)

  • Sheet aluminum (5052-H32)

  • Plastics (UHMW, Delrin, Poly Pro, Nylon GF, Polyurethane, PC-ABS)

  • Composites (Fiberglass Reinforced Plastics FRP, Sheet Molding Compound SMC)

  • Wood products (Oak, Pine, Alder)

  • Engineered Wood products (Layered Veneered Lumber LVL)

  • Insulative Materials (Polyimide, PU foam, PUR foam, Polystyrene PS)

CAD Systems

  • Solidworks

  • Solidworks Simulation

  • Solidworks EPDM

  • Solidworks Flow Simulation

  • Autodesk Inventor

  • Autodesk AutoCAD

  • Creo Parametric

  • Solidworks 3D Experience

  • JMP Statistical Software

Equipment

  • Manual Lathe

  • Manual Milling Machine

  • Manual Press Brake

  • Sheer

  • Band-saw

  • Bench grinders, sanders, polishers

  • Table saw

  • Various construction tools, pneumatic and electrical

  • Various other machine shop tools

  • Optical Comparator

  • Optical Gaging Products OGP

  • Coordinate Measurement Machine CMM