Joseph Cervantes
San Jose,CA
Summary
Results-driven engineering professional with 20+ years of success in project delivery. Expertise in mechanical design, factory automation, computer programming, mechanical simulation, and data analysis. Proven track record managing large-scale development projects with internal teams and external vendors.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Reliability Tooling & Automation Engineering Manager
Apple, Inc.
Cupertino
05.2014 - Current
- Lead a team of engineers and interact with internal Apple teams (RE, PD) in the development, design, and fabrication of fixturing and automated test equipment for the reliability testing of Apple products
- Develop and manage relationships with domestic and foreign machine shops, and system integrators.
- Oversee the operation of two internal fabrication shops in Silicon Valley.
Reliability Lab Manager
Amazon/Lab126
Cupertino
02.2013 - 05.2014
- Oversaw reliability lab operations for Amazon consumer products
- Direct lab-wide cross training training and process documentation programs
- Lead tooling and fixture design for the Product Integrity functions at Lab126.
Senior Thermal/Mechanical Engineer
Mobile Products Group, Intel Corp.
Santa Clara
06.2005 - 02.2013
- Developed thermal solutions that enabled Intel customers to integrate the newest Intel products into their future mobile devices
- Designed and built mechanical notebook prototypes as demonstration vehicles to enhance the customer designs using Intel products
- Developed experimental socket technologies for future Intel products
- Designed and built laboratory test fixturing and equipment
- Developed thermal simulations of future notebook designs.
Development Engineer
IBM/Hitachi GST
San Jose
06.2002 - 06.2005
- Designed custom test stands, fixtures, and test algorithms for hard drive and hard drive component testing for use by HGST Adv
- Technology research teams
- Created departmental capital plans
- Organized the purchase and installation of large capital laboratory equipment.
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer
New Focus/Intel Corp.
San Jose/Newark
09.2000 - 06.2002
- Developed automated tooling and processes for photonic device assembly
- Developed automated attach tooling, created LabView control software and established procedures for fiber coupling, laser diode attach, and various other laser component placement processes requiring active alignment
- Procured and directed the installation of complex automated assembly tooling into pilot manufacturing lines.
Equipment Development Engineer
IBM Corp., Storage Systems Division
San Jose
08.1991 - 09.2000
- Designed and procured custom manufacturing and laboratory equipment and associated control software used to manufacture and test high performance, high capacity disk drives
- Tasks include tooling design, automated system design and integration, and control software development
- Directed outside vendors in the development of automated assembly tooling
- Coordinated manufacturing line installations in Latin American and Asia/Pacific locations
- Directed training of manufacturing engineering teams in domestic and international sites.
Education
Coursework and research equivalent to that of MSME with concentration in control systems and robotics. -
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
B.S. Mechanical Engineering -
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
Skills
- Mechanical design
- Mechatronic/electromechanical system design
- Sheet metal design
- Design for plastic injection molding
- GD&T
- Machining - Lathe, Mill, 3-axis CNC
- CAM Programming - Mastercam
- Rapid prototyping (3D Printing, Laser, Waterjet)
- Solid Modelling - Siemens NX, Creo, SolidWorks, Inventor
- FEA Analysis Tools: Creo Simulate
- Creo Mechanism Dynamics
- Thermal FEA: Icepak, FLOTherm
- Vision System Programming
- Instrument control software development
- Software - C/C, LabVIEW, Matlab, Python
- Capital and manpower planning
- Financial Management
- Staff Management and Development
Accomplishments
- Designed, built and received a patent for an automated tool for precision testing of thermal interface materials.
- Designed and fabricated a thin plastic notebook with the same stiffness as more expensive metal chassis as a demonstration of an alternative low cost solution to the Intel Ultrabook initiative.
- Manufacturing project lead responsible for transitioning several IBM Research laser processes to into a robust automated manufacturing equipment.
- Designed, built, and introduced compact environmental control chambers and associated control software for use in IBM San Jose reliability labs. Increased the testing volume by 300% using the same floor area.
- Oversaw the tool and process development of low cost semi-automated disk drive assembly line equipment and directed the installation of 30+ copies of the equipment at worldwide sites in San Jose, Singapore, Mexico, and China.
- Transformed pre-existing HDD manufacturing line testing measuring equipment to actualize a 10X improvement in cost, 4X improvement in throughput, and 2X improvement in precision and reliability.
- Developed a computer based control system for an automated highway dot replacement robot (a Caltrans highway automation project).
Phone
(650) 224-1383, (408) 418-4994
Timeline
Reliability Tooling & Automation Engineering Manager
Apple, Inc.
05.2014 - Current
Reliability Lab Manager
Amazon/Lab126
02.2013 - 05.2014
Senior Thermal/Mechanical Engineer
Mobile Products Group, Intel Corp.
06.2005 - 02.2013
Development Engineer
IBM/Hitachi GST
06.2002 - 06.2005
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer
New Focus/Intel Corp.
09.2000 - 06.2002
Equipment Development Engineer
IBM Corp., Storage Systems Division
08.1991 - 09.2000
Coursework and research equivalent to that of MSME with concentration in control systems and robotics. -
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
B.S. Mechanical Engineering -
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY