Judi Gatti
Strongsville,Ohio
Summary
Mechanical Engineer with expertise in leading design development and engineering analysis. Proven ability in successful technical project management. Proficient in CAD software for 3D modeling and simulation, complemented by strong analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities. Achievements include delivering projects on time and within budget while fostering effective collaboration with customers and suppliers.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Engineer
Bendix-Air Disc Brake Division
Avon, Ohio
05.2017 - Current
- Mechanical Engineer - New Product Development
- Design / redesign of air disc brakes for the vehicle market in a phase gated process
- Collaboration and negotiation with stakeholders and manufacturing suppliers
- DFMEA, root cause failure analysis, quality improvements and cost reductions
- Wrote test procedures, reports and presentations to stakeholders and suppliers
- Project schedule creation and maintenance, risk assessment and mitigation plans
Senior Project Engineer
Safran USA (formerly Goodrich Aerospace)
Twinsburg, Ohio
10.2010 - 04.2017
- Mechanical Team Lead for Aerospace Hardware
- Design / redesign of generators and aerospace hardware per customer specifications
- Interfaced with customers during the quotation process though system qualifications, regarding compliance to requirements, status reports, mitigation plan and reviews
- Coached designers checked drawings and collaborated with fabricators for manufacturability during procurement
- Developed and maintained project schedules using Microsoft Project
- Wrote and managed compliance and verification matrices
- Thermal and CFD Multiphysics analysis utilizing ANSYS Workbench 11, CFX
- Provided technical information/proposals for new contracts
- Supported engineering review boards
- Delivered formal presentations / reports to customers
- Qualification Testing: EMI Testing, Vibration, HALT and Thermal Testing
Senior Project Engineer
Medrad Inc
Indianola, Pa
04.2005 - 10.2005
- New product development utilizing Creo, ANSYS, and Mold Flow Analysis
- Resolved issues with outside suppliers including testing and formal documentation
Senior Project Engineer
Lear Romec (subsidiary of Crane Aerospace)
Elyria, Ohio
08.2003 - 04.2005
- Technical Team Lead of a cross functional team for a motor-controlled water pump
- Design of hardware using Pro-E Wildfire and FEA Analysis
- Developed and updated project schedules
- Material evaluation, coating selection, and component sizing and selection
- FMEA and MTBF Analysis
- Qualification Testing: EMI Testing, Vibration, and Thermal Cycle Testing
- Troubleshooting of manufacturing issues with internal shop and outside suppliers
- Formal presentations to customers and negotiation of technical issues
Mechanical Engineer
Analex Corporation (Contractor to NASA Glenn)
Brookpark, Ohio
09.2000 - 08.2003
- Lead Engineer of a cooling system for an experimental chamber on the ISS space station
- Lead a cross-function team that included Mechanical, Electrical, and Software Engineers
- Conceptual design of hardware using Pro-E release 2000i
- Customer presentations and reviews, design specs, test plans / reports and assembly procedures
- Procurement of hardware though manufacturing and assembly
- Heat transfer and flow analysis of electronic packages
- Qualification testing: Vibration, Acoustics, EMI and Thermal Testing
Mechanical Engineer
Marconi Medical (was Picker – now Philips)
Highland Heights, Ohio
03.1997 - 09.2000
- Lead Mechanical Engineer for the design and launch of a new radiographic system
- A member of a cross-function team that launched a product line with a 20 % increase in profit margin, an increase in market share, and a reduction in the MTBF
- Conceptual Design of radiographic hardware using 3-D Solids packages- Pro-E
- Coached designers and checked detail drawing packages
- Collaborated with machine shops and molders to improve designs for manufacturability
- Design to ensure safety, reliability, performance and compliance to regulatory codes
- Estimated work scope for project plans
- Improved profit margin by a valued added approach for each design improvement
- This included interviews with customers (VOC), service personnel, and manufacturing
- Coordinated requirements for concurrent design between US and German design teams
Education
BSME - Mechanical Engineering
Youngstown State University
Skills
- CAD: Creo, Nx, I-Deas, Inventor
- PDM: Teamcenter
- Geometric Tolerancing and Dimensioning
- Engineering Analysis
- Stress Analysis
- Fluids Flow
- Heat Transfer
- FEA Packages: ANSYS, Cosmos,
- FEA Packages: Flow Therm
- Troubleshooting
- Design for quality improvement
- Cost reduction
- Improved serviceability
- Technical Writing
- Presentation Skills
- Specifications
- Test Plans
- Qualification Plans
- Reports
- Proposals
- Customer Presentations
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Project
- Regulatory Compliance Verification
- Validations
- FDA
- UL
- MDD
- DO-160D
- FAA
- ISO 9001
- Mechanical Design Calculations
- Stress calculation, Joint design, Seals
- Seals
- Transmission design
- Material selection
- Life calculations
- Torque calculations
Timeline
Product Engineer
Bendix-Air Disc Brake Division
05.2017 - Current
Senior Project Engineer
Safran USA (formerly Goodrich Aerospace)
10.2010 - 04.2017
Senior Project Engineer
Medrad Inc
04.2005 - 10.2005
Senior Project Engineer
Lear Romec (subsidiary of Crane Aerospace)
08.2003 - 04.2005
Mechanical Engineer
Analex Corporation (Contractor to NASA Glenn)
09.2000 - 08.2003
Mechanical Engineer
Marconi Medical (was Picker – now Philips)
03.1997 - 09.2000
BSME - Mechanical Engineering
Youngstown State University
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