Nick Govan
Alexandria,KY
Summary
Dependable and organized Design Engineer producing permanent custom retail displays. Transforms design concepts into manufacturable products. Offers innovative engineering solutions. Prioritizes schedules and deadlines. Thrives in a fast paced environment and can manage multiple complex projects.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineer
Fixture Resource Group
08.2010 - Current
- Created clear and accurate engineering packets using AutoCAD
- Provided working drawings that included assembled views, exploded views, individual part drawings, and detailed BOMs
- Sourced and spec'd stock hardware and parts to incorporate into fixtures
- Insured designs met manufacturing, technical, and customer specifications
- Offered creative engineering solutions to meet customer expectations of budget, ease of assembly, cleanliness, modularity, shipping constraints, etc.
- Developed permanent fixtures in apparel, lighting, greeting card, sporting goods, candy, electronics, home improvement , and others
- Created assembly instructions for KD units using AutoCAD
- Produced photorealistic renderings using 3dsMax
- Collaborated with project management and vendors on quality
- Preformed quality checks and builds of production parts
- Built and tested prototypes
- Documented engineering revisions base on testing and customer feed back
- Modified prototypes as necessary based on results from testing and review
- Occasionally traveled to meet with customers to review prototypes
- Occasionally traveled for field installs
- Communicated daily with production manager, project managers, creative team, and sales team to ensure priorities and deadlines were being met
- Managed work load consisting of multiple simultaneous complex projects
- Nested parts, planned yield and programmed CNC using Alpacam
Skills
- AutoCAD
- Alphacam
- 3Ds Max
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Microsoft Office
- Zoom-Skype-GoToMeeting-Teams
- Project Management
- Value Engineering
- Manufacturing Processes
- Collaborative design
- AutoCAD expertise
- 2D and 3D modeling
- Prototyping
- Engineering Documentation
- Quality Control
- Problem-Solving
Timeline
Engineer
Fixture Resource Group
08.2010 - Current
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