Brian J.

Greetings Upwork Talent Seekers, Are you looking for help developing a new product idea? Do you have questions about the development process, what engineering is needed, or how to make something manufacturable? Do you need CAD work done or refined so a prototype can be made? Perhaps you need an experienced engineer to review work already done and give you sound feedback based on years of engineering design, manufacturing and testing experience. Or maybe you just need somebody to make a CAD model and/or drawing package the way you want it done. Well, I’m a guy that can do all of that (plus a few other things too). Professionally, I've been at the engineering game for over 25 years. I jumped into freelance because I just like designing, analyzing and making things, all kinds of things, and I enjoy working with innovators. I'm heavily experienced in product development, mechanical design and design analysis, manufacturing processes, product testing and a bunch of other engineering sounding stuff. I have an excellent grasp of engineering fundamentals, great CAD/CAM skills, good product documentation/drawing creation skills and knack for building stuff. Specifically, my skills include… Product Development: Requirements Building, Product Design, Mechanical Design, Design for Manufacturability, Design of Experiments. Project Management: Project Scoping (especially new products releases), Task Planning and Time Estimation, Cost Estimation. Mechanical Design Consumer Products, Sporting Goods, Specialized Equipment and Machine Design, Experimental Test Fixtures, Tooling, ASME Piping Systems, Thermal-Fluid Systems, and I even dabble in furniture design. Manufacturing: Processes Selection, Lean Manufacturing, CNC Machining, 3D Printing, Molding Technologies (Injection, RTM, Blow-molding, etc.), Sheet Metal Fabrication, Welding and Weldment Design.