Resume

Shane Washburn

subseashane@hotmail.com

Cell 650 380 5069

Professional Experience:

Feb 2006 – Present Mechanical Designer / Industrial Design

Sparkfactor Design

801 high street

Palo Alto California

May 2005 – Feb 2006 Mechanical Designer

Oceanic USA

2002 Davis St. 

San Leandro, Ca 94577

Nov. 2001 - May 2005 Production Supervisor

Deep Ocean Engineering

1431 Doolittle Drive

San Leandro, Ca 94577

Oct. 2001 - Nov. 2001 Industrial Design Consultant

Varian Medical Systems

2599 Garcia Avenue

Mountain View, CA 94043

Sept. 1999 - Oct. 2001 Industrial Designer

GVO INC.

2370 Watson court

Palo Alto Ca, 94303

Jan.1999 - June1999 Design Intern

Pentagram Design

387 Tehama St.

San Francisco Ca, 94103

Oct.1994 - Jan.1999 Technical Assistant Model Shop

Industrial Light and Magic

Now Kerner Optical

San Rafael CA,

Education

1994-1999

San Jose State University,

Graduate BS Industrial Design

1991- 1994

Modesto Junior College,

Graduate, Associate of Arts Degree

Computer skills:

2-D- Adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Vellum, Word, Excel

Solid Works , Google Sketch-up Pro.

Video- imovie, finalcut-pro

Mission One Electric Motorcycle

Designed and engineered high power LED headlight to optimize the following:
  - Uniform brightness
  - Thermal management
  - Power control and management
 - Quick turn prototyping (ME and EE)

Oceanic Project

Housing for Underwater Life Support system. Integrated redundant battery systems with valving and micro controller. FDM model built directly from Cad Data for fit check.

Create Technologies for SparkfactorDesign

Designed and built Robotic Pick and Place robot for Automated Vending Truck. 

Developing cutting Edge Materials and equipment for the packaging industry.

Spark Factor FEA work

Studied part deflection for IP-64 seal design on injection molded part. Optimized final design to maintain consistent o-ring pressure.

Bio Rad Life Science for Spark Factor Design

Redesign Mechanical Sample loader for Mass Spectrometer. Reduce parts and simplify design for manufacturing. Rework Sample Translator for increased life time and reduced service.

Deep Ocean Engineeering

Designed and built 150 pound displacement remotely operated vehicle. Equipped with: Scanning sonar, Video, Depth and headding systems. CAD modeling done in Solidworks.