American LaFrance/Mobile Armored Vehicles. LLCSenior Technical Writer/Cad Designer-3D Cad Modeler
May. 2008 - Mar. 2012MRAP vehicle program (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles)
M-ATV vehicle program (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles)
Research, Design, and Development of Vehicle components, and systems including, Steering, Suspension, and Exterior Body Components, taking in account of usability, and human factors engineering.
Developing 3D Cad Models for vehicle development utilizing Solidworks 2007 Design software.
Developing Cad Engineering drawings, creating storage files utilizing PDM Works Enterprise Storage Vault.
Development of vehicle Build of Materials utilizing PDM Works Enterprise for Solidworks 2007.
Researched and developed military operator, electrical, and technical manuals for newly designed military vehicles, utilizing framemaker and Microsoft Word.
Process flow and procedure development for use in production.
Development of Repair Parts and Special Tools Manuals for vehicles.
Worked with vendors to gather all required data for technical manuals.
Development and deployment of Technical Training to End User's on Operation, Maintenance, Component Location, and Systems Operations of MRAP, M-ATV military vehicles.
Aided in development of Production Build Process Sheets to aid in production of vehicles.
All manuals and programs were written to proper Mil-specs.
Provided guidance to two technical writers and assisted in proper writing procedures.
Developed engine replacement, tear-down, and reassembly procedures, transmission removal, tear-down, assemble and installation procedures.
Worked closely with engineers and SME's to gather required information for development of Military Technical Manuals.