Michael Onorato

About Michael Onorato

Experienced and driven mechanical engineer with a breadth and depth of design, analysis, measurement, and testing skills and application. I have over 13 years of professional experience, 9 in the Oil & Gas industry and ~4 in the Aerospace & Defense industry, where I have honed my mechanical engineering skills by completing over 100 different projects to become the go-to source for new designs, qualifying analyses and testing, and troubleshooting anomalies. I pride myself not only on performing focused, timely, accurate, and value-added engineering work, but also on the soft skills required to successfully collaborate in a modern, fast-paced design and manufacturing environment. Positive, clear, and concise communication of intent, expectations, process, and results is essential- Education: M.S. Mechanical Engineering, UCLA- Professional Engineer (Mechanical, CA)- Employment: Staff Engineer, Mechanical @ Marotta Controls

Experience

1. Staff Engineer, Mechanical

   Marotta Controls

   Aug 2025 — Present · Parsippany, NJ, US

   Business Unit: Power & Actuation Systems (PAS)+ Researched and created Excel-based analysis template for predicting viscous power loss of oil-filled motors to support bid proposals+ Generated ANSYS FEA structural model of a brushless DC motor to predict axial stiffness and maximum displacement under assembly and operational loading for requirements verification+ Generated ANSYS FEA structural model of an electromechanical actuator (EMA) to predict torsional stiffness under maximum output shaft torsional (stall) loading for requirements verification- Updated torsional stiffness modeling methodology by performing a parametric study of (2) other EMA models to fine-tune contact, bearing type (joint), and bearing stiffness parameters+ Directed fit check, emissivity and outgassing testing, and thermal anchoring activities of updated EMA development- Wrote emissivity and outgassing testing requirements documents to send to suppliers- Vetted ~50 suppliers to determine best fit for emissivity and outgassing testing requirements- Created and implemented task list and schedule of a thermal anchoring plan to correlate FEA thermal model with heat propagation test temperature measurements- Presented at weekly internal meetings and biweekly customer meetings

Education

• UCLA

  Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

  2011 — 2012

• UCLA

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

  2005 — 2010

Skills

• Ptc Creo
• Mathcad
• Ansys
• Abaqus
• Statistics
• Asme Bpvc
• Finite Element Analysis
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Pvelite
• Mathematica
• Vibration Measurements and Data Reduction
• Casca and Franc2d (Fracture Mechanics Software)
• Asce 7
• Autodesk Invetor
• Comsol
• Project Management
• Solidworks
• Report Writing
• Failure Analysis
• Watercad
• Asme B31.3
• Stress Analysis
• Matlab
• Api 560
• Project Planning
• Pro Engineer
• Strain Gage Installation and Measurements
• Autopipe
• Microsoft Word
• Outlook Express