Paul Pergande

About Paul Pergande

Highly-motivated Lead Mechanical Engineer and Program Manager recognized for the ability to turn the vision of creative scientists into production-ready products. Possesses extensive varied experience in military and civilian product design engineering. Acknowledged for delivering projects on time and creating designs that work the first time. Adept at optical and electrical packaging. Key skills and areas of competence include:* Design Engineering* Opto-Mechanical Packaging* Electrical Packaging* Design Audits* Design Optimization* Troubleshooting and improving broken designs* Low cost Kinematic mounting* Consumables * IVD Medical design* Program Management* Cost Reduction* Carbon Fiber Composite Design & Analysis* Carbon Fiber Manufacturing* Solid Modeling - Pro/E Wildfire and SolidWorks CSWP* Motion Simulation* Event Based Motion Simulation* Modal Analysis* Business Development* Customer Interface* Patent coordinator / author* Designing Molded Parts* Designing Cast Parts* Thermal Spray Technology * Facility Construction * Commercial oven design* Tooling Design and Mfg.* R&D Projects* Strategic PlanningSpecialties: Mechanical packaging of optics and electronics, project management, cast and molded part design, business development, decision maker, tool design, inventor, strategic planning, facility construction, reverse engineering, research and development projects. Dispenser of common sense.

Experience

1. Mechanical Engineering Manager - Instruments and Consumables

   Luminex

   Mar 2022 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Manage and Mentor engineers in the art of product development and on market support. Extensive work with foils and foil sealing process for dry and wet reagents. Expert at refining thermal and mechanical designs to make them manufacturable and profitable.

Education

• Southern Methodist University

  MS-ME, Mechanical Engineering

• Southern Methodist University

  Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering

• Milwaukee School of Engineering

  BS-ME, Mechanical Engineering Design

  1981 — 1985

• The University of Texas at Dallas

  MBA, Strategic Planning

Skills

• Sheet Metal
• Injection Molding
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Machine Tools
• Machine Design
• Opto-Mechanical Design
• Product Development
• Tool Design
• Manufacturing
• Strategic Planning
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Pro Engineer
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Rapid Prototyping
• Mechanical Engineering
• Unigraphics
• Mentoring
• Design Optimization
• Automotive Engineering
• Product Design
• Business Development
• Autodesk Inventor
• Reverse Engineering
• Plastics
• Cad
• Design Engineering
• Engineering Management
• Finite Element Analysis
• Gd&T
• Windchill
• Testing
• Mechanism Design
• R&D
• Ptc Creo
• Project Management
• Solidworks
• Auditing
• Construction
• Engineering
• Troubleshooting