Richard Skip Barnes

About Richard Skip Barnes

Occupant Safety Engineer with decades of experience serving the automotive industry developing and improving occupant safety products. Well known for hands-on creativity and unique techniques along with well-developed skills in modeling and analysis. Expertise in FEA, accident reconstruction, and biomechanics. Chief contributor to diverse groups with exceptional ability to implement new ideas, methods, and techniques.Specialties: CAE, FEA, Forensic Engineering, Biomechanics, Occupant Injury Analysis, Automotive Safety, Modeling, Simulation

Experience

1. Product Development Engineer

   Ford Motor Company

   Jan 2014 — Present

   Responsible for the design, modeling, optimization, testing, and analysis of restraint systems and components for several Ford models, as well as supporting sled and full vehicle barrier tests.Supported full vehicle crash testing concentrating on occupant safety and restraint systems. • Member of occupant safety team for multiple programs• Full vehicle crash testing concentrating on occupant safety and restraint systems.• Sled, OOP, and component testing in support of crash safety development.• Restraint system optimization using multiple techniques• Target setting and assessment of performance criteria for global regulatory requirements. • Presentation of global regulatory status to management.• Conception and development of component tests to develop input data for use in large full vehicle models.• Collaboration with suppliers to analyze new technologies for use in Ford restraint systems. • Utilization of skills in MADYMO, Radioss, ModeFrontier, and others.

Education

• Oakland Community College

  Associate, Pre Engineering

  1989 — 1992

• Lawrence Technological University

  BSME, Engineering

  1993 — 1998

Skills

• Six Sigma
• Automotive Safety
• Components
• Simulations
• Automotive
• Madymo
• Automotive Engineering
• Barrier Testing
• Cad
• Abaqus
• Crashworthiness
• Fmvss
• Meshing
• Modeling
• Vehicle Safety
• Musicians
• Expert Witness
• Fine Art Photography
• Forensic Engineering
• Crash
• Sled Testing
• Motion Simulation
• Hyperworks
• Cae
• Teamcenter
• Modefrontier
• Finite Element Analysis
• Radioss
• Pamcrash
• Engineering
• Nastran
• Airbags
• Ls-Dyna
• Kinematics
• Accident Reconstruction
• Hypermesh
• Performance Testing
• Vehicle Dynamics
• Vehicles
• Fe Analysis