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Support Packages

Here are three flexible support packages designed to meet different needs and project scales. Each package serves as an example to provide specific value. Have something else in mind?

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Engineering Support
"Experienced engineering support that scales with your needs."
Includes:
  • Mechanical design support (CAD modeling & drawing creation)
  • Structural and thermal analysis (review or execution)
  • Integration with your team's tools and workflows
Ideal For:
  • Small teams needing overflow support
  • Startups without in-house mechanical/thermal experts

Value: Reliable, senior-level support without needing to hire full-time.

Subsystem Design & Verification
"Hand off a portion of your project. I'll deliver a complete mechanical solution and integrate it into your system."
Includes:
  • Mechanical design of a specific component or subsystem
  • CAD modeling and drawing creation
  • Structural and/or thermal analysis
  • Integration with system requirements and interfaces
  • Regular design reviews and engineering updates
  • Final documentation package for review or manufacturing
Ideal For:
  • Teams developing new products needing a self-directed mechanical engineer
  • Projects requiring a complete design with verification

Value: You hand me a problem or spec-I'll return a verified, documented design that fits your system.

Engineer Enablement & Training
"Training specifically tailored to your projects. I'll help you solve your own problem and increase your capabilities."
Includes:
  • 1-on-1 or group technical training
  • Live walkthroughs of FEA/thermal models
  • Annotated models, templates, and best-practice guides
  • On-call mentorship and process coaching
Ideal For:
  • Teams that want to build in-house analysis/design capability
  • New engineers who need practical support fast

Value: You're not just getting work done-you're building future capacity.

Services

I offer a wide range of consulting services in mechanical engineering. I can help with mechanical design, CAD, CAD automation, fluid system design and analysis, structural analysis, and more.

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Mechanical Design and Analysis

I have over 15 years of design experience ranging from underground mining to optics and lasers to -80°C freezers currently aboard the International Space Station. I will onboard your challenges and suggest the best solution, even if that avoids my future involvement.

If we do proceed, I know how to take a project from concept through to completion. With an emphasis on simplicity, my design style is guided by my experience delivering hardware on time and on budget.

Thermal and Fluid Dynamics Analysis

I have an extensive background in thermal and fluid dynamic analysis and design stemming from winning awards for CFD work done in college to building freezers for NASA. I have experience with academia and industry. Whether the analysis is the product or only a necessary step to completing a larger project, I can help.

Structural Analysis

While earning a masters degree, I wrote a thesis on structural analysis, specifically in calculating stress during plastic deformation. I have a solid foundation in theory and I am knowledgeable of the strengths, and weaknesses of the various techniques for assessing structural suitability. I also have experience in performing structural analysis in industry as a means to answer specific questions under tight deadlines.

Who is Dave?

My career began with 10 years in the Marine Corps as a KC-130 navigator. Afterward, I worked my way through college earning a Masters in mechanical engineering. Since then, I've been a working engineer culminating in serving as lead engineer on several NASA projects.

My time as an engineer has taught me that every problem has a solution but sometimes finding that solution requires different perspectives. So, early on, I focused on broadening my knowledge base to include topics peripheral to mechanical engineering. Studying things like mathematics, computer programming, signal analysis, networking, system dynamics, and more provided alternate perspectives and has served me well throughout my career thus far.

Confidence in my abilities allows me to not take things so seriously. I don't particularly care for formalities, I feel they tend to inhibit effective communication. I try to ask the stupid questions, they are typically the best ones.

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