I've spent 15 years putting hardware on the International Space Station. Now the practice brings that same rigor to your program and leaves your team sharper for it.
15 years delivering flight hardware to the International Space Station. That same discipline, brought to your team as a focused engagement, not a full-time hire.
Much of my career was spent developing cold-stowage flight hardware with UAB's Engineering & Innovative Technology Development (EITD), NASA's long-running cold-stowage hardware team. These are publicly documented ISS programs I helped develop and served as lead engineer on all three.
A transportable cold-stowage freezer for the ground-to-station cold chain. I designed and built the heat-rejection subsystem.
Cold-stowage flight hardware for on-orbit life-science payloads. I took over mechanical design and senior duties mid-program, then led procurement, assembling several units myself.
A portable payload for rapidly freezing biosamples inside the ISS science gloveboxes. I led the mechanical design from requirements development through detailed design.
Everything referenced here is already public. Your project's details would stay confidential, always.
My career started with 10 years in the Marine Corps as a KC-130 navigator. I worked my way through college for a Master's in mechanical engineering, then went to work as a design engineer, lead on several successful NASA projects.
Every problem has a solution, but finding it often takes a different perspective. Early on I went wide — mathematics, programming, signal analysis, networking, system dynamics — and those angles have paid off ever since.
Five years teaching engineering at a university reinforced what I believe: real learning happens through mentorship and hands-on problem-solving, not lectures. That's how I approach training engineers today.
Confidence in my work lets me not take things too seriously. I keep communication direct and skip the ceremony that gets in its way. And I ask the "stupid questions," because they're usually the best ones.
Whether you're developing new products, improving manufacturing, or building your engineering capability. Dave's Technical Services is built for all three.
Mechanisms, structures, and assemblies designed to be built and to perform, then verified with hand calcs through FEA for strength, stiffness, fatigue, and margins you can defend.
Heat transfer, fluid flow, pressure systems, and thermodynamics across industrial, electronics, cryogenic, and vacuum applications.
Parts drawn for real processes, with drafting and GD&T that hold up on the floor.
Qualification and acceptance testing, plus test plans that prove the hardware does what it has to.
From concept to working prototype through rapid iteration and design validation, up to production.
Custom tooling, fixture development, and process improvement to boost efficiency and hold quality.
Control systems, vacuum and cryogenic solutions, and problem-solving for genuinely novel systems.
Develop your current engineers, or train and promote new ones from within.
Standing up an engineering section? Drafting standards, part numbering, software. I've done it before.
Technical expertise matters only insofar as it meets your needs. Clear, honest communication keeps anxiety low and thinking clear. Expect regular status updates and an open line. Under deadline pressure and just want it delivered? I can do that too. You decide how involved you want to be.
You get the analysis, the assumptions, and the safety margins, not just a conclusion. If I can't defend a number, I won't ship it.
Every design is built to survive a design review: traceable requirements, clean drawings, and decisions you can audit later.
Flight-qualification discipline, scaled to your budget and risk. The parts that matter get treated like they have to survive launch.
I've built my own designs. I bear the scars — literally — and can tell the stories.
Send a message, or book a consultation. Every engagement is led personally: you work directly with the principal engineer, start to finish.
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