SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER – REMOTE AND FLEXIBLE NEW PRODUCTS & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Linkedin Profile Paul T Nolan

805.729.7463  

onolan@cox.net

Visionary Senior Mechanical Engineer with wide ranging electronics packaging, mechanical and photonics expertise. Driving meaningful results and bringing concepts to life, while meeting project specifications and budget constraints. History of sound judgment and resourcefulness in responding to job challenges. Most recently, pioneered breakthrough manufacturing technology of thin film electronics on flexible substrates.

Core Qualifications

• Product Design-Development      •     2D-3D Design Concepts              •     Virtual Prototype Design
• Technical Team Leadership        •     Patent Applications                     •     Resource Management-Allocation
• Manufacturing Documentation     •     StrategicProduct Guidance         •     Research & Development

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

SOUTH COAST PHOTONICS                                                                           2006 – present

OWNER / INVENTOR / ENGINEER

• Managing member and co-inventor of revolutionary Roll-to-Roll Dynamically Configure-able, ThinFilm Forming System (covered by U.S. Patent No. 7410542 issued in 2008)
• Wrote grants to garner funds from US Department of Energy to launch advancedmanufacturing projects
• Conceptualization for all virtual prototypes using robotics and control, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, structural dynamics, kinematics, statics and optoelectronic materials and devices
• Assembled, integrated and managed consultant team for all projects

ZEPHYR ENTERPRISES                                                                                    1991 – 2006

OWNER / GEM MINERAL SOURCING/ SALES

SOLAR MODE                                                                                                   1996 – 1999

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

• Billboard lighting solar systems design anddistribution
• Solar power installations for US Navy in the Channel Islands
• Designed suitcase based solar power systems

SOLAR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL                                       1994 – 1995

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

• Integrated open loop control algorithmfor full-scale Concentrating Solar Power array

RAYTHEON                                                                                                      1985 – 1991

MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF, PRODUCT DESIGN GROUP

• Created electronics packaging using heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, statics, structural dynamics, materials and processes

ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL / NORTH AMERICAN AIRCRAFT                   Prior to 1985 MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF

EDUCATION

B.S.M.E.     UNIVERSITYOF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

Mechanical and Environmental Engineering; BiologyMinor, 1981 Gemology Certificate, Gemological Institute of America, 1995