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DEEPFLIGHT DRAGON
Chief Designer of the DeepFlight Dragon. The world's only positively buoyant personal submarine.
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Responsibilities encompassed the whole product life cycle, including ideation, prototyping, designing, iterative/FEA/empirical testing and setting up manufacturing.
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Generated surface models of fuselage using Autodesk Inventor and interfaced with fabricator to create class A surface molds.
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Designed prototype thruster and optimized design based on multiple bollard pull tests. Applied result to final production thruster to acheive a 15% increase in efficiency.
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Developed thruster kort nozzle which reduced thruster assembly time and allowed for easy bench testing.
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Optimized overall design of submarines to reduce assembly time from 3 months to 1 month. Major submarine assembly can be fully disassembled in 2 days by 1 person.
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Created mechanical CAD drawings and communicated the functional requirements using GD&T.
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Crew Chief during submarine dive operations.
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Submarine pilot.