Christopher Culver

Experience

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  Culver Consulting

  Jun 1996 - Jan 2014

  Mechanical Design Engineer

  Custom design and analysis of complex semiconductor process equipment and components including value added upgrades, process improvement, fixture design.Design of UHV process chambers including machining, welding, leak detection.Ion beam etching equipment and fixturing for custom materials, wafer configurations, and specific thermal requirements. Mechanical stylus profilometer optimization. Complex vacuum system design from roughing pump through UHV pump, turbo molecular pumps, oil diffusion pumps, cryogenic pumps. All supporting automatic valve design and configuration and process automation. Show less

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  TBM Brakes

  Nov 2014 - Jun 2018

  Senior Mechanical Engineer

  Complex drivetrain design from concept through manufacturing. Design of very tight tolerance components with critical machined features and aesthetic surface geometry. Design and manufacturing of brake caliper assemblies, brake rotor metallurgy including heat treatment process analysis, cryogenic treatment analysis, frictional analysis. Custom hub designs with critical tolerances and high dynamic loading for extreme motorsports applications.Custom brake systems for high performance Motorsports applications. Show less

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  BendPak Inc.

  Jun 2018 - Jan 2020

  Senior Mechanical Engineer

  Automotive lift design from concept through mass production including all fundamental strength of materials calculations required for ALI (American Lift Institute) certification.Seismic and other structural calculations for site specific installations. Tolerance stack up analysis.Hydraulic system design and analysis.Welding fixture design and process improvement. Work closely with factories overseas on compliance, quality, product and process improvement. Guide quality assurance team with SOP creation to enable product quality assessment and improve throughout.Work closely with marketing to develop logo and aesthetic branding designs to supplement major product brand loyalty. Show less

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  Harbor Freight Tools

  Jan 2020 - now

  -Lead an elite team of product specialists that investigate Post Launch products based on customer reviews, high return rates, social media postings and other sources of feedback. -Create custom test methods that simulate possible misuse cases or other product anomalies. -Create custom tooling and test fixtures to analyze products.-Works closely with other engineers to come up with solutions based on our findings, which are then validated by the team. -Works with manufacturers and vendors to implement changes and track all of the different types of modify to the product. - Present our findings to executives and upper management to align with the path forward based on our findings. Show less

  • Engineering Manager, Quality Operations

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Reliability Engineer-Mechanical

    Jan 2020 - Apr 2024