Phillip Lewis

Experience

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  Auburn University

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

  Student
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  Freelance

  Sept 2010 - Aug 2012

  Freelance Industrial Designer

  Offered a range of design services to help clients turn ideas into a reality. Work with clients worldwide creating innovative products and packaging while also equipping the client with modern website design, marketing tools, and manufacturing guidance.• Product Design: Created designs for startups and individual clients around the world. Provide engineering drawings, prototype testing, and renderings. • POP and POS display design: Developed unique displays that embody the spirit of each product while allowing form to follow function. • Web Design: Helped clients throughout entire startup process by offering website design created around a product or invention. Analytics and web based training also offered to give the client every advantage while entering industry. Show less

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  RR Donnelley

  May 2011 - Sept 2012

  Contract Designer

  • Manufacturing Innovation: Created new web-based manufacturing techniques to produce Chick-fil-A’s sandwich bag while designing new sandwich bag.• Structural Packaging Design: Designed packaging for Motorola for store-to-store shipping that is also used to display new products.• Packaging Innovation: Used CAD modeling and rapid prototyping to develop innovative, minimalist packaging for Zumba workout out products.• International Support: Coordinated with China office, Chicago office, and California office, to utilize all internal company resources to produce best possible packaging solution. Show less

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  Viasat

  Sept 2012 - Dec 2013

  Mechanical Designer

  • Antenna System Design: Overall system design and integration of a range of antennas from 5.4 meter to 13 meter reflector sizes. • Mobile Antenna Packaging and Design: Designed mobile components and containers for portable antenna systems to allow the user to easily connect to network anywhere in the harshest of environments. • Control Units Enclosure Design Engineering: Created enclosures for key antenna/satellite components. Designed gaskets and mounting brackets to ensure function and durability.• Antenna Components Mounting Design: Designed custom brackets and parts to adapt new technologies and upgrades to current antennas and satellites around the world.• Program Parts and Assemblies Management: Organized parts and assemblies using SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. Show less

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  Edge Innovative Solutions

  Dec 2013 - now

  Mechanical Industrial Designer

  Provide mechanical concepts and designs for clients using SOLIDWORKS, while meeting tight deadlines and desired budget. Develop products efficiently from conception through fabrication to large scale manufacturing. • Mechanical and electrical systems: Developed cutting edge, industry changing products, along with mechanical drawings and BOM for manufacturing and prototype fabrication. • Start-up environment delivering innovative products that can be correctly manufactured and produced.• Department Collaboration: Work with engineering, marketing, and administrative teams to produce innovative products while meeting deadlines and expectations set by the client. Show less

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  EpiGrid

  Dec 2013 - now

  Applications Engineer

  EpiGrid is a comprehensive information systems service provider with a passion for supplying technology solutions for engineering industries with focus on engineering software implementation and management, data management systems and design optimization technology. EpiGrid provides cloud hosted solutions specializing in SOLIDWORKS products and engineering environments.• Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) management• Cloud Hosted SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS PDM products.• Managing customer network infrastructure.• Implementations and management.• Hosted DriveWorks infrastructures. Show less

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  Converge Design, LLC

  Jan 2018 - now

  Technical Account Manager

  Converge is a new VAR (Value Added Reseller) and member of the SOLIDWORKS Professional Channel. Converge is positioned to offer a new and exciting experiences to SOLIDWORKS customers with a focus on value add, comprehensive solutions, and expert services and support.Converge is the only VAR in the SOLIDWORKS network offering cloud hosted solutions and Virtual Workstations (through EpiGrid) specifically configured for CAD and engineering. Converge also provides contract engineering services boasting a wide range of engineers and design experts. Show less