Tom Massar

Experience

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  Mason's Farm

  Apr 2010 - Dec 2014

  Manager

  • Managed all daily operations, including cash and credit sales, as well as for large bulk orders while overseeing a team of two laborers.• Planted and maintained over 20,000 units of product, and sold an average of 90% of units during each season.• Learned to operate heavy machinery and use of power tools in a safe work environment.

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  Syracuse University

  Jan 2015 - May 2015

  Junior Design Project (Team Lead)

  • Led a team of four to successfully design and fabricate a machine to individually flip a stack of twenty playing cards with the only input being a hand crank. • Performed kinematic analysis on rotating components to calculate load distributions and paths.• Used concepts of machine design and integrated springs, gears, pulleys, and rollers to create output mechanism.

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  PTI Industries, Inc.

  Jun 2015 - Jan 2016

  Mechanical Engineering Intern

  • Lessened in-house precision cleaning time by an average of two hours per day by working with machine operators and designing more efficient and ergonomically correct equipment.• Improved on previous designs of tooling used for shot peening of aerospace application parts, resulting in 15% shorter run times and a 7% increase in profit.• Reduced failure rate and increased consistency of bonding processes by performing thermal stress analysis with FEA and real world experiments, and then using this information to redesign tooling and procedures. Show less

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  Syracuse University

  Sept 2015 - Apr 2016

  Senior Design Project

  • As part of a team of four, designed, fabricated, tested, and implemented a remote-controlled robot to collect, sort, and deposit an array of sports balls into a basket within an allotted time.• Performed static and dynamic stress simulations using SolidWorks FEA to generate technical reports in order to optimize performance.• Used GD&T to perform tolerance stack up to ensure proper fits of components during initial assembly and operation, operated mills and lathes to fabricate axles, motor mounts, and sorting mechanisms out of aluminum.• Performed a proof of concept study and successfully presented the project to a panel of professors and engineers. Show less

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  PTI Industries, Inc.

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2017

  Mechanical Design Engineer

  • Responsible for design, analysis, documentation, fabrication, testing, and integration of products.• Collaborated across a multidisciplinary engineering team to perform full lifecycle product development on quantifiable cleanliness testing equipment of aerospace components to meet and exceed customer requirements.• Used analytical problem solving to provide customer with an onsite and portable solution to piezoelectric ultrasonic cleaning of large armature windings. • Optimized tool design using FEA, and rewrote processes to restructure the pressure test department and increase revenue stream.• Performed in depth research to mitigate cost issues during design and manufacturing by directly interfacing with outside vendors and suppliers daily. Show less

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  AdelWiggins Group

  Aug 2017 - Jul 2020

  • Designed, built, and tested various sized umbilical cryogenic and ambient couplings for liquid oxygen, hydrogen, and helium loading of upper stage launch vehicles.• Transferred engineering drawings, documentation, and processes from an acquired company to AdelWiggins, leveraging both internal and third-party resources.• Lead Critical Design Reviews in order to mitigate program risk to design, manufacturing, purchasing, and schedule.• Selected into company mentorship program under the Vice President of Sales for the purpose of being groomed for a Business Unit Manager role. Show less • Under the direction of a Principal and Project Engineer, designed fast fuel systems, hydraulic, and cryogenic couplings to satisfy military, space, and commercial customer requirements. • Improved existing product designs using data collected from hands on field testing, as well as input from customers, suppliers, and other outside representatives.• Streamlined internal daily engineering processes by working with a team of four to implement a company wide PDM system in order to replace outdated data storage, transfer, and engineering order approval cycles. Show less

  • Senior Project Engineer

    Dec 2019 - Jul 2020

  • Project Engineer

    Dec 2018 - Dec 2019

  • Design Engineer

    Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
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  AUXITROL WESTON

  Jul 2020 - Aug 2022

  Site Manager

  • Through direct and indirect oversight, responsible for leading the North America multi-functional team to deliver business results, provide quality products on time, and at cost as per the Operating Unit plan.• Managed all aspects of site leadership and execution of operations, safety, quality, delivery, cost, and inventory while being directly accountable for the P&L performance of the business• Managed the transfer of production of ITAR, EAR600, QPL, and commercial aerospace product lines to Tijuana, Mexico and the subsequent closure of the California based manufacturing facility. Show less

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  AdelWiggins Group

  Sept 2022 - now

  • Vice President of Operations

    Feb 2025 - now

  • Business Unit Manager

    Sept 2022 - Feb 2025