Adrian Todea

Experience

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  HIDROSIB SA

  Sept 1980 - Apr 1984

  Technologist

  - In a very integrated factory with its own gray cast iron foundry, die casting, heat treatment and galvanization facilities, I did maintenance and quality control in a workshop for final and endurance testing of hydraulic and pneumatic components, equipment and various operating installations.- Erection at site and maintenance of complex machine tools.- Supervising, as part of the AQ team, the products destined to Cernavoda nuclear power plant (CANDU system)- Designed hydraulic and pneumatic circuits and hydraulic components.- Designed jigs and fixtures. Tooling- Implementation of Bosh licensed hydraulic valves. Show less

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  HIDROTIM SA

  Apr 1984 - May 1995

  Project Manager

  Supervised a team of 5 (engineers, designers and drafters).I did the feasibility studies, model designs, model construction supervision, testing, results interpretation, final implementation, technical assistance, erection at site and commissioning, periodical measurments at site (pressure, flow, vibrations) for the projects listed below:- Hydraulic operating systems for hydromechanical equipment: - radial gates for the Iron Gates II power plant. - sluice gates for the Danube-The Black Sea Canal. - sluice gates for the Poarta Alba-Navodari Canal.- High pressure pumps and water-jet cutting equipment.- Hydraulic components: - developed a proportional braking valve - developed a hydraulic valve with tight-closing, 3/2 ways, electrically operated.- Remote control of the linear hydraulic motors for hydromechanical equipment. - developed a Gray code absolute linear motion transducer.- Yield improvement of small hydro-power Banki turbines. - Raul Mare, Retezat, Romania - hydro-power unit.- Hydraulic braking system for 300 kW wind turbine. - Semenic Mountains, Romania Show less

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  Mechanical Engineer

  Mar 1996 - Oct 2002

  Adrian H. Todea,

  Engineering contract work with a variety of customers:- Keypower Equipment Inc. (1) (acquired by Kobelt Manufacturing Co. Ltd.)- Hudu Hydraulics and Engineering Co. Ltd.- Rolls-Royce Group (formerly Ulstein Maritime Inc.)- Keypower Equipment Inc. (2) (acquired by Kobelt Manufacturing Co. Ltd.)- Seastar Solutions Canada (formerly Teleflex Canada)- Voith Paper (formerly Fibron Machine Corp.)- Murray-Latta Machine Co. Ltd.- FLSmidth-Knelson (formerly Knelson Concentrators)- Precix Advanced Cutting Technologies Inc.- Hypower Systems Inc. (Q1 Design and Manufacturing) Show less

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  TWG, A Dover company

  Oct 2002 - Jul 2015

  Project Engineer

  TWG is a known manufacturer of hydraulically operated planetary winches. In a lean manufacturing, automotive and ISO 9001 environment I worked on R&D projects for global clients such as Caterpillar. - Laid out concept drawings, assemblies, installation and detail drawings.- Stress analysis (Excel, FEA). Fatique calculations.- Laid out hydraulic schematics. Hydraulic calculations. Automation.- Performing testing and hydraulic measurements (flow, pressure, temperatures). Hands on testing.- Registering results. Results analysis and interpretation.- Preparation of BOM's. ECN's processing.- Cost/Performance analysis. Liaison with suppliers (preordering) and customers. Customer technical support.- Processing Warranty Claims for returned goods. Collaborated with external labs for mechanical and metallurgical tests. Performed root cause analysis.- Initiated and implemented PDCA's.- Supervised one designer and one draft person (2005-2009) Show less

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  Corvus Energy Inc.

  Nov 2016 - Feb 2017

  Mechanical Engineer

  Responsibilities and accomplisments:• Lay out air cooled Orca bay rack systems for E0250, E0550, E1850, E2050, E2450 modules of lithium-ion batteries. Worked on sheet metal detail design and laid out the drawings using GD&T. Used Solid Works and PDM.• Setting up the standard to lay out the detail drawings in order to offer maximum and high quality information to our suppliers and assembly/manufacturing departments at Corvus.• Proposed a retrofit for first generation bay rack system (cubicle) to a ferry customer in Norway. Contacted costumer to ensure that proposal will fit their requirements. Stress analysis.• Contacted suppliers for sheet metal parts in order to ensure maximum quality at lowest possible price. Cost-performance analysis.• Collaborated with all engineering team, quality assurance and operations to ensure a timely and high quality elaboration of drawings and BOM’s. Show less

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  Dynamix Agitators Inc.

  May 2018 - Aug 2018

  Mechanical Engineer
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  Seaspan ULC

  Dec 2018 - May 2019

  Mission Equipment Engineer (COG)
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  Kinetics Drive Solutions Inc.

  Jun 2019 - Mar 2020

  Mechanical/Hydraulic Designer