David Edward Fly, P.E.

Professional Experience

 

Runva Mechanical and Electrical – Engineer, Consultant

2007 - 2008

 

Designed, built, and tested a 4 ton winch testing machine..

 

 

Alliance Machinery and Engineering - Owner

2003 - 2005

 

• Consulting engineering for machinery design, analysis, and product development

• Companies and projects:

• Burns Best, wood fired outdoor furnaces.

• Liquid Waste Technologies, river dredging equipment.

• Intellishare Environmental, reclamation equipment

• Conagra Foods, chocolate pudding equipment

• Hi-Fold Doors, airplane hangar doors.

• Modular and lightweight welding and coordinate measuring machine fixtures. 
   

 

The Troxel Company - Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Metals

1995 – 1997

 

• Researched tubing industry for long term strategic plans for capital equipment.

• Wrote equipment status report and suggested purchases for board of directors.

• Quoted welding work and did preliminary designs of welding fixtures.

• Design, built, and tested automated leak testing equipment for a specific press.

• Troubleshot tooling and maintained fabrication equipment.

 

 

Amadas Industries - Production Engineer

1994 – 1995

 

• Designed, modified, built, and tested specialized equipment used in manufacturing such as: gang drill, rotating welding table, fixtures for machining and welding, coil pivoting platform.

• Worked as part of a technical writing team complete machine operation manuals.

• Acted as a liaison between 3 product managers in engineering and manufacturing. 

 

 

Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center - Teaching Assistant  

1992 – 1994

 

• ​Prepared and conducted lecture/lab demonstrations on metrology, factorial experimental design, punching, statistical process control, machining, fatigue, robotics, and CNC programming.

• Wrote and graded assignments, lab exercises, and tests.

• Conducted research on CO2 laser heat treating of low carbon steel to examine the effect on fatigue life from residual stresses at the surface.

 

 

Department of Agricultural Engineering - Research Assistant  

1990 – 1992

 

• Selected and assembled image processing board, multiplexer, and optics for three digital cameras.

• Wrote image processing algorithms in C language.

• Designed and built a prototype frame and light table.

• Developed personal computer based vision system to measure pine seedlings
   

 

Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock - Outside Machinist 

1980 – 1984

 

• All assignments were on US Navy Submarines.

• Participated in machine shop training program for six months (including NC milling machine).

• Changed propeller, removed and re-installed main propulsion turbine rotor, machined steam generator foundations, and mounted main pressure vessel for the nuclear reactor.

• Overhauled impulse cylinder, bored torpedo tubes, installed retractable masts for radar, sonar, snorkel, and periscopes. 

Patents

 

2015  U.S. Patent Pending – Hybrid Composites with 3D Printed Forms

2014 U.S. Patent Application Number 14/347926 – Layered 3D Printing with Lower Viscosity Fluid Fill

2010 U.S. Patent 7,770,870 Tow Ball Winch Mount

2009 Canadian Patent 2504029 Alignment pin and fastener with bi-directional clamping.

2006 U.S. Patent 6,997,658 Alignment pin and fastener with bi-directional clamping.

2000 U.S. Patent 6,019,359 Lightweight welding table.

 

 

 

2010 - present

2010 - present