Jacob Hamlin

Product Designer / Mechanical Designer

Hamlin Designs Studio • Freelance

Aug 2018 - Present • 7 yrs 9 mos

• Guide engineering support, product design and project management services to both larger clients to manage short term engineering crunches and smaller clients to develop clients’ ideas and inventions • Perform safety assessments for clients through static finite element analysis and random vibration analysis using Solidworks Simulation, resulting in time and cost savings • Work with automation integrator to design automation machines for end client • Create and optimize designs using rapid prototyping and Solidworks CAD Software, decreased the design and prototyping phase by upwards of 30 percent • Operate and maintain a small 3D printing studio for prototype development and small-scale production using MSLA and FDM technologies.

Mechanical Design Engineer / Project Manager

Boyd Corporation • Full-time

Oct 2018 - Mar 2020 • 1 yr 5 mos

● Led the design and fabrication of vacuum brazed heat exchanger prototypes for industries including military, aerospace and spacecraft using Solidworks CAD software. ● Validated designs using shock, vibration, and pressurize vessel using Solidworks Simulation software. ● Adopted the use of Solidworks Design Tables to enhance the efficiency of the engineering process for basic heat exchangers leading to a significant reduction of up to 40 percent in engineering time.

Product Design Engineer / Mechanical Engineer

Aerotek Inc • Full-time

Jun 2015 - Jul 2018 • 3 yrs 1 mo

Led high-impact mechanical design and R&D projects across the Nuclear, Medical, and Industrial sectors. • Nuclear Robotics (Rolls Royce Nuclear): Designed remote-operated robotic crawlers for generator inspection. Developed tooling that achieved 100% weld inspection coverage (a 70% increase) while reducing inspection time by 60%. • Medical Device Design (Buffalo Filter): Engineered surgical smoke filtration devices using iterative design and rapid prototyping, reducing development time by 60%. • Industrial R&D (Rich Products): Developed innovative food-service machinery using FDM 3D printing and established company-wide CAD standards. • Process Optimization (New Way Air Bearings): Leveraged SolidWorks Design Tables to streamline engineering workflows, cutting initial design phases by 50%.