Dear Hiring Manager,
At Halcyon Industrial Systems I built and tested two prototype fixtures, validating fit and function against requirements before any production tooling was committed, and I specified the bearings, fasteners, and motors from vendor catalogs while keeping the BOM current in the PLM system across four revisions. I am Leila Haddad, a mechanical engineer in Cincinnati with five years in product design and manufacturing support. I passed the NCEES FE Mechanical exam, hold my EIT, and am accruing experience toward PE licensure. Mill Creek Hardware Labs keeps the model, the analysis, and the tooling close together, which is the setting where I do my best engineering.
At Kestrel Product Group I designed enclosure and bracket assemblies in SolidWorks for three consumer hardware products and released fully dimensioned drawings with GD&T to ASME Y14.5 plus complete BOMs. On a load-bearing chassis, I ran tolerance stack-up and FEA in ANSYS, then redesigned two ribs to pass a 1.5 safety factor while cutting mass 12 percent. Working with the contract manufacturer on DFM and DFA, I reduced one assembly from 22 parts to 14 and lowered annual tooling cost by about 18,000 dollars.
What I bring beyond the SolidWorks and ANSYS work is a Certified SolidWorks Professional credential and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, both pointed at the same goal of catching a problem at the bench or the drawing before it costs anything on the floor. I can share references from Kestrel Product Group and Halcyon, and I am open most afternoons next week for a call. If a sketch of how I approach a tolerance or DFM review would be useful, I can put one together.