DAVID K. LUCAS
1602 Fordham Circle
Altoona, PA. 16602-7394
Home: 814-941-9092,  Work: 814-696-8066, Cell: 814-935-1581
 Email: MrCreo@MrCreo.com
 www.MrCreo.com
Professional Synopsis
Over 30 Years as a consultant and employee in mechanical and electrical design, with experience in medical,
robotics, FDA, aerospace, aircraft, railroad, heavy vehicular, marine, machine automation,
telecommunications, fiber optics and petrochemical industries . Dedicated and motivated in mentoring
individual.
Expertise with:
 30000+ hours Pro/Engineer® Creo
 10000+ hours PDMLink 9.1®
 12000+ hours Pro/Intralink®
 6000+ hours Pro/PDM
 6000+ hours Anvil 1000®
 10000+ hours CADAM®
 10000+ hours AutoCAD®
 2000+ hours Solidworks® 2012
Solid background in the contractual process including vendor negotiations, contractual review, machine tools
& die operations, injection molding, and first approval process. Have knowledge of ASME Y14.100, ISO
9000 and ASME Y14.5M-1994 Dimensioning And Tolerancing also FDA 510 (k) approval process.
Through years of “in the breach” execution of design solutions and strategies, as opposed to “borrowing a
client’s watch then telling them the time of day”, I am a professional able to execute and lead at the highest
level.
Highlights of Experience 1980 to Present for
DKL Designs of Altoona, Pennsylvania – (1985-1994), (1998-2003), and 2005
Consultant Design - Senior Design Development Engineer
Have provided consulting services to the following companies nationwide:
Employee to:
Veeder-Root, A Danaher Corporation - 2709 Route 764, Duncansville, PA 16635. - 2005 to Present:
Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4.0® PDMLink 9.1®, Solidworks® 2012, AutoCAD®
Designed Veeder-Root’s new On-Board Refueling Vapor Recovery (ORVR) Hanging Hardware
System designed to detect ORVR vehicles and prevent air ingestion that leads to vaporized product.
Developed new global Vapor recover product using PDMLink ProjectLink. Developed CAD
standards and automation for the use of, Start Parts, ISO Formats, Merged Parts, Skeleton Parts,
Material Libraries, and Configuration files.
Consultant to:
Cooper Wiring Devices - Peachtree City, GA. - 2005: Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0®
Completed plastic injection molded assembly design of parts for commercial sale of wiring outlets.
We used Web Conferencing Central for communicating the many design concepts iterations.
Pertech Resources, Inc. - Riverton, WY. - 2005: Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0®
Completed plastic injection molded assembly of parts for a point of sale printer case design.
We used OneSpace.net for communicating the many design concepts iterations.
Employee to:
Image Guide, Inc. – Baltimore, MD. 2002 to 2004: Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0®
Senior Mechanical Designer/Manufacturing Liaison - Intralink 3.3 installation and administration,
while redesigning the RCM surgical robotic module, to meet FDA requirements. This startup
company was supported by GE medical systems USA.
Consultant to:
Lockheed Martin - Air Traffic Management Systems – Rockville, MD. - 2002
Electro-Mechanical Packaging of Rack mounted electronic equipment.
Lockheed Martin, NE & SS – Baltimore, MD. – 2001 to 2002: Pro/Engineer ®
Intralink 3.2 implementation for Net fires missile development programs and design engineering of a
composite missile canister on Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program.
Moen – North Olmsted, Ohio – 2001: Pro/Engineer ®
Design of new Faucets product line with Pro/Surface.
Lockheed Martin – Scranton, Pennsylvania – 2000 to 2001: Pro/Engineer ®
Reverse engineering of a 2000 lb. Laser Guided Bomb tail section and wing deployment linkage system using
Intralink 2.0 database manager.
Brashear Systems, LP – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – 1999 to 2000: Pro/Engineer ®
Tooling of large optics for Air Borne Laser (ABL) project, in conjunction with Intralink 2.0 implementation
on NT work stations.
Cannondale Motorcycle – Bedford, Pennsylvania – 1999: Pro/Engineer ®
New Engine development, castings, forgings, extrusions, weldments, and machine parts.
Hekimian Laboratories, Inc (Spirent). – Rockville, Maryland – 1999: Pro/Engineer ®
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) test system design using Electro/Mechanical Packaging skills for a nineteeninch rack and panel, for sale to phone service providers.
General Dynamics – Woodbridge, Virginia – 1998 to 1999: Pro/Engineer ®
Development of Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV) development of the driver control linkages
also assisted on the chine flap mechanism, hatch, turret, haul, exhaust, and intake design.
Employee to:
AMP Inc. (Tyco) – Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – 1994 to 1998: Pro/Engineer ®
Development Engineer – Design and development of optical products for manufacture. Experience in fiber
optic transceiver and switch product design, with background in fabrication of tooling for polishing device.
Consultant to:
Tompson Consumer Electronics (RCA) - Lancaster, Pennsylvania - 1991 to 1994: CADAM ®
Designed automated systems for modular manufacturing of televisions.
From 1985 to 1990
ADF/NASA - Cleveland, OH.
Pandrol/Jackson - Ludington, MI.
Oshkosh Trucks - Oshkosh, WI.
Applied Research Laboratory/UT - Austin, TX.
Giddings and Lewis - Milwaukee, WI.
Falk/Sundstrand Aviation - Milwaukee, WI.
SPECO Aerospace- LRAACA- Springfield, OH.
Sundstrand Aviation - Rockford, IL.
Bell Aerospace/Textron - Buffalo, NY.
Grumman Aerospace - Bethpage, Long Island, NY.
Employee to:
Lockheed Missile and Space Center - Austin, Texas 1980 to 1985
Education and Training
Courses in Electro/Mechanical Engineering from UT Austin, on site at Lockheed Non Degreed. PTC certified
Courses in Pro/Engineer 440 hours and Mechanica Motion/Structure, Drafting, Geometric Tolerance, Tool &
Die, and Injection Molding. Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Pro-User Organization
of Parametric Technology Corporation, and American National Standards Institute. Certificates of
achievement in Solidworks with Advanced Part and Surface Modeling.
Reference links:
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Recommendation from M. Just of LMCO
Recommendation from M. Brattoli of Moen