Dennis M. Hook
37173 Creekside Terrace #142
Fremont, CA 94536

Sr. Mechanical Designer/Engineer

SUMMARY: Twenty years experience in Mechanical and Electro-mechanical design-engineering.  Proficient in ANSI, MIL, DOD, UL and ISO Documentation Standards.  Thirteen years with AutoCAD (to Release 2000), with Mechanical Desktop, including AutoCAD AME and 3D solid modeling.  Proficient with Solidworks 97 Plus/98 (training by GEI, Foster City, CA).

EXPERIENCE: Sr. Mechanical Designer/Engineer
Design and layout of mechanical and machine part assemblies, mechanisms, tooling, fixtures/jigs, structural steel assemblies, sheetmetal packaging and weldments.  Experienced in Hi-Vacuum and Ultra-High Vacuum design criteria for semiconductor process equipment; chamber welding, wafer transport mechanisms, process control design. Experienced in high frequency RF Microwave design criteria; RF chassis design and machine parts, enclosures. Experienced in design criteria involving seismic and chassis separation.  Familiar with machine shop practices and techniques, and working with shop vendors in requistion of parts. Experienced with mathmatical formulae in common physics and mechanics in design criteria.

Sr. Electro-Mechanical Designer/Engineer

Experienced in design and layout of electronic packaging, card cage, EMI enclosures and machine-level design of chassis wiring/cabling.  Also experienced in microwave, rack and panel chassis design, pneumatic/hydraulics/control systems design.

WORK HISTORY: For the past 20 years, my employment has included a variety of positions in Mechanical Design at the following companies throughout the Bay Area:

 Contract Positions (varying in length from 3 months to 1.5 years):
 
  Davis Instruments Inc. - Hayward, CA
  Computer Aided Systems Inc. - Hayward, CA
 ThermaWave Inc. - Fremont, CA
 Teradyne/MegaTest - San Jose, CA
 RPI Entertainment - San Francisco, CA
 Litton Electron Devices - San Carlos, CA
 OnTrak Systems - Milpitas, CA
 GE Nuclear Energy - San Jose, CA
 TIW Systems - Sunnyvale, CA
 Loral Aerospace - San Jose, CA
 VCR Group - South San Francisco, CA
 Amdahl Corporation - Sunnyvale, CA
 TCI International - Mountain View, CA
 Varian Thin Film and Radiation Divisions - Palo Alto, CA
 Raynet - Menlo Park, CA
 Olin/Mesa - Mountain View, CA
 Argo Systems - Sunnyvale, CA
 Avantek - Milpitas, CA
 Signetics - Sunnyvale, CA
 Eaton Vacuum Systems - Santa Clara, CA

 Regular Positions:
 TIW Systems - Sunnyvale, CA (2+ years)
 Antenna Specialists Corporation - San Carlos, CA (2+ years)
 Ampex Corporation - Redwood City, CA (1 1/2  year)
 Dalmo Victor Company, Belmont, CA (3+ years)