Ed Salter\'s Resume, 10/2012

1. Resume of Ed Salter
Objective: Contract and consulting work as a senior mechanical engineer in So. California
Education: B.S. Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University
Certificates: California EIT; Certified SolidWorks Professional #117
Special Training: 16 hr. course on GD&T (ASME Y-14.5 2009) Feb. 2011; 8 hr. course on
“Failure Modes and Effects Analysis” (FMEA), Jan. 2011; “Six Sigma”; TQM; “Design for
Manufacturability & Assembly”
Patents: US Patent #4110631, “Wind Driven Generator”; US Application # US 2009/0196748 A1
“Wind Turbine Improvements”; US Patent # 6691702, “Portable oxygen concentration system and
method of using the same” by William Scot Appel, David Phillip Winter, Brian Kenneth Sward,
Masato Sugano, Edmund Salter, James A. Bixby
Papers: “Large Improvements in Wind Energy Resource Utilization” - Presented at the Clean
Technology Conference & Expo, Houston, 2009, and based on Salter's “Wake Convergence and
Swirl Cancellation Hypothesis” involving wake dynamics downstream of counter-rotating, multi-
rotor wind turbine arrays.
Areas of Expertise:
3D CAD and PDM – Expert-level solid modeling skills - Certified SolidWorks Professional. Over
30,000 hours experience. 3 yrs. experience working with PDM Enterprise.
Engineering Design and Analysis – Extensive experience spanning a wide range of commercial,
industrial, medical, pharmaceutical, printing and photo processing, aerospace and military and energy
related products, special purpose machines and tooling. Excellent analytical skills, vibration and
thermal analysis, numerical methods using spreadsheets, “MatLab”, “MathCad”, and finite element
analysis using SolidWorks “Simulation”
Special Purpose Machines and Factory Automation – Wide-ranging experience in the design of
special purpose machines, including two instruments for automating bio lab processes; subsystems
for a digital photo printing “minilab”; pharmaceutical processing machinery; vending machine
assemblies comprised of injection molded plastic parts; Machines for production of recreational
composite-based products. Systems involved extensive use of hydraulics and pneumatics, as well as
rotary and linear actuators using steppers and servos.
Electromechanical Packaging – Designed electromechanical packaging for many commercial,
industrial, and military projects. Work included cable routing, connector selection, design for shock,
vibration, and EMI attenuation.
Injection Molded Plastics and Composites -- Expert in injection molded plastic design using
SolidWorks, including complex shapes for cases and bezels, etc., as well as large assemblies and
machines comprised mainly of plastic parts. Broad experience in design and fabrication of advanced
composites.
Rapid Prototyping - Extensive experience in the use of stereolithography, “3D printing”, rubber/
plaster molds.
Material and Process Selection - Experience in material and process selection, finishing, etc. for
metals and non-metals, including high temperature, vacuum-service and chemical-resistant materials.
Design & Testing Standards – MIL-STD-100; ASME Y14.5; MIL-S-901D (U.S. Navy)

2. Experience:
Greenward Technologies, Inc. – Co-founder & CTO, Jan. 2008 to Dec. 2012 (part time) – Concept
development, prototyping and testing on a range of programs in the renewable energy field. Invented a new
class of slewing ring bearings to be used for blade pitch and yaw applications on large wind turbines.
Ametek Programmable Power – (contract) June – Dec. 2011 – Mechanical Lead Engineer on Ametek’s
portion of eCASS (electronic Consolidated Automated Support System), consisting of seven rack mounted
power electronics and monitoring modules for shipboard installation. Reviewed all existing designs for
manufacturablity, spec compliance and survivability of Medium Hammer Test in accordance with MIL-S-
901D, and revised designs where required. Designed a new slide system for handling the very high loads levels
during testing. Completed the documentation packages, including Navy Level 3 drawings.
Nordson Asymtek (contract), Sept. 2010 – March, 2011 – Managed a program to obtain a Certification of
Compliance with SEMI S2 and S6 for a Jet Valve test module that is manufactured by Asymtek and had been
in production for several years. The work involved implementation of a set of electrical and mechanical
modifications and component changes; re-design of the non-compliant component mounts and the mounting
system for the Jet Valve; insuring that all issues identified in the FMEA had been properly addressed;
documenting the changes; overseeing the re-write of operator’s manuals; and coordinating all activities with
the external auditing company in San Diego leading to obtaining the Certification of Compliance. All work
was completed per the original schedule.
Northrop Grumman I.S. (contract) Jan. 2010 to Aug. 2010: Worked on 3 programs: Part of a team
working on design validation of cables for the BACN Global Hawk program, 2 mo.; Lead M.E. on “Trident
Warrior” program - designed mounting solutions for avionics gear, laptop computers, and secure network
components for a Cessna 404 “Titan” , did flight safety analyses and submitted to DER for approval, 3 mo.;
Designed high density rack mounting solutions for “Valiant Shield” program for MIDS-LVTs, ruggedized
servers, power supplies and secure network components installed in a Gulfstream II business jet.
June, 2008 to Jan. 2010 (contract): Chief Engineer on design and testing of scale model wind turbine quad
array system.
Invitrogen, Sept. 2007 to June, 2008 (contract): Lead mechanical engineer on development of two lab
instruments, "Benchpro 2100" and "Bench Pro 4100", for automating time-consuming processes.
Envirepel, Inc., April, 2007 to Sept. 2007 (contract): Design and development of low emissions trash-to-
energy system.
Downforce Engineering - June, 2004 to April 2007: Startup business designing and manufacturing auto
racing aerodynamic components. (http://www.g-stream.com/). Developed and tested new types of race car
rear wings and front splitters – a total of fourteen products - utilizing the latest in low Reynolds airfoil
technology and carbon fiber composite construction, as well as a family of wing mount struts for various
applications. Included NDS testing, and on-track testing using data loggers. Company was sold in Feb. 2007,
but ownership of the “G-Stream” trademark was retained. In Nov. 2010, Ford's Racing division announced
that their Mustang Boss 302S factory race car for the World Challenge GTS Series would be sold with the
G-Stream Comp 800 wing installed.
At HP San Diego Division, June 2003 - June 2004, contract on these projects:
Home Photo Printing Department: Mechanical System Architecture Lead and Industrial Design
Liaison on Model 8750 Super B size photo printer project.
Special Printing Systems Department: Developed mechanical system and set of metrics to
evaluate performance of high-speed paper transports for mass-mailer inkjet printing using “Lab
View”. Evaluated two media transport machines, wrote report.
2003 (pro-bono work): Designed a high-performance, advanced composite six meter wind turbine rotor
blade for an existing 50kW wind turbine using bladder molded carbon and glass prepreg. Presented Final
Report to the staff at the National Wind Test Center near Golden, CO in April, 2004. Project was the
subject of numerous articles in composites industry magazines. Process is now being used by Southwest
Windpower, Inc. for blade production.

3. Phogenix Imaging, LLC (partnership of HP and Kodak): Oct. 2001 thru May 2003: Lead
engineer on critical subsystems on a revolutionary new commercial digital photo processing system
“Digital FX”. Unit won numerous industry awards.
Metallic Power, Inc., LLC – 2001: Regenerative Zinc Fuel Cell System, Field Test Units. Worked
on the design of the frame structure, the enclosure, and the routing of plumbing and electrical
cables.
Discovery Partners International, Nexus Biosystems (contract) 2001: Worked on automated
capping and bar code reading machine; Automated Magazine Loader
MEC Designs, 2000 – 2001 (contract): Designed special purpose machines for composite product
manufacturing. Products included a hockey stick molding press, golf shaft wrapping machines, a
vaulting pole autoclave, and an automated arrow sorter.
Torrey Pines Research, 2000 (contract): Design of a Thermal Transfer Overlay system and a
hand-held barcode reader and printer.
Irori Division, Discovery Partners International, 1998 – 2000 (contract): Worked on the
“CleVap” system (cleavage and evaporation). Work included a large vacuum centrifuge with
aluminum chamber castings; the electrically-driven access door latch; the frame and enclosure
panels. Also re-designed an automated tray handling system, and designed a waste fluid collection
and storage system.
Expertise Engineering, 1997 - 98 (contract): Designed a complex assembly of 14 injection
molded plastic parts using Solidworks for the “Hot Choice” vending machine; a spa chemistry
system “Spa Mate”; a complex plastic reflector for an airport approach strobe, and a case for a
computer for taxi cabs.
Eagle Eaton Leonard, 1996– 97: New generation numerical-controlled tubing bender “Vector
Bend”. Worked on the “Y” axis drive, electromechanical packaging and other subsystems using
“Pro Engineer”.
Dudley Technical Group, 1993-95 (contract): Design work on 2-stage epicylic gearbox for the
"All-Sky Monitor" system in the "X-ray Timing Experiment" (XTE) space vehicle using
AutoCad
Sierracin-Magnedyne, 1990-93 – Manager, Mechanical Engineering: Directed efforts of
mechanical engineers and AutoCad drafters on many custom brushless DC Motor Drive & drive
projects, including: Portable radar pedestal (PSTAR); 3.5 meter ultra-precision astronomical
telescope drives; Main Servo Drive for a computer tape library; Roll axis radar drive for F15 Eagle.
Customers included Raytheon; Hughes El Segundo, Lockheed Sanders; Motorola, and Martin
Marietta.