John Dunn

Current

• Staff Mechanical Engineer at Sun Microsystems

Past

• R&D Lead, Refrigeration Design Engineer at Neslab Instruments (Now part of Thermo Electron)

Education

• University of New Hampshire
• University of New Hampshire
• Clarkson University

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Connections

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Industry

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

John Dunn’s Summary

Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with extensive experience in product development. Broad mechanical engineering skill set, with a specialty in heat transfer and thermal system design.

Product Development - help define product architecture, write specifications, perform analysis, create designs, test and verify, transition to manufacturing.

Manage product development programs. Coordinate efforts with engineering resources, suppliers, manufacturing partners, and cross-discipline development teams

Advanced Product Development work, bring new technologies into product development efforts, weigh business needs as well as technical advantages in the decision making process

John Dunn’s Specialties:

Special focus on heat transfer, fluid mechanics and control systems

CFD simulation used in the design of electronics enclosures.

Extensive experience using Six-Sigma design practices

Sheetmetal, Machined parts, and plastic parts design.

Refrigeration system design, build, and testing.

Fluid handling/pumping system design

Component reliability and lifetime estimation

Hands-on engineer, capable of building and testing prototypes. Experience using machine shop tools

John Dunn’s Experience

• Staff Mechanical Engineer

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2000 — Present (8 years 9 months)

  Manage mechanical engineering efforts for New Product development programs, using both internal and outside resources
  
  Mechanical and Thermal Design of Commercial and Networking Server Products
  
  Transition design work into product builds with outside manufacturing partners

• R&D Lead, Refrigeration Design Engineer

  Neslab Instruments (Now part of Thermo Electron)

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

  September 1993 — September 2000 (7 years 1 month)

  Research and Development Lead Engineer
  
  New applications of existing heating/cooling technologies
  
  Evaluate new technologies for practical application in company products
  
  Responsible for design and support of Cascaded Refrigeration products.
  
  Earlier tasks included Mechanical Design and Project Management of New and Custom product development projects.

John Dunn’s Education

• University of New Hampshire

  M.S. Mechanical Engineering , Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Control Systems , 1994 — 2000

  Employed as an engineer full time, married with kids while earning this degree.

• University of New Hampshire

  BS, Mechanical Engineering , Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Control Systems , 1990 — 1993

  Graduated Cum Laude

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Beta Pi - Engineering Honor Society
  Full time employment (self-supported) while attending school.

• Clarkson University

  None , Mechanical Engineering , 1984 — 1988

  Leave of absence after Junior Year

  Activities and Societies:

  Production Director - WNTC College Radio Station

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