Since 2004 I have worked independently as Burrowes Engineering, LLC, contracting mechanical design and prototype fabrication, mostly in the scientific and technology development fields. My clients include: Ball Aerospace, SAIC, Rocky Mountain Instruments Laser Division, First
RF, Kevron, Materials Research, and Medical Simulation Corporation. For a sampling of my work, go to Past Projects.
History:
November 2003 to September 2004: RMI Laser Division. Hired as mechanical engineer, responsible for evolving R&D designs into commercially producible hardware. Contact: 303-664-9000. RMI has continued as a customer for Burrowes Engineering.
December 2001 to September 2003: Bio-Strand, Inc. Hired as a mechanical engineer, for the design of automated bio sample handling equipment used in the development and manufacture of high-density diagnostic testing arrays. While there I secured a joint venture between Parent company Precision System Science USA, and their customer ProteomTech, Inc., to develop an
automated protein refolding
instrument, a tool used in genomics and proteomics. I am named as co-inventor on
USPTO Application Number
20050037486A1, “Apparatus for Refolding Proteins”. PSS closed the Colorado facility in September 2003 at the end of this project, and although I was offered an engineering position in California, I chose to remain here in Colorado. Contact: Ken Taniguchi or Kim Obata 925-960-9180
May 2000 to December 2001: American Consulting Group, Inc.: Designer and CAD department manager, responsible for new telecommunications site design.
May 1999 to April 2000: Freelance design, mostly telescope
mounts.
September 1987 to April 1999: Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO: Hired in as Senior Prototype Machinist, moved into building space flight instruments for RME, AC-130, SWAS,
SIRTF (now Spitzer Observatory), MIPS, IRS and other programs. Later assigned to the imaging lab where I first recognized my present business concept: A one stop shop for scientists, incorporating problem solving, concept and detail design, and fabrication, with all the logistics in between. Ball has since been a customer with Burrowes Engineering.
My philosophy: I am results oriented, not like that guy in the office that makes everyone work harder and longer. Instead, I focus on the exact end result we want to get to, and work toward it, applying creative thinking to solve problems, find methods, gather resources, and achieve the result that matches performance objectives. Of course I’m interested in what’s been done before, or existing ideas, but I am ready to get unconventional and come up with new ideas. I like working with people, and one of my favorite parts of engineering is the interaction with my customers to work out all the tradeoffs of things like performance, cost, serviceability, schedule, weight or size budgets, and so on. It’s all about the desired result.
I've built things all my life, and for a glimpse of other things I've done,
go to: http://www.iseethroughmyeyes.com/
, a site I've just begun.
