Victorinox

2016-2017

David worked as a lead engineer at Victorinox Travel Gear from 2017 to 2018. Leading a small team of engineers and CAD designers he built up the engineering know-how in-house for lightweight, complex injection molded parts, that had to withstand extreme loads, a task that was formerly sub-contracted to suppliers in Southeast Asia.

• Research & Development of molds, luggage components and lightweight structures for the travel gear industry, from concept to prototype to large scale production.

• Design & engineering of highly complex injection molded parts as class-A surfaces, ready to be used for tooling, including draft angle analysis, thickness analysis, and basic mold flow analysis.

• Design & engineering of fully parametric, class-A surface, compression & vacuum forming aluminum molds.

• Validation of parts and assemblies via FEA.

• Travel to manufacturing partners and setting up best practices, coordination and tooling in China, Vietnam, Thailand and Japan.

• Training of new CAD designers in Siemens NX and parametric class-A surfacing. Close collaboration with designers and translating their ideas into mass manufacturable components and assemblies.