Anthony Iacono

Actively manages the mechanical engineering team that designs custom industrial equipment.

Actively manages a custom automation / machine design and fabrication company by leading and collaborating with a top-notch team of skilled and highly experienced staff.

Worked in the Equipment Consulting Practice of J.S. Held specializing in equipment damage assessment, feasibility of repair versus replacement, comparable replacement analysis/estimates, actual cash value estimates, production impact resolution, and claim evaluation. J.S. Held is a global consulting firm with expertise in construction, environmental health & safety, forensic accounting, water & fire restoration, equipment, and forensic architecture & engineering matters. Established in 1974, J.S. Held brings together years of unrivaled technical expertise and unparalleled service to deliver reliable, comprehensive solutions to its clients. J.S. Held is renowned for recruiting and cultivating distinguished experts and being a trusted partner on the world's most complex environmental, construction, accounting, and economic matters.

- Designed, fabricated, tested, and installed over 15 custom pieces of mechanical equipment to achieve business needs I articulated by collaborating with stakeholders. - Drove custom mechanical equipment from conceptualization to installation by authoring technical specifications and holding vendors accountable. - Analyzed the strength of mechanical components using hand calculations and finite element analysis.

- Collaborated with engineers to design new, innovative mechanisms for scanner transportation cart - Developed, built, and evaluated experimental tests to optimize belt tension and measure flex modulus - Directed prototype part attainment and corresponded with outside vendors - Maintained life test experiment to see how reliable product servo motors are for over 1,000,000 cycles - Moderated design reviews by coordinating meetings and explaining computer models - Completed excel worksheets able to solve complicated force diagrams automatically and create intuitive graphs - Identified cause of failure in conducted life tests on variable height machine legs

- Repaired and upgraded automated assembly machines for car glove box paddles - Designed fixtures for gauging and tools to streamline and improve production - Fabricated and assembled components for injection molding machines and various hand tools and gauges - Attained material for projects such as linear actuators, aluminum extrusion, and steel plates

- Developed tools that aided in coax cable production - Achieved significant progress in automating cable assembly process - Designed guards for multiple production machines - Engineered structure to support more than 20,000 pounds - Contacted and collaborated with machinists to fabricate designed parts