Leonardo Castillo
Los Angeles,CA
Summary
Enthusiastic individual experienced in analyzing issues on service calls and finding effective solutions. Offering engaging and pleasant personality with expertise building customer relationships. Outstanding diagnostics skills.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Propulsion Technician
Relativity Space
08.2022 - Current
- Working with other team members or individually to assemble engine from start to finish (valve components, engine assembly, proofing & test)
- Operation of benchtop test stands (e.g
- Leak check carts, water flow, thermal chambers)
- Executed entire assembly process by accurately interpreting set-up sheets, work orders, drawings or blueprints
- Stage, install, set-up, test and de-stage engines
- Knowledge of pressure, temperature and flow measurements devices, mechanical and electrical systems
- Working with engineering and providing feedback on work instructions and engine build process
Additive Manufacturing Lead
Relativity Space
05.2021 - 08.2022
- Performed routine equipment inspections and maintained and completed corrective actions by referring to workbooks and technical publications to determine specifications
- Maintained accurate records of time and materials required to perform repairs and service
- Trained and coached junior employees on procedures for completing daily, weekly, monthly task
- Organized work to meet demanding production goals
- Determined maintenance requirements and assigned repairs to qualified employees
- Managed team performance by training, mentoring, disciplining and motivating employees
- Created process improvements, work instructions, operation procedures and safe work environment
Additive Technician III
Rockert Lab
08.2020 - 05.2021
- Organized work to meet demanding production goals
- Performed complex mechanical alignments and calibration of equipment to quality standards
- Executed diagnostics, troubleshooting and evaluations on 3D printers, EDM, Bandsaw, Solukon etc
- Operated Machines throughout the department to ensure parts are being printed, depowdered, removed from plate and quality assurance
- Determined maintenance requirements and assigned repairs to qualified employees
- Utilized control mechanisms and hands-on procedures to operate machines
- Managed team performance by training, mentoring, disciplining and motivating employees
Additive Technician
Morf3d
01.2019 - 08.2020
- Maintained strong focus on safety and efficiency to provide comprehensive support to personnel performing skilled repairs.
- Tended to machines, troubleshot malfunctions and completed basic repairs to keep equipment fully functional and well-maintained.
- Setup on machines and breakdowns of machines. Prepping plates for prints and recycling powder for use.
- Depowdering of build after prints.
- Monitoring prints for efficiency and success of builds
- 5S of machines and department.
Structures Technician
SpaceX
08.2018 - 02.2019
- Working on the lower structure of the rocket (Octaweb) that holds the Merlin engines
- Drilling, honing using pneumatic tools, deburring, etching, painting, lock-wire and fastening inserts per SPX
- Assembly of Octaweb on test stand to undergo simulations
- Read blueprints, illustrations or specifications to determine layouts, sequences of operations or identities or relationships of parts
- S5 shop cleaning daily
- Updated logs and filled out maintenance reports with high accuracy and efficiency
Journeyman Plumber
APC
05.2011 - 09.2017
- Running a team of plumbers to ensure on time goals and budget friendly quality work while working on houses, apartments or commercial building as a Journeyman plumber
- Installing waste pipe (cast iron, ABS) as required by Iso's, running water lines (pvc, pex, copper, cpvc) from main line distributing to bath, kitchen, hose bibs, and running gas lines as well (galvanized, trac- pipe, flex)
- Interpreted blueprints to determine locations, quantities and sizes of materials required
- Independently worked on projects, while offering process coordination and cooperation with other teams
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Aerospace
Antelope Valley College
Lancaster, CA09-2019
Timeline
Sr Propulsion Technician
Relativity Space
08.2022 - Current
Additive Manufacturing Lead
Relativity Space
05.2021 - 08.2022
Additive Technician III
Rockert Lab
08.2020 - 05.2021
Additive Technician
Morf3d
01.2019 - 08.2020
Structures Technician
SpaceX
08.2018 - 02.2019
Journeyman Plumber
APC
05.2011 - 09.2017
Associate of Applied Science - Aerospace
Antelope Valley College
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