Senior Six D management pioneered many of the engineering testing, data collection, and analysis technologies and methods that are today standard throughout the industry – and we apply this expertise and experience each project we undertake.
Today we offer a complete range of engineering services and products to solve and/or support the testing and analysis needs of our clients. We also provide education, training, and consulting to help solve the unique and complex mechanical engineering challenges of each client.
Mike has four decades of project engineering and management experience in engineering services. He started Six DOF Testing & Analysis Inc. in 2001. Prior to 6D, Mike co-founded the engineering testing company Manta Corporation. At Manta, he balanced technical and sales activities within a testing and analysis group that included an automotive-targeted joint venture in Detroit, the creation of which he spearheaded in 1996 and managed as a start-up. He also served as the technical director of testing programs and pursued strategies for penetration into several testing markets, including off-highway vehicles, metals processing, and machine tool equipment.
Over the past 40+ years, Garth has led numerous structural dynamic test and finite element analysis projects for the automotive, aerospace, consumer product, electric power, off-highway, and heavy manufacturing industries. Garth is an expert in structural dynamics design validation and problem-solving through integrating operating testing, modal testing, and finite element analysis disciplines. Garth serves as our senior project engineer where he develops new accounts for 6D’s engineering services business; develops proposals defining technical approach and costing; and manages engineering services projects. Garth brings more than a decade of experience in mechanical engineering software product management.
David’s engineering career spans more than 40 years. During this time, he has focused on testing, data analysis, dynamics, noise control, and program management. His background includes formal and experiential applications of acoustics and noise control as well as the interpretation and successful application of government noise standards. David develops and implements applied mathematical techniques to experimental data analysis. He also merges available tools (analytical, experimental, and theoretical) for effective problem-solving. David brings more than 30 years of MATLAB® experience to the company. In addition, David has been a part-time instructor for the Mechanical Engineering Departments of three universities.
In a career spanning more than 40 years, David has focused on design, development, testing and analysis with two multinational corporations. He brings a wide range of experience in analysis and product development to 6D. David has worked in the areas of stress, vibration and finite element analysis, simulation and testing. His forte is engineering forensics – “Why did it fail?”.
Steve is a professional engineer with more than 25 years of design, analysis, testing, and project management experience in the automotive, machine tool and consumer product industries. Steve provides engineering and finite element analysis expertise to clients in the areas of design, development and testing.
Chin’s formal training at Northeast Dianli University in China was in thermo power engineering and heat transfer application. He also worked as a lecturer at his alma matter for five years before spending nearly a decade as chief engineer at Humen Power Plant in China, where he was assigned to manage and support the LM5000 gas turbine power generators. Chin’s experience abroad has included gas turbine repair training in Germany and New Zealand, then several years as a test lab supervisor for Magna Powertrain in Canada, where he led a team on automobile oil pump developing and testing. More recently he spent a few years at Yancey Bros as a test cell supervisor and test engineer, before joining 6D in 2011.
Prutha joins 6D as a project engineer specializing in structural dynamics and vibration. She earned a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune and completed her Master’s in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Prutha’s thesis was based on studying mode shapes and damage detection using digital image correlation (optical vibration measurement technique). She worked for 6D as a co-op prior to joining the company full-time.
Matt is a Six D consultant and the founder of Structural Dynalysis. His career in structural dynamics began at the University of Cincinnati where he worked as a co-op student at Roush-Anatrol in field of automotive NVH. After completing his MSME from UC-SDRL, he worked for several consulting firms such as Manta Corporation and Dynasim Research before founding Structural Dynalysis in 2002 specializing in structural dynamics, vibration testing & analysis, signal processing and driveline torsional dynamics. In addition to testing services, Structural Dynalysis provides thorough Torsional Vibration Analysis (TVA) with comprehensive reporting tailored to the needs of the customer. Matt also enjoys riding and restoring vintage motorcycles, woodworking, and travel.
Cody is experienced in many aspects of instrumentation – strain gages, LVDT’s, string pots, accelerometers — along with thermocouple application, calibration. His data logging experience also extends to using Somat eDAQ and National Instruments (NI) cDAQ data recorders. He is also adept at data reduction using NI DIAdem data analysis software and a 6D customer’s proprietary data analysis software.
Yan has been with 6D since 2014. As Controller, Yan is responsible for operations and financials. She received her undergraduate degree in China and later earned a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Cincinnati. Yan brings to 6D four years of public accounting experience and hands-on experience with regard to corporate operations and taxes.
Bob is a Structural Engineer by training, but spent his early career developing software to support engineering design. That led to many years of consulting with, and training, cross-functional teams in product definition. Over the last 15 years he has led marketing, business development, and sales teams in various industries.
Bob’s career began more than 35 years ago at SDRC (Now Siemens PLM). Since that time he has gained experience in marketing and communications for engineering & manufacturing software, testing, product development and related disciplines.
