My name is Scott Harlan and I am a professional mechanical engineer based in Salinas, California.  I have designed and managed for a variety of companies around the world as both an employee and engineering consultant. This design experience has included agricultural equipment, trailers, military vehicles, motorcycles, and aircraft ground support equipment.  

Over twenty years of mobile equipment design experience has included a wide array of prototype machinery, fabrications and machine components.  I have an intimate familiarity with the capabilities and limitations of fabricating processes typical to mobile equipment.  This includes an understanding of the tolerances produced through flame cutting, plasma cutting, laser cutting, and water jet cutting.  The design of sand castings, investment castings, die castings, and plastic molded parts is also within the scope of my experience.

In addition to machine design experience I have substantial experience managing engineering projects, groups, and departments. Some of these engineering projects have included the intricacies of coordinating engineering efforts from different engineering groups around the world.  Many projects included developing prototypes on short time frames with tight budgets. Other projects have been tightly focused on improving machine cost or reliability. If you need help managing a mechanical engineering project or group, I can help.