Ian Zabel
Senior Mechanical Engineer at Collins Aerospace
Oregon City, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Zabel is a Senior Mechanical Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing aircraft and rocket systems, currently developing HUDs, EVS, and helmet-mounted displays at Collins Aerospace. He blends aerospace-focused systems engineering with practical prototyping skills across sheet metal, injection molding, additive manufacturing, and CNC/manual machining, and routinely uses SolidWorks and MathCAD to drive precise, manufacturable designs. Ian has led propulsion and controls teams, contributed to a 100 km-altitude liquid rocket preliminary design, and designed satellite deployment mechanisms for ISS release—demonstrating both high-altitude ambition and spaceflight hardware practicality. Comfortable in small, dedicated teams, he also ran internal 3D-printing operations for Boeing 777X interiors, showing an unusual mix of large-program product delivery and rapid-prototype agility.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering at Portland State University
English
Github Skills (8)
ipa7
logistics7
fuel7
optimization5
liquid5
vehicle-routing-problem4
cad4
recovery2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
IanZabel/3DPrinting
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
IanZabel/DesignOptimization
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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