RESUME
for SCOTT DAVIS
Mission
Viejo, CA 92691
(714) 473 2586
Design Engineer, Toyota Racing
Development, August 2003 to present.
Engineering design for Toyota IRL and NASCAR race engines and support systems. Modeling and drawings created with Pro/E software. Scope includes project design, modeling, drafting and debugging.
Track Support Engineer, Toyota
Racing Development, November 2000 to August 2003.
Job Description: Technical liaison and company
representative to specific race teams.
Engine scheduling, spares procurement and general interface with team
management and engineering as well as travel to all events. Engine monitoring using real real time
telemetry, tuned the engine systems (fuel mapping, traction control) to the
track conditions per driver/engineer comments and data analysis under tight
time constraints and team pressure.
Previous driver/team combinations with TRD include
the following:
2003 A.J. Foyt IV 2002 Christian Fittipaldi 2001
Tora Takagi
Foyt Racing/IRL NewmanHaas Racing/CART Walker Racing/CART
Data Engineer, Payton-Coyne Racing, 2/98-11/00. Maintainence
of Pi data acquisition hardware/software, radios and general electrical
hardware, analyzing data to help support the head engineer and general team
support jobs. During the race, duties expanded in the form of fuel
engineer, forecasting pit stop windows, making fuel setting suggestions and
making sure the car had enough fuel to make the next stop.
Personal Interests and Hobbies
Hobbies and activities: Light machine work, the home garage includes a MIG welder, 1952
Bridgeport M head mill, and 1943 South Bend 10L lathe. Recently turned a custom flywheel for a
friend's project car, a stretched/widened Triumph Spitfire with a Lexus V8.
Currently installing a turbo 4AG into a Triumph Spitfire and converting a
diesel Vanagon to run on vegetable oil.
Electric cars: Currently own and drive
daily a 1997 Chevy S10 electric. Designed
and built a set of clamper circuits to fit on each battery module of the
previous electric truck to hold the module voltages in the string relatively
constant through the final charge stage by shunting excess current around each
battery when it exceeded a particular limit.
Banger rallying- the art of taking an end
of life vehicle and driving across a continent, completing challenges along the
way. The last rally was from London,
England to Naples, Italy. Challenges
along the way included number of countries visited in one day, number of
mountain passes completed in one day (Switzerland) and a final task of finding
three locations in southern Italy by a picture and short description but
without location information. Winner of
the 2005 “Staples 2 Naples” challenge.
Current software proficiencies include:
Pro/E 2001, Wildfire
Pi Software and logging boxes
Matlab, Simulink
AutoCAD
Windows, UNIX
References available upon request
Last updated July 2005