Griffin McGuire
CAWI
Fabrication Consultant  ·  Exotic Materials Specialist

Shop floor experience with advanced and specialty materials — carried from production welding and regulated fabrication into semiconductor, precision manufacturing, and high-performance systems. When the material falls outside the standard frame of reference, that background is the difference.

The back of this card lists what the work actually covers. Below is the fuller picture — where the hands-on background in each area comes from, and what that means for a consulting engagement.

  • GaN, SiC, InP & Refractory Alloys Compound semiconductors and refractory materials require fabrication and handling protocols most shops have never encountered. Technical knowledge of chip fab environments, material behavior at process temperatures, and the contamination sensitivities that make standard shop practice insufficient.
  • Semiconductor Fabrication & Packaging Familiarity with semiconductor manufacturing environments — cleanroom discipline, process equipment, packaging subassemblies, and the systems that support wafer-level and die-level production. Grounded in microcontroller and electronics work that bridges fab and assembly.
  • Cleanroom-Compliant Welding & Passivation Orbital GTAW on high-purity stainless, passivation to ASTM A967 and A380, and the documentation those environments require. First-hand production experience in pharmaceutical and food-grade regulated environments — where process control and traceability are not optional.
  • Custom Subassemblies for Data Centers & High Performance Computing Hands-on fabrication of data center infrastructure components — cooling systems, structural subassemblies, and precision-built assemblies for high-density compute environments. Includes work across duplex stainless, AL-6XN, aluminum, and glass-filled engineering polymers.
  • Specialty Alloys & High-Performance Materials Duplex stainless (2205), AL-6XN, high-purity 316L, and super austenitic grades. Material selection, welding procedure development, filler selection, and corrosion performance in aggressive or regulated service environments. Supported by CAWI certification and active pursuit of full CWI.

The consulting work is grounded in over a decade of hands-on production experience before it was consulting at all. That includes production welding on aluminum and steel subassemblies, GTAW fabrication for pharmaceutical and food-grade stainless systems under passivation requirements, and ownership of a custom metal fabrication business — managing production, quality, materials, and client relationships end to end.

That foundation expanded into adjacent territory over time: CNC machine builds and precision subassemblies, electronics and microcontroller work, data center infrastructure fabrication, additive and cast component integration, and the engineering polymer work that shows up when a design calls for glass-filled nylon or a structural polymer in a precision assembly. None of it happened in isolation – each area built on what came before it.

The result is a consultant who can walk a production floor, read the weld procedure, understand the material datasheet, and also understand the system that part goes into. That range is what makes the exotic materials work different from what a specialist in any single discipline can offer.

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