Portfolio

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Skills

  • 6 years of manufacturing and assembly experience, including:
    • Composites
    • Machining
    • Automated bonding w. cobots
    • Automated Riveting w. cobots
    • 3D printing
    • Injection molding w. robots
    • Manual assembly and bonding
  • Experience with Engineering Analysis:
    • Statistics:
      • Process control
      • Multivariable regression
    • Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
    • Optimization
    • Design of experiments
    • Vibrations analysis
    • Elementary control systems design
    • Electromagnetic Simulation
    • Multiphysics Analysis
    • EV Motor Design
  • Experience manufacturing in a regulated environment:
    • ANSI9100
    • ANSI/RIA 15.06
    • Boeing specifications
    • ISO 9000
    • ISO/TS 15066
  • Experience with MATLAB, R, and Python programming.
  • Proficient in designing, assembling, and debugging tools and fixtures.
  • Proficient with ANSYS Simulation Software: Structural, Modal, Maxwell, RMxprt, and Thermal Analysis.
  • Proficient with CAD software – CATIA V5, SOLIDWORKS, AutoDesk Inventor.
  • Leadership experience demonstrated through volunteer work.

Work Experience


Manufacturing Engineer

Jan 2017 – Present

Tool Gauge (TG) Tacoma, WA
  • Established a reputation for high-quality work delivered ahead of schedule.
  • Ensured manufacturing compliance to Boeing specifications, AS9100 requirements, and OSHA robotic safety requirements (ANSI/RIA 15.06).
  • Utilized 3D (FDM) printers to produce on-demand fixtures, test processes, and reduce the cost of existing fixtures by over 50%.
  • Designed cobotic cell supporting six part configurations saving an estimated $200,000 per year, featured on the Universal Robots website.
  • Developed software tool for tracking changes in customer purchase requests, saving hours of work every month for project managers and executives.
  • Led sprue picker (robotics) implementation of TG’s next-generation presses.
  • Designed quick-change system for sprue picker end of arm tools.
  • Programmed complicated picking operations for tools with intricate cavities.
  • Challenged the status-quo where appropriate:  

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Associate Civil Engineer

Jun 2016 – Aug 2016

City of Seattle | Seattle, WA

  • Facilitated project coordination and inter-department communication.
  • Developed procedures detecting conflicting projects in critical locations.
  • Managed and assisted communications between public and private industry stakeholders throughout the City of Seattle.

Teaching Assistant: Computer Assisted Machining and Computer Assisted Design

Apr 2015 – Jun 2016

Western Washington University | Bellingham, WA

  • Walked students through problem-solving methods when programming in G-Code, using CAD (CATIA V5), and CAM (CATIA V5 and Vericut).
  • Demonstrated troubleshooting abilities when evaluating and correcting G-Code and CAD models submitted by students.

Student Tutor: Physics, Chemistry, Math, and Statistics

Sept 2013 – June 2016

Western Washington University | Bellingham, WA

  • Educated students in technical subjects, primarily through problem-solving, intensive tutoring was possible when time allowed.
  • Collaborated with both supervising instructors and a team of my peers.

Volunteer Experience


Chair, Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Seattle Chapter 39, Jan 2021 – Present

  • Coordinated and directed monthly chapter meetings.
  • Managed chapter recovery during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Networked with local industry partners and organizations to arrange tours, contacts, and speaking events.
  • Supervised outreach events to student and national chapters.
  • Led chapter executive infrastructure improvements.

Chair-Elect, Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Seattle Chapter 39, Oct 2019 – Jan 2021

President, Society of Manufacturing Engineers: WWU Chapter

Jun 2015 – Jun 2016

  • Organized community events, groups for multiple competition entries, inter-club co-operation.
  • Facilitated the development of 3D printing maker space for the university engineering department.

Education


Saint Martin’s University (SMU), GPA 4.0 Grad: 8.2022, Anticipated

Lacey, WA

M.S. Mechanical Engineering

Thesis: Methods for Improving the High-Speed Performance of an IPMSM for EV Applications

  • Electromechanical Machines
  • Control Systems Design
  • Optimization with MATLAB
  • Vibrations
  • Photovoltaics
  • Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
  • Robotics

Western Washington University (WWU) GPA 3.25 Grad: 6.2016

Bellingham, WA

B.S. Manufacturing Engineering, ABET Accredited Mathematics Minor

  • Advanced CAD
  • Advanced CAM
  • Automation and Control
  • Composites Design and Manufacturing
  • Design for Manufacturing
  • Design of Tooling
  • Industrial Robotics
  • Plastics Design and Manufacturing
  • Statistics with Calculus

Some examples of my course work, mid-masters:

On electric aerospace and superconducting motors:

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Simulating a Piezoelectric-Haptic MEMS Actuator in Low-Frequency Vibration

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Deployment of a Jupyterhub Server

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Optimization of a Flying Wing’s Geometry

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Analysis of a 10 Bar Truss Using a Stiffness Matrix

This needs a little more introduction. The analysis used below resembles an FEA analysis, however it was computed by hand. The problem had a mesh provided, eliminating the most mathematically interesting part of an FEA process.

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Beamed Power

A review of a semi-neglected technology that may rise to prominence in our era of cheap photovoltaics and private space ventures.

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