Resume/CV

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Triple-degreed engineer spanning both the hardware and software spaces. Passion for product development, with an affinity for design and R&D/analysis. Extremely driven professional who has worked with partners around the globe, bridging cultural and language gaps.

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Professional Experience

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Brady Corporation

Dec. 2023--present

Lead mechanical engineer on 3X new barcode scanner/charger projects, including some end-to-end design with multi-part ownership
Oversaw customer-manufacturer relationship, including informal supplier audits and onsite tooling fabrication, T0 part analysis, and inspection lab evaluation
Solidworks PDM Administration team member, involving a ground-up workflow creation, data card creation, and overall process improvement
Team representative for simulation-related activities, including internal analysis as well as third-party relationships
2D and 3D design, with careful insight and forethought into design parameters and manufacturing limitations

R&D Engineer III
Varex Imaging

Sept. 2022--Dec. 2023

• Develop new CT scanner x-ray tubes and subsystems, with stringent design requirements for all parts (rotation up to 50G, vacuum pressure, temps up to 1000 °C)

• Lead mechanical engineer for a new multi-PCBA assembly, complete with a plastic enclosure and hermetic seal

• Designed multiple molded Viton press-in-place gaskets, acting as hermetic seals between parts with loose tolerancing

• Performed Ansys FEA simulation to ensure structural integrity of parts under load

• Designing and deploying an SQL database of x-ray tube parameters to be shared across the company and act as the real-time data layer for a variety of in-house apps

• Lead engineer/project manager for a platform variant of a current x-ray product

Product Design Engineer
Traeger Pellet Grills

Jan. 2020--July 2022

• Owner and lead mechanical engineer of control panel and other associated electronics in 2022 Timberline XL grill (http://www.traeger.com/pellet-grills/timberline-xl)
• Designed plastics (~40 parts) under strict temperature, water ingress, flammability, and serviceability requirements
• Designed and managed various sheet metal parts through production
• Completed DFM/DFA reviews with manufacturers, ensuring parts are manufacturable
• Completed 2D drawings, including (occasional) GD&T and surface finish/texture callouts
• Completed quality-centric activities such as FMEA, DOE, test design, and test execution for various grill parts; also managed associated ECNs
• Managed cost activities and comparisons, both on a unit-cost level and at a macro, tooling-cost level to determine best path forward
• Head of social activities for Product Department, managing a budget of ~$15k/quarter
• PDM Administrator for Product Department

Mechanical Engineer
Dyno Nobel

July 2018--Dec. 2019

• Co-designed advanced piping system for a $3 million modular explosives plant with Senior Engineer (using SolidWorks Routing module; 2,000-part assembly)
• Designed a $50,000 hopper/auger structure from scratch, along with platforms, walkways, and safety railings suspended between 40-foot ISO containers using SolidWorks (including Sheet Metal module)
• Performed FEA on above hopper/auger structure, using software and hand calculations
• Standardized CAD components to reduce lead time and manufacturing costs by $10,000
• Redlined and updated P&IDs for 9 subsystems within explosives plants
• Completed technical safety audits to protect process and health/safety of Dyno employees

Mechanical Engineer (Intern to Full-Time)
Hewlett-Packard

Jan. 2016--July 2018

• Test lead overseeing firmware/hardware engineers supporting the life-test environment
• Regularly worked with overseas partners in China and Japan to facilitate production, crossing cultural and language boundaries
• Developed mechanism using photosensors and servo actuators to induce engine paper jams, evaluating system response and lowering warranty costs

Software Engineer
Hewlett-Packard

June 2013--Dec. 2015

• Developed/maintained enterprise system to monitor printer toner/ink levels using Java EE with Oracle database and various model-view-controller frameworks
• Restructured and split off a legacy application to process ink/toner levels for a billion-dollar business, reducing risk for future releases; developed new test setup using H2 in-memory database and Junit framework
• Installed and maintained Tomcat servers on Windows and Linux to monitor and debug the applications above and allow use of web services

Skills

Engineering

SolidWorks (including Simulation/FEA, Sheet Metal, Piping/Routing, Surfacing)
Creo Elements/Direct
Basic machining
Injection-molded practices
Rapid prototyping (FDM/SLA printing, laser cutting, sheet metal, etc.)
MIG welding
Electronics-specific plastics design (PCB mounts/chassis, housings)
DFM/DFA analyses with manufacturers
Tolerance stackup analyses
Design of Experiments (DOE)
International co-development/engineering
Solidworks PDM Admin

Programming

MATLAB
Java EE
Python
SQL (Oracle)
Tomcat
Linux

Education

MS, Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University

Jan. 2021--May 2023 (expected)

Concentration in Energy Studies

Selected coursework: Fluid Dynamics, Gas Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Combustion Engineering, Design of Experiments, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

BS, Mechanical Engineering
Boise State University

Aug. 2015--May 2018

GPA: 3.87
ISPE Student of the Year, Mechanical Engineering Scholar Award, Tau Beta Pi Inductee

BS, Information Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Aug. 2009--May 2013

Panhellenic IT Administrator, Dance Club
Selected coursework: Intro to Databases, Intro to Java, Information Privacy, Theory of Search Engines