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Livonia, Michigan, United States

Extensive analysis and review of complex thermodynamic system test data for presentation to customer and vested third-parties including post process of sensor data, performing secondary calculations, and sanity checks.Coordination of technical activities with internal teams, customers, subcontractors, and vested third-parties across multiple disciplines for the development of internal combustion engine, turbomachinery, heat exchanger, electronics, system level analytical tools, and controls to operate within a single system.Exposure via small team environment to internal combustion engine development including combustion performance, valvetrain stability/improvement, turbocharger improvement, and durability.Exposure to cutting edge technologies including additive manufacture of metals and gallium nitride field effect transistors.Coordination and final submittal of multi-million-dollar proposals to customer with extensive demands to balance budget, scope, and schedule.Primary responsibility for cost, schedule, and delivery of multi-million-dollar prototype development programs including supplier management.

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Creation and maintenance of test requirements, plans, procedures, and reports for development and production hardware performance validation.Organization of reviews with stakeholders to ensure test conduction in a safe, effective, and efficient manner.Design and implementation of development and space flight hardware acceptance test beds including selection of instrumentation and data acquisition equipment.Reduction of test data including complete error analysis.Author of technical documentation of design progression and details including tolerance stack ups, finite element analysis, and mathematical modeling.Generation of hardware drawings including extensive application of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.Administration of company-wide product data management system for computer aided design tools.Development and administration of templates and formats for computer aided design tools.Leadership of small groups and individual responsibility for execution of the design of space flight and military life support hardware in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams.

North Franklin, Connecticut, United States

Field commissioning of magnetic bearing systems in large turbomachinery application with extensive international travel.

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Maintained full time employment throughout the five semesters of coursework.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: SAE Mini-Baja Phi Kappa Psi fraternity Tau Beta Pi honor society