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◦ Restored UCR’s Machine Shop to a functioning status after 2 years of non-operation, ensuring mills and lathes were running and properly lubricated, CNC probes were calibrated, and all tooling was labeled and inventoried.◦ Completed jobs for student organizations and research projects, leading machine shop operations through a tumultuous period of management change.◦ Assisted and trained 70% of Senior Design teams on the various machines, ensuring prototypes could be manufactured in time for the final presentation.

◦ Instructed team members in the engineering design process, topology optimization, bearing preload calculations, along with other engineering essentials.◦ Secured over $20,000 in sponsorships over the course of one month by developing a Business team from the groundup, recruiting 5 personnel to manage organization funds and endowments.◦ Grew the team by over 250%, leading recruitment throughout the 2021-2022 school year, ensuring there is a strong pool of competent engineers to design, manufacture, and test vehicles in the years to come.

◦ Led the manufacturing of the 2022 FSAE car, conducted design reviews to ensure that all components were designed for manufacturability. Redesigned non-compliant parts when necessary.◦ Built a strong manufacturing team in the wake of COVID-19, developed other members by holding lessons on manual manufacturing techniques, CNC programming and operation, GD&T, and design for manufacturing.◦ Reduced the weight of push-rod bell cranks by over 30% using topology optimization.◦ Successfully lead a team of 3 engineers to develop the vehicle corner assemblies, resulting in a 20% increase in strength over the previous design, using Finite Element Methods to justify design decisions.

◦ Installed a new fuel controller on one of the Self Defense Test Ship’s GE LM2500 gas turbine main engines, bringing that engine back into operation after several weeks non-operation.◦ Saved the SDTS program over $65,000 per exhaust trunk by establishing a standard operating procedure for theLIDAR scanning, modeling, and inspection of the ship’s exhaust insulation panels.◦ Designed a new routing for an HP air line, saving 3 days ship downtime and allowing the ship to remain on schedule for testing.◦ Aided the repair of control systems after a steering failure occurred while at sea, preventing similar issues from damaging the ship in the future.◦ Assisted in the installation and testing of several advanced self-defense systems, such as SeaRAM, ESSM, and several air defense radar systems.

◦ Drafted and calculated equipment requirements for the mechanical systems of several high-profile construction projects in South Florida, such as the Aston Martin Residences.◦ Inspected build sites to ensure projects were constructed to plan, adjusting plans as issues arose.