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Appleton, Wisconsin, US

Developing Custom machines for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.

Fort Collins, CO, US

CAD DesignProduct Development

Product DevelopmentSupply Chain Development

Appleton, WI, US

• Responsible for providing detailed knowledge of EPLAN Platform to prospective customers, qualifying leads, development of demonstration systems, and creation of marketing material.
• Developed expertise in EPLAN software to communicate product benefits to potential customers.
• Utilized ethnographic interviewing techniques to conduct prospective customer engineering needs assessment.
• Designed electrical and pneumatic layouts to facilitate building product demonstration systems that highlight selected products and demonstrate the value of the software platform.
• Leveraged experience of building functional engineering systems to develop EPLAN standards, templates, and workflows.
• Drew upon executive presentation experience to create EPLAN Product Webpage, technical descriptions, and marketing videos.

Menasha, WI, US

• Responsible for development of engineering systems, process, and standardization of engineering resources; as well as the design and prototyping of electrical systems in the renewable energy sector.
• Utilized product engineering skillset to develop electrical equipment containment solutions to meet project specifications.
• Utilized engineering system development experience to conduct research, document, and manage compliance to engineering standards.
• Leveraged experience in various industry to create engineering process maps and implement design, test, and data capture workflows.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Responsible for the development, testing, and evaluation of product concepts that address high value consumer needs utilizing emerging technologies.
• Utilized consumer research techniques to understand consumer needs and define “problems to solve”.
• Applied design thinking processes to develop concepts that addressed consumer needs.
• Leveraged project management and estimation skillset to create project proposals including cost, timelines, and potential valuation.
• Conducted competitive product analysis to validate market need and product viability.
• Developed and executed learning plans which provided comprehensive data to support recommendations to develop, kill, or shelve concepts.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Collaborated with category managers, industrial design, and engineering to define and design mechanical and mechatronic dispensing technology.
• Developed product specification documents and proposed design alternatives to meet requirements.
• Designed and built prototypes and test fixtures for design verification, lifecycle testing, and market acceptance testing.
• Created detailed engineering drawings and conducted DFMEA and tolerance stack up analysis to mitigate potential design defects.
• Developed relationships with vendors and suppliers to source prototype parts and materials at cost advantaged rates.
• Successfully facilitated mechanical design team formation, trained, and mentored new designers in injection molding design.

Atlanta, GA, US

Responsible for preparing 3-D models of paper machine plant components, creating equipment general arrangement drawings from 3-D models, designing and detailing fabrication drawings for equipment removal and support structures working with various engineering disciplines to troubleshoot design problems.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US

Responsible for preparing 3-D models of paper machine plant components, creating equipment general arrangement drawings from 3-D models, designing and detailing fabrication drawings for equipment removal and support structures working with various engineering disciplines to troubleshoot design problems.