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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, California, United States

Scottsdale, Az

Acoustical consultant helping guide architects, designers, and engineers through the design or renovation process of a building/space, involving the following areas:Sound Isolation: Controlling transmission of airborne and structure-borne noise within and outside various spaces.Mechanical Noise Control: Attenuating noise and vibration from HVAC equipment to reach satisfactory levels within a space.Room Finishes and Shaping: Guide, absorb, or diffuse sound using architectural features to obtain optimal comfort and overall user experience within a space.Environmental Noise: Study and advise on noise impacts due to environmental sources, such as major transportation systems.Involved in numerous projects spanning many areas, including: Performing Arts, Education, Museums & Libraries, Entertainment, Hospitality, Fitness, Offices, Worship, Civic & Government, and Environmental.Experience with field measurements using measurement equipment from JBL, Larson Davis, Bruel & Kjaer, and NTI Audio. Field work typically includes sound level measurements, reverberation time, sound isolation, environmental noise monitoring, and critical listening.Experience with HVAC noise analysis software, including: TAP, Pottorff AIM.Experience with room acoustics modeling software, including: CATT Acoustic, Matlab.Proficient in daily task software, including: Bluebeam Revu, Adobe Acrobat, SketchUp, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).

Bloomington, Minnesota

- Helped consultants with various architectural acoustics/noise and vibration control issues.- Used acoustic modeling software to perform HVAC noise prediction calculations for projects in the Twin Cities area.- Made site visits to completed and incomplete buildings/sites, performing noise measurements, RT60 and STC tests.- Helped Perform noise monitoring for various apartments/condominiums in Twin Cities area.- Helped perform vibration tests at new weight room at the Mayo Clinic building in Minneapolis, and various fitness centers across the area.- Analyzed data (DNA, Mathcad,TAP,Matlab) and wrote reports intended to solve the noise/vibration control issues.

Bloomington, Minnesota

- Worked in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) group helping to develop read/write heads for high storage capacity hard drives.- Performed daily tasks intended to increase the velocity of wafers moving through the fab. - Have helped to successfully reduce non-equipment hold time on wafers by more than 100%.- Performed photolithography projects such as focus exposure matrices to create new process windows.- Performed failure analysis and troubleshoot problems utilizing metrology techniques such as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Optical Microscopy, and Surface Profilometry

Bloomington, Minnesota

- Worked in Vacuum Process engineering group helping to create read/write head on the hard drive. - Use lithography to create desired pattern for TGMR head. - Used Reactive Ion Etching, Ion Milling, RF Sputtering, Atomic Layer Deposition, and Evaporation tools to either etch or deposit material on a wafer. - Optimized processes by utilizing metrology techniques to analyze wafer after each processing step, such as SEM, Ellipsometry, Acoustic sound wave thin film analysis (Metapulse), and XRF.- Adjusted parameters on RIE tool such as pressure, temperature, power, and gap distance in order to obtain a more uniform, anisotropic etching profile around entire wafer.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Assist a graduate student in project using nanolithographic techniques to produce ultra-high density bit-patterned magnetic recording media. Use solvent annealing of di-block copolymer to induce perpendicular array of cylinders. Utilize characterization techniques such as AFM and XRD to analyze samples after annealing.

Master Of Science - Ms, Acoustics

Activities and Societies: Audio Engineering Society, Acoustical Society of America

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: Material Advantage