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Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Redesigned and remanufactured the steering rack system consisting of 12 separate parts for a formula one style vehicle and reduced system weight by 32%.
• Conducted FEA using Ansys for the steering rack system and performed tensile tests to ensure the carbon fiber housing could withstand maximum applied forces.
• Designed the rear bellcrank mounting clevis to maximize suspension travel range while maintaining the weight from previous years. Manufactured the clevis with a CNC mill. Tested the clevis on the vehicle and found a.

Austin, Texas, United States

• Worked with 5 cross-functional teams to implement and protype dollies for a new process flow that allowed one time use parts to be reused up to 15 times, saving $9M annually based on ramped vehicle rate.
• Collaborated with a controls engineer to implement 2 new sensors to the station so that the dollies could be used on the line and reconfigured FANUC robot to efficiently handle reused parts.
• Created a schedule to track 8 cart modifications and 6 station modifications to interface with new carts. Included new part lead times and completion dates to send out to production.
• Eliminated faults for 2 fixtures on the production line from 4% to 0% across 2-week trial periods. Utilized KNIME to extract data from the company’s database and station cameras to decipher the source of a station.

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

• Teamed with 4 engineers to update a testing stand that verified rotating blade seal materials and coatings used in jet engine blades in order to prepare for the upcoming test that is supporting advanced military
• Implemented a cooling tower to the testing stand that replaced a large inefficient cooling tower, used to cool the oil that ran from the oil system to the J58 Afterburner fuel pump that ran the jet engine turbine for.
• Created a Bill of Materials which documented every component in the stand and included their function, part number, and type of fluid so that it can be referenced if a part were to break, needed to be replaced, or.
• Established a project schedule to prep the stand for the next test including employing the cooling tower, prepping the oil system for testing, implementing a new hydraulic skid, ensuring that the controls for the stand.