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Irvine, California, United States

College Park, MD

-Worked as chief engineer of a team to design, build, and test an off-road vehicle to race against other schools-Developed a parametric MATLAB model of the car’s continuously variable transmission enabling more effective powertrain tuning procedures-Used topology optimization to safely reduce 60% of the mass of a critical powertrain component

Irvine, California, United States

-Created interactive CAD models to effectively communicate head restraint engineering and regulatory requirements to the design studio.-Oversaw the prototype and validation process to integrate new high-performance seat foam

-Worked remotely performing trade studies for various electromechanical engineering decisions-Rapidly designed and analyzed CAD models in Solidworks to meet weekly deadlines

Rutland, VT

-Supported the lean manufacturing transformation of a 1,000-person supply chain by implementing lean techniques, and training engineers in lean principles-Engineered solutions to various manufacturing defects within the low-pressure-turbine division-Developed an access database to track machine downtime, and other manufacturing defects

Farmingdale, NY

- Worked on a team of 5 to build a robot to automate an industrial manufacturing process- Created CAD models in PTC Creo Parametric 5 of custom parts, and the entire machine- Programmed a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) using ladder logic to control automated tasks

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

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