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Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

• Quick-turn designs and prototypes based on customer requests• Travel to overseas vendors to direct prototype builds• Participated in customer interviews to determine engineering specifications and requests

Greater Seattle Area

• Designed exploratory concepts for vehicular camera mounts• Reviewed and decreased cost of food assembly machinery product by 10%• Reviewed and troubleshot failure on gaming system button assemblies• Designed testbeds for use in component qualification

• Seek out clients and understand their needs• Lead a team to develop cost-effective solutions• Apply engineering principles and knowledge of FDM technology to deliver finished products• Create network of manufacturers to address work cost-effectively that cannot be done in-house

Greater Seattle Area

• Designed UX features for appearance, feel, and robustness• Designed flexible printed circuits for compact electronics assembly• Utilized RSS Tolerance Analyses to ensure fit in compact and complex assemblies

San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed more streamlined system for releasing part designs to manufacturers• Received Yellow-Belt certification in Lean Six Sigma• Utilized NX for integration of electronics into mechanical designs• Published internal paper on design of polycarbonate lightpipes

Vancouver, Wa

• Designed numerous plastic and sheetmetal components for high-volume manufacturing• Directed assembly operations of subsystems onsite at factories in China and Thailand• Designed proof-of-concept testbeds for development of new products

Camas, Wa

• Designed testbed for flexible circuit resilience for senior design project.• Developed method of testing, designed hardware, defined software programming.• Delivered functioning, fully automated testbed to client.

Vancouver, Wa

Conceptualized, developed, and executed a project for a frictionless contact surface between two solids using the Leidenfrost Effect. Final report was published by the Nature Publishing Group here: http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121112/srep00797/full/srep00797.html

Vancouver, Wa

• Mathematics: Algebra to Calculus• Sciences: Chemistry, Physics• Up to sophomore Mechanical Engineering classes.

Researched materials and designed experimental platform deviceInterfaced with professors from multiple universitiesManaged design as specifications changed

Longview, Wa

Responsible for many changes made to database that affected the entire mill. Made Solidworks Drawings of crane attachments and modeled the proposed stress and strain.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: ASME Club, Chi Alpha

Associates Of Science, Engineering

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa