My engineering history:The green flag dropped on my engineering career in late 2009 with Walde Inc. when the owner, Darren Walde, took a chance by contracting me (still a student at SDSU) to help him redesign his motion picture film scanner to become the smallest, most cost-effective, archive-quality unit on the market in under six months. He will tell anyone that I was one risk that definitely paid off for him.I've had it in top gear ever since.I graduated 2nd in my Mechanical Engineering class from SDSU in May 2010. A month later, I went to the FSAE West competition as a Lead Member of the SDSU Formula SAE Aztec Racing Team. My senior design project had been to redesign the intake system for our race car. After 2 months of literally continuous simulation iterations, some novel manufacturing techniques, and assembly of the carbon fiber composite parts, the new system showed up to 200% higher mass flow at our target rpm range, and weighed 90% less than the previous year's.A month after that, I was hired by Empower Electronics to become their only Mechanical Design Engineer on staff. There, I designed adapters, enclosures, heat sinks, and case components that must meet specifications for heat dissipation, lean manufacturing, ease of maintenance, and aesthetics provided by customers, vendors, UL, NEMA, and others. I was also the test engineer, which involves design of test fixtures, procedure drafting, data collection, analysis and reporting.In April of 2013, Empower Electronics shut it's doors. The owner promoted me to an engineering position with his construction company. Even though I have no civil engineering experience, he knows that I have the ability to distill problems down to their basic components and attack them methodically. My new position's primary foci are data analysis and management, quality control, and improving efficiency through computer programming in VBA and Python.