Blake Wanser Email & Phone Number

Smyrna, Tennessee, United States

Fountain Valley

• Ensure Individual New Model and Current Model vehicles meets HMA goals for quality and customer satisfaction.
• Lead total vehicle evaluations to benchmark the performance of various systems (Powertrain, Chassis, ADAS, Human Factors, etc.) vs. competitor vehicles.
• Charged with tracking and reporting product quality and customer satisfaction concerns. Concerns tracked to closure by promptly managing the appropriate actions (parts, dealer, technician support, owner communication.
• Collect and clearly present field quality data to HMC and partner Hyundai affiliates to ensure appropriate alignment of priorities.
• Responsible for timely distribution of all related Technical Service Bulletins

Fountain Valley, CA

• Install dealer accessories on vehicles while evaluating the fit, installation procedure, instructions, and installation time.
• Make critical decisions regarding accessory part’s potential impact on the vehicle ownership experience, warranty costs, and syndicated quality reports.
• Generate documents related to PPAP approval, Quality Inspection Reports, and program status reports.
• Participate in new model "ride and drives" and various accessory performance drive tests.

• SolidWorks design and rapid prototyping of optical fixtures such as a magnetic undulator fixture for electron scattering.
• Assemble, diagnose, and repair/upgrade high vacuum station for experiments involving electron scattering. Comprised of reassembling using supplied parts, cleaning pumps and adding oil, rewiring solenoids, finding.
• Performed experiments using LabVIEW in conjunction with various sensors to measure the incident, reflected, and refracted power of a laser beam at different angles and color after being shone through a hologram, and.

Irvine, California

• Designed and manufactured an exhaust system for a four cylinder internal combustion engine to meet performance, noise, and packaging requirements.
• Determined analytically if a single front and rear wing would provide sufficient downforce to warrant making carbon fiber molds by hand.
• Created models using SolidWorks and participated in cross-functional product-development meetings.

Costa Mesa, California

Managed two opposing teams and enforced the laws of the game.

Master’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.93

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.06

Activities and Societies: UC Irvine NCAA Division I Cross Country/Track & Field Teams, UC Irvine FSAE Race Team