Assist in creation of new Ni-Ti-X alloy with enhanced radiopacity for neurological applications.

Web design and social media posts to help drive business. Short story writer. Professional youth soccer coach/trainer. Develop new alloys for medical devices (NiTiX).

Ran all facets of a creative soccer instruction business while helping to provide care for my two young beautiful sons.

Designed and set up corrosion evaluation lab for NiTi-based medical devices.

Supported all phases of NiTi tubing and wire manufacturing, including rapid problem solutions of difficulties encountered on the manufacturing floor.

Developed new alloys for medical devices, offered metallurgical support for devices made of steel or shape memory alloys, and trained engineers to use the scanning electron microscope (SEM).

Used materials science and shape memory alloy background to conduct experiments on MEMS devices created through thin film vapor depositions.

Operated Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) to assist multiple industries in problem solving and characterization efforts. Highly proficient in all phases of sample preparation. Helped introduce Focus Ion Beam (FIB) imaging to the company to provide the ability to view both atomic number contrast and crystallinity simultaneously. Understand the analytical strengths and limits of Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), Field Emission SEM, Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS) and Light Optical Microscopy (LOM), and helped engineers know when an alternative analytical tool would be more appropriate than SEM/EDS to help them satisfy the goals of their investigation.

Managed all phases of the SEM/EDS/XRD laboratory for this world class Magnetic Thin Film Recording Head Laboratory (restock, maintain supplies, and operate the instruments). Performed numerous thin film corrosion studies in unison with fellow scientist’s efforts to develop magnetic thin films with enhanced magnetic properties and reduced corrosion susceptibility.Worked on various strategies to improve the corrosion resistance of the magnetic thin films, including the incorporation of a sacrificial anode into the recording head.