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Greater St. Louis

Greater St. Louis

Marketing and business development responsibilities for the Commercial Buildings segment which includes strategic marketing, meeting P&L targets, and market penetration.

Greater St. Louis

• Create mechanical and electrical designs for electric motors based off customer specifications• Support motor development through customer requests, procurement process, plant build, and testing analysis• Assist sales and marketing with identifying customer needs, providing technical support, and costing of motors• Collaborate with manufacturing plant to determine sample process improvements for kaizen event• Developing new cross-functional motor sample entry process that allows standardization, visibility and tracking

Greater St. Louis Area

Greater St. Louis

Marissa, Il

• Mechanical Engineer in the power plant department, managed and implemented various engineering projects and designs• Designed and 3D modeled with Autodesk Fusion 360 various tools and equipment and conducted corresponding stress analysis and prototype testing• Conducted feasibility calculations and studies involving thermal loadings, heat transfer, stress distribution, and fluid mechanics• Coordinated and organized fabrication and manufacturing work with vendors and machine shops to determine best material use and assembly

Greater St. Louis Area

• Project Engineer in the Packaging Engineering Department, acted as a consultant to the project life cycle• Collaborated and led meetings with the client, vendors, PEs, PMs, Directors, and Designers to review and modify the facility layout, packaging line design, preventative solutions, and corrective actions• Conducted analysis and testing of process flows of the facility and on-site of the packaging machinery• Modified schedules with MS Project by using the project scope, prerequisites, shipping dates, and milestones• Managed million dollar+ budgets by deciding how to delegate funds for packaging equipment and features• Created AutoCAD 2D drawings of various designs for the equipment and layout of the client’s facility • Managed the construction, installation, and start-up of packaging line equipment on-site with safety supervision

Greater St. Louis Area

• Group Manager in the Brewing Department, managing 30 to 50 brewers• Worked collaboratively with co-workers to resolve problems and created manpower schedule for tasks• Devised plan with brewers to accommodate any shortage of filtered beer ready for release• Reviewed & modified manpower of upcoming shift to correspond to the amount of work required for scheduled tasks• Identified root cause of major issues, created and implemented preventative solutions throughout the brewery• Conducted morning meetings with management, reporting on previous yields, issues, and corrective actions• Provided and incorporated strategies and methods for operational improvements to the brewing process

Edwardsville, Il

• Conducted National Electric Safety Code inspections for Ameren customers• Traveled to locations that received Ameren's electricity to troubleshoot and implement solutions to correct safety violations• Worked on special project involving how Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) can be incorporated into PLS-CADD to assist engineers with their projects • Created various files of electrical pole standards on PLS-CADD to be utilized for multiple projects

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 4.0

Bachelor Of Science In Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 3.97

Activities and Societies: Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Joint Engineering.

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