Founded Furniture Startup:- Developed an easy to assemble/ disassemble, move, and store furniture system- Created flexible furniture platform that optimizes space usage in small apartmentsGenerated High Quality 3D Renderings and Prototypes of Modular Furniture Designs:- Used Solidworks and Keyshot software to generate compelling 3D Models and Renderings- Created high quality functional prototypes using Vcarve Pro software and Shopbot CNC Machine at Makerspace- Conducted initial product testing using functional prototypesCreated Marketing Campaign:- Generated product marketing video using Adobe Premiere software- Created crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo and marketing campaign on various social media platforms

Won a contract from a home products company to develop a new smart home platform:- Generated art of the possible smart home concepts and assessed client's readiness to develop an IoT product- Conducted a competitive and comparative scan of our client's current industry as well as the smart home spaceWon a contract for an electronics company to develop a connected venues platform:- Created art of the possible smart venue concepts and pitch deckDeveloped a proposal for a medical device manufacturer to create a connected platform for the hospital setting:- Determine the software, hardware and connectivity requirements and risk associate with connected platform

Served as Project Manager for Johnson and Johnson’s internal Design Consulting Group: - Managed project budgets, timelines as well as partner and vendor relationshipsRetail Healthcare Space:- Generated concepts and prototypes for new health and wellness ecosystem within retail space, resulting in creation of interactive consumer shopping experience which drove sales of J&J products.HIV Stigma Reduction: - Collaborated with cross-disciplinary teams and nonprofit organizations to conduct secondary research, develop field research guides, and analyze and synthesize field research aimed at reducing HIV stigma in Latin America.

Completed analysis of market expansion opportunities into the chemotherapy space:- Evaluated opportunity to potentially generate $30M over next 5 years within $60M market.- Conducted 5 on-site interviews at hospitals and 17 phone interviews with nurses and pharmacists,

Developed early stage medical devices for medical device manufacturer. Led concept generation, prototyping, testing (materials, mechanical and proof of concept), design for manufacturing and product design (aesthetics, usability).- Led cross-functional team of physicians, engineers, and product managers to develop innovative device, improving patient comfort and reducing associated procedure time by 30% and manufacturing cost by 50%.Designed abdominal suture tension mechanism which generated annual sales of $500K.Designed and prototyped new concepts for aortic aneurysm endovascular graft delivery system handle.Improved ease of use and aesthetics of percutaneous tracheostomy device, resulting in increased product market share to over 80%.Filed 18 patent disclosures with 2 patents issued and 10 patents pending, as result of new concepts generated.Helped to start a diversity recruitment initiative at Cook Medical:- Recruited, trained, and managed 10 Cook Medical employees to support and participate in five diversity recruitment events; hired two full time employees and three interns

Research Internship at Carnegie Mellon University Material Science Department:- Increased the corrosion resistance of high purity Nickel using Grain Boundary Engineering - Determined the appropriate strain level, annealing temperature, and annealing time for the iterative strain re-crystallization cycles sufficient to increase the Sigma 3 density to 60 percent in high purity Nickel

Partnership for Research and Education in Materials:- Assisted graduate student with the preparation of experimental specimen- Took detailed Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures of specimen grain structure- Analyzed the grain structure by calculating the grain volume fraction

- Worked as a mechanical engineer in the maintenance department of a corn processing plant- Helped to construct a database of equipment history in order to generate a trend of equipment behavior that could be later used to enact preventative maintenance measures- Assisted the superintendent of maintenance in determining the mean time between failure of various pieces of equipment such as the mechanical seals in centrifugal pumps