Cole Haxton Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, United States

Design Engineer assigned to monopropellant and bipropellant rocket engines for in-space propulsion. Responsibilities include generation/manipulation of complex engine models and drawings, managing revisions and approval cycles for engineering drawings and presenting design concepts in review meetings with customers. My programs range from mature engine designs to early-stage conceptual system prototype and everything in between. I work in close concert with a multitude of engineering disciplines including structural analysis, manufacturing, materials and processes, quality and thermal analysis. This work demands great attention to detail with design for manufacturing, design for assembly and design for quality. I work closely with our suppliers and on-site machine shop to ensure any manufacturing concerns are addressed efficiently and effectively. This is includes reviewing/approving manufacturing and quality documents to meet critical requirements of the engine design. Additionally I have began to support the onboarding/training of new team members and help to manage summer interns.

Bay Point, California, United States

Worked as a process engineer supporting the production of high-grade adhesives for use in aerospace applications. Responsibilities included improving chemical production processes for cost savings, performing investigations for quality concerns, presenting on findings to quality engineering team and designing new parts/processes to improve production yields. I was placed in charge of a product line in order to determine process improvements to reduce scrap and non-conformances.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Lead undergraduate engineer on thermal analysis project sponsored by Facebook. The research consists of taking apart the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset in order to determine the methods of heat dissipation for the device's micro-controller chip. The goal of the analysis is to determine a better method for removing heat from the system in order to prevent the forehead of the user from becoming uncomfortably hot during extended periods of use. The experiment is currently in its initial design and test phases. Additionally, I plan to write a paper on the overall findings and present it at a micro-technology conference in early spring. I am also assisting a graduate student in the Oregon State University Combustion, Ignition, Radiation, and Energy lab on a project to study ember generation for several different species of evergreen trees. This research is being done for the US Forestry services in an attempt to better understand the spread of forest fires from large embers.

Redmond, Washington

Supporting the design team with work on complex CAD models of monopropellant and bipropellant liquid rocket engines ranging in size from 3 inches in length to 3 feet in length. Work done with the smaller engines was in supporting the design of a Modular Propulsion System for use on CubeSats and SmallSats. The larger systems worked on were hypergolic bipropellant engines for use on the Orion manned spaceflight mission. Also supported a substantial amount of customer requirement verification for these engines, reviewing over 2,000 engineering specifications to ensure compliance.

Springfield, Oregon

Created CAD models of custom projects for customers as well as for projects to be used within the company (such as a laser sensor to count parts coming off a metal press). Worked on the shop floor with mills, lathes, CNC, wire EDM, grinders, and a sand blaster. Heat treated a multitude of parts and performed maintenance on a furnace. Reverse engineered a box erecting machine in order to create one for use with boxes of different sizes. Worked with people from all sectors within the company including maintenance, packaging, stamping, shipping and management. Inspected parts and verified precise measurements under tight tolerances. Worked closely with my supervisor, one of the few managers within the company, and learned many lessons about leading a team of people that come from a variety of backgrounds.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led a team of 7 to run a leadership summer camp for high school kids interested in engineering. Worked 12-16 hour days in Washington, D.C. and led meetings each night to discuss the events of the day as well as prepare for the next day. Organized and oversaw field trips with 70+ kids to a multitude of engineering businesses, national monuments, and museums. Gave presentations about the various disciplines within engineering. Met with high profile guest speakers including Dr. Alton Romig, previous VP and General Manager of Advanced Development Programs (Skunkworks) at Lockheed Martin.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Myself and four other student supervisors were in charge of managing around 35 student fundraisers during multiple calling shifts each week. This included hiring new callers, completing payroll and verifying time-sheets once a month, coming up with new ways to incentivize and motivate callers, creating new ways to improve employee retention rates, answering to professionals within the OSU Foundation, personally calling donors who consistently get involved at higher levels, and assisting the callers in any ways necessary. I worked in a close team with the other supervisors and was held to high, professional standards by them as well as by our Telefund Manager. Interpersonal communication as well as organizational skills were essential to my daily activities as supervisor. Additionally, I practiced great customer service skills each day when dealing with donors and have learned many valuable lessons from these interactions.

Spokane, Washington Area

This job consisted of measurement and verification of utility usage data. Ameresco is an energy services contracting company; they replace energy systems in buildings and guarantee an amount of savings based on the efficiency of the new systems and if these savings are not met the company pays the client the difference. My job was to collect and analyze the utility data from before the project versus after the project was completed. I had to communicate on a daily basis both with customers, utility companies, and workers within other branches of Ameresco. I worked with a multitude of complex Excel files; organization of all of the files and folders for each of the hundreds of projects was essential. I worked closely with a team of measurement and verification specialists across the different branches of the companies northwest region. My work was scrutinized thoroughly as the analyses I completed were used directly in final project reports given to the customers. This internship taught me many valuable lessons about dealing with customers, project management, expertise of the Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, Project, and Outlook), and communicating with members of an engineering team from initial project design to closure.