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South San Francisco, California, United States

Developing life-saving cures

Mountain View, California, United States

• Redesigned flagship product consisting of 26 parts for scalable manufacturing and assembly.
• Coordinated a cross-functional team interested in improving user experience, oversaw the design cycle to implement an autonomous cartridge loader.
• Defined document control protocol to dictate procedure over the BOM and all current and future 2D & 3D CAD revisions.
• Drafted mechanical parts and technical drawings adhering to GD&T standards to be machined following rapid prototyping, CEO verification and approval.
• Driven to produce creative solutions of quality fast; solved a complex shipping design challenge within first week.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Joined, assembled and set up various hardware parts, cables and other required components of thousand-dollar desktop computer systems to be shipped to customer in a fast paced work environment.
• Updated knowledge and skills to keep up with rapid advancement in computer technology.
• Optimized work-flow to produce 75 desktop systems a week.

Reno, Nevada Area

• Assists professor in teaching over 160 students concepts of mechanical dynamics while improving personal dynamics and kinematics skills.
• Leads office hours and tutoring sessions with 15 regular students attending.
• Helped professor transition to distanced learning format halfway through the Spring 2020 semester.
• Spent 20+ hours a week grading student homework and helped create & proctor tests while keeping up with demands of personal mechanical engineering classes.

Reno, Nevada

• Ensures academic engagement of over 600 student’s first experience in engineering.
• Assisted in teaching key engineering principals such as project management as students constructed a hovercraft.
• Led hands-on engineering lab sessions giving students direct experience in circuitry, coding, and project design.

Reno, Nevada, United States

• Produced 3-D models of buildings and railroad features for a 1:24 scale train set.
• Used various manufacturing and rapid prototyping processes to prototype and finalize assemblies.
• Designed miniature buildings in Autodesk Fusion 360 to be manufactured as realistically as possible.

Reno, Nevada

• Upheld the Student Union’s professional reputation with top-tier event lighting, sound, and visual performance.
• Acted as a technical resource and troubleshooter for the entire building.

Sunnyvale, California

• 7layers preforms industry leading over the air testing (OTA) for billion dollar tech companies around the world to provide CTIA certifications for state of the art products.
• Participated with the rapid development of technologies such as Bluetooth, LTE, GSM, and many more.
• Worked independently and with industry professionals to interpret and analyze test data.
• Ensured cellular mobile devices capability to function on global carrier networks.

San Jose, CA

• Led and scheduled staff and organized fun and engaging activities for children ages 4-12.
• Managed operations and communications to ensure AVAC's Jr-Fit Summer Camp remains one of the best Summer camps in the South Bay Area.

San Jose, California

• Taught children of all ages how to swim.
• AVAC Swim School is a top-rated swim school in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Theta Tau Engineering Fraternity, Kappa Sigma Fraternity ∙ Built robots controlled by EMG sensors using LabView.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Project Lead the Way, Drama Department, Swim Team. •Participated in Project Lead the Way, a four-year.