Using Solidworks and engineering knowledge to design handmade steel lighting fixturesand create manufacturing drawings for fabrication. Running simple FEA analysis on support structures,creating and testing prototypes of new and innovative designs. Understanding and helping to improvecurrent fabrication capabilities, as well as working with fabrication to maintain efficiency in manufacture. Designing machinery and tooling. Have spent the last year designing improvements to molds and equipment in hot glass shop, including designing new equipment to support furnaces and work crews.

Utilizing human relations and communication skills to control and resolve escalatedissues. Analyzed, interpreted and applied rules, regulations and procedures in various situations andrecommended timely and economical solutions. Exercised creative problem solving and invented newtools to reduce the cost of errors and unfortunate events, using specific knowledge of the organization and the customers served. Determined specific problems and coordinated with many different support departments to follow through to resolution and ensure all related considerations were addressed. Provided assistance in determining requirements for updates and training.