I performed duties as a Mechanical Design Engineer at Premier Tech Chronos, a packaging equipment manufacturer with operations worldwide. My duties ranged from designing innovative and new products for R&D, retrofits, and unique systems, as well as Project Management. As a mechanical design engineer I strive for lean design and design for manufacturability. One of my most exciting projects was the design of a new, lighter, and less expensive applicator arm; which serves as a high-speed mechanical assembly that picks up and applies bags to a fill tube of respective autonomous machines. As a mechanical design engineer, I worked heavily in R&D, creating retrofits for customers to yield solutions to troubles they experience with their equipment. Every complex piece of equipment I design I perform strengths analyses, tolerance analyses, and use geometric design and tolerancing, while scrutinizing for potential dangers and unsafe conditions for the operator. Documentation has proven to save my back in multiple situations where questions arise about past design work performed. I have worked with the manufacturing department to update, improve, and release manufacturing and assembly drawings with the use of engineering change orders. I performed project management duties for a newly introduced product line as well as for a retrofit to increase operator safety.I truly believe that electronics should be considered during the mechanical design process. In order to determine the optimum fiber optic sensors to use on a mechanical design, I created testing procedures to be followed by operators in the testing facility.

I worked as an intern mechanical engineer for Northrop Grumman Corporation with the Technical Services Sector on the Reentry Vehicles and Reentry Systems Program in Clearfield, UT. This internship introduced me to a diverse range of mechanical engineering disciplines, primarily with analysis.I worked on two simultaneous projects during this internship with coworkers located in various divisions across the country. For the most expansive project, I performed thermal expansion and stack-up tolerance analyses on the Forward Shroud of the Minuteman III missile using Abaqus/CAE and Microsoft Excel, respectively.The other project required myself to perform Tension Tests for Zero Impulse Bolts to determine the amount of force required to unfasten said dynamic bolt at Space Park in Redondo Beach, CA.I presented my theories, findings, and results to multiple departments in an organized manner using Microsoft PowerPoint, thus improving my technical communication skills in a professional environment.

I worked as an intern mechanical engineer with a company called Enertech, a nuclear division of Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company in Brea, California. Enertech specializes in design and manufacturing for nuclear power technology systems. During this internship, I performed duties as a design and manufacturing engineer as well as a product engineer. As a design engineer I created new assembly designs and manufacturing drawings for a check valve and a baffled reservoir lid to control flow in an emergency shut-off actuator for a nuclear power reactor. I became familiar with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, stack-up tolerance analysis, as well as industry standards and codes while creating designs and manufacturing drawings for flow operational systems and top level assemblies. When changes became necessary, I created Engineering Change Orders with the use of my thorough documentation.As a product engineer, I worked with an engineering and sales team on a project requiring customer interface to design a proposal for a flow operational system. I was given only the size limits and envelope of the customer’s old system, and several catalogs to translate the customer specifications into a detailed design. This position enhanced my communication skills and I became more proficient with working on teams.I also worked with the Lead Engineering Analyst. One of the several jobs that I was assigned to was to create a program in Excel that used equations and popular examples of fluid mechanics for future ease of use for the Fluid Dynamicists.

I worked as an intern design engineer with a company known as Pacseal Hydraulics Inc. in Brea, California. Pacseal Hydraulics Inc. specializes in design and manufacturing of Blow Out Preventers for offshore oilrigs, among other high pressure and high flow applications. This position required me to create and model several parts, assemblies, and their respective manufacturing drawings for pressure regulators, directional control valves, and accumulators using SolidWorks.To save machining costs due to time spent switching tools and programs, I performed thickness analyses for material in between center bore and perpendicularly drilled holes for pressure regulators, then remodeled and redrew these parts giving uniform drill specifications.This internship taught me a great deal about the importance of minor details in machine design and the ability to choose ideal tolerances for certain dimensions. This position also taught me to be very careful while documenting 2D drawings to a minute level because drawings need to be as legible as possible so machinists and fabricators can create a desired part without any confusion.

As a teenager I worked as an assistant mechanic for several years for Pacseal Hydraulics Inc. (description shown above). This position exposed me to many manufacturing processes as well as the inclusion of skilled labor to a workforce for a low volume and high profit business. Being an assistant mechanic persuaded me to become a mechanical engineer since I enjoy creating and visualizing processes of various mechanisms.As an assistant mechanic I assembled pressure regulators, pressure transmitters, directional control valves, accumulators, as well as relief and check valves. I also performed Brinell hardness tests, performed tests on pressure transmitters and inspected lapped surfaces under monochromatic light on machined parts. For any business it is important to assure that the inflow and outflow of parts and materials are monitored. Thus, to facilitate this I coordinated with shipping/receiving for maintaining appropriate inventory.