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Weirton, West Virginia, United States

Lakewood, Colorado, United States

Lead Process Controls Engineer for a project with the task to transfer and expand existing equipment and processes from Colorado’s Lakewood factory to a new facility in Costa Rica. This project was part of capacity expansion initiatives totaling over $16 million.• Delivered equipment on time with limited team resources and a compressed schedule. Implemented one new and one old manufacturing line. Assisted with controls systems expertise, technical startup, training, and… Show more Lead Process Controls Engineer for a project with the task to transfer and expand existing equipment and processes from Colorado’s Lakewood factory to a new facility in Costa Rica. This project was part of capacity expansion initiatives totaling over $16 million.• Delivered equipment on time with limited team resources and a compressed schedule. Implemented one new and one old manufacturing line. Assisted with controls systems expertise, technical startup, training, and documentation.• Ensured information and training was effectively communicated across cultures. Trained Costa Rican engineers and approved new translated process procedures and protocols. Developed good working relationships with international colleagues. Show less

Lakewood, Colorado, United States

Served as a Process Owner and Subject Matter Expert for medical device flowlines. Played a key role in a multi-disciplinary manufacturing team, optimizing system performance, troubleshooting equipment and process issues, and providing creative solutions for continuous improvement. Consistently tackled multiple difficult and high visibility projects simultaneously, prioritizing to meet stringent deadlines. • Collaborated with international design automation companies and consultants to… Show more Served as a Process Owner and Subject Matter Expert for medical device flowlines. Played a key role in a multi-disciplinary manufacturing team, optimizing system performance, troubleshooting equipment and process issues, and providing creative solutions for continuous improvement. Consistently tackled multiple difficult and high visibility projects simultaneously, prioritizing to meet stringent deadlines. • Collaborated with international design automation companies and consultants to onboard and design new semi-automatic machines to maximize efficiency and site effectiveness. An annual labor savings of $420K was achieved by working closely with Italian engineers. • Preformed feasibility analysis and made recommendations for new technologies and projects. Quantified benefits and performed requirement analysis for equipment, products, and procedures. • Reduced false scrap for annual savings of $250K and improved product quality. Analyzed data to determine where process improvements resulted in high-value, low-risk outcomes. Developed, managed, designed, programmed, validated, and implemented two automated vision systems. • Led a cross functional idea generation program to capture and implement process improvement ideas.• Delivered clear and insightful deliverables in a variety of formats to diverse audiences. Collected, analyzed, and presented process data to communicate process performance and recommend continuous improvement projects to internal stakeholders. Performed tecno-economic assessments. Show less

Lakewood Co

Served as an integral part of an engineering team hired to design, program, validate, and implement collaborative robot automated systems to assemble and inspect components of a medical device disposable. Delivered three collaborative robotic work cells and integrated them into an existing medical manufacturing process. • Learned and applied troubleshooting, programming, and integration techniques for programmable logic controllers, vision systems, and robotics.• Documented… Show more Served as an integral part of an engineering team hired to design, program, validate, and implement collaborative robot automated systems to assemble and inspect components of a medical device disposable. Delivered three collaborative robotic work cells and integrated them into an existing medical manufacturing process. • Learned and applied troubleshooting, programming, and integration techniques for programmable logic controllers, vision systems, and robotics.• Documented, analyzed, and executed, in a succinct manner, process characterization, commissioning, and validation procedures, protocols, and reports.• Traveled to Vietnam and collaborated with Vietnamese engineers to complete process characterization for several Cognex In-Sight Cameras. Played a key role in communicating information between Colorado and Vietnam to meet accelerated timelines. Show less

Lakewood Co

Provided customer engineering support on a global scale for apheresis medical device platforms. Enhanced the team by providing problem solving capabilities and strong analytical skills in investigations of quality issues, emerging performance issues, and global system performance trends.• Investigated root cause and authored formal customer complaint write-ups providing system level performance recommendations.• Analyzed global data trends through queries to examine platform… Show more Provided customer engineering support on a global scale for apheresis medical device platforms. Enhanced the team by providing problem solving capabilities and strong analytical skills in investigations of quality issues, emerging performance issues, and global system performance trends.• Investigated root cause and authored formal customer complaint write-ups providing system level performance recommendations.• Analyzed global data trends through queries to examine platform productivity and trending issues in both a proactive and reactive approach to problem solving. • Designed, executed, and documented system test plans and preformed design of experiments for a diverse scope of systems issues and projects. Presented findings in a cross functional setting. Show less

Boulder

Mimicked biomechanical environments through aligned fiber fabrication to promote stem cell differentiation. Developed techniques for aligned fiber fabrication through design and implementation of a custom mandrel used in an electrospinning apparatus. Varied a host of parameters to determine optimal values of alignment through scanning electron microscopy.

Longmont

Worked in the machine shop. Machined, assembled, tig welded, and deburred parts for telescopes.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Designed projects for the maintenance of Boulder’s extensive trail system. Managed and mentored 14 high school students and delegated specific tasks. Promoted knowledge of Boulder’s watershed and local ecosystems.

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemical And Biological Engineering

Activities and Societies: Xi'an China Scholarship, UROP Grants, Society of Women Engineers, Backcountry Club, Alpine Club

Minor, Computer Science

Minor, Biomedical Engineering