Ethan Minier, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Newark, Ny

A precision CNC manufacturing service provider in the Upstate NY area

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Kollektiv is an affordable, all-inclusive training platform, that empowers people to achieve their performance and wellness goals.The very best athletes in the world are surrounded by a team that enables their success. We believe everyone with ambitions to accomplish goals, irrelevant of their background and ability, deserves the same opportunity to be trained, mentored, and supported by the best.Kollektiv uniquely interconnects three key elements that everyone needs to fulfill their athletic potential; tailored training that evolves and accommodates your lifestyle, learning that supports your journey, and experts accessible on-demand and in times of need.My Role at Kollektiv:In the last year and half (first six months as a freelance consultant) at Kollektiv, I've held a lot of "roles." I've handled the construction of our AWS system architecture, CICD pipelines, been the principal data engineer and scientist, managed, architected, and solely developed our novel recommendation tech from the ground up, and have lead the development of our internal athlete management platform. I've by necessity, become a Full-Stack Engineer, diversifying my capabilities and language competencies along the way in order to rapidly adapt to our evolving needs as a company. I've been challenged everyday to build new and innovative deep-tech that will empower people to achieve their performance and wellness goals.

Worked on several fast-paced short turnaround projects as a data science and engineering consultant. I helped my clients generate leads and gain valuable insights from their datasets using machine learning and advanced data visualization techniques. Projects spanned across a multitude of industry sectors including digital media and communication, energy, and healthcare.

Atlanta, Georgia / Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

Managed the development of a novel methodology for use by the military to assess a new battlespace initiative leveraging the concept of low-cost attributable aircraft (LCAA). The methodology is a multidisciplinary approach synthesizing aircraft design, structural sizing, and manufacturing costing disciplines. In addition to providing technical oversight, I personally developed a detailed aircraft structural sizing, analysis, and visualization module that leveraged software tools such as AVL, AFEM, NASTRAN and Hypersizer. The research allowed drivers of success in the low-cost attributable aircraft initiative to be identified, resulting in the military extending the contract to further enhance the methodologies capabilities.Competency Requirements: Project Management, Leadership, AVL, Hypersizer, NASTRAN, AFEM, RADE, JMP, Python

Atlanta, Ga / Charleston, South Carolina

Leveraging data mining and analytic techniques, I modeled the motion of their QuadBot robotic arm drilling operation. During this brief time I also developed an optimization technique, which leveraged this model, to identify a more efficient drilling sequence, ultimately increasing throughput and decreasing manufacturing costs for Boeing.Competency Requirements: Python, Data Mining, Data Analytics, Data Modeling, Optimization

Atlanta, Ga

During this project I, as a MBA candidate, and my team applied the lean six sigma DMAIC approach to improve DMS’s operations by reducing their part cycle times, eliminating non-value adding steps, and redesigning their layout to minimize movement waste. I also leveraged my dissertation work to redesign their operational layout resulting in an 11% reduction in part related movement waste and furthermore an additional savings of over $200k in warehouse space over the subsequent three years.Competency Requirements: Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, Process Improvement, Lean, Lean Manufacturing, Statistical Analysis, Excel, R

Atlanta, Ga

During this project I, as a MBA candidate, learned how to be an effective consultant – properly scoping and executing a consulting project at the enterprise level. By collaborating with management at Global Growers, my team and I successfully developed an automated financial accounting tool (Excel + SaasAnt + QuickBooks) to streamline and improve their farmer payment and tax account processes.Competency Requirements: Excel, SaasAnt, QuickBooks, R

Atlanta, Ga

My team and I, as MBA candidates, were tasked with performing an analysis of AT&T’s assets and formulating a strategy for how these assets could be leveraged to further increase the value to the customer and hence increase AT&Ts wireless customer size and value to the firm. We identified the then pending acquisition of the Time Warner Company and their DirectTV/Uverse platform as key assets. We performed a comprehensive market, SWOT, and a Porters Five Forces analysis prior to formulating a strategy that leveraged AT&T’s potential acquisition of the Time Warner Company and its entertainment assets, which we then presented to upper management at AT&T at the conclusion of the project.Competency Requirements: Market Research, Strategy, Business Analysis, SWOT, Porters Five Forces

Atlanta, Ga

My team and I, as MBA candidates, successfully developed predictive regression models (in R) for McKesson supplied data considering various factors such as seasonality, customer ID, supplier ID, and drug category. These models enabled valuable insights to be derived and improved forecasting for McKesson’s analytics and drug production teams.Competency Requirements: R, SAS

Atlanta, Ga / Huntsville, Alabama

During this project I developed a software tool that enables feasible component assembly sequences to be identified and visualized in real-time. Leveraging the gaming development platform UNITY and a provided CAD model, I achieved this by first developing a novel method of automatically converting large quantities of CAD model STL part files (~10^3) into UNITY compliant graphical objects while maintaining CAD assembly level metadata. The virtual environment I then developed in UNITY to visualize these parts and their global assembly positions was coupled with an assembly sequence schedule model linked to heuristic assembly rules. The virtual environment I developed then enabled each potential assembly sequence to be visualized, assembly conflicts identified, and potential alternate assembly sequences discovered. The tool ultimately advanced Boeing’s insight into the problem and was later applied to the Space Launch System’s main engine section assembly with success.Competency Requirements: Python, UNITY, Solidworks, Modeling & SImulation

Atlanta, Ga / Twinsburg, Oh

During this three year effort, I created a multidisciplinary design environment for aircraft air driven generators, which bolstered SAFRAN’s RFP response capabilities, later enabling them to win a coveted contract. I worked directly with upper management during the span of the project, presenting key results to division managers and top executives in the company on a regular basis.Competency Requirements: Matlab, Python, OpenMDAO, Modeling, Simulation, Structures, Sizing, Design, Analysis, Multidisciplinary, Data Analytics Presentation, Technical Reports

Atlanta, Ga / Panama City, Florida

Developed a naval mine countermeasure simulation environment for the military. The environment provided the client with the ability to assess operational clearance rates and varying asset deployment strategies.Competency Requirements: Matlab, Modeling & Simulation

Syracuse, New York

Independent research done in the field of computational fluid dynamics and with a more specific focus on the numerical generation of optimal quality grids using backwards differentiation. All research code was written in Matlab.Competency Requirements: Matlab, CFD, Mathematical Modeling, Meshing

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Analytics

Master Of Science (M.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Student at ASDL (Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory) at Georgia Tech performing research for industry sponsors while studying aircraft.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering, 3.856

Activities and Societies: Sigma Gamma Tau, Phi Kappa Phi, AIAAGraduated Summa Cum Laude with supplementary minors in mathematics.