Garrett Caudill Email & Phone Number

Monroe, North Carolina, United States

Working as part of the Engineering and Maintenance team on-site to:Maintain detailed project tasks, schedules, and deliverables.Ensure projects successfully meet developed timelines and budgets.Coordinates mechanical tasks utilizing cross-functional teams and necessary resources to achieve required results.Design fixturing and equipment of varying types and complexity.Develops processes, methods and production controls for new programs while mentoring others on proper use and maintenance.Assist with plant layouts and process changes as related to specific projects.Participate in projects related to cost savings, safety, quality and the elimination of waste.Oversee and assist with fabrication of equipment from design through fabrication, implementation and training.Develop standard work methods and operational documentation for fabricated equipment and processes.

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Serve as both a busser and food runner to assist all restaurant staff, keep operations running efficiently. Gained experience with communication, time management, flexibility, and adaptability through tasks. Experience in a fast pace work environment

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

• Understand the basics of Robotics, as well as kinematics of robotics.• Learned to derive and compute forward and inverse kinematics, and Jacobians of common robots.• Use Matlab to program and derive forward and inverse robot kinematics.

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

• Collaborate with USC’s Department of Sustainability to design a new compost chopper and mixer. • Work on a team of four to communicate efficiently and frequently to create the new product. • Attend weekly meetings with a faculty mentor via Microsoft Teams to investigate budgetary and CAD modeling as well as receive feedback and make adjustments regarding the project design. • Utilize CAD to design parts into an assembly for manufacturing.• Negotiated budget requirements and contracts for the project.

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

• Learned the basics of controlling first and second order systems.• Completed a project with a partner using PLC device, learned to program and control a PLC system.• Investigated the PLC logic-based code, including working with inputs, timers, and loops.

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

• Learned the basics of 4-bar and crank-slide machinery, synthesized movements by hand.• Gained experience in analyzing position, velocity, and acceleration of multilink systems.• Simulated rotary systems by hand (gear trains, cams).