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Chicago, IL, US

Falls Church, VA, US

Leading systems engineering teams to build and deliver advanced mission analyses and warfighter capabilities

Brookfield, WI, US

• Developed the foundations for future generations of market-leading jobsite tools.Accomplishments:
• Led user needs synthesis, requirements generation and cascade, architectural modeling, trade-off discussion, and verification & validation specification for next-generation high power electronics program.
• Developed interface and performance requirements for next-gen terminal program in collaboration with Marketing & Quality.
• Performed battery ecosystem and gap analysis, capability modeling and exploration, and gap ideation ranking & Pareto analysis.
• Identified and mitigated battery pack design risks through interface signal-based hazard analysis.
• Verified and expanded upon next-gen battery pack functional requirements using nominal and fault state modeling & analysis.

Downers Grove, IL, US

• Lead systems engineer responsible for guiding development of multiple water delivery product families.Accomplishments:
• Built water delivery architectures (including integrated electromechanical, digital endpoint, sensing, and IoT functionalities) that scaled to meet varying application needs, delighted customers, and fulfilled business.
• Leveraged systems thinking to create customer-centric business and design strategies for multiple families of residential and commercial water delivery products.
• Collaborated with product managers, hardware and software subject matter experts, industrial designers, and user researchers to build and implement platform roadmaps.

Downers Grove, IL, US

• Lead engineer and architect responsible for managing new product development of commercial water delivery platform. Accomplishments:
• Created new scalable bottle filling station architecture for delivering functionalities in short and long-term product roadmaps while also making trade-offs throughout the product stack and maintaining an engineering.
• Collaborated with electronics and software subject matter experts to develop new low-cost electrical architecture that scaled to multiple platforms.
• Translated market research data into valued customer experiences, use cases, and associated system requirements.
• Organized and facilitated multiple scrum sprints to achieve specific cross-functional objectives at various stages of the product development lifecycle.
• Orchestrated Elkay's first user-centric and cross-functional competitive analysis and benchmarking study that focused on the product unboxing, installation, maintenance, and decommissioning experiences.

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, FR

• Responsible for new product development, system engineering, and continuous improvement of industry-leading electronic and electromechanical circuit breakers for the residential and commercial markets. Led engineering.
• Directed preliminary architectural development and tradespace studies of IoT offerings for residential circuit breaker market.
• Conducted thermal, electromagnetic, dynamics, and structural modeling and analyses to verify concepts met functional requirements.
• Partnered with global manufacturing, electronics, and quality teams to optimize circuit breaker architecture, saving $1.3M annually.
• Utilized rapid prototyping technologies to create working electronic circuit breaker samples for extreme short-circuit testing.
• Evaluated and recommended IoT-AR experiences for maximizing technician safety during service of high voltage equipment.

Lombard, IL, US

• Provided mechanical engineering consulting services for the oil & gas, utility, chemical, and life science industries. Performed field investigations with clients to understand their needs, define project requirements.
• Evaluated high pressure water cleaning technologies and recommended system that best met client requirements.
• Leveraged 3D laser scanning technology to build models of client facilities for performing design work and AR reviews.
• Designed, optimized, and delivered specification for new freeze-encapsulation process and its associated equipment.
• Specified new material storage facility that enhanced client’s operational flexibility and efficiency.

Lisle, IL, US

Special assignment taken on at request of engineering management. Tasked with developing the 2015 aftertreatment system and managing its verification plan.

Lisle, IL, US

• Directed engineering requirements generation, subsystem verification planning, and test coordination for the 2013 vehicles. Received company-wide recognition for these efforts, which directly impacted the successful.
• Managed high level design and program risks across multiple subsystems, leading to timely delivery of the final engineering vehicle configurations.
• Coordinated verification activities and optimized uptime for 70+ field test vehicles operating across the United States.
• Collaborated with Industrial Design team to specify and build demonstration trucks for executive and board meetings.
• Developed Excel VBA inventory management tool that improved component query efficiency by 80%.

Lisle, IL, US

• Rotated through multiple groups within the Integrated Product Development organization, including Vehicle Engineering, Base Engine Design, Reliability, and Heavy Duty Platform Engineering. Accomplishments:
• Performed subsystem functional analysis and data mining to identify design opportunities and optimize vehicle performance metrics.
• Released design changes that resulted in engine performance improvements and $400k of annual manufacturing and warranty cost savings.
• Interfaced with customers to resolve product issues in partnership with the responsible subject matter experts.

Iowa City, IA, US

• Performed a wide range of thermal-fluid and solidification research and experimentation. Accomplishments:
• Experimentally investigated thermal decomposition of chemical binders used in sand casting.
• Computationally evaluated casting composite ceramic and steel armor plating for aircraft.
• Performed dendrite solidification experiments and associated data analysis.
• Conducted iron and steel casting experiments at the UNI Metal Casting Center.
• Presented research findings at professional conferences.

Iowa City, IA, US

Led study sessions, homework discussions, project counseling, and exam administration for the undergraduate Thermodynamics I, Thermodynamics II, and Heat Transfer courses.

Iowa City, IA, US

Provided technical writing and presentation coaching as well as editing services for undergraduate engineering students. Developed clients' communication proficiencies by focusing on writing and speaking form, audience, organization, argumentation, grammar, and citation.

Iowa City, IA, US

• Performed a variety of activities to support human factors research for M.S. and Ph.D. candidates.Accomplishments:
• Directed flight tests for rotorcraft studies involving flight symbology design and organization.
• Collected and analyzed data from spatial disorientation and avionics interface flight tests.
• Integrated eye tracking hardware in aircraft, construction equipment, and commercial vehicles.

Moline, IL, US

• Senior design project, in collaboration with fellow University of Iowa mechanical engineers and cross-functional John Deere engineering team, to create an aftermarket air compressor system for John Deere's G-Series.
• Utilized Pro/Engineer (PTC Creo) and local prototyping capabilities to rapidly iterate and converge on a feasible design.
• Leveraged 3D immersive environment tools at John Deere's Dubuque Works to optimize the system's accessibility and ease of use.
• Retrofitted final prototype on vehicles for John Deere verification trials and customer field tests.
• Created marketing materials and installation instructions for the new air compressor system.

Irving, Texas, US

• Internship with the Motor Grader Systems Integration team at Caterpillar's Decatur design center. Accomplishments:
• Directed cross-functional virtual machine reviews (leveraging 3D immersive environment tools), which identified and resolved systems integration issues and avoided ~$800k of rework costs.
• Reviewed new component and assembly designs from motor grader engineering teams to ensure system compatibility and functional performance.
• Released new and maintained existing motor grader master BOM configurations.

US

• Co-op experience involving design engineering and fleet management of the A320 passenger aircraft at Northwest Airline's Minneapolis hub. Main activities included aircraft design modifications, reliability tracking.
• Minimized aircraft downtime by implementing interim and permanent corrective actions in response to performance and functionality issues across multiple systems.
• Designed and prototyped tool enhancements, including a fuel tank leak check device that reduced critical inspection downtime by 40%.
• Led fleet-wide retrofit projects, including avionics and controls software updates and a major cargo hold modification.
• Authored technical content of the 2007 A320 Cost and Safety Poster distributed to all domestic maintenance hubs.

M.S., Mechanical Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering