• Designed, tested, and validated the SEQUOIA wet barrel fire hydrant and traffic break check valve, introducing a complete lineup of waterworks products for the Southern California market.• Designed, tested, and validated new vertical entry hydrant base for the AMERICAN Darling B84B fire hydrant, incorporating the ROMAC ALPHA joint to meet market needs for vertical entry hydrants that simplify logistics and installation requirements for contractors and utilities.• Execute engineering projects from customer requirements through concepting, design, and prototype manufacturing.• Design new products in 3D CAD using SolidWorks.• Manufacture prototype parts from 3-axis CNC programming in SolidWorks CAM, to fixturing, setup and operation of CNC mills and lathes.• Design testing requirements and fabricate equipment to validate prototype designs.• Experience working hands-on in a shop environment.

• Conducted general data analysis and processing for diagnostics and development of large power systems and engines• Isolated transient behavior in simulation input data to improve efficiency of simulation compute times• Applied Python multiprocessing functionality to halve analysis time of weather data from 4500+ airports to provide data for engine development and durability• Simulated engine control schemes using weather data to estimate the resulting efficiency around the globe• Created and automated weekly reports on engine performance• Developed customer requirements and communicated data analysis goals and capabilities to Caterpillar engineering teams