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Novi, Michigan, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Design
• Design of numerous prototype and production test cells for functional and compliance testing of precision manufactured medium-voltage switchgear products. (ANSI, NEMA, IEEE, and IEC standards)
• Plan, design, and install data acquisition systems for prototype and production compliance testing.  Flow meters, voltage sensors, current sensors, thermocouples, pressure sensors, vacuum pressure sensors, actuators.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to design and trouble shoot multi-stage automation for cleaning, assembly, production, and automated compliance testing of our designed products.
• Perform tolerance error analysis for dimensional changes to vacuum interrupters and the impact on automated assembly.
• Successfully bring new high precision product designs through concept and design phases into production.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Project Management
• Identify areas for group capability improvement, supervise capital improvement projects (Large and small), and successfully manage several ongoing projects at one time.
• Provide regular updates to stakeholders with data, dates, and information in clear concise presentations. (Programs: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Minitab, MATLAB, JIRA, Tempo)
• Generate PSP’s, MSP’s, and test procedures for use in production and by other engineers/technicians.

Des Plaines, Illinois, United States

• Principal engineer for the test design, installation, commissioning, and testing of a unique hybrid combi setup for the space and water heating of a virtual test home. (HVAC)
• Utilized LabVIEW to simulate variable heating loads and control the NI DAQ that automatically adjusted valves and HVAC equipment controlsManaged the test design, installation, commissioning, and testing of a new.

Lemont, Illinois, United States

• Lead engineer accountable for requisition, utility preparation, and install of a new vacuum furnace facility:
• Drafted the original solicitation and wrote monthly update reports to the DOE.
• Identified utility needs and compiled them into utility drawings, soliciting contractor bids, and supervising installations of equipment and space modifications. Lead engineer accountable for the transfer, redesign.
• Modeled, fabricated, and assembled the new helium refrigeration system connections to operate the SRF E-Gun off a closed loop refrigeration system.
• Calculated, modeled, and assembled the pressure safety systems to ensure compliance with all applicable DOE pressure vessel safety regulations.
• Trained new technicians and employees on proper vacuum assembly and leak checking practices.

• Engineered mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical/electronic test setups.
• Designed CAD components and systems for various production models and drawings using Creo Parametric
• Fabricated parts and assemblies for the benchtop testing of different proposed designs.
• Composed proposals and presentations for independent contractors (DOD, DOI, AF, NAV, etc.)
• Created MATLAB programs for data analysis and modeling of testing results.

Kharagpur Area, India

• Developed computer programs for data analysis and data collection in pressure test of porous materials.
• Implemented partial differential equations for diffusion processes into MATLAB simulations to model tumor growth/diffusion processes.