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Houston, Texas, United States

Designing midstream facilities for such as metering stations and hot tap connections to RMV's for natural gas and CO₂ pipelines. Primary focus is on metering runs, interconnection diagrams, motor circuit design, budgetary estimates, and PV solar integration for remote locations. • Oxy Foster Meter Station – Designed conduit plan, protection circuits, and power delivery for a system to deliver CO2 for Kinder Morgan. • Juno Meter Station – Design of general electric plan, grounding, load calculations, and pipeline design for a station to take in natural gas for Williams and deliver it to the Louisiana Energy Gateway pipeline. Created control narrative for facility operation. • HF Sinclair Casper – Integration of a backup VFD into an existing medium-voltage pump design as well as switching mechanism to move from one supply to another.

Greenville, North Carolina Area

- Collaborated with the college's medical and engineering departments to diagnose errors in a previousprototype that prevented it from operating and implemented those solutions, allowing the project tomove forward.- Developed code allowing for a PLC to operate relays and solenoid valves to client specifications with atolerance of 1.5ms, resulting in a highly accurate and efficient system.- Constructed the prototype on a mobile cart for transport and demonstrations to the supervisor.- Delivered a finished prototype with an operations manual outlining safety procedures, setup andgeneral operations, and wiring diagrams for the system, ensuring that it was easy to understand andreplicate.

-Streamlined calibration procedures for a set of transducers by creating a new LabView program anddeveloping a new instrumentation box in AutoCAD, reducing weight by 30% and fully automatingcalibration procedures for transducers.-Oversaw development of LabView code interfacing with an NI-DAQ to display readings and save datafor later analysis, resulting in more efficient data processing and analysis.-Simplified LabView code and transducer replacement, leading to a 20% reduction in procedure timeand an average savings of $1000 per use.-Lead presentation on the engineering design process and demonstrated the chosen solution,effectively communicating complex technical information to audience of engineers from a variety offields.

-Provided on-call support for a capstone team working with U-Net, reducing development time by 20%and ensuring that the project met its deadlines.-Debugged code and helped with the design process, utilizing C# experience to develop software usingcomputer vision within a medical context, providing technical expertise to the team.-Wrote an program in MATLAB to take in images and stitch them together.-Tuned a UGV controller and delivered an operations manual with safety procedures, ensuring that thedevice was safe and easy to use.