Coaching, Training, Mentoring R&D teams and individuals on Design, Reliability, Manufacturing (DRM) and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS). Exploring generative AI for R&D applications - prompt engineering. Leading continuous improvement efforts to improve business efficiency, enhance product and process quality, and elevate R&D standards/best practices. Streamlining product development processes to accelerate cycle times while enhancing predictability and improving product quality.

Product Development:- Design voice of customer activities- Analyze market segments- Identify user groups- Develop guidance documents to aid in interviewing- Design voice of business activities- Identify key stakeholders- Collect stakeholder preferences, opinions, and expectations- Communicate to and promote alignment of business stakeholders- Translate User and Business needs into Engineering Requirements- Utilize and improve upon industry standard product development methodologies- Continuously improve product quality, safety, and effectiveness- Develop medical products that abide by FDA regulations- Investigate, analyze, and improve processes through active sustainability engineering practicesSystems Engineering:- Practice multidisciplinary engineering- Innovate new products and technology- Promote and participate in novel ideation workshops- File patent disclosures- Enable interdisciplinary engineering project team communication- Research product use and surgery workflows- Analyze and mitigate user/patient risks- Create and analyze engineering models - Communicate technical project risks- Monitor and improve system accuracy- Develop system architectures- Identify and map system interactions- Leverage probabilistic and statistical engineering methods- Apply 6-Sigma design practices- Provide optical navigation subject matter expertise- Provide electromagnetic navigation subject matter expertise

I am currently performing research as part of my PhD on the topic of non-linear statistical shape modeling of the lumbar spine. This work includes foci of shape classification, parameterization, and principle component analysis of lumbar vertebra geometry. The goal of the work is to understand variation in vertebra shape and how it relates to population-based spine biomechanics. Toward this end, we develop methods to parameterize shape in the support of the creation of subject-specific, finite element, biomechanics models and to explore and infer statistical relationships between vertebra shape and diverse, population-derived metrics such as load transmission, range of motion, and the prevalence of back pain.As part of the Colorado School of Mines Computational Biomechanics Research Group, I collaborate with Professors and other Graduate Students to develop innovative solutions to compelling research topics in the field of biomechanics.Biomechanics involves the study of physics, biology, kinematics, and kinetics (among other topics) associated with engineering problems that involve living organisms, including humans.Such research can be applied to a broad area of industrial and clinical applications including prosthetic & orthopedic device design and development, ergonomics, sports & rehabilitation engineering, kinesiology, or even etymology and pathology.Research tools used in the CSM Biomechanics Research Group include but are not limited to scientific literature review, application of the finite element method, statistical and probabilistic analysis, rigid body dynamics modeling, forward- and inverse-dynamics modeling of the musculoskeletal system, patient specific modeling, multi-scale modeling, electromyography, and marker-based and marker-less motion capture. New and modern tools include geometry morphing and adaptive segmentation methods.

As a Teaching Assistant for EGGN 413 - Computer Aided Engineering, I assisted the course Instructor with duties specific to the course as well as general Teaching Assistant duties. These tasks included course preparation, homework preparation, homework grading, holding of office hours, proctoring of in-class examinations, and in-class answering of student questions. Additionally, I gave lectures on course material in the case of a required absence of the Instructor.The course material covered the application of the Finite Element Method using the SolidWorks software package and the validation of results through basic Mechanics of Materials (MoM) calculations. MoM calculations were often performed in the MathCAD software package and supplemented with hand calculations and free-body diagrams.

While officially employed as a Teaching Assistant, in actuality, I was helping as an Instructor for the Mechanical Engineering Field Session, SolidWorks module.In this portion of Field Session, Mechanical Engineering students were presented with and were asked to apply the skills associated with solid modeling (i.e. CAD modeling) using the SolidWorks program available from Simulia. The coursework covers topics including part creation, assemblies, drawings, and advanced SolidWorks functionality such as Animation, Flow Simulation, Motion, Photoview 360, Toolbox, and Simulation to name just a few.

Performed quantitative organic chemistry analysis. Compiled a database of the time-history of chemical constituents in soil and created visual representations of contaminant plumes using contour maps.