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Cincinnati, OH, US

Cincinnati, OH

• Director of the Design Department, overseeing 3 service delivery teams: - Technical and Creative Art - Industrial Design - Interactive Experienciences
• Ensure the successful delivery of key business functions and initiatives, collaborating with other Directors and leaders in the company to achieve goals.
• Forecast and manage to financial targets and within operational budgets.
• Accountable for employee satisfaction and engagement.
• Establish and reinforce department strategy.
• Equip, enable, and empower teams.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Led a group of 25+ Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical engineers divided into 3 production teams focused on physics-based simulation (FEA, CFD, DEM, heat transfer, etc.), physical testing and validation, and.
• Accountable for revenue growth and group financial performance, high quality technical execution of projects, employee recruiting and development, and customer satisfaction.
• Helped develop best practices for project management and execution, leadership, and group management.
• Served as relationship owner and technical reviewer on a wide variety of projects.Notable achievements include:
• Propagated tools and best practices through other areas of the company to improve business performance overall.
• Helped successfully expand the group's consulting services into new technology areas and a wider base of clients.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Developed and led a team of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical engineers and co-op students focused on Modeling & Simulation and automated engineering workflows.
• Responsible for delivering projects at a high standard of quality; recruiting, coaching, and career development for my team; and developing and maintaining a strong client base.
• Scoped, managed, and executed hundreds of individual projects, consulting directly with clients and ensuring the quality of the work delivered.
• Honed my technical expertise in the areas of structural simulation, product design, Python development, data analysis, and optimization.Notable projects include:
• Development of a Python-based tool to assemble input decks for dynamic simulations of manufacturing equipment, automatically placing components and setting up complex motion profiles. Features included simple text.
• Design of several sizes of a plastic bottle for a common household product which is still available on the market. The project included creation of a flexible parametric CAD model (which facilitated the comparison of.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Built advanced solid and surface-based CAD models in SolidWorks in support of a wide variety of consumer product, manufacturing, and medical projects.
• Developed complex 2D and 3D meshes supporting structural and fluid simulations using Altair HyperMesh, Cubit, and I-DEAS.
• Performed static and dynamic structural simulation in SolidWorks Simulation and LS-Dyna, providing stress results and supporting the optimization of products and processes.
• Supported the creation of Kinetic Vision's reverse engineering discipline with geometry and STL workflows in Geomagic Studio. Created complex anatomical models from MRI and CT data.
• Trained and mentored engineering co-op students.Notable projects include:
• Development of a custom Excel VBA tool to compute stress and deflection on a system of rollers used in a manufacturing process (i.e., a beam element mesher and solver with a simple user interface).

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Constructed CAD models for a variety of consumer and medical products using SolidWorks and I-DEAS.
• Created meshes and assisted full-time engineers in setting up finite element analysis models.
• Developed automation for various productivity and engineering workflows in a variety of languages including Matlab, Python, VB.Net, and Excel VBA.
• Generated reports and presentations to effectively communicate the results and next steps on engineering design and analysis projects.

Milford, Ohio, United States

• Designed and constructed a mechanical prototype to automate a repetitive pick-and-place process, including developing pneumatic controls and machining custom aluminum components.
• Coordinated and assisted in the installation of prototype test equipment and corresponding electrical connections. Hands-on experience with electrical wiring, conduit, and piping.
• Coordinated details of a major research and development project with external vendors.
• Assisted with various projects for the engineers in the R&D group. Willing to jump into anything, help out, and learn!

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Mechanical Engineering

Courses included: 1. Quality Control 2. Production Planning 3. Effectiveness in Technical Organizations 4. Management of Professionals 5..

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering, 3.754/4.000

Activities and Societies: The Navigators, Engineers Without Borders, University Honors Scholars Association, Pi Tau Sigma (Mechanical.