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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 engineering application development.•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.•Shepherded the group successfully through multiple reorganizations.

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 inputs, extreme versatility of equipment configurations, design of experiments functionality, and post-processing workflows. Each run of the automation would save days of human setup time and eliminate costly mistakes. The project also involved simulation validation with capture and processing of thousands of high speed videos and data from other sensors.•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 dozens of design variants), considerations for handle ergonomics, manufacturing and sustainability considerations evaluated through simulation, and design of complex lettering embossed on the bottles.

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).•Design and creation of a handheld joystick to control an end effector on an endoscopic surgical tool.•Development in Python of a tool to generate shell meshes for an automated simulation workflow based on simple user inputs, yielding significant time savings and facilitating the exploration of a wide design space.

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.