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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Copenhagen, Valby, Dk

Copenhagen, Valby, Dk

I work in FLSmidth's Mining R&D facility in Midvale, UT. My primary job role is technical product development - trying to bring new ideas and new ways of sensing for prognostic health management to market to help customers get more life out of their equipment. I design, build, test and deploy sensors and wireless network technologies. This involves mechanical and electrical design, prototyping, coding, and on-site testing of new sensor technologies for FLSmidth's portfolio of mining equipment.These sensors are part of FLS's overall OPC system for a digitally integrated mine site. The sensors I design and test are edge devices in a network which feeds data to a central control system which can make decisions or update operators on conditions in their facility.While in this role I was asked by a different group to help troubleshoot and subsequently redesign a unique regenerative power condtioner. It wasn't part of my job descriptio, but they needed help, it sounded interesting, and it was a flagship product so fixing it was important. 6 months of constant field tests, redesigns and failure lead to a working product upgrade. One of the hardest things I have worked on, but also one of the more personally rewarding.

Falls Church, Va, Us

I worked in a manufacturing facility as a controls engineer, working to keep machines running and design new control systems for system refurbishment and upgrades. Some ladder logic programming, troubleshooting and repair of active and legacy controls systems. I wanted to gain more experience in high voltage systems and industrial controls.The team was small, and in addition to my controls and electrical work I performed a lot of mechanical troubleshooting and replacement part design work. Some legacy systems had few drawings, so we had to be creative with attempts to reverse engineer parts to keep things running.As per usual, I kept a number of side projects including a proposal to install a water recycle system on a low cadence but high water use test machine. If completed, the system would have saved between 200K and 750K gallons of water per year for a reasonable cost. I spec'd parts, made drawings, wrote and submitted the proposal to an internal environmental hackathon. The proposal was selected to move forward, but I left the company before implementation.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Same position as before, but now with a title that doesn't make me cringe when signing off on thermal analysis reports.

Falls Church, Va, Us

I work in a ~70 person R&D lab inside a large operations facility. I primarily work sensor and hardware development and deployment for hazardous testing of energetic and composite materials. Mechanical and Electrical prototyping, some software development and project management. Sometimes it feels like I have a full time job of trying to do things outside current company procedures and standards and convincing various safety boards that what we're doing is on the up-and-up.I often design test equipment and build it with a mixture of cad modeling, traditional manufacturing and 3D printing. I am usually involved in the testing regimes, and test results are often analyzed using matlab or python based data analysis.I have also had the opportunity to perform a few projects with the local Environmental Services group, mainly looking into air quality issues around the plant and in the local community. A particularly exciting project was rush building a few dust sensors for deployment in a large drone in conjunction with the local Utah State University AggieAir program. My sensors were flown through the exhaust plumes of large diameter rockets in an attempt to gather data to validate a joint NASA-NG particle emission model.

Small side project designing dust sensor payloads for areal drones. I designed, built, tested and deployed a few versions of a payload to sense airborne particles for a project with USU.

Dulles, Virginia, Us

Research and Development engineer in a Non Destructive Testing lab until acquisition of Orbital ATK by Northrop Grumman in June 2018. I mostly worked on mechanical and electrical hardware development. I designed, laid out and stuffed PCBs for test applications, designed camera systems for hazardous Cl1Div1 environments, and was the technical lead for a mass properties measurement standup on plant at Promontory, UT. I also designed mechanical test fixtures and was involved in everything from the CAD modeling to parts lists, purchasing, construction and implementation of the equipment. One of the benefits of being in the lab is small staff, so we have to be able to do everything. It means I get to be closely integrated with every project I work on.

Dulles, Virginia, Us

Worked in the Systems Engineering Requirements and Verification group to define customer and company expectations for rocket designs. Gained experience in NASA interaction through meetings with NASA systems engineers. Worked on NASA SLS and Air Force EELV programs and contributed to a successful SRR and SDR for a new program. Built a requirements and verification document for an innovative upper stage nozzle system in a requirements management tool.

Houston, Texas, Us

My major responsibilities included monitoring the health of over 850 gas wells and writing procedures for repair and optimization. However, flipping through hundreds of production charts looking for deviation was rather tedious, so I built a monitoring program in visual basic that analyzed the charts and alerted me when a well may need intervention. This automation freed up my time for other pursuits, and I spent a lot of time studying various problems that no-one had yet solved. I studied corrosion trends in our downhole piping and constructed models in VB to predict chemical injection persistency over time to better protect assets and decrease cost. I also built many economic models to try to predict the outcome of changes to field equipment. My most interesting project was an attempt to decrease the amount of methane released during normal field operation. Over the space of 2 years I worked on this project in whatever time I could make for it. At the end of my time at COP I had over 700 wells in my test population, and was able to decrease measurable greenhouse gas emissions in some test groups by at least 80% with a negligible impact to production. After showing my results to management and getting buy in on a path forward in June 2015, I resigned my position to pursue a graduate degree.

Houston, Texas, Us

I studied the permafrost underneath the Kuparuk oil field in the North Slope of Alaska in an attempt to quantify current warming trends. The goal of this project was originally to ensure we had the correct assets to determine if changes in permafrost temperature were taking place, but using the data available I determined some building specifications needed to be changed for new facilities. I also developed a plan and preliminary design for pipeline upgrade project. Using knowledge I gained over the summer I won an internal ConocoPhillips wiki competition with an article on permafrost composition and behavior.

Houston, Texas, Us

While working in the Bakken oil field in North Dakota, I developed a conditions based monitoring technique for predictive maintenance of electrified pumping units based on field data obtained from visiting over 180 well sites. I also unsuccessfully attempted to build paraffin formation models to anticipate blockages in wellbores to optimize chemical treatments. Paraffin formation is a tricky thing to try to model, as there are many factors in its formation. A successful outcome of the project was realizing which parameters we could safely ignore.

Master'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Non-Degree Seeking