Johann Barnard Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

I am currently employed as a junior mechanical designer at AME Group’s Edmonton office. My work primarily involves (or will involve) mechanical consulting services in aquatic, critical infrastructure, datacenters, mixed-use residential, and commercial projects. As an EIT, I also assist my colleagues in the Edmonton office and within other offices with.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• Designed plumbing and HVAC systems for new mixed-use residential developments
• Completed as-builts for pool filtration systems and building HVAC systems
• Managed master CAD as-builts for a large post-secondary institution
• Assisted with design of a new treatment system for a high-profile outdoor public pool installation
• Designed HVAC and plumbing renovations for critical systems such as telecom data centers

Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada

• Designed and implemented software systems for fully autonomous mushroom-harvesting robots across Windows platforms and PLCs
• Assisted with mechanical design and manufacturing for conveyor systems
• Developed advanced, automatic performance report generation software for interactive analysis of picking performance, trimming performance, and overall yield
• Set up small, high-availability PostgreSQL and Grafana server clusters for real-time data visibility

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Built adaptive, electric mountain bikes for those with disabilities, daily
• Built working prototype of a self-levelling mobility scooter
• Faced metal tubing on a lathe, operated drill press and bandsaw, and epoxied parts, among other operations
• Redesigned several 3D-printed parts to reduce cost, print time, and support material
• Improved bike assembly processes and documentation
• Overhauled Microsoft Access-based project tracker; wrote complex Google Sheets macros

Vernon, British Columbia, Canada

This was a temporary summer position to help my local Safeway during the COVID-19 pandemic. I was hired on as a cashier, but I also perform some COVID-specific cleaning tasks, such as continuously cleaning high-touch surfaces within the store or making sure that there are a limited number of people within the store at a time.

Vernon, British Columbia, Canada

• Performed consulting work for a large hydro generation company in BC.
• Entered, organized, manipulated, and graphed data in MS Excel
• Analyzed hydro generator drawings from many companies and obtained information on spare parts from them
• Managed, wrote, and proof-read technical reports and internal company process documentation
• Performed some IT work, including setting up a Synology NAS and fixing printers

Vernon, British Columbia, Canada

• Archived, scanned, sorted, and extracted patient information from old, damaged documents
• Maintained a backup system for medical records, and resolved issues as they arose