Led and developed a team of engineers/project managers dedicated to beverage packaging product developments (cans, bottles, cups and new to market products). Managed a project portfolio of 10+ projects with values up to $250MM each and required capital expenditures of up to $150MM each.• Employee development from hiring to promotion to meet both employee and company goals.• Provided updates to the business on project status, timelines and prioritization/strategy.• Oversaw daily activities of engineers including coordination of pilot trials, tooling designs, metrology and technical support.• Managed and tracked department budget.• Maintained and developed culture of continuous improvement and open communication.• Communicated with customers to manage expectations while meeting customer needs.• Supported strategic business-wide decisions through business case modeling and analysis.

-Worked both independently and as a member of an innovation team to produce new packaging solutions, improve upon existing packaging manufacturing processes, and implement new packaging manufacturing processes.-Successfully designed an innovative manufacturing process to eliminate a targeted metal forming defect that had been identified by a client for immediate product rejection. This metal forming processes also provided future savings to the company through reduction of cost inputs in multiple plants worldwide. -Primary contributor to a project that improved plant profitability by approximately $4.5 million per year.-Implemented improvements to existing metal calculators to increase accuracy and add additional functionality.-Designed and implemented an adaptive tooling envelope to increase laboratory agility and reduce laboratory tooling costs.-Tested and implemented improvements to an existing metal forming process that was previously causing significant manufacturing down time, high spoilage, and reducing plant profitability.

• Managed and designed the mechanical and systems aspects of a sampling while drilling tool capable of cleaning up and capturing formation samples; performing in situ analysis to determine fluid composition and acquire formation properties; and relaying key information to surface. The tool was required to survive extreme temperature, pressure, shock and vibration, while minimizing sample time and maximizing sample quality with little in situ human-interfacing.• Improved and created static and dynamic components for integration into the overall system and satisfied both component and systems-level design requirements.• Collected and compiled requirements in order to design testing equipment and regimens to validate simulation results and satisfy design criteria.• Applied failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to diagnose potential failure modes before and after occurrence in order to implement design improvements and minimize future failures.• Submitted patent paperwork (still pending) for an innovative packer design to improve sample flow rate, packer life, wellbore seal-rate, and wellbore-irregularity absorption.• Analyzed the dimensions and composition of out-of-specification components to ensure satisfaction of design criteria and provided machining instructions to vendors in order to minimize component scrap. • Scheduled component implementation from initial design through field implementation using Microsoft Project.• Managed and participated in tool assembly, disassembly, operation, and field readiness preparation.

At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) I am worked as a member of the System Advisor Model (SAM) team, which provides a high quality financial and performance model for the renewable energy sector.Summary of Responsibilities:-Developed of thermal model of a concentrating photovoltaic system for implementation in SAM.-Worked on a major model validation effort to solidify SAM's photovoltaic performance model's validity. (see http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/60204.pdf for the full report).-Developed multiple case studies for model demonstration purposes for both the wind and photovoltaic renewable sectors.

At Alliance Engineering (a subsidiary of Wood Group Mustang), I worked primarily on a project for Pacific Gas and Electric in California helping to perform MAOP validation for all major pipelines in California as part of their government obligation following the San Bruno incident.Summary of Responsibilities:• Managed, produced, and analyzed detailed documentation of major pipelines throughout California.• Provided client with a detailed understanding of a pipeline’s features, operating and test pressures, material properties, history, and compliance with engineering standards.

Engineering and field experience with hydraulic fracturing, acidizing, cementing, coiled tubing, and nitrogen treatment for applications in oil and gas.

While working for ArcelorMittal I performed tasks that required a high proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Powerpoint. These tasks included creating spreadsheets for cost representation of a project, writing technical reports, and giving technical presentations to upper level management regarding the project I designed/managed. The system I worked on was a complicated system involving pumps, valves, tanks, filters, heat exchangers, and a large amount of piping varying in size, pressure and flow rate from turbulent to laminar flow. I designed and oversaw implementation of a sensor network that monitored this complex system, acquiring data from key points throughout the system and relaying that information into a network where it was used for crisis management as well as improvement of long term equipment reliability. The project also included both cost estimation and economic evaluation regarding monetary return in the form of savings due to the installation of the aforementioned sensor network.Summary of Responsibilities:• Designed and installed a sensor network monitoring multiple lubrication oil systems.• The sensor network is currently in place, and alarms personnel of system issues.• Worked closely with a team of other engineers on various projects.

I did research with the Advanced Steel Products and Productions Research Center (ASPPRC). This research was primarily regarding the fatigue mitigating effects of heat treatment on previously deep-rolled steel specimen. These post deep-rolled specimen were treated with low levels of heat, similar to what steel would be expected to endure during normal operations in vehicles. The specimen where then fatigue tested to examine if the heat treatment, in conjunction with deep-rolling, resulted in a longer fatigue life.Summary of Responsibilities:• Research in deep rolling fatigue mitigation.• Designed a testing regiment and operated fatigue testing machine.