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Mukilteo, Washington, United States

Worked as part of Electroimpact's SCRAM system design team, within the Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) branch. The SCRAM system is an integrated large-format 3D-printing and AFP cell, designed for in-house rapid-prototyping of AFP concepts. I lead the design of the Gladius pellet extrusion head for this system. This was Electroimpact's first pellet extrusion head to be developed fully in-house. It focused on ease of maintenance and upgradability, as well as making a number of improvements to the process quality. It featured a thermally insulated barrel to improve temperature response and thermal efficiency, as well as a liquid-cooled smoothing ring to improve layer adhesion and print quality. It was capable of 30 lbs/hr of extrusion.

Mukilteo, Washington, United States

Worked as part of Electroimpact's SCRAM system design team, within the Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) branch. The SCRAM system is an integrated large-format 3D-printing and AFP cell, designed for in-house rapid-prototyping of AFP concepts. I lead the design of the E50 pellet extrusion head for this system. This was the second pellet extrusion 3D printing head commercially produced by Electroimpact. It adapted a CEAD E50 pellet extruder for use within the SCRAM system, which was capable of 185 lbs/hr of output.

Mukilteo, Washington, United States

Worked as part of Electroimpact's SCRAM system design team, within the Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) branch. The SCRAM system is an integrated large-format 3D-printing and AFP cell, designed for in-house rapid-prototyping of AFP concepts. I lead the design of the E25 pellet extrusion head for this system. This was the first pellet extrusion 3D printing head commercially produced by Electroimpact. It adapted a CEAD E25 pellet extruder for use within the SCRAM system, which was capable of 25 lbs/hr of output.

Mukilteo, Washington, United States

Worked as part of various teams within Electroimpact's Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) branch. Designed support hardware for various AFP heads. Electroimpact's modular AFP system requires partial disassembly during maintenance. The Sidekick module attaches to the AFP heads to aid the technicians during maintenance by holding parts removed from the head.

Mukilteo

Worked as part of a team within Electroimpact's Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) branch. This project was a re-design and upgrade of one of Spirit Aerosystems Wichita's AFP machine cells. This upgrade allowed the cell to produce carbon fiber parts with a wider range of geometries for the US military. My role involved designing support hardware for the custom AFP heads delivered as part of this upgrade.

Mukilteo, Washington, United States

Worked as part of a team within Electroimpact's Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) branch. This project was an upgrade for Spirit Aerosystems Wichita's AFP machines. Supported more senior engineers with procurement, mechanical assembly, limited mechanical design, and performance acceptance testing.

Mukilteo, Washington, United States

Worked as part of a team in Electroimpact's Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) branch. This project was an update of Spirit Aerosystem Wichita's AFP machines. Assisted more senior engineers with procurement, mechanical assembly, some limited mechanical design, and Performance Acceptance Testing of delivered system.

Mukilteo, Washington, United States

Worked as a design engineer within Electroimpact's Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) branch. Designed an extension adaptor for use with in-house performance acceptance testing of AFP projects. Electroimpact's 8-tow AFP heads do not clear our in-house gantry machine. This extension adaptor increases the toolpoint length of an 8-tow head, allowing it to be used on the gantry machine.

Mukilteo, Washington, United States

Worked as part of a team within Electroimpact's Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) branch. Supported more senior engineers with procurement, assembly, and some limited mechanical engineering design.

Mukilteo, Washington, United States

Assisted the AFP spares department in purchasing and assembly.

Pullman, Washington

Designed a robotic arm for college trigonometry and control theory classes. This included the control system for the arm, a computer program for sending commands to the arm, a complete set of user manuals and technical documentation, and schematics for machining components of the arm. In total, twelve arms have been produced.

Pullman, Wa

Wrote and developed tutorials for Digilent products. Published 27 tutorials on Instructables.com and received over 200,000 views and over 300 favorites.

Houston, Texas Area

Designed a database for failure information for hardware aboard the International Space Station. Worked as part of a team, and applied rudimentary datamining to aid data entry process.

Pullman, Wa

Aided and taught students during SolidWorks lab. Also solved difficult or obscure technical problems for students, and graded submissions.

Houston, Texas Area

Designed several mechanical systems, including a test bed for a new CO2 filter system intended for the ORION spacecraft. Responsible for taking projects from concept and specifications to manufacture and assembly.