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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Leading design efforts for opto-mechanical components, frames, pneumatics, and electrical cabinet design, resulting in improved system efficiency and reliability.Seamlessly integrating automation and motion sub-systems into engineering projects, enhancing overall system performance and functionality.Designing complex machined parts, weldments, and sheet metal structures, ensuring the highest quality and precision.Providing critical mechanical engineering support for both existing systems and new machine designs, optimizing operations and reducing downtime.Developing micro-laser cutting tooling designs, enabling the rapid prototyping of components for agile project execution.Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to support system assembly and testing, ensuring projects meet quality and performance standards.Meticulously managing system documentation, including Engineering Change Orders (ECO) and Bills of Materials (BOM), streamlining project workflows and compliance.Demonstrating exceptional CAD skills and adherence to ISO design standards, ensuring the accuracy and precision of all engineering designs.Leveraging excellent communication skills to facilitate productive collaboration with team members, clients, and stakeholders.Thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a focus on quick turnaround projects, while maintaining strong attention to detail and efficient organization and documentation practices.

Middleboro, Massachusetts, United States

Led a continuous improvement project through flavor usage reduction in sweetened dried cranberries to deliver more than $100,000 in savings this year and counting. This included designing a modified part to a manufacturing assembly, working with technical experts to update existing controls, and training all stakeholders on the updated assembly. Frequently troubleshoot errors in machines and equipment to improve manufacturing performanceLed a highly technical project to reduce water usage in large tanks by updating and improving the controls of the wash and pre-rinse cycles during CIPRegularly lead technical change meetings with team members, vendors and stakeholders to improve manufacturing processesAutomated the creating and tracking of RCA and R&R tasks for all 50+ team members using Microsoft Power Automate which includes automatically assigning team members action items and notifying them, creating a report for auditing purposes, and many more useful functions. Analyzed trends in RCAs and R&R actions to provide results and share solutions to managers and technical experts Working on a highly technical project to reduce cranberry waste by half and provide the company with more than $30,000 in savings annuallyWorking on a data and action item tracking through Power Automate to streamline the whole action tracking process for GMP, audits, RCA, R&R and maintenance tasks for every employee in the facility and make it much more efficient to track progress on action items

Manchester, New Hampshire

Led a team of engineers to design, fabricate and build a 7 ton dynamic pendulum sculpture including designing specific parts, participating in design reviews and managing the timeline of the projectCreated experimental test plans to test medical device design requirements and analyzed the results in MiniTabBecame a technical expert in the products being designed and used that expertise in collaboration with software engineers to improve product performanceTracked design issues across multidisciplinary teams and supported the engineering team in creating documentationFacilitated meetings and supported management to keep testing deliverables on time

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Designed, fabricated and tested a mechanical hand-pulley system that reduced the load on joints when lifting heavy objectsManaged the project schedule from start to final manufacturing and assemblyLed the tracking and resolution of design and manufacturing issuesCollected data on product performance and performed statistical analysis to determine product effectivenessCreated and presented milestone presentations to industry leaders and Purdue Engineering alumni

Purdue University

Selected as one of Purdue’s 50 most dedicated student leaders to organize events for Purdue’s most successful alumni during a 3 day event in November of 2017

Quito, Ecuador

Ambulances in Quito, Ecuador take an average of 45 minutes to transport a patient to the hospital, and during this time the paramedic is left to perform Bag-Valve-Mask Ventilation (similar to CPR) Led the research, design and fabrication a bag valve mask for implementation in ambulances and disaster relief Managed the schedule, sourcing of materials and the meeting deadlines for the project

Purdue University

Measured low-levels of radionuclides using an AMS system based on a tandem electrostatic accelerator

Portland, Oregon Area

Applied statistical methods to perform Big Data analysis through data visualization and regression

Lafayette, Indiana Area

Identified business challenges and presented these and my team’s solutions to managers and executives

Dallas, Texas

Developed marketing strategies to accelerate consumer satisfaction and worked on LEAN projects

Mechanical Engineer, Statistics, Data Science,

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Institute of Electrical and Electromotive Engineers Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Mechanical Team , Purdue.