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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Design complex mechanical system upgrades and retrofits for vintage and current gas turbine models using Creo Parametric.
• Support mechanical design from project kick-off through site installation for multi-million dollar retrofit projects.
• Collaborate with project engineers of all disciplines, project managers, field personnel, and supply chain to ensure customer satisfaction and meet project deadlines.
• Lead mechanical design review meetings.
• Bill of Materials generation and management.
• Mentor junior mechanical engineers.

• Created 3D models and mechanical installation drawings using Creo Parametric.
• Worked with supply chain and shop floor personnel to source new purchased and manufactured parts.

Greater San Diego Area

• Drafted and maintained piping and instrumentation diagrams of gas turbine packages.
• Performed root cause failure analysis for engineering change requests (ECRs) and collaborated with engineers of varying disciplines to resolve design issues and implement solutions.

Duluth, Minnesota Area

Researched piezoelectric polymer films for scalable and integratable nanogenerators and self-powered electronic systems Optimized fabrication procedure for mesoporous PVDF films using a casting-etching process and tested the electrical output of samples using tensile testing methods

The goal of this project was to design a strain frame system to be used to track the effects of degradation caused by environmental factors on the mechanical properties of polymers used in underground power cable sheathing. We accomplished this by creating a frame system with a built-in environmental chamber to allow multiple samples to be to be tested.