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Kansas City, Mo, Us

• Handle logistics and maintain roster for 100-person collegiate robotics team• Supervise outreach, social media, and safety administrative leads• Organize communication between subsystems and with faculty advisors• Work with administrative team to craft deliverables adhering to NASA Lunabotics requirements• Serve as point-of-contact for new members and external supporters

• Design, model, and fabricate a robot to compete in NASA Lunabotics Competition• Designed, modeled, and fabricated award-winning robot in 2023 Caterpillar Robotic Mining Competition• Collaborate with electrical, software, and systems engineering teams to meet desired goals and deadlines• Guide new members in creation of mechanical SOLIDWORKS models and technical drawings• Design mathematical MATLAB programs to help find optimal design parameters• Presented mechanical preliminary and critical design reviews to internal and external reviewers• Test robot design on simulated moon surface environment• Generate and develop solutions to problems observed during testing

Olathe, Kansas, United States

• Design fitness product accessory using appropriate design standards• Follow engineering process to carry mechanical design into prototype tooling phase• Create testing plan to be implemented to move prototype into mass production phase• Use various SOLIDWORKS tools (Surfacing, PDM, etc.) to create and maintain CAD models and technical drawings to support product development and mass production• Work with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure aesthetic quality, manufacturability, and functionality of compression injection molded parts and their assemblies

• Worked with engineers to design computational excel files and draft an official mine expansion request• Created a system to digitally track and improve official preparation plant inspections• Performed coal sampling and testing for underground and surface mines• Shadowed employees and worked in both underground and surface coal mines• Performed maintenance and upkeep on mining equipment and conveyor belts

Church Hill, Tennessee, United States

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

STEM Path to MBA

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP), Dual MBA/MSME degree

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering

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