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New York, United States

New York, United States

Buffalo, Ny

Leads a team of engineers and technicians with a mission of accelerating the value creation in service to operations, business development, and customers.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

- Supervisor for Manufacturing Engineering team- Focus on quality, cost, and throughput improvements through technology implementation and automation- Machine troubleshooting and improvements- Project leader for capital expenditure projects from start to finish including research, Return on Investment (ROI) calculations, installation, and training- FMEA / PFMEA analysis- Operational and Process Validation preparation and execution- ISO 9100 and ISO 13485 compliance- 5S implementation- Process flow optimization- Lean manufacturing training- Experience with Six Sigma tools and principles- Internal Auditor- Safety team member

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

- Process improvements in the manufacturing setting with a focus on efficiencies on material and labor savings- Project leader for capital expenditure projects from start to finish including research, Return on Investment (ROI) calculations, installation, and training- FMEA / PFMEA analysis- Operational and Process Validation preparation and execution- ISO 9100 and ISO 13485 compliance- 5S implementation- Process flow optimization- Lean manufacturing training- Experience with Six Sigma tools and principles- Internal Auditor- Safety team member

Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Oswego, Ny

- Monitor, assess, and improve the performance and reliability of plant systems and components. - Support the development of root cause analysis and complex troubleshooting plants for chronic and emergent plant issues. - Ensure equipment is in compliance with applicable engineering specs, safety analyses, industrial codes, and regulatory requirements. - Utilize system indicators to optimize predictive and performance centered maintenance.

Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station

- Start up, shutdown, and running of high pressure water, steam, and gas systems of a Boiling Water Reactor.- Monitor and analyze various system parameters for trends.- Hang and remove tags through the clearance and tagging process.- Process plant water systems using filters, demineralizers, and chemical treatments.- Electrical work including experience with uninterruptible power supplies, batteries, breaker and switchyard manipulations.- Member of the Curriculum Review Committee for the Plant Operator Training Program.- Familiarity with various detectors and nuclear instrumentation.

- Investigated the possibilities of hypothetical sub-atomic particles called Leptoquarks using data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Co-Author on an ATLAS Internal Note on topic.- Statistical analysis and interpretation of large data sets using C++ and ROOT.- Summer work included observation shifts on site at the ATLAS detector and presenting work at a US ATLAS conference

- Researched the reflectivity inside layering spheres used in Inertial Confinement Fusion at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics(LLE) at the University of Rochester- Designed and created an automated LabVIEW data collection tool.- Created Deuterated Polyethylene films to be used in neutron detection at aforementioned LLE

- Investigated the possibilities of X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy in an existing Low-Vacuum Scanning Electron Microscope.

Ms, Physics

Activities and Societies: Arts and Science Fellow, Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics

Ba, Physics

Activities and Societies: Sigma Pi Sigma (physics national honors society), Captain on Men's Track and Field