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North America

• Reported to the regional VP and expanded the work tracking and managing the Connected Hydraulics program to further assist the senior leadership team in tracking all products in every North American key market segment. Key activities included combining multiple data sources in PowerBI to generate information, allowing the management team to identify and measure progress of specific activities.• Acted as a project manager for a regional growth project, tracking key activities and processes… Show more • Reported to the regional VP and expanded the work tracking and managing the Connected Hydraulics program to further assist the senior leadership team in tracking all products in every North American key market segment. Key activities included combining multiple data sources in PowerBI to generate information, allowing the management team to identify and measure progress of specific activities.• Acted as a project manager for a regional growth project, tracking key activities and processes across the entire business using Hoshin Kanri methods and Jira.• Worked as a software developer, UX designer, and co‑product owner in a multidisciplinary team to create web tools that facilitated the activities of, and better integrated individuals of the national sales teams with the business units.• Spearheaded a software development project to facilitate specialized, virtual sales calls using Virtual Reality technologies. I prototyped a solution in C# hosted on Azure, and then hired and managed a small, agile, software development team to completion. I worked with multiple marketing and product teams to gather information to include about 50+ product families. Show less

Bethlehem, Pa

• Responsible for the success of the new, global, Connected Hydraulic Initiative for the North American market. Heavy focus on managing specific product families, marketing and sales activities, developing value propositions and documentation, and business development for new technology products.• Met with top customers and distribution partners to support the outside sales teams. I also worked with the product development teams to conduct market research, define value propositions, field… Show more • Responsible for the success of the new, global, Connected Hydraulic Initiative for the North American market. Heavy focus on managing specific product families, marketing and sales activities, developing value propositions and documentation, and business development for new technology products.• Met with top customers and distribution partners to support the outside sales teams. I also worked with the product development teams to conduct market research, define value propositions, field test new products, and bring to market focus products and software solutions.• Participated in a highly selective, 18 month project for the CTO of Bosch Rexroth global to identify the Hydraulics of the Future and create a vision to provide guidance to the global R&D teams. The project resulted in significant organizational changes to support the new development focus, and several new product families.• Acted as a product manager for the CytroBox and 3 related, high‑tech products. I worked with the R&D team in Germany to identify North America specific user needs and technical safety / legal requirements, and I worked with our sales teams to provide support in both a technical and strategic capacity.• Member of the core CytroConnect development team from the first conception of the product. I acted as the product owner on a team mostly located in Germany. I created user stories, helped prioritize backlog items, and helped the team measure successful features. CytroBox and CytroConnect together became the ”connected” product offered by Rexroth in the world. Show less

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

• Worked to solve unique customer problems and supported the sales team by learning and applying specific, existing products and solutions.• Participated in a lead technical role to work towards a Bosch global goal of creating ”smart” products. This involved interacting with top managers and directors to work towards advancing the product portfolio, improving customers’ experience, and creating a strong technological foundation for future growth.• Became the first to design, build, and… Show more • Worked to solve unique customer problems and supported the sales team by learning and applying specific, existing products and solutions.• Participated in a lead technical role to work towards a Bosch global goal of creating ”smart” products. This involved interacting with top managers and directors to work towards advancing the product portfolio, improving customers’ experience, and creating a strong technological foundation for future growth.• Became the first to design, build, and install proof‑of‑concept for an IoT SaaS at a customer site in North America. This proof‑of‑concept included both hardware and software elements that became foundational in the CytroConnect SaaS. Show less

Lafayette College

My research project involved the investigation of the use of aircraft dynamic model information to find a means of estimating aircraft attitude for low-cost applications. Specifically, the project focused on how an aircraft is expected to perform based on several control inputs. Current work in attitude estimation relies on combining sensor data from various sources such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and Global Positioning System. However, additional information from known control inputs, such… Show more My research project involved the investigation of the use of aircraft dynamic model information to find a means of estimating aircraft attitude for low-cost applications. Specifically, the project focused on how an aircraft is expected to perform based on several control inputs. Current work in attitude estimation relies on combining sensor data from various sources such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and Global Positioning System. However, additional information from known control inputs, such as pilot controlled inputs and the geometry of the aircraft is not currently being utilized. All of this additional information serves to improve estimation accuracy, assuming that the uncertainties in the data are properly modeled. Techniques from the field of aircraft parameter identification, which aims to accurately determine the aircraft model, was investigated and combined with existing sensor fusion architectures in order to improve the estimation of the attitude of an aircraft. Within the estimation process, a discrete-time filter called the Kalman filter was utilized as the primary method for securing accurate results. This was done utilizing different equations of motion derived from aircraft dynamics in conjunction with the programming tool MATLAB, which is especially powerful in dealing with complicated models.This research project was presented at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research in April of 2015. Show less

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Art History