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Fagersta, Vastmanland County, Sweden

Increasing product quality and productivity in a mass production environment.Tools used to execute:* Materials Science - Controlling shape distortions through novel sintering heat treatment recipes. Mass spectroscopy in combination with thermogravometric analysis to reduce dewaxing time by 25%. Furnace stability with analysis of coercivity and magnetic saturation on cemented carbides with a high amount of carbide forming elements.* Digitization - Data analytics with use of python, custom displays of critical production visualizations with Django, Integrating manufacturing executable system with existing machinery and new. Data driven adjustment of sintering heat treatment cycles. Root cause analysis to determine investment strategy, and new machinery specifications. *Automation - Semi-automated the metallurgical, geometrical and visual inspection using AI. Integrated machinery into a production environment of 1 million products a week. Reduced lead times and increased measurement accuracy.*Leadership - Several investment application written and funded, including a 20MSEK project to inspect cemented carbide blanks. Managed multiple projects at the same time working with RnD and production.

Stockholm County, Sweden

* Contract assignment to digitize continuous cooling transformation and time-temperature-transformation diagrams into input data for a thermodynamic model. These diagrams are used in the design of heat treatments in process metallurgy. * This would involve using digitizing software, researching metallographic atlas', writing python code ,and using data science packages such as Pandas and Matplotlib to analyze data. * My work was in collaboration with two other senior materials scientists with expertise in this area of software development, metallurgy, and process engineering.

Stockholm County, Sweden

* Masters thesis topic is on using machine learning to predict material properties using experimental and CALPHAD databases. *Designed a supervised machine learning model with experimental data on martensite start temperature in steel using ensemble techniques from Sci-Kit learn. *Designed a metamodel using an external multithreaded computational platform with Thermo-Calc's TC-Python module to train an artificial neural network from TensorFlow's library to predict sigma phase fraction in Ni-based superalloys. *The significance of my work would contribute to the higher order interaction parameters in the thermodynamic model for martensite start temperature, and my metamodel (surrogate model) built with the ANN was 98% as accurate as the thermodynamic based simulation and over 100,000 times quicker to calculate the same amount of property data.

Stockholm, Sweden

* Lead design engineer internship for a vertical farm start up located in Liljeholmen(Stockholm) to design automation equipment for an expansion project called a mega farm. * My role is to design/fabricate process machines for the planting, harvesting, and cleaning that would be used inside a farm that can produce 50Kg of leafy greens a day, with only 1-2 employees doing all the day-to-day tasks. • The results was design multiple moving prototypes (shown in images) using SolidWorks that would be used to apply for seed funding. A seeding machine that was fabricating by myself at a local maker space. From this work and the help of others, an excess of 1.2 million SEK and later 12.7 million SEK were eventually secured to fund the megafarm project. * The philosophy of my work is inspired by completing machines that produce only the absolute top quality greens. Broken down into 3 tiers of automation; the future of the vertical farm industry will be in the automation of all farming practices from seeding to harvest.

Fullerton California

* Engineering/Manufacturing company located in Fullerton California, specialising designing, fabricating, stainless steel and aluminium products vacuum chambers, pressure vessels, storage tanks, and reactors for the pharmaceutical, food service, energy, aerospace, and defence industries.* I was in charge of 3 projects over the course of my internship, developing the concept from start to finish by 3d modeling the final product to project oversight on our in house manufacturing location. * Projects worked on: Still used to manufacture scotch whisky, Incubation chamber used for pharmaceutical research at UC Irvine, 3d modeling of pharmaceutical system for organic plant extracts.* The results of my work are shown in photos/videos

Fullerton California

* Fabricator/ Welder/ Machinist. * Have experience using an overhead crane, running a forklift, complicated rigging operations where these large pieces needed to me moved around turned up side down. *Inconel, stainless steel, carbon steel, aluminium welder in multiple positions. I had to be very flexible in the techniques used to weld and handle such large fabrication projects. *Held 6 ASME certifications in TIG welding, Including X-ray level II 3G on 304 SS.*Results of the work and descriptions can be found in the photos

Santa Ana, California

* Machine shop/Job shop involved in precision manual and CNC work that serviced many high tech industries in southern California. This job shop is a specialty shop, where low volume high complexity prototypes and or small production runs are performed. * I ran a very large lathe (15 feet long) and turned down stainless steel tubes to a tight tolerance +- 0.010 inch. Was relied upon and inspected by certified inspector and performed multiple precision measurements with different instruments used in machining. * This would require different tooling/ finishing operations, that would need to be changed out using an overhead crane and rigging techniques to fit the different tooling into place. • I solved a "chatter" issue where vibrations towards the tail on of the piece were causing the part to warp and provide noticeably inconsistent results. This required me to re-index the tailstock, adjust and flip the turning process from front to back to back to front. Immediately a better finished project came from this change and more repeatability.

Orange County, California, United States

* Small business I owned and operated with 2 employees as a mobil car detail * Clean and detail cars at local businesses

Orange County, California, United States

* Mobil auto detail specializing in used car touch up on large car dealerships such as BMW, Audi, Bentley, Porsche, Toyota and Ford * Mix paint, touch up scratches, buff, and polish

Fullerton, California, United States

* Volkswagen transaxles, performance transaxles* Machinist - manual mill responsible for milling, reaming, and adding copper inserts to magnesium gear carrier housings. Custom differential spyder gear housing indexing and machining a performance hole pattern. All skills taught by master craftsman* Welding - first experience TIG welding taught by master craftsman * Tear Down - taking used transaxles and removing all components to be sorted, cleaned, reused or repurposed.

Master Of Science - Msc, Materials Science, 4.4/5

* Materials design focus with electives taken in computational thermodynamics, machine learning, computation statistical methods, clean.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Mechanical Engineering, 2:1

Activities and Societies: * Formula Student 2015-2018 Designer/Welder/Fabricator for all chassis Pilot 2016-2018 * Vice Karting Captain.

Associate'S Degree, Manufacturing Engineering Technology/Technician, 3.9/4.0

* Prerequisite courses needed to transfer to full time university studies. These courses were taken sometimes during the day and at night.