Vanessa Lai Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Canoga Park, CA

• 3D modeled and developed blow mold prototypes and bottles
• Machined industrial blow mold tooling for pond floatation protectors

Chatsworth, CA

• CNC machined complex surfaces in plastic and foam for rapid prototyping of inventions.
• Machined prototype show models, including those featured in season 2 of the CNBC show ‘Make Me A Millionaire Inventor’
• Assembled prototypes
• Consulted in ideation for new redesigns

Santa Clara, CA

Using Mastercam (x7, x8, or x9) I am responsible for programming a variety of parts requested by our customers. Using anything from a solid model in solidworks to just a 2D print, I use Mastercam to create an NC program for a 3 axis, 4 axis, or a horizontal CNC mill to read. I am responsible for:-Thoroughly reading each print-Making clear and concise setup.

San Jose, California

My responsibilities encompassed a wide range of activities due to AWS being a small completely in-house business. Their calibration test equipment was designed, machined, assembled, and shipped by roughly 15 people. For the last six months I worked there, my work day consisted of making sure machines are running, constantly making parts in their machine.

University Of California, San Diego

• Responsible for setting up, building, improvising solutions, and data collection for fluid dynamic experiments for Oceanography PhD graduate student Benjamin Maurer’s thesis for his research under UCSD.
• Matlab program for experimental set up and analysis
• Responsible for recording, analyzing, and understanding principles involved as well as general assistance in cleaning, organizing, moving, maintenance of lab area.

• Directing lost visitors to their destination from the UCSD information booths.
• Cataloging, producing, and posting directional parking and pedestrian signs for campus events
• Trained coworkers, handled cash, worked parking at over 200 events.General assistance: answering phones, cleaning, tidying, moving, and driving.

• Responsible for completing two projects: 1. Site airborne particulate reduction: I improved the site’s airborne particulate count by collecting and analyzing dust to identify the source. 2. Lead contamination in.
• Responsible for re-writing site’s Chemical Handling Procedures from observational study of on-site procedures and various online sources.
• My experience there allowed me to observe the manufacturing, testing, and engineering it takes to create reliable missile guidance technology.

• Ensure safety of members in pool and organization of pool area as a lifeguard.
• Hold one on one swimming lessons for children and adults with or without special needs like autism, blindness, down syndrome, and paraplegia. I have had over 30 students and held up to 6 lessons a day.

B.S, Mechanical Engineering

Elective Coursework: Environmental Sustainability, Nanomaterials, Energy Technology, Spacecraft Guidance UCSD Engineering Projects: 1..

Manufacturing

Activities and Societies: Machining ClubCoursework: Solidworks (Intro & Surface Modeling), CNC Mills (G code), CNC Lathe, CNC Mills.