• Designing molded pulp and sustainable foam packaging capable of sustaining standardized dynamics product testing procedures.• Using simulation tool to analyze drop performance relative to target G-force thresholds.• Analyzed products’ sustainability and plastic footprint against company’s goals.• Helped HP Inc. bring their next consumer inkjet printer to market, the Envy 6555 All-in-One printer.• Responsible for data analysis, prototyping, systems engineering, and mechanical design.• Empirically and experimentally validated designs for high-volume manufacturing.• Evaluated and improved product performance and reliability using lab dynamics, force, shock, & drop data.• Updated and brought consistency to product’s FFC’s 2D.

• Managed personnel of 60+ engineers, technicians, and support staff who complete work at clients' locations, under RLA's Managed Services Provider model.• Managed relationships with RLA’s clients, supporting 40+ R&D engineering managers.• Consistently partnered with client managers to seek and assess performance feedback for each employee.• Supported client managers by immediately addressing concerns, and assessing and anticipating needs.• Engaged and communicated with client managers to coordinate employees’ schedules & time off requests.• Increased employee engagement by systematically scheduling monthly one-on-one meetings with each employee to discuss ongoing progress and accomplishments, and address employee concerns.• Provided ongoing, quarterly, and annual performance feedback to employees.• Coached and mentored employees with communication, time-management, and conflict-resolution skills.• Maintained monthly records of employee contributions, project status, progress, and accomplishments.• In partnership with client management, created full position descriptions for new roles.• Recruited (screen and interview) engineering candidates of all disciplines for new client positions.• Onboarded and exited employees; brought employees through orientation and exit procedures.• Project Manager (including PCA, firmware, and software development) on product team consisting of electrical, software, and control engineers; partnered with external organizations to coordinate product development and testing.

• Helped HP Inc. to bring the next consumer printer to market, the DeskJet 3755 All-in-One Printer. • Invented mechanisms internal to inkjet printers for picking and feeding paper.• Designed, developed, and tested personal inkjet printers for consumer/small-business markets.• Supported prototyping and production operations by traveling to 3rd party factories in Chongqing, China.• Released subsystem to production manufacturing by managing system BOM and 2D drawings.• Provided a design for manufacturing under time constraints; received patent covering design inventions.Patent No.: US 20180297799 A1, Lift Mechanisms; Pub. Date: Oct. 18, 2018

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) coach. Internship Program Manager• Developed and managed internship program: recruited, screened, and determined eligibility for over 320 high school students.• Placed and case-managed over 250 students from 18 high schools, across 8 school districts into STEM-specific internships with a completion rate of over 96%.• Recruited over 50 businesses for internship opportunities, trained supervisors on program objectives, assisted in developing student projects, and ensured employer satisfaction.• Created weekly and quarterly reports to inform partners and grantors on performance goals.• Developed and delivered workshops on networking, college preparation, teamwork, problem solving, and communication skills in sessions of over 30 students.Advanced Placement (AP) Mentoring Program Manager• Refined mentoring program to double student participation rates and improve mentor retention rates.• Recruited, screened, and trained volunteer mentors (engineers and scientists from the community).• Assigned mentors to fitting teachers and improved mentor-teacher relationships by facilitating mentoring best-practices.• Supported 400+ students in AP math & science courses in eight high schools from two school districts.• Improved data collection techniques to assess program effectiveness by developing tools to measure students’ participation, engagement, and overall satisfaction.

• Developed and improved mechanical designs for paper motion throughout consumer inkjet printers across the product design cycle: from prototype builds through manufacturing ramps.• Designed plastic parts used across four different products on different schedules, providing parts on schedule and within budget through multiple design cycles.• Traveled to manufacturing facilities across Asia to support prototyping and manufacturing efforts.• Responsible for preliminary design/system testing in an inkjet printer cost reduction project obtaining experience in transmission systems (gearing and shifting), injection molded plastic part design, manufacture, prototyping, testing, design changes, firmware, and managing an external design vendor.• Wrote firmware that enabled the first prototype of the Photosmart C5200 printer to print on rigid media (e.g., CDs, DVDs).• Developed thermal imaging system to measure motor heating and performance to reduce motor failures.• Worked across different teams and organizations to improve inkjet printer reliability, developing strong teamwork skills, responsibility, and initiative.• Delivered technical presentations to engineers and management.• Developed a methodical and analytical strategy for troubleshooting and problem solving.

• Member of the Mechanical, Structural, EVA, & Robotics team for the International Space Station (ISS).• Analyzed ISS mechanical systems, including the Mobile Transporter System and the Space Station Robotic Manipulator System (SSRMS), using Multibody Dynamics software.• Created Matlab optimization routines to solve the 7-DOF SSRMS' inverse kinematics, which enabled simulations of SSRMS motion and capabilities.• Developed relationships and reported to NASA counterparts on analyses and simulation results.• Ensured safety and reliability of mechanical components during various loading scenarios, such as impacts, base-shake analysis, and berthing of truss segments.