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Cedar Park, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

- Used top level P&ID information such as operating pressure and temperature to create Acceptance Test Plans for launch vehicle components.- End to end ownership of the fabrication, assembly, and testing for 10+ fluid components, including cryogenic butterfly and poppet valves, check valves, and pressure transducers.- Dispositioned and drove over 500 non-conformances on fluid components to root cause and implemented corrective actions.- Drafted technical work instructions, including test procedures to validate functionality of valves.- Spearheaded team to swap production from paper work instructions to digital, saving company thousands of dollars in overhead associated with drafting, editing, performing, and storing paper work instructions.- Contributed to the development, test, and qualification of new valves for next generation rocket design including Design Reviews, first assembly build, and design of assembly and testing tools.- Designed test and assembly tooling using Siemens NX to improve manufacturing lead times and quality of final product. This included performing FEA simulations and applying proper GD&T to drawings.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Optimized manufacturing process for Li-Ion battery cathode, utilized multiple methods of quality analysis including XRD, ICP-OES, SEM, and BET.- Established a modular lab, helped create a file structure, sampling library, and wrote SOPs.- Designed experiments and operated and collected data for a spray dryer, tube furnace, rotary furnace, and planetary bead mill.- Scoped, executed PO's, and commissioned several >$100,000 machines and equipment.- Learned adaptability by working on a small team and had to fill many roles.- Optimized the parameters of a rotary filter by designing experiments and operating rotary filter at pilot scale to prepare for commercial scale.- Coordinated with a team of engineers and chemical operators to get cathode material to meet quality and pilot scale throughput demands.- Used Python to model filter, as well as to order, display, and analyze data.- Applied trouble shooting techniques to fix pumps, valves, and filters.- Designed parts such as cyclones and funnels using SolidWorks.

Provo, Utah, United States

- Worked with a team to solve complex problems involved with finding velocity flow fields within coal boiler.- Designed, built, and calibrated S-Type Pitot Tubes and 3D velocity probes.- Used a wind tunnel and controls system to calibrate tubes prior to implementation in boiler.- Engineered tool to measure pitch and yaw angles of flow to find velocity flow field in boiler.

Provo, Utah Area

Provo, Utah Area

- Machined graphite, mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminum using mills and a CNC machine.- Designed fuel cells to decrease losses due to contact resistance and mass transfer limitations.- Performed electro-chemical experiments within an oxygen free glovebox, >100 hours of glove box experience.

Provo, Utah Area

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering