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Knoxville, TN

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Worked as a technical sales lead for Protomet Corp. Responsibilities included opening conversations with customers (mostly in marine industry) about Protomet's capabilities, designing new projects for customers, designing machine fixtures, and maintaining customer relationships. Used Salesforce to keep track of potential projects and Solidworks to design.

Oak Ridge, TN

Project Manager for injection molding, die casting, and industrial components. Use Solidworks and PTC Creo to design of conformal cooling channels and to perform stress and thermal analyses on our industrial tooling components. Also responsible for extensive customer interactions and sales via phone calls/emails, plant visits, and trade shows.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Performed CAD design, developed Arduino-based motor control system, assisted withprototype wiring electrical diagrams, and manufactured finished product.

Oak Ridge, TN

Assisted customers in obtaining order production times and prices. Also designed and modified parts to be manufactured for customers. Tested and improved 3D printed models.

Knoxville, TN

Worked part-time as a retail sales associate at the Local Motors retail store in Market Square, Knoxville, TN. Assisted customers with questions about the company and products. Also did maintenance, repairs, and demos of our products including drift trikes and a few desktop 3D printers that we had in the store.

Knoxville, TN

I graduated in four years with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an overall GPA of 3.38. Completed two summer internships during my college career and also completed a Senior Design project in a five-person group.

Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

Designed and produced parts and systems for the various neutron beam lines at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) using Creo/ProEngineer. Also did rapid prototyping with a Makerbot Replicator 3D Printer.

Point Loma, San Diego, CA

Used Solidworks to model, design, and do stress and heat analysis on parts and systems for research and development of autonomous vehicles. Autonomous vehicles included a humvee, boat, Bobcat, UAV, and side by side offroad utility vehicles. Also did wiring diagrams for these vehicles, used CNC machines (waterjet, mill, lathe), and used standard shop.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: UT Ski and Snowboard Club, Intramural Sports

Education record