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Grantsville, Utah, United States

Bluffdale, Utah, United States

At Parable Devices I am working to build useful devices that help overcome hurdles linked to disabilities, particularly in the areas of mobility and home medical equipment.

Bluffdale, Utah

Inventit Products Inc. is an innovative product development company that focuses on designing practical solutions catered to the customer need. As president, I manage product design and prototype creation, and assure market validation at every phase of development. I specialize in machine design and mechatronics. We have developed a wheelchair add-on for motorizing manual wheelchairs (Patent No. 10,758,436 ), and are designing an automated pipe cutting machine for All Pipe Works Inc..

At all pipe works I read field drawings and created 2D and 3D mechanical drawings for pipe fabrication.I also created an automated way for creating custom pipe cut patterns for an industrial pipe fabrication shop. This included deriving trigonometric equations for each joint type and variation of sizes, thicknesses, and angles. I was then contracted to design a pipe cutting CNC machine to remove the pattern process and hand-torching altogether. I designed the $150,000 machine from the bottom up, including: sizing hydraulics, designing gear trains, kinematic & ergonomic optimization, programming firmware (C++) to control stepper motors, relays, limit switches, and 220V VFD controls. I 3D modeled the entire assembled machine, part by part, and worked with fabricators to make each part. I designed and coded a software (using VB.net) to facilitate layman user entry. The software communicates with the microcontroller firmware giving machine motion coordinates X (pipe roll), Y (torch axial location) & B (torch angle). Designed and built CNC machine controls box.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Supported production processes & engineering efforts throughout plant. Successfully designed and developed an automated machine and a process to coat a 40 ft. long 36” diameter pipe with polyurethane. Gained experience managing product Bills of Materials and polymer to metal bonding. Successfully managed continuous improvement (Lean) efforts for rubber sheet processing that included: Design of Experiments, creation of mechanical additions (designed in CAD) to improve product quality and minimize wastes, and data collection and analysis to achieve a set of standard best-practice procedures for each polymer type processed.Designed molds for both open-pour polyurethane parts & rubber press parts using CAD/CAM.Conducted ROI studies for $1.2 million rubber mixing machinery and its respective cooling & bulk-solid transfer systems. Was sent to Germany, Chile and various US states to complete the project. Designed a machine and a method for unwrapping down-hole swell packers (Oil & Gas) more safely and in less time.Was a liaison between engineering design team and production teams in the polyurethane open-pour department.

Idaho Falls, Id

For 8 months, I worked for the Idaho National Laboratory as an intern researching bio-fuel processing methods. There I polished my CAD skills. I also learned how to design for easy manufacturing and worked with different manufacturers on various CAD designs. I was able to create an algorithm to optimize hopper designs for biomass processing. I created several applications that retrieve, process and load data into Excel spreadsheets for analysis.

Draper, Utah, United States

Operated a CNC machine made to cut out protective material that covers the screens of digital devices. Operated shrink wrap machinery to package protective coverings. Kept an inventory of all products.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Education record

Attended when school was called UVSC