Quality Engineer supporting various Ion Instruments and Accessories products

SinglePort Camera and Ion Systems Manufacturing Engineering

• Leading both specialty classes and CrossFit classes where member participation ranges from a few to more than thirty. • Seeing and correcting movement patterns in all clientele, from beginners attending their first class to experienced members perfecting their craft.• Setting myself up to be a role model every day as a member, a coach, and a part of the community, especially for women who may be intimidated by the sport.

• Endoscopic video capture equipment testing, manufacturing, and quality experience.• Familiar with endoscopic fluorescence techniques, resolution, and color image processing.• Improving existing fixtures by implementing safety features with automation logic, working with cross-functional teams on electromechanical solutions.• Sustaining four product lines by performing fixture maintenance, line balancing, and efficiency studies.• Writes and conducts validation activities such as equipment/installation qualification and measurement system analysis on fixture upgrades and test equipment.

• Fabricating parts via 3D printing (FDM and PolyJet), laser cutting, soldering, and bonding.• Organizing and communicating with vendors and ordering parts for prototype build, writing assembly instructions, and reworking and preparing parts for assembly.• Robot software and hardware bringup, testing, and troubleshooting.• Documenting issues and managing build progress per unit.

• On a team to complete the detailed design of a newly awarded submarine development program for the US Navy.• Solved multi-faceted mechanical design problems on the turbine generator part of the project, working with electrical, systems, structural, and performance engineers while adhering to a challenging budget and schedule.• Responsible for creating component and assembly level mechanical drawings that will eventually be used to manufacture and build the hardware currently being designed.

• Demonstrated a working knowledge of large steam turbines and extremely high precision gear train manufacturing and component layout in a facility using state of the art equipment, for use in US Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.• Solved detailed non-conformance issues with design and quality engineers in a demanding and multi-tasked environment.• Led a project to equip CNC machines with Renishaw automatic probing capabilities to improve time and quality of part setup and production. Managed a large vendor by defining and editing necessary statements of work and coordinated multiple people from different departments together to get hardware and software installed.• Created statement of work and traveled to a subcontractor on-site location to supervise critical gear manufacturing operations, making sure the product passed key inspections.

• Improving methods used to develop computational grids for simulating a marine propeller moving in forward mode for Dr. Krishnan Mahesh at the University of Minnesota• Studying and comparing fluid flow effects and phenomena of this simulated propeller movement to experimental results

• Graded class homework, quizzes and exams in addition to teaching discussion sections for Statics & Dynamics and Orbital Mechanics• Responsible for over 250 students during the semester

• Studied the possibility of removing space debris using ground-based lasers• Researched turbulence, atmospheric effects, and aberrations that the laser would encounter on its path to the space debris and used several turbulence and atmospheric models when simulating laser travel• Investigated astrodynamic effects of the laser-debris interaction and path to de-orbit

• Responsible for grading weekly class homework • Held homework help sessions and exam review sessions to help students learn and prepare

• Launched the project to transition o-ring inspection from film to a digital process, completing a section of ATK’s 2009 NDT Strategic Plan• Developed and executed a test plan to determine which digital system is best suited for production o-ring inspection – including design and fabrication of required defect standards • Supported radiographic inspection of o-rings on the Reusable Solid Rocket Motor program within the Nondestructive Test (NDT) department

• Worked on requirements development for CH-47F International, a new Rockwell program which provides integrated cockpit hardware and software solutions suitable for use internationally• Wrote new requirements and edited functionality changes for United Arab Emirates’ product line

• Worked on hardware/software integration for the CH-47F Chinook in the Army Helicopters Platform Systems Department• Responsible for running integration and functionality test cases and investigations